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new_republican

What Draws Us?

Sep 15, 2006 20:08

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jesse_dylan September 16 2006, 00:30:11 UTC

Amazing... What a great post. I loved the pictures, but I loved what you wrote, too ( ... )

jesse_dylan September 16 2006, 00:31:49 UTC

I also think it's interesting that ruins typically outlive their builders, sometimes by millennia! So it allows us to connect with those long gone.

But then again, so do books, and while I'm fascinated by books as well, it's a different kind of fascination.

I think.

But if I could be where the book was written... maybe it would be the same? Being there is different.

sacredwater September 16 2006, 16:56:57 UTC

very good words you wrote there, sir. maybe that explains my fascination as well...

i've got another fascination... buildings that haven't been fully built yet, i.e, still in the concrete and open spaces phase. with the window frames cut out but not yet put in. i just love the space of it...

jesse_dylan September 26 2006, 06:10:11 UTC

Yeah, I feel that one as well. I remember when I was young... I lived in this neighborhood that was a mix for lower-middle class (my family), upper-middle, and then there was a big plot of land where a mansion was built. I remember during its construction, my friends and I were just obsessed. When it was a foundation all the way up to it being a frame. I mean, normal houses are kind of interesting, but like the skeleton of a mansion! Well, I say mansion... It was really just a big house, but still, very ritzy!

One of my friends sprained his leg dicking around there, heh. :) I think we were in elementary school, pretty sure.

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stillimage September 16 2006, 00:36:40 UTC

I'm totally inlove with the clowns on the teacups, they are amazing. And, as for what appeals to me about abandoned places is totally the risk/the adventure, showing the world what happends over time/what happend and the photography. :)

What about you? I think I read it on your website but I'm having a brain fart.

new_republican September 16 2006, 12:55:07 UTC

What do I think? LOL!

This post is it.

stillimage September 16 2006, 13:01:07 UTC

! Doh. Yeah I got that part, but I thought maybe there could be more.

This is so proof that after a first week of school you'll be brain dead! AP classes do that. Urg.

clowngod September 22 2006, 16:45:50 UTC

i too love the teacups... i would like one of those in my living room...

dooomkitten September 16 2006, 01:03:44 UTC

Storytelling.

These pictures of abandoned places are a glimpse at the past...the narratives are different to each person that views them...how they see them determines what memories they stir up and what will create the tale...

I also like the feeling of being in places once full of life...abandoned and left to rot...it makes me feel like the only person left on the planet...and while that's slightly disturbing to some...it makes me smile.

new_republican September 16 2006, 12:57:56 UTC

Last person on the planet. I did manage to nap on the stage of the children's theater.

lapsedmodernist September 16 2006, 01:27:47 UTC

It's amazing how our vision of the same place is so different! And awesome.

We still on for next weekend?

new_republican September 16 2006, 13:00:54 UTC

Your Wonderland Park set
http://anthrochica.livejournal.com/376012.html?mode=reply
is...well...Wonderliscious!

Next weekend? YEAH!!! THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!

star7 September 16 2006, 01:38:40 UTC

Maybe it's because we have been told we cant. The rush of being in danger. Also I have to say the last photo in this set is one of the best I have seen in a while. I love the way you use line to lift the viewers eyes to the sky. Very nice.

new_republican September 16 2006, 13:03:22 UTC

You Ms., sound like an adrenaline junky.

NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!!! AGAIN!

star7 September 17 2006, 00:33:38 UTC

Not really a junky, I have only really been to two sites. I was going to go to another but it burned to the ground and someone started to build on top of it right away. Theres not a lot in North Carolina. But I am watching a building right now that I want to explore. Its small but looks can be deceiving. There is a much larger building that I would love to photograph but there is always to many people around to enter it.