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Observer of obsolescence.
Photographer & printmaker on Lake Wazzapamani.
Infodumps about dead malls/esoteric history/things on wheels/whatever...

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[jonrevProjects] @jonrev.com · Sep 12
📍 the jonrev projects encompass 20+ years of exploring, digitally preserving and infodumping about dead malls, commercial architecture, abandoned buildings and other such places of memories.

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Photograph. A gray brick building looms through the windshield of a 1980s Pontiac Fiero at blue hour. Signage on the building reads "Carson Pirie Scott" - a defunct department store. North Riverside Park Mall North Riverside, Illinois Photograph. An empty bilevel shopping mall. A large, vacant food court is seen on the lower level. Stratford Square Bloomingdale, Illinois Photograph. An abandoned bilevel shopping mall reflecting 1970s contemporary tastes, featuring brutalist ceilings, wood and smoked glass accents, conversation pit seating flanked by (overgrown) gardens, and a large public art sculpture. Lakeside Mall Sterling Heights, Michigan Photograph. An abandoned Sears department store at twilight, the labelscar of the SEARS letters is visible on five concrete columns separated from a brick building, behind. Sears, Salem Mall Trotwood, Ohio
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Northern lights over Waukegan Harbor, tonight
Photograph. A pair of lighthouses at the piers of Waukegan Harbor and Waukegan Beach on Lake Michigan in Waukegan, Illinois. The northern lights are visible in the sky.
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Belvidere Mall's owners dropped a surprise truckload of unseen archive photos on us last week and now all my energy is directed toward readying the Cinema for November 22nd...
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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There's a kei van on my commute I keep trying to catch because I want to know how to register one of these against Illinois' bass-ackward 25-year import laws.
Photograph. A silver mid-1990s Honda Acty Street van in traffic, Illinois license plate digitally altered to protect the innocent. A Toyota Avalon ahead of the van. Sticker on the van reads "please be patient I am 9 years old"
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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ebay pushing AI item descriptions has made browsing vintage electronics absolute hell. Stop regurgitating the same sales pitch and tell me what's wrong with this VCR.
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Deerbrook in headlights

Deerbrook Mall - Deerfield, Illinois (2017)
#deadmalls #abandoned #mall #retail #fountain #urbex #photography
Photograph. A large atrium in an enclosed shopping mall undergoing demolition prep - decorative features and trim have been stripped and piled in the center, the mall is being gutted. Fences and a pit that made up a water feature, in the foreground. Disheveled, flying saucer-shaped lighting features dangle from the ceiling, surrounding a series of skylights.
November 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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BCG is the last untouched, mid-century General Cinema theater in existence, debuting in 1966 and carved into fours through the decades. Officially closed since 2003, the mall allows us to run it as DIY space for art, music and movies -- our hope is to draw an angel investor who restores and opens it
Photograph. A mid-century theater lobby typical of General Cinema Corporation design, albeit with a gaudy paint and carpet job. It is a tall space with string lights strung from the surrounding frieze to colorful ceiling fans. A long concession stand spans the length of the space. Photograph. 35mm film projection equipment in a booth with red checkered carpet. Photograph. A smallish cinema auditorium with older, spring-reclining seats. Photograph. A smallish cinema auditorium with half its seats removed. Blue stage lighting covers the dark auditorium. The band, Astray We Bloom, performs for a small crowd - their visuals displayed on the cinema screen.
November 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Join us in #Waukegan for a day of art, history and movies in support of small businesses on November 22nd, 2025 - Belvidere Cinema Gallery awakens from an 18-month hiatus as part of Belvidere Mall's 60-Year celebration!

Doors at noon.
Free screenings of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" @ 1:00 & 4:30
Flyer in the style of a newspaper advert for General Cinema Theatres showtimes. Belvidere Cinema Gallery Waukegan's Finest D.I.Y. Arts & Entertainment 2145 Belvidere Street • Waukegan, IL INSIDE BELVIDERE DISCOUNT MALL "MOVIES AT THE MALL SINCE 1966" [promotional imagery for E.T. the Extra Terrestrial] FREE SCREENING NOVEMBER 22 1:00, 4:30 PM LIMITED SEATING B.Y.O. REFRESHMENTS (Light Refreshments Available) "CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF BELVIDERE MALL" [logo for Waukegan Historical Society] [logo for the jonrev projects photography exhibit] SEE THE ART & HISTORY EXHIBITS IN OUR LOBBY • 12:00 - 7:00 PM "FOLLOW US FOR FUTURE SCREENINGS" [facebook][instagram] @belviderecinema Photograph. A mid-century cinema lobby with a concession stand and art gallery. Photography displays flank both sides of frame. Photograph. A building at night from a very low angle. An inward-curved roof with a glass wall entrance in the center -- signage reads "BELVIDERE DISCOUNT MALL". The centerpiece is flanked by retail space on each side, reflecting more 90s architecture with quarter-circle awnings made of corrugated steel.
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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alopex-ii.bsky.social
Our building neighbor had to hose down the sidewalk like a crime scene. LA cannot match this level of rat madness. Only Chicago makes kids fight rats for Halloween candy
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Halloweencompacto
Photograph. A giant masterpiece for all the greatest world newspaper nerds. (jonrev in a Max Headroom Halloween mask like the one worn by the perpetrator of the 1987 Max Headroom pirating incident riding a Honda Motocompacto)
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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In the mall no one can hear you shop

