Lincoln Sample
The mundane diptychs are winning my attention these days and this one seemed emblematic of the small and seemingly dwindling main streets I've been passing through. The grain operations get bigger but the perceived life in these towns is eerily troubling.
I obviously live in a very different place but the number of abandoned buildings, closed stores and restaurants, and lack of cars tells me these places have seen better days.
If I were to pick a business to be in other than corn and soy farming, it'd have to be a gas station/convenience store. At least have customers.
All that said, the landscape has changed for the spacious. Human-scale objects are less and less common and the sky has taken over as the dominant feature. I told it would happen and it did.
Make pictures.
I obviously live in a very different place but the number of abandoned buildings, closed stores and restaurants, and lack of cars tells me these places have seen better days.
If I were to pick a business to be in other than corn and soy farming, it'd have to be a gas station/convenience store. At least have customers.
All that said, the landscape has changed for the spacious. Human-scale objects are less and less common and the sky has taken over as the dominant feature. I told it would happen and it did.
Make pictures.
3 comments:
Heya Clay,
Found your blog via the video on wired which was great! I've subscribed to your feed as a way of keeping up but only the descriptions appear in the posts and not the photos - is there any way to turn on images in the feed?
joconnell.ie, i have no idea. i just post 'em.
I once came across a guy crossing the country by touring bicycle, appears you probably travel just about the same roads as he.
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Though, his philsophy was to drink water from all the local water taps across the country. I was a whole lot of fun keeping tabs on him, as he too travel about 100 miles a day. And the day I came across the guy he had travel about 125 as the Mississippi River Ferry was out of commission due to high waters.
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