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 Retro_Chick
      
Location: Denver-ish
Gender: Female
Serial Trespasser
 |  | Till Demolition Do Us Part
< on 2/1/2012 3:08 AM >
|  | | | http://latimesblog...tle-babylonia.html
Seattle woman 'marries' a warehouse
Marry a warehouse? There may be some women who can't much tell the difference between the football-watching lump in the living room and a storage shed, but an Occupy Seattle protester decided to take the metaphor a step further over the weekend when she married the abandoned building at 10th and Union.
The old warehouse, occupied not long ago by anti-corporate protesters in an attempt to reclaim it as a community center, is slated for demolition to make way for a new apartment complex.
"If corporations can have the [same] rights as people, so can buildings," Baylonia Aivaz told Seattle's KOMO-TV in a reference to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that opened the door to nearly unlimited corporate contributions to political campaigns.
"I'm doing this to show the building how much I love it, how much I love community space and how much I love this neighborhood. And I want to stop it from gentrification," said Aivaz, clad in a long white wedding dress and standing near a bulldozer as a ukulele player strummed "Lean on Me."
A graduate of Rancho Palos Verdes High School in Los Angeles and Duke University, Aivaz said on her Facebook event page that the 200 Occupy Seattle protesters who occupied the building had hoped the 107-year-old warehouse could have been used as a place for communal art displays, free child care or other community services.
"The moment we entered the warehouse we became a true community. We became self-motivated. We worked co-operatively," she wrote on the page, which also featured photos of the blessed event. "We explored 36,000 square feet like children, giggling and dreaming at the possibility of all that space. We played with conveyer belts, riding up and down. The kind you always want to sit on in the airport luggage dispensers. We strung up lights.... We removed pounds and pounds of unnecessary building materials.... We dreamed."
Sunday's "gay marriage" (presumably because the building had the female vibe, not to mention that a same-sex marriage bill is pending in the Washington legislature) was to point out that the new luxury apartments will render the city's funky Capitol Hill neighborhood, as Aivaz put it, "even more unaffordable."
Too late, though. As KOMO reported, the bulldozers are already on the move.
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
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Liska
Location: Western Massachusetts
Gender: Female
| | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 2 on 2/1/2012 2:36 PM >
| | | | I guess she's going to be a widow...?
What's horrible is that my first thought was "OMG, she looks like someone i used to know!!" and my second was "ugh, that make up is horrible!"
Anyone got any photos of it?
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Harvestman
 
Location: Somewhere in SORTA/TANK Territory!
Gender: Male
Everything about me has a poker face.
| |  | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 3 on 2/1/2012 2:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by Weirdling
I have standards, I only marry Kirkbrides.
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I tried getting married to an abandoned gas station once. Let me just say that she was easy but cramped.
Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing.
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Retro_Chick
Location: Denver-ish
Gender: Female
Serial Trespasser
| | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 4 on 2/1/2012 7:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by Liska
Anyone got any photos of it?
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Here is the FB event page: https://www.facebo...tif_t=event_invite, there is a video and a couple more photos.
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
~Ayn Rand |
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cdevon
Location: west county
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 5 on 2/1/2012 11:47 PM >
| | | | wow, just wow...
and now a .gif
When I say I'm 'clean and sober', it means I've showered and I'm headed to the liquor store. |
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NCBuilder
Location: Charlotte, NC
Gender: Male
| | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 6 on 2/2/2012 12:47 AM >
| | | | Posted by Retro_Chick
.... We removed pounds and pounds of unnecessary building materials....
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So were they occupiers, or scrappers?
[last edit 2/2/2012 12:47 AM by NCBuilder - edited 1 times]
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doom vs
Location: My map runneth over
Gender: Male
To a grey indifference
| | | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 7 on 2/2/2012 1:00 AM >
| | | | Wonder who the offspring will take after. Hmmm...
Soil's Song In Your Throat
https://www.flickr...otos/72153409@N07/ |
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Captain_Slow
The infamous Buttram Manfist
Location: Dallas, Tx
Gender: Male
Obviously capable of mediocre things.
| | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 8 on 2/2/2012 5:42 AM >
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[last edit 2/2/2012 5:44 AM by Captain_Slow - edited 1 times]
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Audacious
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota
Gender: Male
| | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 9 on 2/2/2012 7:50 AM >
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Haa!!
But in all seriousness that's a damn shame that the building is being bulldozed. I'd rather it be turned into a playground for photographers like myself  hehe
Proud supporter of the pullout method |
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MrSivalls
This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information.
I'll be a-surfin' in yer blood on Saturday night
| | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 10 on 2/2/2012 7:49 PM >
| | | | She needs to develop better taste if that's possible.
Maybe they can cremate her lover instead?
Your security measures were inadequate.
How unfortunate for you. |
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KirkTheJerk
Location: MIA
Gender: Male
Here for a good time, not a long time.
| | | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 11 on 2/2/2012 8:59 PM >
| | | | "If corporations can have the [same] rights as people, so can buildings"
i think she miss understood how that corporations as people thing works.
http://www.newkirk.biz
Canon 7D, XSi, 10-22mm, 18-55mm, 50mm F/1.4, 70-200mm F/4 |
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Asher0719
Location: MSP
Gender: Female
The World Abandoned
| | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 12 on 2/3/2012 2:24 AM >
| | | | Posted by KirkTheJerk
"If corporations can have the [same] rights as people, so can buildings"
i think she miss understood how that corporations as people thing works.
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No kidding...
~Asher |
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Glass
Location: Chicago
as one does
| | | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 14 on 2/3/2012 6:00 PM >
| | | | Posted by Weirdling
So, as I'm sure we're all wondering here, how do they do it?
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Gives new meaning to 'buildering', eh?
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Opheliaism
  
Moderator
Location: Out on the border of everything and nothing, TN
Ophie
| |  | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 15 on 2/3/2012 6:15 PM >
| | | | Not the first time someone has "married" a building or structure.
http://www.telegra...-Eiffel-Tower.html
She even got a documentary out of it. No kids as of yet....
Show up at 9:30 with 15 dollars cash and your fingers crossed.
<Mandias> I think she's gonna slug that cop. -------------------------------------------------------- <Axle> "She's just not a farmer Owen, she has too much of her Father in her." <Axle> Death by Hut |
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Audacious
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota
Gender: Male
| | Re: Till Demolition Do Us Part
<Reply # 16 on 2/4/2012 1:42 AM >
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Those would be some pretty damn tall kids!
Proud supporter of the pullout method |
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