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The Accidental Room (2018)
- gwbas1c 6mo ago"Secret Mall Apartment" is a documentary on Netflix that includes a lot of the videos that Townsend took during the whole project. (There's a few stills in the article.) It's quite interesting to watch, because Townsend himself is quite the character. There's a scene where he's having an argument with his (now ex) wife that shows that Townsend has extremely different priorities than the typical person. (And why his first marriage failed, too.)
- linksnapzz 6mo ago(2018) Also, the old picture shown on the page wasn't the State Prison on Smith Hill (where the mall is now); it's the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston-the octagonal stone building from 1878 is still used as a maximum-security prison.
- gzread 6mo agoThese days you'd be caught by the surveillance network on the first day.
- hyperhello 6mo agoBut there wouldn’t be a new mall, either.
- kjshsh123 6mo agoWe need more mixed use development like this
- salynchnew 6mo agoWhen I learned that this person was one of the RISD art students who started Fort Thunder, it all made a lot of sense to me. That was by all accounts a very strange and unique intentional space for people who didn't want to live in a conventional manner. Here's an archive of the old Fort Thunder website: https://web.archive.org/web/20091025093813/http://fortthunder.02909.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20091025093813/http://fortthunde...