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#nikon #photography #joliet #illinois #graffiti #urbex #explore #bluesky #resist #smellykelly #JustAnotherHotMess
Graffiti on rusted steel panels. Left panel has a white gelatinous ghost-like figure with a large black mouth smiling. He has white eyes, and is surrounded by a strange symbol, similar to a backwards 'at' symbol. The right panel is a one-eyed alien piloting a bulbous caricature of a ufo. The craft has a tractor beam abducting a human shaped shadow.
March 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Windows
A rotting metal window frame in the foreground with sharp edges frames out a large blue building in the background. Green plastic window panes still occupy some of the panels in the window, while another is draped with translucent white plastic, and several are missing panes entirely. The ground outside is littered with unidentifiable refuse. The blue rear building is missing a large overhead door and large window.
March 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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You wouldn't believe where Santa spends the rest of the year...

#BlueSkyArtShow #abandoned #bando #urbex #explore #history #grimy
February 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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#blueskyartshow #monochrome #explore #abandoned #bando #photography #amateur #beginner
A photo of a door centered in a brick wall. Monochrome, high contrast visuals. Ominous and bleak atmosphere, the door is blocked by a pipe running horizontally across it. The door is very dark in color, evidently wood, with a bright window frame inset in the top half, dividing a window into 4 quadrants. Vague hints of graffiti appear on the brick wall to our left of the door, but the graphics or lettering are not completely clear. Through thin horizontal windows across the top of the wall we can see a building behind this door, implying that this was an exit door. The building behind this appears to be have a corrugated texture with a large window in the siding on our left. Our overall vantage is facing the door from maybe 20-ish feet away, through a gap in debris, perhaps wrecked wood and metal sheets, giving the feeling of having just chanced upon this door and acknowledging the foreshadowing it implies.
February 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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In the basement of my favorite Downtown Joliet #DoJo location. 1929 building, currently undergoing renovations and improvements.
#nikon #photography #resist #urbex #explore #bsky #havefun #smellykelly #JustAnotherHotMess
Photo in a dingy basement. We are inside a room, a large metal door to the right is open inward. We cannot see out of the room. A rusted coal shovel rests upright against the gray steel firedoor. A rusted metal cabinet hangs on the wall to the left, the cabinet door is open exposing a shallow shelf with various unidentified objects resting on it. Lighting is from the right, outside of this room, providing deep shadows
February 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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#nikon #photography #urbex #abandoned #bando #bsky #explore #travel #art #resist #BlueskyArtShow
A photo of a chest of drawers, each drawer is open to varying degrees. It's in an old closet with built-in shelves, peeling green paint, and clearly abandoned. The drawers are wood, stained dark, but the sides of the dresser have been worn to their natural lighter color. A single metal drawer sits on a shelf next to the dresser, open about halfway, rusting and probably full of tetanus.
February 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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No Signal

#nikon #resist #bluesky #smellykelly #JustAnotherHotMess #explore #urbex #abandoned #bando #history #photography #illinois #joliet #industrial
Photograph of a series of vertical lights, similar to a traffic signal. Red on top, amber in the middle, green on the bottom. Yellow paint is peeling to rust underneath. A distinct industrial vibe inside an obviously derelict and abandoned warehouse. A line of large windows, two row high offer diffuse lighting, complemented by the gaping holes in the ceiling, causing the puddles on the floor to shine.
February 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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New location for me, quick cell phone pic teaser.
An abandoned building, made of brown brick. Clearly decaying structure, bricked up windows and broken glass. The shape of the building kind of reminds me of the Alamo, though it is not actually that similar at all.
February 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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#daysofthedead #haunters #haunt #paranormal #stringcheese #bloodmoon #nikon #photography #portrait #bluesky #resist #resistance #smellykelly #JAHMJustAnotherHotMess #chicago #illinois
The haunt actor String Cheese poses at Days of the Dead in Chicago, 2024. She's in focus while the background is dimmer and unfocused. She has one black eye, and one white marble eye with blood streaking down her face. She holds a signpost, the sign reading Prison Area Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers in reference to the derelict Illinois State Prison - Joliet.
January 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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#photography #prison #urbex #explore #abandoned #bando #illinois #bluesky #resist #resistance #AltCDC #smellykelly #JustAnotherHotMess
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One of my favorite pics from an outbuilding that's 'probably' at an active prison somewhere in Illinois.
Slightly desaturated image of a block window, barred, in a red brick wall. Broken block glass sits on the sill, while rust eats away at the black paint on the bars. Old concrete and mortar is stained with age and probably mold, maybe some paint. Probably taken at an outbuilding at an active prison in Illinois or somewhere like that.
January 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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#urbex #nikon #explore #photography #abandoned #bando #lighting #creepy #eerie #shadows #factory #machine #hellaobscura #intotheobscure #bluesky #smellykelly #JustAnotherHotMess #history #haunted #illinois #kankakee @danielphilip.bsky.social @karaphilip.bsky.social @intotheobscure.bsky.social
Photograph of a machine in an abandoned factory in Kankakee, Illinois. Dark and shadowy, lit from below and inside with a white light.
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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#nikon #urbex #explore #abandoned #bando #IntoTheObscure #haunted #strange #unusual #paranormal @danielphilip.bsky.social @intotheobscure.bsky.social
Somewhat ominous message popped into my flashlight's view in this 'haunted factory' in Illinois. I did not 'get out' in case you were wondering.
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Love @singulartobias.bsky.social!! Smart dude, cool hats.
Into The Obscure, talkshow on Paraflixx. Recent episode with Tobias and Ashley!
January 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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#nikon #bando #abandoned #gigantar #ILRR66 #illinois #joliet #urbex #explore @danielphilip.bsky.social
3rd floor of the Illinois Rock & Roll Museum On Route 66 (ILRR66) pre-restoration. This was a boxing gym called Jack's
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM