ni-na-notes » photography http://blog.ninastoessinger.com notes on type, design, life & everything Sat, 04 Jan 2020 15:56:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Post-industrial interlude http://blog.ninastoessinger.com/2014/08/post-industrial-interlude/ http://blog.ninastoessinger.com/2014/08/post-industrial-interlude/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:37:51 +0000 nina http://blog.ninastoessinger.com/?p=3324 I’m fascinated by this decaying factory on the Norwegian coast.

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This site, where a river meets the labyrinthine Norwegian South-East coast, used to be a wood processing plant. Logs were floated down the river from a wide network of inland waterways, and processed here into tree pulp and such which was then shipped away. The first pulp mill (further up the river) started out as early as 1889; this newer facility was built in 1952. It was an important factor in the region until it closed its doors around 1988. Since then it has been decaying. Used by locals to dump disused boats, cars, and other scrap, the site has been periodically cleaned up, but its future remains unclear. An expensive proposal for residential/touristic redevelopment a few years ago was shelved.

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Boat graveyard in industrial ruins

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Upstairs in the main building, more boats.

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And so much more

Pareidolic goodness.

Pareidolic

As if surprised by rust

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All that and a sewing machine

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Stranded

Dizzying

Dizzying (I *think* this is horizontal).

Skylight

Skylight

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Former heavy duty.

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New life

Light

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Danger, high voltage.

Danger, high voltage

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Fused

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Still

Blue door

Blue door

Out

Out

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#nicebelgianhouses

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Finding yet another old bookshop

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This physical tram station interface

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OMG waffles!

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This structure of the cathedral’s aisle

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This gravestone lettering, worn into a stencil version of itself over 4 centuries

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Nighttime sightseeing

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Exploring Belgian beers (and drawing letters on beermats)

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The boys being funny

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Plantin-Moretus (feat. Mark)

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Wooden letters by Hendrik van den Keere

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Punches! these mindbogglingly perfect little sculptures of type

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17th-century text corrections

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This smiling lion

 

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