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Retail history blog named after the ghost outline a shop sign leaves behind, mapping the slow decline of the American mall.
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Labelscar sits in Liminal Spaces under Weird, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Photographs of places with nobody in them: dead malls, empty pools, corridors at 3am. An aesthetic that has no right to be this affecting.
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Yes. Labelscar works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
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