35th and Dight/Hiawatha, Mpls (II)

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

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

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

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)

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: