thanks for looking as well; we went back, took more images today -
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Martha Deed wrote:
This is a valuable, sad, and beautiful set of images, Alan. Thanks for
posting.
Martha
Alan Sondheim wrote:
Barclay Center and the doomed warehouse
http://www.flickr.com/photos/asondheim/sets/72157631593035206/
"A 19th-century warehouse used for pharma and other displays - I
was able to obtain a remarkable set of images within it. It's as
if the whole history of analog archiving were written here, just
about to be destroyed."
on the verge of destruction, of death.
ramps where horses brought wagon-loads of material up and down
within the building.
overhead flat-belt wheels for power dissemination in the 19th-
century; these were all that remained.
towers and sad messages and occupy wall street.
retrieved a 50-watt incandescent bulb rated at 230 volts.
left behind so many messages, so much, there were others in
the building, removing things, a tower of wooden cases fell.
death is always already present, the catastrophe.
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Intro by Edward Picot
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/last-collaboration
City Bird: Selected Poems (1991-2009) by Millie Niss, edited by Martha Deed
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