buy this print to help someone #1 for iPhone


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Not to ruin the punchline or anything, but: buy this print and gets donated to the UCLA Medical Center’s care for the uninsured.

The Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is one underfunded nonprofit operation, staffed by surprisingly helpful people. Despite the good attitude of the staffers, the hospital is falling apart, from offices where literally half the computers don’t work to buildings like this that seemingly have been give up on despite the astronomical real estate costs in this space-starved city.

In the meantime, in a world of state-of-the-art hospitals that make up the for-profit medical-industrial complex, this is one of the few ones that takes care of those who can’t afford for-profit healthcare, ie. the unemployed, the working class, immigrants – the middle/upper class’ great unwashed.

I bet more people get sick touching the door handle in the poorly-designed public restroom than get cured there daily. But there’s no way a public hospital in the current system can afford to upgrade to a doorless maze entrance. You know, like our movie theaters.

With California’s ongoing financial hemorrhaging likely to consume the next generation and a country accelerating down the early stages of that same path, I’m sure I’ll be able to get increasingly interesting photos of hospital decay, alas.

Anyway, the facility needs our help. Ten bucks from the sale of any photo in this series of three (or any future ones I take of the complex) will be donated to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center’s urgent care unit. In your name, if you’d like. A grain of sand in the big blue sea but, hey: every bit helps, no?

Shown here in a free, downloadable iPhone wallpaper version, 8×10 archival metallic harbor hospital disrepair #1 prints are available for , shipping included.These are printed in limited editions of 50, so reserve yours today!

*** Ten bucks goes toward a medical charity serving the unemployed. ***

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