By andrew | Published:
February 16, 2010
I began working inside downtown Minneapolis in the summer of 2008. At the time, I didn’t think about how working inside of a carpeted and climate-controlled urbanized shopping mall would effect me. Now, nearly two years later, I can say that I have been profoundly effected. After working within the architecture of corporate America on [...]
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By andrew | Published:
February 11, 2010
One of the many perks of my job is getting to go on random treks through the two buildings that make up the college. Yesterday I had the pleasure of traversing through the underground vaults of our building on Hennepin Avenue in MPLS. It was a very creepy and smelly place… but the abandoned bank [...]
By andrew | Published:
February 2, 2010
Via US National Archives via Flickr
By andrew | Published:
January 10, 2010
Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space has been filling my imagination as I work through the most intense nesting instinct I’ve had in years. His focus on the lived aspects of architecture over the historical and formal are the imaginative quirks that served as inspiration for my work as an artist and as an apartment [...]
By andrew | Published:
December 1, 2009
As I was walking into work this morning, I realized that living in the far north of the continental US has its benefits. While I may complain that the city is often unpopulated and boring at times, it is almost always a great place to turn to for a healthy dose of surrealism. For example, [...]
By andrew | Published:
November 3, 2009
Everyone has photographic fetishes. And, I have a thing for airports. Maybe it is the intersection of private desire to travel with very public, non-descript, and functional architecture. Or maybe I just like photographing in places where I know my film may be confiscated.
On a recent trip to New York I had the distinct pleasure [...]
By andrew | Published:
October 14, 2009
I’m not sure if I am caught in an atemporal vortex or if Minneapolis is hitting some sort of built-environment equilibrium. While walking home yesterday, humming various bits of soundtrack to myself, I noticed that my city is engaged in a process consisting of equal parts renewal and equal parts decline. As the first image [...]
Also posted in Art, Compulsions, Images, Life, Photography | Tagged Architecture, Decline, Every Day Life, Midwest Decay, Minneapolis, Photography, Urbanism |
By andrew | Published:
October 12, 2009
This morning has been a particularly productive one for me. I went to bed with Curtis at 8:30 AM and proceeded to sleep soundly for the first time in about a month. If there is one undercurrent to this blog, or my life in general, it is that I love to be unconscious… by whatever [...]
By andrew | Published:
September 9, 2009
For those of us who do not remember what it is like to live in a city… here is a brief how-to.
Also posted in Urbanism |
By andrew | Published:
September 2, 2009
From time to time I have nothing really great to write about. Ok most of the time… so I’ll draw inward and recount some little tidbit of my day.
After several Sapporos and a delicious veggie feast, I fell asleep on my sofa last night around 10:00 PM. Apparently I am becoming a Golden Girl after [...]
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