title="length = 1 minute 15 seconds size = 588 kb">listen       02/28/03 16:33


outside of ispat inland steel mill, the first place we stopped to record noise and take pictures, there is a machine of some sort connected to a small white building with white pipes extruding from the walls. the fairly loud hissing machine noise is a constant reminder that even though it is pretty desolate around this area, a lot is going on.

listen       02/28/03 16:35
while recording the sounds from the little white building, a train made its way down the tracks right next to me. this provided many good pictures for j3s and david. just as it began to pass, the people who were in the front engine car looked out and waved at us. i made the hand motion kids (pretending to pull an imaginary horn hanging from the ceiling) make at truckers to get them to honk their horns on long car trips, and sure enough the slightly amused train operator pulled the horn for me. i had a very long clip of the train passing, but due to an oversight on my part, the rest was erased. in the future i plan to head south of the city again or maybe out to the country to find a train and record it passing by.

listen       02/28/03 17:21
later, at a different factory, and while on a public road we were asked to not take any more pictures.
a lot of people in this area seem be into photography. how could you not be if you saw rusting factories, machinery, and decay on a daily basis. this isn't the first time i've gone to explore industrial areas, and it isn't the first time i've been bothered by security . usually the security guards are very nice, as was the case with this guy. technically speaking, i would like to point out that i was not taking any pictures, though i was driving the getaway car for my friends to snap as many pictures as possible before we were strongly encouraged to go elsewhere.
we continued to drive around and take more pictures, just of other places. a delapidated and unattended security booth led over a bridge to the long and very picturesque entrance of some steel refinery next to the lake where you could clearly see what strongly resembled the springfield tire fire.
if you have not checked out the pictures from the trip to indiana at j3s.net/photolog yet, i strongly encourage you to do so, here and here.