St. Anthony Main, Mpls

St. Anthony Main is the oldest part of the city, so of course it has a lot of very cool nooks and crannies, like the awesome Pillsbury A Mill (soon to be yet more f@#%ing condos):



The Stone Arch Bridge, looking towards downtown:


There's lots of great trails under main street:


There's lots of graffiti and tags hidden around the area:


(Kuma!)


Waldo:

Blog of the Day!

i did see that this was the blog of the day on the City Pages' blotter for 10/06, so that makes me feel all important and stuff. Thanks!

sorry for the general lack of postings lately...

Montreal

OK, i finally got pics up from our trip to montreal a few weeks ago! We ate some poutine, some smoked meat, some moules, had french speakers pretend they couldn't understand us, so we got the complete montreal expierence.


Mary Queen of the World Cathedral (how Catholic does that sound?)...


I call these people the 'butter people' cuz I didn't pay any attention to what the sculpture is really called...


Colors! The Montreal convention center...


Old lamp by the old city hall...


One of the very cute streets in old town...


Some mystery chateau looking building behind McGill University...


I thought this was awesomely french of someone to sit on the curb and empty a bottle wine, but use a glass...

As always (or at least as always as of recently), there is more on Flickr! So check it out! Now!

Prospect Park Train Yard, Mpls...

This is more like a train graveyard with an overwhelming selection of big rusty painted things:









Like 'em? Check out my Flickr site to see more...

Hwy 12, MN

Munich? No, Montrose! Ok, it's not that exciting, but it does have a great german restaurant...mmm, Spaten:


Aloisius:


Almost Oktoberfest:


OK, I usually vote no on this very contrived shot, but it was a mini road trip and w/ the rain it looked alright:


On to Darwin, home to the world's largest ball of twine rolled by a single person:



If you need more pics of the ball of twine, head over to Flickr!

Uptown, Mpls

For a change of scenery I wandered down Hennepin instead of Lyndale, which usually scares me what with the yuppies and the Gap and the American Eagle and the "fun" bars like Drink...on the way I found this good stencil of Dawson on the sidewalk:


And this neo-hippie van:


And this great rabbit stencil:


My favs are over on Flickr, but I did like this stickers with the backdrop of the really colorful Lathrop Paint building:


These big containers of grease were behind Antoine's (inspite of this, I still like soul food/creole/cajun):


I've seen these wheatpasted prints a lot lately, they're pretty cool:


A sign for "tails and food" over the back door of the Uptown Bar, which has lot of live music and decent breakfast:


Then my battery died! So I'll have to pick up from here sometime in the near future!

Between my house and Dassel, MN

First, on my way to the freeway I saw this really great new mural on the side of Merit Printing (they always have a great mural on their building), this one was done by Juxtaposition Arts:




In the town of Waverly (which, not to be mean, seems like one of the most boring places on earth) I found a good Hamm's sign, too bad it looks new and not original:


The Waverly Village Hall is this great Art Deco building built by the WPA that is one the National Register:


Why was I going to Dassel, a small farm town 60 miles from downtown Mpls? Because they have hired me to make a short documentary on the historical society's building! The building used to be an ergot lab, so that in itself is petty interesting. This old Chevy was used to haul grain, someone has written "mom" on one door and "dad" on the other:


Here are some shots of the building, which is also on the National register:



Go to Flickr to see my favs from this set!

Bunge Mill/BNSF Yards, Mpls

First of all, from now on when I take sets of pics like this, my favorites will go on Flickr instead of here. Why? So you have a reason to visit both sites of course! Today I was hoping to get some good pics of graf @ the old Bunge Mill, but they had just painted over it! So I took some pics of the cool architecture instead and wander down the tracks of the BNSF for a little ways. No one bugged me or tried to kick me out, so it was a good trip.



Just to proove there are a lot of sprayers wandering around here:


Container freight:


This train had a lot of stuff on it (taken while standing under the high voltage tension wires, uh oh):


Up close (I like that, beLIEve):


Underground cables?


I think this says whisper:


So remember, if you like these, check out my Flickr site...