While I wander...

Hwy 61, MN, Duluth to Grand Marais

2007-09-11T04:56:00.000Z

the lake, just outside of duluth:

someone in two harbors is funny:

gooseberry falls state park:

driving got a bit hairy after the cross river (this stretch of road being up on the cliffs):

cascade river state park:

a detour from grand marais to gunflint lake via the gunflint trail, hey ontario!:

Old Riverside Market, Seward, Mpls

2007-05-29T04:04:00.000Z

the old market has probably got the hottest pieces around right now, these are taken over several months...

man, this is about as good as it gets right here!

dump bush!

lime green...

parts of an impeach and a sluto...

blue bubble faces...

dj numbers...

they hope we don't make it...

a great deuse seven, he's pretty hot at the moment if you don't know...

7 Corners, Mpls

2007-04-30T22:15:00.000Z

7 Corners, by the U of MN's West Bank, has some good bars popular with the pre-metrodome crowd...one of my favs is Bullwinkle's (cheap beer, good food, kinda dark and dirty, what more could you want!):

Rusty wheel on an apartment door (?):

Blast Riot drippy tag on rusty can:

Love Power Church Jesus, presiding over the freeway exit:

Lush Girl tag on an abandoned store front:

partial view of the skyline with metrodome:

From the Archives: Geneva

2007-04-11T04:27:00.000Z

I was in Geneva for the International Youth and Human Values Conference in the fall of '02:

An old bike in the Old Town.

The Swiss flag and the flag of the Canton of Geneva.

The Jet d'Eau is quite the symbol of Geneva.

An alley in the old town.

The Reformation Wall, with Beza, Calvin, Farel, and Knox (not sure which is which). These guys were as bad as the people the Reformation was rebelling against.

More old town.

Stillwater, MN

2007-01-01T18:29:00.000Z

These are all from the Rivertown Inn:

They did a great renovation of this old victorian mansion:

The agatha christie suite (made to look like an old train car):

The oscar wilde suite (w/ hexagon bed and tons of animal print):

St. Anthony Main, Mpls

2006-11-22T03:59:00.000Z

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!

2006-10-30T04:03:00.000Z

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

2006-10-12T00:57:00.000Z

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...

2006-09-10T22:43:00.000Z

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

2006-09-03T18:24:00.000Z

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

2006-08-31T03:56:00.000Z

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

2006-08-23T15:37:00.000Z

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

2006-08-15T17:55:00.000Z

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...

35th and Dight/Hiawatha, Mpls (II)

2006-08-13T03:50:00.000Z

I'm really starting to love the train yards (the graf, the solitude, the rust!)...here is a shot of the ADM Mill and some trains:

Enjoy the art:

Some writing on the wall:

This was awesome! It's pretty cool that this great piece has been traveling around on this rusted old car for two years without anyone tagging or painting over it:

I've been seeing "Impeach" a lot. Is that a tag? A call to action? Check it out:

Notice the can of spray that the kiddies left, they musta hit this train very recently:

All these pigeons were kinda creeping me out:

Mill City Museum

2006-08-09T20:37:00.000Z

Taken around the Mill City Museum a while back. Shot on good old fashioned film. Undiluted developer bath for ten seconds to get some random burns and smudges on the film. While the AngryYoungMan doesn't like the darkroom, he is familiar with it...

From the Archives: Yucatan, Mex

2006-08-07T06:01:00.000Z

OK, so there were a ton of posts in July cuz I took a ton of pics, but I have real work to do in August so things will be at a more normal pace (i.e. glacial) on this site. In honor of the Apertura, I have grabbed some Mexico pics from the Archives:

Playa del Carmen. You have to click on this one to see it full size! Yes the trees are that green, the water is that blue, the sand is that smooth, and the sky is that clear...this is where most of the Europeans hang out in Mexico...

Now this place looks like it serves the most authentic Mayan food you are gonna find anywhere...

Tulum right at the start of dusk...follow the link to see how ridiculously better my pic is over the one on Wikipedia ; )

The Christmas light on Valladolid's city hall...yes we ditched Xmas at home for the warm beaches and cold beer of Mexico...

This is the observatory at Chichen Itza...you'll notice that even though the Mayans were completely primitive heathens, we have copied this design ever since we first saw it...

Wow that is one awesome sight...possible graveyard in the foreground but they aren't quite certain...

Yes, those are the stairs to the top...you notice some people use the butt slide method to get back down...we also climbed to the top of Coba, which is higher, steeper, and not restored!

