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Okay... try to remember it in this order... Turn brain on - Then type... it makes it much easier for the rest of us.

Hmm... I've never seen pant peel off a cieling before... I guess it's another cherry to the wind!

Okay - they didn't come here and then developed mental illnesses, or become "crazy" as you generically put it, generally it was the other way around. That's a lot like saying someone goes to the hospital to get sick rather that the result of being sick. Also when this facility was in use it looked nothing like this. For instance the paint was intact; there wasn't dust inches deep in areas and the windows were not covered with plywood. You must remember Motts focuses on photography involving forgotten and abandoned relics of the past.

i wonder if these things still work i would love to have one in my home it can make a perfect air conditioner out of these things man these things are cool.

Session 9

no wonder they were crazy,look at this place.although be great to explore now.the older the creapier the better to explore!

torture device.....

I believe that was the model Stephen King wrote most of his early novels on.

Welcoem New Lynne although I think to avoid confusion you should change your name to Lynne2 maybe? :-)

lol...very nice Keith. It took me a minute to really understand what you were talking about..but if you look at it and keep in mind what you said, it kinda makes sense.

Makes me wonder if they always remember to deactivate these machines before abandoning them. Leaving a source for radioactive material in an abandoned building would be one hell of a bad over-sight.

lol I agree!

this is my first post here,and im sure you've heard it before ,but this is a truly beautiful picture.I'm also quite sure that a painter,however gifted,could not illustrate the view of seclusion as you have,motts...and this,in my eyes and opinion,makes you an artist in the truest sense of the word.thankyou.

Ah, the only "good" vandalism. Anything beyond signing your name in some dust should be punished severely. Seriously, forget security. We should organize our own groups. Patrol as many of these places as possible and let the decent people be while making sure the kids who go in to smash and spray paint everything decide it would be prudent to never enter the building again. You know, play with their minds the way they toy with the memories of people who probably had four times the humanity they ever will.

All psychoanalysis aside, this mural is still creepy for one reason. It's like that famous "man from apes" illustration, but in reverse. That one starts out with the hunched over little monkey that gradually develops into an upright modern human. This mural starts with the tall upright boy and then regresses down to the short hunched over children. I'm sure it wasn't the artist's intention, but it just seemed strange to see a sort of downward regression if you "read" the painting from left to right. With that said though, the girl in the (possible) wheelchair seems to preceed the tallest boy. Perhaps an unconcious statement that the disabled children are more human than the "normal" humans which seem to be regressing down to the level of dumb beasts again? Probably not, but it sounds all Freudian and fun. I never liked Freud though so you should now pretend I never even mentioned him. Okay, carry on with your day...