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Main Street
📷 Pentax KX 🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 📍Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
I adore Sinclair Lewis, but after all these years, I’ve still never managed to visit the museum in Sauk Centre.
Then again, why bother? Every Main Street in Minnesota already feels like a perfectly staged diorama of his novel. No admission fee required.

#FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mmFilm #IlfordHP5 #BlackAndWhite #ShootFilm #BelieveInFilm #PentaxKX #MainStreet #Sidewalk #Storefronts #SmallTown #Midwest #Nowhere #Stillness #Timeless #Americana #Architecture #Chairs #Signage #Details #Quiet #Empty #Monochrome #Everyday #Streetview #Grain #Mood #Wander #Isolation #minnesota #MNastodon

10 to 12 actors bowed out of the performance where #OurPutin #AnotherOrban will be in attendance, but they didn't bow out of the Kennedy Center run, as this NPR article incorrectly claims (I read the CNN article they link). Good context for why the tone deaf administration will applaud a revolution against themselves LOL
#does #JDVance #know it's #three #hours #long #KennedyCenter #LesMis #tour #actors #equity #turntable #empty #chairs #tables #French #revolution npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-54235

alojapan.com/1235125/foreign-b Foreign buyers eyeing Japan’s empty houses seek specialist advice #Advice #buyers #empty #eyeing #Foreign #houses #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #Japans #news #seek #specialist Tokyo — Japan’s glut of abandoned houses are attracting foreign buyers, creating opportunities for brokers who can help bargain hunters swerve potential pitfalls. A growing number of specialist real estate agents and consultants are acting for foreign clients wan…

Everywhere, governments ARRANGE empty housing units by taxing empty units so little that keeping them empty produces money waiting for "lack of housing" to drive housing prices up.

It is a crime. Cutting taxes on speculators emptying homes is an AREANGED crime. Increasing housing costs is the only product. While making people homeless.

Japan

"High-rise condos used more as an investment tool than a home"

asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/1567

#taxEmptyUnits #speculation #empty
#housing #canpoli

The Asahi ShimbunHigh-rise condos used more as an investment tool than a home | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and AnalysisClose to half of buyers of high-rise condominium units in urban areas intend to sell the properties after prices rise, according to a survey by a company operating a real estate information website.