From the Archives: Milano

2006-07-30T17:51:00.000Z

This summer I've been scanning in negatives like a mad man, hence all of the stuff from the archives. I was only in Milano for a day in 2002, but man was it awesome! Anyway, these were all taken with a disposable camera, so the focus and color aren't the best...

Here's a pic of the Dolomites from the train as you leave the tunnel from Switzerland:

Here's a statue of Da Vinci in the Piazza della Scala in front of La Scala opera house:

Behind Da Vinci is the entrance to the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II:

Which is an incredible enclosed mall (the architect fell to his death from a balcony here on opening night, d'oh!):

The Duomo is probably one of the most amazing churches I've seen:

The incredible Stazione Centrale on the way back to Geneva:

I was on a whirlwind tour conducted by the little old aunt of one of the girls I was traveling with, so I didn't get nearly enough pics. Other highlights that I saw: Castello Sforzesco, the Mercato di Viale Papiniano which was filled with punks, an a half dozen old churches.

Cedar-Riverside, Mpls (III)

2006-07-28T21:52:00.000Z

Here's some more stickers and stuff from Cedar-Riverside...

This was on the side of the Wienery:

Oooh, a sticker from Robots Will Kill:

And Dick Ripple, who is apparently a Shark Week watcher:

The dumpster next to Palmer's Bar:

Broken billboard with lots of garbage behind it, next to the Red Sea:

From the Archives: Fremont, Seattle

2006-07-25T03:53:00.000Z

Fremont is a pretty interesting neighborhood, kinda hip and artsy, but very yuppy. A lot of the restaurants and bars attract that whole 35 trying to be 25 crowd. One sign of the areas mixed signals is that they have outdoor summer movies, but they charge admission. Also, the Redhook Brewery moved out and Google and Adobe moved in, which really hurts their cool cred.

But, there is a statue of Lenin (Lenin had a lot of good observations, BTW) rescued from Slovakia:

And a cast aluminum sculpture of people waiting for a defunct light-rail line (what people there wouldn't give to have light-rail back in Seattle, good planning City) that locals like to dress up (I hear that the sculpture has been moved while the road is reconfigured, though):

And a huge rocket:

And a troll that lives under a bridge:

And walking down under the Aurora Bridge from the troll is pretty cool:

And for all of my complaints about Fremont, the signs of intelligent life are obvious:

So there is a sampling of Fremont, Seattle. Some not that great but whimsical and beloved public art, cool location right on the water, a neat public market, art snob yuppies who think they're cool, yuppy tech employees who think they're cool, some random college kids, and a really big bridge.

i've been there

2006-07-24T01:03:00.000Z

The pics from my San Francisco post a while ago can now be found on the Guardian's I've Been There website. Check it out!

Around 26th and Lyndale, Mpls (II)

2006-07-20T22:45:00.000Z

I found some pretty cool stuff around 26th and Lyndale today, above average I would say...

'i wish i could respect things' - me too...

someone went giant sticker crazy...

i don't think this phone is supposed to be yellow...

'kiss my fist' - that's pretty hardcore girls, nice!

if only i had enough dollars to get what i want politically...

Cedar-Riverside, Mpls (II)

2006-07-15T06:25:00.000Z

More from Cedar-Riverside...once one of the main landing points for Scandinavian immigrants, a mini Haight-Ashbury in the 60s and 70s, now the main landing point for East African immigrants...

OK, what's the deal with this? City workers find a broken access panel on a street light and fix it with duct tape? And when that doesn't work, tie it up with a wire? Nice:

One of the many interesting doorways:

I love the 400 Bar! Saw the Walkmen there not too long ago, they rocked as usual! It'll be a sad day when I drive down Cedar and don't see this sign:

While my dad was in college he lived above the infamous Cesar's Bar, which is now the Red Sea (you can see some glimpses of the awesome architecture in the neighborhood):

My mom tells me it was a real crap hole back then, well ma here's the door to the upstairs apartments today:

Words of wisdom from the staff at the Hard Times, one of my favorite lunch spots:

Dinkytown, Mpls

2006-07-15T04:22:00.000Z

The neighborhood that spreads out from the main entrance to the U of MN, Dinkytown really means a lot to me. I worked on the East Bank for a couple of years and ate lunch somewhere in the area almost everyday and would go to Cheapo every other week or so (it has since been replaced by a big chain that I won't name here). My mom and her sisters also grew up very near by and so I've known the area as long as I can remember.

In case you are completely ignorant of Mpls history, Bob Dylan wrote the song about this 4th Street. He was at the U for a year, but lived in the area for a little while before heading off for the Village. My dad always said he knew a bar owner in Duluth who fired a young Dylan because he was "absolutely terrible."

