| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
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A request.
If this is not appropriate, I will hastily delete. I don't have much opportunity to explore abandoned places, but I really enjoy all of the wonderful photos the members of this community have posted. I was wondering, for any of you members in and around Philly, if anyone happened to catch the implosion of the Philly PRR steam plant yesterday? I was hoping to find a video of it or something but haven't had any luck. Thank you in advance! And here is a very small contribution (like I said, I don't have much opportunity to explore abandoned places...which sucks!), just so this isn't text-only. This is a house I pass on the bike path I ride on. I've been trying to summon up the courage to get a bit closer, but it's kind of out in the open and since I'm usually alone on my bike trips, haven't been brave enough.  It's unfortunate that LiveJournal and this community didn't exist in the mid-90s. On the street I grew up on in rural South Jersey there was an abandoned house. The first couple of years we lived there, it was inhabited by a reclusive older man who had apparently lived there for a very long time. One day in 1995 he just up and left...practically disappeared. My brothers, our neighbors and I would explore the house. It was pretty crazy, the house seemed to be stuck in time. It was decorated in that 60s-70s style of orange, green, and yellow, and had a retro TV and kitchen appliances. Even older spice bottles from maybe the 70s. The man had literally left pretty much everything in the house...we found old phone books, bills, letters, postcards, and church bulletins. There was even an old car in the garage in the back yard. I'm not sure if the car ran, but someone stole it, somehow. The neighborhood kids (myself included) pretty much destroyed the house, which I regretted for a long time. My best friend's brother and his friends turned it into a home base for playing paintball, since the house was surrounded by woods. They tore down the house several years ago to develop the land, which was pretty sad. My stepmother, around 1996 or 97, even attempted to contact someone to find out about buying the house, but never got a response. Current Music: Ani DiFranco - Letter to a John | Powered by Last.fm |
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[ notholden ]
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Detroit Dump Truck
Not exactly the "take only pictures" approach but the defenestration of a dump truck in Detroit in September is truly to be cherished. Video HERE. |
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| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
photocontest
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10:59a |
Winner of "Crest"
Congratulations to this week's winner!
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bitterlawngnome First Place
This week's theme starts now - "Aria"
Next week's theme will be... "Divination" |
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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 |
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amparo sanchez with calexico. que cantadora magnifica!
we saw her perform thursday night with a couple of the calexico guys singing backup. she is wonderful. one of the things i really like about my hometown heroes, calexico, is that they have no problem playing in the background with other people. |
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St. Lukes Church Abercarn(UK)
I know this ruin well as I attended the church as a child. It is on the mountain side above and outside the village of Abercarn, Gwent I had hoped to get closer but the first picture and the close up of the tower were taken from outside a locked and chained high gate. The front view is taken from the main steps up to the church which have been mined out by locals wanting good stone for patios and walls. The windows, all of which were Victorian/Edwardian stained glass were removed and put into a near by less isolated church that had no stained glass.  ( Read more... ) Current Mood: sad |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
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Заброшки Питера и Лен.Области
Поскольку иногда в поездки по заброшкам мы берём с собой видеокамеру, то у нас помимо фотографий сохраняются и видеоматериалы. Представляю вашему вниманию небольшой видеоролик, в котором использованы фрагменты наших поездок по заброшенным местам Питера и Лен.Области. Называть объекты не буду, но здесь их достаточно много. Current Mood:  creative |
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Play of Displays
A, раз уж зашёл разовор про выставки, в данный момент как раз проводится ещё одна. Не совсем "честная" выставка, конечно, скорее это относится к тому, что на сленге называют "корпортивкой", показ работ в офисе какой-то компании. Несколько нас бродили по всяким закоулкам и сусекам недавно завершившейся Dutch Design Week, а потом сложили всё в кучу, и "всем показали". Ещё одна "нечестность"- никакой бумаги, только проекторы (хотя это никакая не нечестность, а просто другой формат). Мой взнос можно посмотреть в одноименном сете на фликре. |
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One, Two, Map
Прислали листовки-приглашения на выставку aman_geld-a в PERMM-и; даты всё равно неправильные, мероприятие переносилось несколько раз. По последним сведениям, теперь началом выбрано 17 ноября; да так "удачно", что я не смогу приехать :( Буду, наверное, виртуально присутствовать, как виртуальному проекту и положено. Отобрано, говорят, сорок работ, "истинным любителям" рекомендуется попереться и посмотреть. Насколько я понимаю, музей не делает каталога, так что я планирую сделать какой-то самострок-самиздат; можно записываться на рассылку. В связи с (вот-вот уже) запуском сайта в дополнение к обычному ежегоднику сделаю и сайто-книгу тоже, наверное. Во время подготовки работ было много рытья в архивах, и хард-драйверных, и обычно-пыльных, случались всякие забавные переоткрытия (и переоткровения). Например, что "людей не переделать, как ты ни бейся". Вот, например, образец aman_geld-а - внимание - 1996 года! 13 лет одной и той же одинаковой фигни, удивительно. (Это она на скане так получилась, а "в реале" картинка вполне себе жемчужно-перламутровая; ещё один повод смотреть "настоящие" принты, а не экранные симулякры). Вот тогда ещё один мета- aman_geld, до кучи. Current Music: Аквариум - Мама, я не могу больше пить |
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bouncy
