2024 01 28
In another life, I’d love to be a hobo.
In this life, I’m too old and comfortable to be a hobo.
I’ve spent many hours watching train hopping videos and train point-of-view videos on youtube.
Stobe the Hobo is a favorite of mine. He was killed by a train. RIP Stobe.
Stobe left behind a nice lil gift of videos for us, which can be found here on his youtube page.
I have a short playlist of various train-themed videos, which I will likely continue to upload over the years. If curious, you can find that here.
Choo-Choo!
-Clayton
The Ohio River as it snakes through Steubenville, Ohio on the border with West Virginia. November, 2023. © Clayton Hauck
In another life, I’d love to be a hobo. Wandering the lands with little rhyme or reason. Discovering things as they came my way, blowing in the breeze.
In this life, I’m too old and comfortable to be a hobo.
I’ve spent many hours watching train hopping videos and train point-of-view videos on youtube.
Stobe the Hobo is a favorite of mine. He was killed by a train. RIP Stobe.
Stobe left behind a nice lil treasure trove of videos for us, which can be found here on his youtube page.
I have a short playlist of various train-themed videos, which I will likely continue to upload over the years. If curious, you can find that here.
Choo-Choo!
-Clayton
2024 01 27
Be the Mysterious Artist.
I am not the mysterious artist. I am the oversharing, throw it all against the wall and see what sticks, just happy to be here artist. I’m not sure I’ll ever be the mysterious artist but I do see the appeal. Anyway, enjoy the daily photo!
-Clayton
PS in college I worked at a local video store and, as the youngest employee at the store (that was 85% porn), I was always intimidated by what the other employees liked or listened to. Don’t get me wrong, my Employee Picks section was pretty fire, but in terms of music I typically let the others lead the way. One guy would listen to Tom Waits a lot and this track always stuck out to me as being so moody and cool.
Steubenville, Ohio. November, 2023. © Clayton Hauck
Be the Mysterious Artist.
I am not the mysterious artist. I am the oversharing, throw it all against the wall and see what sticks, just happy to be here artist. I’m not sure I’ll ever be the mysterious artist but I do see the appeal. Anyway, enjoy the daily photo!
-Clayton
PS in college I worked at a local video store and, as the youngest employee at the store (that was 85% porn), I was always intimidated by what the other employees liked or listened to. Don’t get me wrong, my Employee Picks section was pretty fire, but in terms of music I’d typically let the others lead the way. One guy would listen to Tom Waits a lot and this track always stuck out to me as being so moody and cool.
2024 01 03
Steubenville, Ohio topped out around 38,000 people in the 1940s. Today, roughly 18,000 people live here — a loss of over half the population from its peak almost a century ago.
I have no magic takeaway from these stats but a desire to see America’s Rust Belt re-filled with people. Trends, however, are tough to fight against. To succeed in business you have to go to where the people are. To run a city you have to maintain your infrastructure. With a shrinking tax base, this math becomes impossible to manage very quickly. Its hard to blame people for moving to new southern cities, where budgets are flush and the crafty and connected are able to more easily fill their coffers.
Cheap home prices help, but there needs to be an additional catalyst to get enough people motivated to move back to these rusty towns and refill their full potential.
If elected mayor, I pledge to Make Refurbishments Exciting Again. A ribbon cutting for every alley repaved. A fish fry for every sewer line replaced.
Enjoy.
-Clayton
Downtown Steubenville, Ohio. November, 2023. ©Clayton Hauck
Steubenville, Ohio topped out around 38,000 people in the 1940s. Today, roughly 18,000 people live here — a loss of over half the population from its peak almost a century ago.
I have no magic takeaway from these stats but a desire to see America’s Rust Belt re-filled with people. Trends, however, are tough to fight against. To succeed in business you have to go to where the people are. To run a city you have to maintain your infrastructure. With a shrinking tax base, this math becomes impossible to manage very quickly. Its hard to blame people for moving to new southern cities, where budgets are flush and the crafty and connected are able to more easily fill their coffers.
Cheap home prices help, but there needs to be an additional catalyst to get enough people motivated to move back to these rusty towns and refill their full potential.
If elected mayor, I pledge to Make Refurbishments Exciting Again. A ribbon cutting for every alley repaved. A fish fry for every sewer line replaced.
Enjoy.
-Clayton