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Damn, I love this picture!

...Nope

I hate elevators too. I guess getting stuck in one will do that to ya. : /

This picture gives me the shivers...I'm always afraid the elevator I'm in will plummet to the bottom...

Creepy... I hate elevators. It helped me with my homework though, so thanks!

It's OK. I have sent their MOTHERS to time out. And WITHOUT their suppers. >:-(

Actually, the item pictured above is not a Utica crib. That is just a large standard hospital crib. A Utica crib (named for the place it was designed - the "New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica") was designed in the 1880s. It was apparently designed for use with manic, agitated patients who needed rest and could not/would stay in their beds to recover. As with most things, it was purportedly developed with the best of intentions, since there were few other options except chains and dungeons, but frankly, I'd take the chains or dungeons over a Utica crib ANY day. [shakes head, sweats, and trembles at the thought]

Even assuming this was the reason it was initially designed, it quickly became seen as an effective way to keep violent or manic patients restrained without using chains, and that was a good PR ploy back then. Because the main way (only way?) of containing people with mental illness up until then had been to chain them to the wall or bed, hospitals fought to look more humane and compassionate, and wanted alternatives to chaining people up. That's where the straightjackets came from. The hospitals were very proud that they could use a straightjacket on a patient, which kept them from hurting themselves and others, yet many still had the freedom to walk around. Hospitals with 1/2 their clientele in straightjackets called themselves "restraint-free", and I suppose compared with chaining them to the wall it IS a step up. Sort of . . . kinda sorta . . .

http://www.uihealthcare.com/dep...stik/utica.html
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Emedhist/dwyer.htm

Also, check out the interesting comments about the Utica crib here:
http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omh...archive.htm

dont beleive in ghosts? i lost my wallet tonight after i had put it down on my couch. i looked for about 10 minutes trying to find it, pullling out couch cushions and such. i couldnt find it. then my girlfriend sits down on the couch and i turn to talk to her and the god damn wallet is laying next to her where it definatley wasnt before. i swear. i got lots of other stories about my house with shit like that, like doors locking themselves and coming home to all the faucets in the house turned on full blast and all the chairs up on the dining room table!

All the light pollution on the left and in the distance is pretty neat. I'm surprised how much the fog came out in the shot.

Is that the edge of the moon in the top center?

Boy, if that street light had been on, it would have totally destroyed the picture!

I'm surprised how short of an exposure results in streaky stars. Admittedly, I've never played with a camera that you can keep the shutter open for indeterminate periods of time, either!

A neat variation on your normal pics, Motts!

These towers remind me of the most modern building on North Brother Island.

Has the developer announced his/her plans for the building?

Yaay.... luv it. Makes me think of that movie from the late 60's or early 70's "Don't Look In The Basement" Anyone remember that one?????

Taking a photograph at night lets you have the shutter open for minutes at a time.... since the earth is spinning around on it's axis, the stars appear to streak as they change position in the sky over that span of time. And since the rest of the world is down here with the camera and tripod, everything else looks sharp!

This is my favorite shot so far.

Why do the stars have motion in them? Everything else looks fairly well focused and unblurry.

No bodies went in the top row it only held the refridgeration stuff and blew downwards over the bodies below, so I've read but I saw sliding tables up there so I honestly dont know maybe they had some ladder system I can't say for sure.