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Archive for September 2004

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Tracking the silver overlays on the pages of ‘House’ by House Industries

   (2004.09.05)

Time to put this one out to pasture, or at least hook it up with some Toys “Я” Us carts in a retirement home.

Side of dirty blue coupe shows broken-up Dart Swinger insignia
   (2004.09.05)
Sign in window reads ‘285 Queen St. E.’; on the glass, graffiti reads ‘Crack is not where it’s at’
   (2004.09.05)

They couldn’t just set up a ladder?

Orange scissor lift to the left of a steel-and-glass building zigzags two guys up to the third storey much further to the right
   (2004.09.05)
Yellow and blue ellipses surround the word ‘Ellipse’ written in blue script
   (2004.09.05)

I have so many photos of bronneresque service and delivery vans that I can’t keep track of them anymore.

White delivery van reads ‘Emergency Response Drain Service... for All Drain Problems’ in garish yellow, blue, and red type
   (2004.09.05)

Kill the twin Helvetica stepchildren and give us back the sign with the script!

Two signs reading ‘Canadian Drycleaners’ in Helvetica adorn a building. At top, an old, faded, decrepit sign says the same thing, with ‘Canadian’ written in script
   (2004.09.05)

I keep seeing lonesome Toys “Я” Us shopping carts roaming the byways like forlorn tumbleweeds – so many of them, in fact, that I can put together a splitscreen effect.

Daytime and nighttime photos stitched together complete an image of a Toys R Us shopping cart with orange flip-up warning card in upper basket (‘please do not leave child unattended’)

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