It's so awesome to see The Varsity re-opened, it gives me hope...

This was one of the most tagged doors I have ever seen...

The Hair Shaft? Well, at least its upstairs. Lots of Dinkytown businesses are upstairs.

I loved this half-assed attempt to advertise the fax at a copy shop...

The Dinkydale Mall is like this old London arcade, pretty cool...

Mmm, Annie's. Decent burgers and good malts. Has been here as long as I can remember. Mpls natives might remember that there was once one in Uptown, too...

Kinda wondering why this old gas range is in the alley behind the Loring's kitchen...

I died a little inside when, on this 95 degree day (yes it gets that hot in Minnesota), I headed to the Purple Onion for an iced coffee, only to find it closed with the big chains moving in! Screw "progress" and screw you developers! But, my anger subsided when, with a little research, I learned that they have found a new home! Unfortunately it is in a new overpriced apartment complex and will have none of the old atmosphere...

Milwaukee Ave, Mpls

2006-07-10T01:45:00.000Z

Milwaukee Ave is a very cool little slice of history in Seward. Built as housing for railroad workers, mostly Scandinavians, the houses all have a similar mail-order design. The area was almost leveled by the city in the 70s, but was saved by preservationist residents.

The original houses all have a bit of Tudor style decoration:

I thought it was classic that the house below had the traditional red "Post" box. Is this a Minnesota thing or can you see it elsewere (Chicago and Seattle don't count as they have just as many scandinavians)? You probably have to blow this one up to see what I'm talking about...

On a lot of these houses they had to strip off the original brick and then use reclaimed industrial brick:

B-Girl Be Summit

2006-07-02T02:26:00.000Z

B-Girl Be is goin on, so I had to take some pics of the great pieces goin up! This first one (26th and Lyndale on the side of the laundromat) had a lot goin on: no war, skulls, a voice bubble with "wife!"

While I was there I had to see what was new around Robot Love:

Over at Intermedia they were still working. OMFG these girls rock! Artists I saw working include Siloette and Shiro...

See, this is the kinda stuff that makes Mpls unbeatable in the summer (humidity and all)!

LynLake, Mpls

2006-07-02T01:55:00.000Z

Hmm, 1st of all, I'm not sure if I should share, but I found some competition while googling something...of course I think my pics are better so I guess I will share. They do have some great pics though...

There are so many pieces by 27 around right now it's crazy, here go a couple (the fist is next to Intermedia Arts, the second behind Tatters):

There is some crazy stuff behind Intermedia, here are just a couple of pics (I especially like the tagged up grill):

I don't know what Queertopia is, but I know a lot of people who probably like to find out!:

I couldn't resist this pic of the goofy Galactic Pizza electric car, maybe I was just under the influence of the Pizza Bianca that D. and I had just finished, mmm:

Midtown Greenway, Mpls

2006-06-20T20:39:00.000Z

The Greenway is a nice quiet bike/walking path through southwest Mpls with lots of nice community gardens and flowers and such, but of course that stuff doesn't interest me...

You might have to look at the bigger version of this one (just click on the pic) to get a good look at this little guy drawn on the bike...

Above are stickers for Rockstar Games, local hip-hop group Traditional Methods (who I've seen live a couple of times, not too bad), disbanded Atlanta hip-hop group Micranots (who featured I Self Divine, see Rhymesayers), and Lyle Signs Inc (ok, that's pretty funny)...

I'm not sure if this 'Impeach' is related to the 'Impeach the Beast' pic I took a while ago (see the May '06 postings)...also, most of these old bridges are from 1912 - 1914, that's pretty cool...

This looked like some weird mix of gang graffiti and a goofy tag...

The fence seperates the pathes from the old railroad tracks, supposedly there will be light rail or something running down there someday in the distant future...

Someone wrote 'stop' on this stop sign, not sure if they were trying to be funny or helpful or are angry at the people who don't stop and almost run you over...

PS - I discoverd that if you skateboard on the Greenway, bikers and city workers will stare at you!

Marine on St. Croix, MN

2006-06-18T20:49:00.000Z

Marine is really one of the cuter villages (they insist on calling it a village not a town) in Minnesota, and it's along Hwy 95 which is one of the cuter drives in the state, too. They even used to have a town dog!

Yes, they still have a general store (ok, it's more of a kwik-e-mart)...

I think they mean 'watch for children,' but I could be wrong...

