writer + photographer // exploring postindustrial america and beyond // [email protected]

Joined January 2021
I spent three months exploring the american rust belt, here’s how it went
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yugoslav brutalism in pittsburgh john v tomich, serbian orthodox cathedral, whitehall, pa (1967-71)
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postmodern cathedral john v tomich, serbian orthodox cathedral, whitehall, pa (1967-71)
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platonic ideal of a serbian church in the rust belt (google maps)
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pentecostal church with onion domes st. george serbian orthodox/new testament fellowship, joliet, il (1928)
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the serbs have spoken st. george serbian orthodox church, lorain, oh (1927)
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serbian churches of the midwest
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lithuanian crosses in stained glass holy cross lithuanian church, dayton, oh (1965)
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folk modernism in brick jonas mulokas, holy cross lithuanian rc church, dayton, oh (1963-65)
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it’s really unacceptable what passes at hotel breakfast, to say nothing about still using single use styrofoam in 2026
The scrambled eggs at a hotel breakfast are 19% water, and they're dyed. A lot of hotels and cafeterias pour them from a carton of Papetti's Breakfast Blend. The spec sheet reads whole eggs, 19% water, then under 2% of salt, xanthan gum, citric acid, annatto color and natural butter flavor. Papetti's is part of Michael Foods, one of the biggest egg processors in the country. Every ingredient has a job on a steam table. Xanthan gum holds the added water in the egg so it doesn't weep into the pan. Citric acid keeps the eggs from turning gray or green under a heat lamp. Annatto puts back the yolk color the water washed out. The butter flavor is there because nobody is going to add butter. The carton keeps for 98 days in the cooler. The plain version from the same company is whole eggs, whey, skim milk, xanthan and citric acid, with almost no added water and half the sodium.
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terrifying
222 Building (1951) Appleton, WI
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it’s so funny to see american influencers praise serbian society when belgrade doesn’t even have a sewage treatment plant
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I can’t believe ohio is real
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had a slight mental break bc I realized I lost my wallet and then saw this on the horizon
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crazy how you can spot dow’s midland hq from space
The percentage of adults with a Ph.D. Read more on Substack at toddrjones.substack.com/p/th….
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municipal brutalism bloom and sedden, city hall, newark, oh (1967)
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guys I have big news
Ohio’s giant basket is back on the market for $8.5 million. Built in 1997 as the headquarters of the Longaberger Company, this seven-story building in Newark, Ohio was designed to look like the brand’s famous Medium Market Basket — but at the scale of a 180,000-square-foot Class A office building. The listing includes a 21.5-acre campus, capacity for 500+ employees, 84 windows, glass elevators, a central atrium, a fitness center, a media room, 555 parking spaces, and 25 heated underground executive spots. Longaberger left the building in 2016, and later plans to turn it into a boutique hotel never fully happened. Now one of America’s strangest corporate headquarters is waiting for its next owner. Would you turn it into offices, a hotel, or something completely different?
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wait till you find out what they say in polish
why do polish ppl, no matter how good they are at english say, “the communism” 😭😭like “during the communism”
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I feel like philly could make a killing on cream cheese-based tourism from europe
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war flashbacks to a whatsapp call from poczta polska telling me they revoked my package bc the type of mail I sent doesn’t exist
Every time you go to the post office the person in front of you has a problem that has never happened before in all of history.
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