Over this past weekend I went down to chicago and got a chance to make it to the Brach Candy Factory. The Brach Factory is abandoned factory that has been overrun by hobos, asbestos, Graffiti, and artists. This new craze of going into abandoned buildings has been intriguing visual artists and the Brach factory is somewhat of a museum. This place has more pieces of art then the Milwaukee Art Museum. There is Graffiti tags covering every wall of the three main buildings. The tags can be recognized from large cities around the mid west. This building also makes for some very interesting photographs and film. With cracked paint, broken glass at every step and hobos peaking around the corners.
The Brach factory is widely known through out the midwest by Photographers, Graffiti artists and Hollywood. Which has recently made this place famous world wide. The producers of the New Batman movie has used an old parking garage connected to the factory for a stunt in the new movie. Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzFeib7ZCk
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