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I'm Andrew Filer. This is my website, and it deals with, among other things, my photography and outdated graphic design (on products new and old). I have other sites, including trade.mar.cx, oddmart.com, the Municipal Water Board (a piece of web concept art), and the Holt Weekly News (the complete archives of the Holt, MN newspaper and a conceptual demonstration of software I wrote). I also have a book. If you'd like, you can email me.More
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Category Archives: Urban Planning
Cola, Pylons
Soda Signs. I just about crashed my car when I saw this last night. I’ve been photographing out-of-the-way places for seven years now this month, but this is the first time I’ve seen such amazingly preserved signage. At first I … Continue reading
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Pattern Recognition in the Built Environment
NE 18th Ave rail corridor, Minneapolis On a long walk through Seattle with my friend Max Action, Max pointed out to me distinctive markers of tunnels, from purple glass sidewalk-windows to giant grates. To him, I couldn’t help but point … Continue reading
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Subways, Dots
Seattle Subways. The Seattle Monorail Project was far from the first abandoned transit plan for the city. Seattle had interurban and electric streetcars over a century ago, but by 1926, there was a desire for real rapid transit, like in … Continue reading
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secret streetcars
The Como-Harriet Line. It’s now just a tiny museum line in southwest Minneapolis, but it once served downtown Minneapolis, the university, and the capitol. Much of its path was down city streets, where the signs of streetcars are long-gone. Through … Continue reading
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