5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

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I bet they skinned it for fur... just kidding, its cute, for a skeleton that is =)
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I love how they're all "dripping" from the ceiling, like big metal vines or something. Have you considered making this thing black and white just to see what it would look like? Might be cool cuz of hte grain.
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sweet. Have you considered making this one black and white just to see what would happen? You might like the results, what with all the grain you got from the night vision.
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Call me lame but the i dig the witty title. Ok, yeah, I'm lame. Awsome shot. Nice and mysterious.
if i may be critical though, i wish you'd gotten a bit more of the crumbling detail in the rubber
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The colors and composition are awsome. Looks like a Mondrian paining on crack.
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The mirror shape is nice - that's true - but what does everyone think about that swell old light over the sink?
[Grinning and running]
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i love the colours and the shape of the mirror
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i also like to take photographs in abandoned buildings where water seems like a mirror. for me, these kind of picture increases the feeling of neverending wiredness (i'm so sorry for my terrible english but i don't know if you'd understand more if i'd write in german...)
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i like the colours! and i really love the pelling walls.
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it's calm but i also feel frightened, when i look at it. i love it!
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creepy
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Well, I think this was a daycare building for the staff and visitor's kids, not a psychiatric treatment building.

But anyway, many parents cannot handle taking care of a child with severe mental problems, especially when they require constant medical or psychological attention. If your doctor strongly recommends you put your child in an institution, you would do what you thought was best for your kid, perhaps many parents thought this way.

When the child was in the hands of the state, there wasn't much a parent could do; they didn't know what happened in these places... so I don't think they are to blame in all cases.
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I'LL STILL BE LAUGHING!
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Y'know what, I'm going to find a really cool light over a sink that isn't a soap dispenser, and we'll see who's laughing then, huh?!

The sticker reads, "I love your smile", most likely an encouragement to brush one's teeth, which might not have been the easiest task to perform every day.
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Thanks to http://www.institutionalgreen.com :

Some answers for your pondering regarding the use of "Institutional Green" paint in hospitals, asylums, clinics and the like.

The actual color is chrome green:

From the National Contractors Referral and Liscencing Bureau

Chrome Green. Mixture of chrome yellow and Prussian blue, one of industry's most important green pigments.

Chromium Oxide Green. Green pigment which is extremely permanent in color and has good resistance to both alkali and heat.

It is an important color because old technology paint pigments were typically made from the chemicals which produce a desired color as a product of their reactive properties. Chromium oxide has a range of vivid colors from orange to yellow and to a lesser extent, green. Prussian blue (I believe) is a derivative of a iron oxide (not regular old Fe02, which is rust), I am not positive of the specifics that produce that color.

Chrome green was used for a number of reasons. It is extraordinarily tough, and resistant to chemical breakdown. This would protect certain body chemicals, like stomach acid, from harming finished surfaces in a given facility. Additionally, it's toughness lends itself to resistance from pathogens and other foul types of toxicology. It's natural hardness makes it an easy surface to clean. Lastly, it's color vividly contrasts with blood, both fresh and dried.

It was originally considered to be a soothing color, but given the nature of hospitals and other such institutions, it got linked to a color or insanity or medical incarceration. Once modern paint technology evolved to the point where we didn't have to rely on complex, and sometimes hazardous chemical reactions for durable finishes the color was retired.