Northridge - Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2022)
#deadmalls #abandoned #urbex #ricohgr3 #photography
Photograph of an abandoned two-level shopping mall's center court. The lighting is dim, it is a 10-minute long exposure illuminated only by moonlight coming through the skylights. Debris and graffiti are visible throughout the scene, amid escalators, fountain pits and staircases.
February 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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trailerpilot.bsky.social
The vacant, former Hanig’s Footwear at the base of the Hancock Center is like a Donald Judd
Twelve wall-mounted boxes in two parallel rows of six used to display shoes for sale in a now-empty storefront in Chicago. The back of each illuminated box is a vibrant color — lime green, bright red, seafoam green, etc.
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Less than 24 hours later... Marley Station is under threat of seizure and being sold in a sheriff's auction within 90 days to repay debt owed by Namdar Realty, well-known real estate ghouls. Letters were posted at the mall entrances this morning.
Photograph. Letter from Anne Arundel County Sheriff posted on the doors of Marley Station mall. Summarized: mall owners owe a debt and the mall is under threat of being seized and sold at auction by the sheriff's office within 90 days to repay the debt.
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Sad news this morning out of Lakeforest in Gaitherburg, Maryland. With internal demolition underway, a recent infiltration found at least two of the mall's public art installations destroyed among piles of scrap now filling the mall's concourses.

• Gap by Buky Schwartz
• Zipper by William Crovello
Photograph. A towering, slanted red beam with a break in the center, extends floor to ceiling in the concourse of a bilevel shopping center. The mall is dead, no stores are open. Two friends chat at a set of tables on the lower level. Polaroid photograph scan. A zig-zagged metal sculpture rises toward a ceiling with hexagonal-shaped skylights.
October 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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44 years ago
"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" is the fifth and most important single by the Dead Kennedys, released in late October/early November 1981 on Alternative Tentacles

The single included a free armband with a crossed-out swastika on it

#punkrock #DeadKennedys #nazipunksfuckoff #punkrockhistory
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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"It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"

Marley Station - Glen Burnie, Maryland
#deadmalls #mall #neon #MD #photography
Photograph. A dark atrium in a bilevel shopping center. A vacant department store anchors the end, no retailers are open in this frame. A pair of nonworking escalators with a central staircase to the right. An empty conversation pit, below. A large skylight overhead features oversized support trusses, accented by pink neon inserts. Blue hour outside.
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"

Marley Station - Glen Burnie, Maryland
#deadmalls #mall #neon #MD #photography
Photograph. A dark atrium in a bilevel shopping center. A vacant department store anchors the end, no retailers are open in this frame. A pair of nonworking escalators with a central staircase to the right. An empty conversation pit, below. A large skylight overhead features oversized support trusses, accented by pink neon inserts. Blue hour outside.
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Come sail away...

Marley Station -- Glen Burnie, Maryland
#deadmalls #mall #neon #photography
Photograph. A bilevel shopping mall's center court -- it has a postmodern pod elevator with the car on the upper level, and an amphitheater stage at its base. Most of the retail shops on both level are dark except for Finish Line. The ceiling features skylights and oversized trusses, which are accented by triangular-shaped blue neon designed tor resemble sailboats on the horizon. Solid-colored flags hang from the balcony. Photograph. Ceiling detail over the center court of a shopping mall. The ceiling features skylights and oversized trusses, which are accented by triangular-shaped blue neon designed tor resemble sailboats on the horizon. Warmer lighting accents the soffits, below. Photograph. An elevator in motion in the center court of a bilevel shopping mall. Perspective is low to the ground in the amphitheater which surrounds the elevator -- handrails rise on either side in the foreground.
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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This vision grows more appealing by the day.
Dave pulling out HAL 9000’s components in order to shut it down, while HAL sings “Daisy,” from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
October 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Fitting building for it, I guess
A Google Maps screenshot shows a business called Mandles: Man Candles for Men located inside a building whose outline looks vaguely like a short dick and balls
October 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I watch them all as they fall, but I remember when we were young...

Northridge - Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2023)
#deadmalls #abandoned #urbex #photography #35mm
Lo-fi film photograph of an abandoned mall's atrium viewed from the second floor. There is extensive vandalism, decay, and moss grows on the floor. Lo-fi film photograph of a Things Remembered store in an abandoned mall Lo-fi film photograph of a Mrs. Field's Cookies store in an abandoned mall. The facade is covered in graffiti. Natural light pours in through the atrium, in the background.
December 22, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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The trick 'r treaters are getting something special this year.
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"Bias Warp" by Ted Jonsson

Marley Station - Glen Burnie, Maryland
#deadmalls #mall #publicart #MD #photography
Photograph. A large, polished metal sculpture in a dead, enclosed shopping mall. The sculpture consists of four steel tubes -- two curved tubes wrapping around two straight tubes -- angled at 45-degrees. The sculpture is mounted to a black marble pedestal surrounded by terrazzo tiles. Empty retail storefronts are visible in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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If this flag offends you, I'll help you pack.

Marley Station - Glen Burnie, Maryland
#deadmalls #neon #MD #photography
Photograph. Three pairs of white and blue neon tubes against a brushed stainless steel panel. The neon is shaped as waves or a stylized letter "M".
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Took these images while filling up during a 2021 trip to St Louis: a 1930s gas station at 403 Laclede Ave.
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM