© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Cornell Beverages – 105 Harrison Place – Founded 1946 – All Business
Forgotten - NY
National Cold Storage – Brooklyn Bridge Park – Lawns Closed
© Frank H. Jump
Harvey Shapiro 1966, Wesleyan Poetry
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Can’t help feeling they’ve torn down the wrong building. The Watchtower Building is a Brooklyn waterfront eyesore.
Other postings:
- Bluejake – The National Cold Storage
- DUMBO-NYC
- View from a Temporary Park – National Cold Storage Co & Waterfalls – Brooklyn Bridge Park – Fading Ad Blog – August 29, 2008
- National Cold Storage – 66 Furman Street – Fading Ad Blog – March 17, 2008
- Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy – Pier 1
Navel Lint Industry Booming Across Southern States – Bankrolls Teabagger Movement
Courtesy of Flickr via Wikipedia
According to The National Cotton Council of America, the U.S. cotton industry has suffered severe economic setbacks from lowered prices arising from increased global production of the natural fiber. Climate change and the unpredictable inclement weather nationwide has also affected the wildly vacillating production of pounds of cotton per acre, making for unstable pricing per bale from year to year. Additionally, the removal of quotas has created a highly competitive global market. Sustainability must also be considered when it takes over 700 gallons of water to produce one cotton T-shirt alone. Perhaps we are witnessing the unravelling of a historically contentious and ecologically unsound crop.
Ironically, we are also witnessing the rise of a grassroots cottage industry that seems to be booming where the cotton industry first took foothold in the U.S. during the early days of slavery – navel lint-wear. Fueled by rising unemployment and discontent with the current administration in the White House, white Southerners are gathering their rosebuds and collecting their belly button lint for a resilient recycled thread. The accumulation of the fluffy fibers from the navels of couch potatoes from Maryland to Texas are being collected and reworked into a cost-effective and ecologically friendly cloth. Since dead skin cells or collagen are also included in the mix of belly button lint, a curiously stronger thread – not unlike a 50-50 polyester thread – is being produced for pennies a bale. Some reports claim that highly hirsute southern males are able to produce over 6 mg of lint hourly. Gossypium aside, this booming industry may be providing the funds that bank-roll the Teabagger Movement nationwide. Contemplate that!
Put Some Polka Dots On It - blogspot
New technologies for extracting navel lint also increases capital for the booming industry.
Gossypium hirsutum – Wikipedia
Hukon Mfg – Cincinnati, OH – visualingual
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Visualingual – news+inspiration from a design studio in Cincinnati – was just featured at Etsy [your place to buy and sell] and mentioned the Fading Ad Blog as one of their favorite sites. Here is a taste of what’s on the tip of Visualingual’s tongue. Thanks for the mention!
Player's Navy Cut – East Houston Street, NYC
© Vincenzo Aiosa
Filter Cigarettes © Vincenzo Aiosa
Player's Navy Cut cigarette package - Flickr
- John Player & Sons – Wikipedia
Featured Synagogue – Adath Jeshurun of Jassy – 58 Rivington Street – Happy Pesach!
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
- Tom Fletcher’s New York Architecture – First Warsaw Congregation First Warsaw Congregation (Former Congregation Adath Jeshurun)
- Fading Into History – Allen Salkin – Wired New York Forum – October 2002
