245 Comments Posted by kassie

I feel so out of place saying this...but I had one of those, and I was a child of the late 80's/ early 90's.
It gives me warm fuzzies to see this picture, but also, it makes me feel kinda' melancholy...it's almost as if it's saying that we all abandon our childhood when we grow up, and the memories are pushed aside to the darkest corner of our adulthood (aka the office), perhaps never to be discovered again.

Wow, this room got hit hard by water damage, now didn't it?
I have to say that Kings park is the place where I have seen the most extreme cases of water damage, peeling paint, etc.

My junior high-school had soap dispensers similair to that one, and I never knew how to work them on account of the bottley part being none-squishable.
I probably sound really stupid because I don't know how to work these little gems.
Haha, either way, if memory serves me correctly, the liquid soap usually put into these dispensers was pink, was it not?

I'm not sure why, Mr. Motts, but this photo makes me think of Aztec/Myan ruins.

Beautiful photo.

"We sleep by the ever-bright hole
At the door.
Eat in the corners,
Talk to the floors.
Teaching the spider's tongue
to say "Please".
Politely they bend at the knees.
Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs!"
-- A Passion Play, Jethro Tull

A Note: Ironically, "Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs" is one of the (apparent) British equivalents of "Well, I'll be damned".
Fitting, isn't it?

When I was younger, I went to an enrichment program, through the school, and I quite remember the doors to the classrooms looking much like this.
This really does remind me of Farringdon.

You know, when the pictures of the seclusion rooms were done in the monochromatic black and white, they looked very harsh and dangerous.
These ones, being in colour, seem to fetch more of a sympathy from me, truth be told. I can almost imagine a young teenager who had been put there for whatever reason, crying, and reaching a hand out from under the door.
Perhaps a nurse on duty would reach out as well, and hold the protruding hand?

...I don't think so.

It does, indeed, resemble dried/smeared blood, but don't hold my word to that. If it were to be that, then methinks it would have been cleaned unless it occured after the shut down of this ward.
I must admit that I did think of the Poopkid when I first viewed this image. Haha. I just can't help myself sometimes.
Perhaps it's a painting which interprets a lighting fixture?
I thought perhaps it was some form of corrosion or rust, but the origin point appears to have been applied, rather than from dripping down the wall...

I'm still getting that overwhelming sense of being at ease and home.
Without a word of a lie, I would like nothing more than to just walk to that chair, sit down and relax.

...Knowing my luck, it would break under me though. Damn corrosion.

I enjoy this shot very much.
I'm not quite sure why, if it's just the colours, or the fact that this place seems untouched by graffiti...just natural causes of rot...or the colours in these shots, but I must admit that this gallery has been your most relaxing and calming so far, Mr. Motts. I never cease to be impressed.
These pictures just feel very much...like I'm at home or something. They are very soothing. Love them.

Mr.Motts, I must say, this is one of your most haunting lonely chair shots that I have seen as of yet.
The way that it's rotting, and then the condition of the floors and walls all around it are really...it paints an eerie picture.
Actually, it quite reminds me of this one desktop I had used for the longest time, called "The Devil's Badroom".
Just a thought. ;)

It's a little late on the topic now, because of the ruling but couldn't they have used Riverside as a prime example of renovations that work? Or, even this place, for instance.
Or did they do it, and it didn't work?
Or do we even know?

I love the rich tones and colours in this shot.
It's kind of funny, before I even read the caption for it, I thought it looked very much like a rainforest...

Maybe the barrel contains bulk ammounts of...soap?

For the numerous "soap dispensers", of course.

I love this title very much. It suites the shot so well.
I don't know why, but this looks like it could be a flower in a very corrupted and industrialized version of Alice in Wonderland, yes?