Help-Portrait Minneapolis
On December 12th, 2009, over 35 volunteer photographers, photography assistants, hair stylists, makeup artists and other general volunteers gathered at the Salvation Army Harbor Light Center in downtown Minneapolis. The Center is a shelter and social services center. Many people that go to Harbor Light either do not have a home, are troubled with mental illness or drug abuse, and/or need help getting back on their feet. There at the center, the volunteers set up 6 professional... Read More
Salvage Grocery Safari
I’m a big fan of adventure grocery shopping and I’m not talking about Trader Joe’s or Aldi here. I just can’t stand the idea of paying more than a dollar for a box of soda crackers. I read a book a couple years ago that claimed prices on consumer goods have as much to do with “emotional set points” as they do with supply and demand. America has been running on really cheap food and enormous big box grocery stores packed with highly processed and delicious goodies for... Read More
Camp Coldwater Zombies
Camp Coldwater Spring with spring house and reservoir, circa 1900. The abandoned Bureau of Mines buildings around Coldwater Spring have been attracting graffiti artists copper thieves and crack heads, ever since the federal government shut them down in 1995. The Twin Cities office of the National Park Service budgeted $3.5-million to remove the blue tiled, Soviet styled buildings and restore the 27-acre property to a native oak savanna. Funding for the project was cut out of... Read More
Zombie Dogs
Purina Mills ca.1928 If for some reason Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe have any objections to the use of their sacred spring and ancient burial ground as the setting for a low budget zombie movie or if the appropriate permits can not be obtained from the Department of the interior for filming on the old U.S. Bureau of Mines complex, we might be able to move the project up the street to the old Purina Mill. If you don’t think an abandoned dog food factory is creepy enough... Read More
Zombie Dogs
