Amherst Technology Park

Sometimes, walking through an office building can be an adventure. You never know what you may find. As I crept through the Amherst Technology Park, I got a chance to spy on offices, record my thoughts, and to know what it felt like to wander through such a place. Video below:

The American Highway Project

           I found this site particularly interesting. This American photographer Edgar C. Praus has a project called The American Highway Project. He dedicates his work towards documenting the quaint roadside attractions of small towns. The motive that drives him is that he finds them fascinating cultural assets which are quickly being subsumed by more commercial malls and regular stores. The old facade of America remains in many places while in bigger cities architecture turns towards a more modern fashion.  

          I liked his work in particular because it choses to focus on what might be considered a neglected aspect of our history and shed light on America's less-known towns and sights. 

        -Ezra Prior-

Amethyst Farm

So there's this farm down the road from me which I have always thought has a particularly beautiful layout. It's called Amethyst Farm and is a Private grounds for people to bring their horses to. I took some photos of the barns and of the horses there which are posted here. There was something particularly interesting about this part of the farm whose foremost purpose is for people to hold their horses in. The way that the horses are wrapped in blankets to be kept warm is something I had not seen before either. I want to learn more about this but was told that I shouldn't be taking pictures and that the owner was not in. 

                                                                                                                    Ezra Prior

                

Michael Lesy on making of Wisconsin Death Trip

Author of Wisconsin Death Trip talks with Robert Birnbaum

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