I came across this (e)Zine while doing some research on the Chicle Building.  Check it out!

 

http://www.decaying-industries.com/rnb/

^That would be "she". And that warehouse is slated for demolition in the near future.

What a dumbass.  I suppose Cleveland will be better off by detering people with pocketbooks from living in its neighborhoods?

Two words

Wannabe hipster

...Seriously I've hung around people very much like her way too much in my life. I looked around her website, very angst filled. Perfers wrecking hulks of buildings so she can take photos of it, and be an artist for taking those photos, rather than having renewed development. Very anti-gentrification, and the process that leads to it. Desperately wants to be part of that group of artists that starts the process (and pretends to be), but dosent really show up untill the gentrifiers have shown up (and then complains how they ruined her neighborhood)

 

 

she could at least invest in photoshop. just because its grit, it doesn't make you artsy, and it certainly doesn't mean you can post crappy, poorly aligned photos, unedited and unbalanced.

Gee, why cant Dayton have a decaying industries zine?  Maybe because most of them have been demolished?

 

Maybe someone should start an Urban Prairie ezine for Dayton?

Desperately wants to be part of that group of artists that starts the process (and pretends to be), but dosent really show up untill the gentrifiers have shown up (and then complains how they ruined her neighborhood)

 

....yeah, but is that what is really happening in Ohio?  Here in Dayton at least, the "renovated industrial lofts" are pitched to the upper end of the market...not to artists and musicians and such, which was the group that started the loft conversion trend in NYC and perhaps Chicago.

 

In any case I liked that ezine site..it reminded me of my riding around Cleveland on the rapid tranist line during my last visit...you can see a lot of abandonded or semi-abandonded industry as the ROW follows old rail lines.

 

It's like it is 1979 all over again !

they seem really ill-informed with their commentery on some of the structures.  whats the point of this site?? 

The warehouse isn't in the best shape and more importantly, there are a lot of issues with chemicals formerly stored on the site. It wouldn't be appropriate for a residential conversion at all, and it's unlikely that it could be re-used. While I'm usually on the side of preservation, this is one time I don't mind seeing the wrecking ball.

And I thought I took bad pictures.

I give her credit for trying. She is at least following through on something that interest her instead of reading Feagler and complaining.

...and she has good taste in music.

I love this pix of her.  Caption:  "Welcome to the Rustbelt"

 

 

 

 

I give her credit for trying. She is at least following through on something that interest her instead of reading Feagler and complaining.

 

I giver her a lot of credit.

 

Surfing around her website, or her various websites, I'm really taken by this independent DIY spirit going on:

 

Never been to college, doing her own thing...has her own band, does her own art, has a sideline of making band pins/buttons, writes a music column for some paper in Lakewood, knows enough about computers to put up her own website, takes better pix than I do.  I'm impressed. 

 

I also appreciate that she appreciates these obsolete and derelict industrial environments on their own terms, or as sort of an aesthetic of ruins or decay, somewhat like that "Fabulous Ruins of Detroit" website, or those "New American Ghetto" books....I feel a real sympatico with where she is coming from with that.

 

 

I appreciate them on that level too, but anyone who's thinking has to realize that to continue appreciating these buildings on any level but future historic photographs, they have to be made viable somehow.

I think that is the scariest picture of a woman I've ever seen.  :whip:

 

Nothing like a beer-drinking, electric drill-toting, shaved-headed babe to make you feel right at ease. I think I saw a movie about her: "Dressed to drill." I can now stop looking for my dreamgirl.

:banger: