Are you in the import business?
I don’t know what businesses people might have run. It was an artists’ collective.
Not currently, but i’ve worked in it. I know enough to recognize the origin and approx value of many of the pieces. Much of the stuff they have is imported. I see stuff from Bali, Java, Tibet, Nepal, China, India…
On a side note…Did you notice all the golden buddhist treasure vases they have? Those typically contain relics of teachers.
I don’t know where the stuff came from. I really doubt it was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars given the hand to mouth existence of most of the folks there. If it was worth a lot, then it was probably the master tenants’ stuff.
Having been in a warehouse space (well, a Quonset hut) not that far aware that looked at having sprinklers put in, I assure you that it is both expensive and non-trivial to do so. It was so expensive that my hackerspace didn’t move from our old (original) space into it because no one could afford the expense. Most warehouses don’t have them. I have friends leading efforts to give away (literally) hundreds of sprinklers to such groups right now in response to the fire.
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I’m not suggesting that they should have sold it all and lived in an empty warehouse with sprinklers. Apologies, if that wasn’t clear. Not victim blaming. I love the space they created. I wish there were more spaces like that. I’d love it if more people created spaces like they did.
I was merely wondering how such a large quantity of expensive pieces ended up there since you and everyone else who describes them, describes them as living hand to mouth as you say. Maybe they were the landlord’s. maybe the collective was founded by someone getting out of the import business. maybe they sold imports to fund their art. i don’t know. but i am curious…because i can say for certain the contents of their place was worth a lot more then you might guess. whatever the case, i’d love to know the story.
all i know is most artist collectives don’t have items like those, and that is a shame because what they had created was amazing.
I used to have a space in an artist collective in an old jam factory btw. Everyone chipped in and made it cool, but nothing like what they had done with all the imported stuff.
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Unevenly enforced laws are tools of fascism and discrimination.
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or human judgement and discretion.
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Trump is all too human.
So are judges and juries.
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Exactly! What we need are laws that are almost impossible to comply with, coupled with selective enforcement against only those who have the wrong political or sexual orientation. /s
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Let’s see…
Cracks knuckles…
What? No, they have it all wrong! These closures are, in fact, revenge against Trump-supporters by the Hitlery fascist regressive progressives who have yet to accept the election, striking out at what they call “nests of deplorables”, when in fact those people are really American patriots who want to exercise their right to enjoy uncontrolled un-safe-spaces, free from SJW madness and out-of-control government control.
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Fix’t for accuracy.
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