#RUST BELT REVIVAL GENERATOR#

Michigan Democrats won a governing trifecta, and Pennsylvania Democrats believe they won the state House for the first time in more than a decade. John Fetterman and Josh Shapiro romped in Pennsylvania, while Democrat Marcy Kaptur held on and Republican Steve Chabot was bounced in Ohio. It wasn’t just Slotkin, though: Across the industrial Midwest, Democrats turned in some of their most impressive performances, swamping Republicans, flipping legislatures, and knocking out supposedly safe Republican incumbents. Instead, when election day came, Slotkin won, and she won fairly easily - besting her opponent by a comfortable five points. A Democrat representing a district that Biden narrowly won, Republicans flooded her district with millions, making it the most expensive house race in the country, thinking Slotkin would be low-hanging fruit in their expected red wave. Low cost housing and walkable city centers will attract even more new inhabitants.Michigan Representative Elissa Slotkin was supposed to be one of the House’s most embattled incumbents. Artists will continue to find new business niches in the Rust Belt making use of old materials and novel use of new materials. Rustic tables made from old factory wood.Ī collection of recycled industrial materials. American Steel Studios has acquired portions of the old SF Bay Bridge for use in art projects. Old steel is a raw material for many artists. The Cleveland Art storage yard is filled with raw materials. Rust Belt Revival describes re-use of old urban landscapes, an architectural style and an artistic aesthetic.įormer printing plant becomes artist studios. Evolution is now beginning to favor a new kind of animal that can exist and thrive in the rust belt wastelands. The decline came when these manufacturing resources shifted to a more global model.

The industrial cities of the American heartland came into existence as economic entities because of three components raw materials (such as Precambrian iron ore deposits), fuel (coal from the Appalachian Mountains) and transportation (railroads & Great Lakes shipping).

#RUST BELT REVIVAL GENERATOR#

In recent years, The Generator warehouse space in Reno has also began to contribute major artworks. During the next decade, most of the major playa art projects were produced out of shipping container artist workshops that took root in the industrial wastelands of the the Bay Area: The Shipyard, The Boxshop, American Steel and NIMBY.

It was the beginning of containerized transport for the organization. In 1997, container Zero was the first first shipping container I acquired for use at BurningMan. Over the years, we’ve evolved into a 500-pound primate, able to hold our own with the big boys. We were like tiny, nimble mammals feasting on the bones of dinosaurs during the die-off. The tech boom was just beginning when we moved the burn to the Nevada desert in 1990.Īfter the first San Francisco tech bubble burst, BurningMan was finally able to afford an office in the south of Market area. We created our own style.īurningMan began on a beach in San Francisco in 1986. We shopped in thrift stores because we had to. It may be that we were the first hipsters, but we were not pretentious. You could work a part-time job to cover food and rent, and still have plenty of time left over to explore abandoned buildings and develop all kinds of silly ideas, like for instance BurningMan. San Francisco in the 1970s-1990s was a playground for the Suicide Club and the Cacophony Society. The fall of Detroit had already started and later went further and deeper. Five decades ago, South Bend, Indiana began its decline when the last Studebaker rolled off the assembly line. This 1952 Studebaker is permanently parked behind the old Leatherock Hotel in Cherryvale, Kansas. I am also an avid technologist and a futurist. I have an affection for all things old and weathered. “Rust Belt” has become the term used to describe the post-industrial heartland of the northeastern US, where declining population and rising poverty have created a new wasteland.

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