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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 23/09/2026

This rules

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 21/09/2026

Alright, who fixes old-old CRT televisions between Chicago and Milwaukee. I'd like to get this beast back for at least part of horror season...

Photograph. A large, late-1970s Zenith System 3 "Panorama" television console in silver with fake woodgrain on a checkered tile floor.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 21/09/2026

Alright, who fixes old-old CRT televisions between Chicago and Milwaukee. I'd like to get this beast back for at least part of horror season...

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 12/09/2026

Fiero caravan through Joliet, this morning. Part of Fierorama weekend; there's a show in St. Charles, tomorrow

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I TIRE OF THE CODES. ENOUGH CODES. 75% OF MY TEXTS ARE ONE TIME CODES FROM EIGHTEEN DIFFERENT COMPANIES. JUST LET ME USE MY PASSWORD. FOR MY ACCOUNT. THAT I SET.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 09/09/2026

Hi I revived @sfgamzone.com to separate tism's/shitpost about roller coasters again

Photograph. jonrev's Pontiac Fiero at Michigan's Adventure amusement park. Shivering Timbers roller coaster and other contemporary vehicles in the background.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 28/03/2025

Tears for Sears Golf Mill Shopping Center - Niles, Illinois (2023) #deadmalls #sears #abandoned #polaroid #polaroid600 #photography

Polaroid photograph of an abandoned Sears department store at night, the sign has been removed but old unpainted brick still leaves a strong "SEARS" labelscar on the facade

Polaroid photograph shows the silhouette of a stray shopping cart under the lights of an abandoned Sears store entrance at night

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

AI strikes again, preventing humans from accessing these important resources

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Derfcurrie @derfcurrie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ok with all these deaths of people I loved watching growing up in the 80s I need this week to be over so I can go watch Batman in 70mm at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social and feel like a 10 year old again with my matchbox Batmobile which I'll have with me.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Ford City Mall redevelopment is moving forward after city commission approval. blockclubchi.co/4xdDqr9

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20/08/2026

I love it when a city adopts an otherwise-unloved car

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 20/08/2026

Motocompacto vs. Prairie Trail/McHenry residential streets... least I found where my phone jumped out of my pocket

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The cute sea creatures on the lower levels of the Fisher Building I'm familiar with. The monstrous terra cotta hordes swarming down from on high were a new & terrifying sight. Architects: DH Burnham & Co (with Charles B Atwood as lead), 1896 Addition: Peter J Weber, 1907

Color photo of a small portion of the truly bonkers upper facade of the Fisher Building. Photo focuses on a section of lovely arched windows clad in an orangey-brown terra cotta. Spandrels of the arches are overflowing with shields and foliate designs, and the curves of the arches themselves are replete with gargoyles/grotesques. Some appear to be in the process of stealthily crawling down the facade as if stalking prey, and some are placed if about to pounce on the unwary below. The comparatively less ornate spandrels are encrusted with mesmerizing S-curve tracery.

Color photo of part of the ridiculously ornate terra cotta facade of the Fisher Building. We've got extremely detailed foliated cresting, quatrefoils, trefoils, fleurs-de-lis, arches galore and gigantic, threatening birds posted up in odd places.

Color detail showing the very corner of the upper reaches of the Fisher Building. Here we have a geometrically complex frieze of arches, each stuffed with trefoils that are in turn crammed full of some sort of foliate design. Arch spandrels are decorated with another floral design. A floral band above this has huge and terrifying duck-like faces that gape at you at regular intervals from their perches above tripartite clusters of colonnettes.

One last look at some of the exquisitely rendered terra cotta nightmare fuel making its way down the facade of the building.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 19/08/2026

Finally got a break in the rain for its last work commute ever...

Photograph. jonrev's white Pontiac Fiero Formula reflected in a puddle, a bright orange Mustang out of frame, left

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 19/08/2026

Hey, we have decades worth of satellite imagery that I'm pretty sure is paid for by our taxes -- why is this data watermarked to death, hidden behind adblocker-blockers and more rage-inducing to browse than navigating a car dealership's website?

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

101 years. It's been 101 years since the opening of the Uptown Theatre. Closed for four decades, why does it still fascinate us today? What are its allures and mysteries? Why hasn't it been restored? We try to answer all those questions, at the link. arcchicago.blogspot.com/2026/08/aura...

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 18/08/2026

The film photography content-creator-industrial-complex has discovered Polaroid Big Shots and Fuji FP-100C and I feel a sudden need to move the contents of my film fridge to a bank vault.

