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Time Machine
It felt like I went back in time...I went exploring with my first urbex friend Brian, at the first place he ever took me - a grain elevator. He had recently started attending various Buffalo Tours including Silo City Elevated, and after befriending the guide, he put together a private photographers tour and I jumped on. There was room for 7 but it ended up just being us, the model he was shooting and 2 others who arrived late. The guide was great, understanding that we were shooting, and needed (...)A year off...
More or less it's been a year since I did any exploring. Adam visited a month or so ago and we attempted to go to a few new places, but were foiled at every turn. It was really depressing, and I had posted on facebook that I was retiring. At least retiring locally. The hobby has really changed since I first started exploring. The community has changed, from being a fairly friendly one where people shared information, and got together to explore in groups, to one of secrecy and elitism. I (...)A day out - old and new
The weather seems to have finally broken! Dead grass can be seen, and I can finally get out of my driveway without side swiping my car on snow banks. With weekends off for another 10 weeks while I teach a class, I hooked up with 2 friends and their friend who was visiting from out of town. We had a list of places to visit, some old (to me, not to them) and some new.First up a hotel. Fail. Disappointing because it has potential for some really nice spaces inside. With no way in we moved on (...)
Winter in Detroit
I had made plans with David from Forgotten Detroit to come out and do some exploring during the Super Bowl. However the worst blizzard in Detroit in years hit, so I decided to stay home and made plans for the following weekend instead.A quick 4 hour drive through Canada brought me to the Motor City. I can't say I grew up in Detroit, but it sometimes feels like it, because all of my family was from the Detroit area, and my parents (...)
The new additions
So, 2 years since I updated the last version of IG.org, what's new?Silo City in the First Ward has become "a thing" holding several events during the summer, including Boom Days (originally a celebration of the removal of the Ice Boom in Lake Erie), and City of Night - basically a big party outside with various local bands, and different site specific art installations in Marine-A and American Warehouse buildings. Galleries from these events, as well as another area grain elevator that (...)
New and Improved
Here we are, a new Institutional Green. I started redesigning the site a few months ago but had to start over when I was forced to change web servers. So obnoxious.I've upgraded my methods from coding by hand to using scripts to do it for me, so I'm hoping to keep things updated. I should be able to update galleries right after I'm finished editing my photographs, instead of years later, which is what I have been doing (my last update was from 2012!).
And I'm planning on doing some (...)