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this tumblr is just becoming Sad Tweets I Don’t Wanna Put On My Twitter Because It Was Formerly My Pseudo-Professional Persona

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tfw ur almost 22 and ur mom takes ur phone away from u (and you pay the bill)

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tfw your prof acts like your therapist and urges you to finish your assignment as a form of exposure therapy but she’s not outright telling you that. lol. i suck

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; ~ ;

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academia is dum

just be a nice person!!!!

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The 35th Parallel | Valerie Chiang

What fascinates me about the American West is that there is no permanence. Civilization simply passed through, first with wagon roads, then railroads, then highways. Throughout the past century and a half, the West experienced continued change as a result of technological advancements and increased commercialization that every couple of decades, it ushered in a new era. The transcontinental railroad replaced the horse, and the automobile replaced the train. Now that mid-twentieth century car culture has diminished, all the remnants of the past are either left fading on the side of the road or their bits and pieces collected for preservation to signify their passing.

These photographs were taken along the 35th parallel north, tracing the path of the original wagon roads to Interstate 40 from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Barstow, California. With this project, I want to explore the West’s history of mobility, and also hope to show it as still evolving, quietly moving toward an uncertain future.

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All images & text © Valerie Chiang

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Thank you, Iain, for featuring my work on Another Place!

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my phone’s camera is really good so i rarely ever carry a dslr now

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what a poop

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look i took photos for fun for once

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fool forever - thao & the get down stay down !!! 

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heart pounding as i just received an email from my professor asking about a final paper from last term that i still did not complete yet

so far my draft is at 8000 words lol

honestly feeling pretty urgent about it because i want to prepare a poster for the ethnography in canada conference and because of recent events involving the university’s decision re: fossil fuel divestment

ah, life is short

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Realized I am less anxious about writing emails, and life, although I remain a bumbling and hardly-functioning perfectionist.

Thanks anti-anxiety meds! This is the new cyborg! self/other, inside/outside, natural/unnatural, etc.

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*fighting apathy*

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*organizing an art show*

*suddenly gets the idea to hang prints from helium balloons*

it’s like an interactive and mobile installation that invites the participation of the audience to alter the space while raising money for charity all the while making a comment on the temporal and impermanent nature of (wo)man

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JENNIFER DO YOU KNOW SUBOI

yes i just listened to her new song that was featured on the fader lol it was very intense. my favourite music video of hers is the one where she sings about friendship and wears wire-framed glasses.