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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

impressive tag on the casino but pretty embarrassing that it’s come to that

concrete and glass tower with the elevator core exposed and a three story graffiti tag running down from the roof

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Kaveh Taherian - NYCC - H26 @kavehtaherian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hell yeah I’m into AI Arresting Individuals who steal from artists

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 17/08/2026

Anatomically incorrect Pontiac Fiero

Photograph. A remote control Pontiac Fiero toy car made by New Bright and sold at Wal-Mart sometime in the 1980s, new in original packaging, at a local antique mall. A large supercharger blower extends from the hood of the car; on the real Fiero the spare tire is under the hood, the engine is over the rear wheels.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Somebody who has the keys to the social media pages of a couple neighborhood history organizations keeps taking perfectly usable or legible images and "cleaning them up" with GenAI, thereby making the details misleading or incorrect or even downright incomprehensible. Two recent before-afters:

In a news magazine clipping, we see an illustrated layout of a two-story rowhouse. It has a living room in the front on the first floor, and a kitchen in the back. The upper floor has a large bedroom in the front and two smaller bedrooms in the back, with a small bathroom between them.

An AI "cleaned" version of the image shows several changes to the original illustration. A curved wall just inside the entryway is shown as an interior window instead, a label for a window bay that previously said "bay" now says "bath" with the implication that a bathtub would be directly inside the home's main floor front windows, the stairs between the two levels have direction arrows that don't make sense, and the upstairs bathroom, previously labeled "WC" for water closet, is now labeled the nonsensical acronym "RC". A bunch of different windows have been added to the sides of the layout, where the rowhouse's walls meet the neighboring dwellings in the original illustration.

A political cartoon titled "What the gold bugs are doing for Uncle Sam", drawn by Watson Heston. In it, bankers drawn as antisemitic caricatures approach an auction block tended to by politicians labeled Grover, Carlisle, and Sherman. The bankers carry sacks that are labeled "British gold" with British pound signs on them. Grover is a fat auctioneer, and Sherman is shown as the devil with a forked tail reading a Bill of Sale for U.S. Gold Bonds alongside Carlisle. On the auction block stands Uncle Sam, tied to a post labeled "gold standard" and wrapped in ropes labeled "US gold bonds". A sign around his neck reads "to be sold into perpetual slavery for gold!"

In an AI-retouched version of the political cartoon, the leftmost banker's antisemitic caricature nose has transformed into a second face, the bankers' bags now read "Bryan's gold bugs" instead of "British gold bonds", and the second banker is wearing a label on his leg that says "Bryan". The auctioneer previously labeled as Grover is now labeled Sherman, and the other two politicians have lost their labels entirely. The document they're holding now reads "Bill of Sale of gold bugs", their hands are twisted into strange forms, and the unlabeled politician previously labeled as Sherman is no longer depicted as the Devil, his tail having turned into the edge of a poorly defined platform upon which the auction block stands. A paddle-like object hangs from his hand with text on it that reads "13 to 1". The post that Uncle Sam is bound to still sort of says "Gold Standard", though the text in the second word is a little garbled. But the rope he's tied with now has many more words, including "monopoly, Republican platform, and Uncle Sam". The auction sign around his neck now reads "to be ssld to to perpetual slavery for gold!"

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A plan to replace Ford City Mall with an industrial warehouse and public plaza is moving forward. blockclubchi.co/45Zb0VJ

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 14/08/2026

Permits filed to demolish the 90s-vintage Concord Mall in Wilmington, Delaware -- home to the infamous "hidden Burger King" -- as Namdar Realty crashes and burns another to the ground. Views from barely a year ago. #deadmalls www.wdel.com/news/partial...

Photograph. A dry water feature in an enclosed shopping mall, surrounded by lush greenery and a clock tower structure. Retail storefronts in the background. Skylight overhead allows sunlight to pour in.

Photograph. A blue steel and brass raised planter reaches toward a bright glass skylight. Reflection of the photographer standing on a mall concourse in the brass.

Photograph. A series of lush planters at the end of an enclosed shopping mall -- stores line either side, many of them vacant. Skylight overhead. Terrazzo and tile flooring on the ground.

Photograph. Concourse of an enclosed shopping mall with retail stores lining either side. Lush planters with thick tropical vegetation grows in raised planters along the concourse. A closed Sears department store anchors the far end.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 12/08/2026

This is going to be like the Matteson/former Lincoln Mall Carson Pirie Scott that abruptly closed because the roof collapsed.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 09/08/2026

Also coming down in Gary: St. Mary Mercy Hospital, save for the newer wing that was repurposed as Gary's Public Safety building post-closure. 📷 2016

Photograph. Dark hallway in an abandoned hospital building, showing extreme levels of decay with debris covering the floor and walls peeling.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 06/08/2026

There has to be a story behind the disclaimer.

Screenshot, website for the Lincolnwood, Illinois Public Library's "Library of Things", where a brick from the former Hyatt House Purple Hotel may be checked out. A disclaimer on the side (highlighted) notes "Do not use the brick as a weapon."

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 04/08/2026

This is a weird one but new in the collection: a complete Camelot Music neon wave (1990). 24 pieces numbered for future reassembly.