The Fire Fighters Ball for the all volunteer force was being held right in the middle of Main Street, how small town is that...

These next two are pics of the brook that runs under the Brookside Bar & Grill, which has some awesome burgers, a good beer selection, and is huge with bikers and motorcyclists. You can tell that the brook was running extremely fast due to thunderstorms the night before:

I also managed to find a tag in this super quaint town! It's on the sign for a very good little ice cream shop:

And of course, it wouldn't be small town Minnesota without at least one rusted old pickup with a Wall Drug bumper sticker and expired tags:

From the Archives: More Seattle

2006-06-10T01:33:00.000Z

This was a pretty funny recruitment campaign by Google, figuring out the website led to another puzzle that, when solved, gave people the address to send their resume to (7427466391, by the way. Igoogled it.):

I loved this stoplight, I couldn't quite figure out when it dates back to, but it was pretty awesome to get this shot with the Smtih Tower in the background:

The observation deck of the Smith Tower looking towards the Space Needle. The Smith used to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi, has a pretty cool Art Deco decor and cool Chinese Room, and someone lives in the pyramid on top!

The 5 Spot Cafe in Queen Anne, Mmmm:

From the Archives: San Francisco

2006-05-29T03:12:00.000Z

These are from a trip in the spring of '02. San Francisco is one of my favorite cities and a lot of my favorite pics were from this trip...

First of all a rock stacking, a pic I love. I know Bill Dan does this, but I'm not sure if this is one of his:

I think everyone takes a pic of the 'Jack Kerouac Adler' sign, which runs in between City Lights Books and Vesuvio, two important spots for the Beats:

City Lights has always been a huge advocate of freedom of speach, I was impressed by these banners they hung on their store in the post 9/11 climate of fear and intolerance. At the time I was at the University of Connecticut helping a friend start up a chapter of the War Resisters League and advocating human rights in a very racist and hostile environment. Of course the stakes were raised in the fall when we were preparing to invade Iraq. The pic alone pissed people off, so actually putting these on the store was pretty cool (also a favorite pic of mine):

I was fascinated by this graffiti left over from the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz, I can't beleive the National Park Service never painted over it:

This mural showing solidarity with the people of Chiapas and the Zapatistas was painted on the side of City Lights:

I loved how street signs in Chinatown were bilingual. You can see the sign for the Gold Mountain Monestary in the background (yet another favorite pic):

The Wedge, Mpls

2006-05-26T16:33:00.000Z

I picture of the famous Bush finger (people have since tried to rip it down) and a sticker responding. You know, with this fool's approval rating hovering around 35% it makes you realize that if most of the people who bitch about him had gone out and voted, we'd have President Kerry to complain about...arggh! What kind of democracy only has a 50% turnout for the presidential election anyway?! At least we Minnesotans managed almost an 80% turnout, with Wisconsin a close second...

On a completely unrelated note, I liked this sign:

From the Archives: Pike Place Market, Seattle

2006-05-13T00:52:00.000Z

Pike Place Market: sorry, I didn't get a pic of any flying fish.

OK, the Seattle's Best coffee cup pic is pretty cliched, but just so damn Seattle, too. They're really trying to break in to the market here in Mpls, but we all know it's just Starbucks in disguise...

The veggie stand had pretty awesome color...

This wall is in an alley behind/under the market and was completely covered in gum. Don't know why, but it was...

From the Archives: Chinatown, Victoria, BC

2006-05-12T21:37:00.000Z

Don't be fooled, Victoria is a very friendly town...but I was drawn to this door because of the stickers. Did the paint for the 5, 1, and A come off? Did the apartment number change? Also, If I'm not supposed to enter here, how do I get in?

A pair of giant cement Foo dogs guard the gate to Chinatown...

These dragon things are all over the place, I think it is in response to the orca statues and totem poles all over the rest of town (I have plenty of pics of both)...

I think his is supposed to be the narrowest alley in the world. I've seen some pretty narrow alleys in my day, so I'm not sure if I buy it...

35th and Dight/Hiawatha, Mpls

2006-05-04T03:15:00.000Z

This area is very industrial and has a few old grain elevators and train yards. It's a pretty interesting glimpse of when we were still the Mill City. The warning of 7 tracks to cross points to how important trains used to be, but there is now a building covering 3 of the tracks...

This door really caught my eye with the meat locker-esque plastic strips blowing around in the wind. I was really tempted to see what's going on in there, but I thought it best to leave it a mystery...

One of the few trains still around, ADM still uses a couple of the buildings here...

Trains are a giant moving canvass to a lot of people, this piece was about 4' x 15', I took a pic of the tags to use here and 10 pics of the piece to use in an assingment...

I thought this was interesting, I wonder, who the beast could possibly be?

Around 26th and Lyndale, Mpls

2006-04-08T22:17:00.000Z

These first two pics were taken behind Robot Love, which is a pretty funky little store with lots of street art inspired stuff. You can check out Robot Love stickers here.

I really liked the bird thing on here:

The old coal chute for one of the shops. You always find the best stuff in the alley!

Inner city life, y'up that's how we like it:

And as always, a 27. sighting!

West Bank, U of MN

2006-03-17T22:49:00.000Z

Ah, the West Bank, where I spend most of my days. It is actually not very interesting considering that the East Bank is one of the most picturesque campuses in the country.

Above is the Washington Ave. Bridge, by the time I caught up to that woman on the left she was arguing with the Coke machine about Diet Coke. Needless to say, a lot of strange people can be found wandering around the U.

The iconic and mysterious shoe tree...

Above is the Rarig Center, home to Radio K.

This last one is a work by my sculpture TA: R. Justin Stewart.

St. Petersburg/St. Pete Beach, FL

2006-03-14T23:34:00.000Z

You know you're in the South when they put pecans in you're pancakes. Mmmm...

The Don CeSar, a big ol' fancy hotel that you can see from a long ways away on the beach. Not really as classy as it wants to be, but it has an interesting history...

St. Pete Beach is a pretty good white sand beach...these shells are future grains of sand...

I like pelicans...

These people were climbing up in the rigging of the Bounty replica ship that has been used in 'Master and Commander' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean' inspecting it before it sails to Maine for some reason...

Clear your vision and then visit findthetruth.com...kinda like a Chick Tracts sighting...

Between my house and the liquor store, Mpls

2006-03-02T21:28:00.000Z

Here's our repair job on a broken pane of glass, looks a little ghetto, but duct tape is always the answer...

Behind the Rainbow I hit the jackpot! This line of carts was pretty random and there was a ton of tags including a '27' sighting (my current fav amongst local street artists). I got a pic of a piece by Cute Crimes Crew, too, but didn't put that up here, sorry.

I thought this was a pretty interesting sticker...

And this whole thing was great: rust, tags, stickers. Awesome!

Cedar-Riverside, Mpls

2006-02-25T15:23:00.000Z

Definitely one of my favorite neighborhoods anywhere, right next to Augsburg College and the U's West Bank if you aren't quite sure where it is. It's a great mix of old hippies and African immigrants, which makes for a lot of good places to eat and some great stores like Mayday Books, Global Village, North Country Co-op, the Red Sea, and the Hard Times Cafe.

Cedar-Riverside is also one of the best live music neighborhoods in the world with places like the 400 Bar, the Triple Rock, the Red Sea (see above), the Cabooze, and the Nomad. I know most of the other bars also have smaller stages with live music a couple nights a week. New York is the only city with more live music venues per capita and this is the heart of the local scene.

Since my school is right here, I'm sure I'll add more from Cedar-Riverside in the future...

MN State Fair

2006-02-15T21:14:00.000Z

The place is like a ghost town in winter, everything is borded up and no one is around...

You can find just about anything on a stick at the fair...

The horse stables are pretty cool when no one is around, very tranquil and still, it's really sort of strange when you are used to seeing the area overflowing with people...

After I took this picture some hippies from Wisconsin drove by and flashed me peace signs...that was very neighborly of them...I think they were enjoying how surreal the fairgrounds are during the winter...

I found the GOP building and couldn't help myself...Republicans always bitch about how hard it is to be conservative in MN while they control the House and Gov. and have equal numbers in the US House and Senate. I guess their math isn't so good...

Around 28th and Lyndale, Mpls

2006-02-13T22:42:00.000Z

I almost hate to think what this glove was used for, but there it was. I thought it looked pretty cool anyway...

Old toilet in the alley behind Art Materials, which is also good place to find some street art...

Tagged 'One Way' sign on 28th Street...

The above pics are all taken around Intermedia Arts where you can see a ton of street art and other random things. You should all write to them an insist that they give me a show...

This glove has been stuck on this tree on the way to my bus stop for a few days now, so I thought I should get a pic of it. Last week there was a winter jacket hood stuck on a fire hydrant but I didn't get a pic of that, d'oh!

A New Blog!

2006-02-13T19:09:00.000Z

Look, a new blog! I'll be putting random pics here taken while I wander around possibly with some stories or observations, hope it works out well!