Photograph. A blue neon wave energized for demonstration purposes, bridged by a transformer box. Another 20+ tubes from the complete assemblage hang from wire hangers, overhead. Electric signage for defunct retailers, Thom McAn and Carson Pirie Scott on a gridwall, behind.

Photograph. A blue neon wave energized for demonstration purposes. A stray tube from the rest of the assemblage, and the neon transformer box rest on either side of the wave.

Photograph of a photo print (source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/50284222869/posts/10162946425047870/) - a circa-1980s Camelot Music storefront in an unnamed shopping mall. The store sells prerecorded music and media, displays in the windows on either side of the store entrance. The signature blue wave is seen in the ceiling, stretching the full length of the store.

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Be the change you want to see in the world.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don't use AI for anything. I don't use it for brainstorming or idea generation or any of the supposedly fine things it allegedly does. ChatGPT has never spoken to me. Claude doesn't even know my name. Much like cocaine, I t's extremely easy to not do if you don't start.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 04/08/2026

This is a weird one but new in the collection: a complete Camelot Music neon wave (1990). 24 pieces numbered for future reassembly.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Rather astonishing to see such long-form journalism from a TV station, but CBS Chicago's Adam Harrington has a remarkable history of the rise and fall of Clybourn as a retail corridor, and of a 1915 factory's short life as the 1800 Clybourn mall. bit.ly/4hdfzCJ

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 03/08/2026

"Burger-urger Chicken-chicken Hawtdawg-hawtdawg"

Photograph. Early-millennial George Foreman grill with a translucent turquoise lid resembling a certain Apple product of the era. The unit is in its original box on a thrift store shelf.

Photograph. An open box for a George Foreman "In Grilling Colors" grill from the turn of the millennium, on a thrift store shelf.

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Retailpocalypse @retailpocalypse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's in the bag... The iconic Macy's corner billboard, at the NW corner of 34th Street and 6th Avenue was unceremoniously removed yesterday. In its place, an LED digital sign will be installed. #retail #photography #nyc #history

The iconic Macy's corner billboard in Herald Square, at the confluence of West 34th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan.

A nighttime shot of the iconic Macy's corner billboard in Herald Square, at the confluence of West 34th Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 28/07/2026

"Get this: whenever a movie was playing, the sound was piped into the bathrooms, so your friendly neighborhood critic wouldn’t miss any dialogue while taking a break." Uh.... yeah, if we ever get working bathrooms at Belvidere Cinema Gallery we're 100% doing this.

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Groceteria @groceteria.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wow. I've always been fascinated by the story of the little corner building and the fact that it's losing its Macy's connection says a lot about the current state of "the world's largest store." ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/h...

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Hidden by billboards for over 100 years, the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view

The enormous faux shopping bag that served as an advertisement for Macy’s is mostly gone, save for a patch of red facing Sixth Avenue. Scaffolding covers the ground floor retail space, and da…

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 01/05/2025

Present day... present time lmao Vintage computers I've found in abandoned buildings, 2012-2023 #abandoned #vintagecomputers #urbex #photography

Photograph of a Wang VS terminal atop a box surrounded by strewn papers in an abandoned building - Gary, Indiana

Photograph of a damaged Apple IIGS computer, monitor and keyboard in an abandoned school - Gary, Indiana

Photograph of a dusty Radio Shack TRS-80 terminal on a concrete floor in an abandoned building.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 22/07/2026

Fixed images on this one... either Wordpress or Flickr added slugs to some links and broke them. Hope this doesn't become a recurring thing.

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Justin Haugens @justinhaugens.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You're gonna vibe with Windows Media Player.

Screenshot of Microsoft Windows and their green face Windows Media Player skin

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 22/07/2026

Altec Lansing ACS400 2.1 speakers from 1998

Photograph. A set of off-white plastic computer speakers, and center subwoofer, reflecting late-1990s aesthetics. A pile of wires and other electronic crap in the background.

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New owner, new name. Go get photos of this neon sign while you still can.

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 20/07/2026

I still think about the working color copier in the abandoned Century III Mall I schemed to liberate and wanted to print dead mall zines with

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lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Chicago is the greatest city in the world

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 18/07/2026

Tonight in Waukegan starting at 5, near Genesee and Washington!!

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the jonrev projects @jonrev.com · 16/07/2026

Try this again... doing a Genesee Street popup at ArtWauk in downtown Waukegan -- Saturday 5-9pm, in front of the Waukegan Building (4 South Genesee). Prints $25+. Come say hi!

Poster.

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at artwauk

[collage of photography by jonrev depicting neon, dead malls, and the Waukegan, Illinois cityscape]

Photography exhibits about places of memories, lost history, dead malls, liminal spaces, urban exploration, night lurkings & other crimes of knowledge

Waukegan Building • 4 South Genesee Street
Waukegan, Illinois • 5-9 PM • Weather permitting

jonrev.com for future shows

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