1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

The arrow is interesting. Most likely related to the 'IVI' on the other wall. It looks like somebody was 'marking their trail' as they went along, so they could find their way out.

The colors should have been reversed. The blue on the bottom and the yellow on top. This might have made the room more relaxing.

It's kind of like sitting in a giant bottle of peto bismo.

That is what enchants me. The thought that years ago people walked through these halls and into these rooms. These buildings have seen so much! The history, the memories, people I have never met that have lived a life completely different from mine. The way they live can be seen through a crack in the wall. Maybe I only make sense to myself but looking at this photograph at these photographs It's almost as if I am being allowed to share in so many other peoples life good or bad.

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Wrong, dear Motts. It crumbled from me beating my head against it so many times. :-(

I love the fact that we have such a deverse group of people that visit this site, and I have got the chance to broaden my mind with their comments. There is nothing wrong with finding spirits in photos, Alot of people do this. I dont see it as demeaning to Motts artistic photography. Of course I cant speak for Motts, but im sure he appreciates all of our comments as long as they are not abusive or derogetory.

Yes, the plexiglass is great, and also the fact that it's lit at night and you are allowed to photograph it is really great; it shows that the city hasn't shunned the hospital, they are quite proud of it.

Nah, the brick parts of the building are so old and deteriorated that they have just started to crumble by themselves.

I see orbs/ghosts, and this was obviously a shock therepy room where they would burn cat hair before bring pacients in, just to make it that much more horrible. The cats where kept in drawers and never fed and often died in the cabnets. Yes that is a soap dispensor not a light fixture...

Now that we have it out of our systems, we can move on to making useful posts =)

Motts also posted an explantion of "why green". It involved a complex set of chemical reactions that made the paint easy to clean and resliiant stain and scrubbing.

I can't tell because I am not there, but did that brick crumble because of vandals or because of rot? If its by the hands of vandals then this place could be left standing for a few more years, provided the vandals don't have at it...

Ok! Enough with the "I see ghosts" posts. Motts is obviously using long exposure times and using his flashlight to show you as much as the hallway as he can. The long exposure time allows him to more or less paint the place in light alittle at a time while the camera takes a really long snap shot of the hall way. The reason the rest of the hall is not blurry is because it is not moving... Because he is unable to light the entire place all at once he uses this tenique MANY times in dark places. Get used to it.... and stop looking for ghosts.

If I had a bigger photo to work with I could remove the fence using PhotoShop, but the quality and size is too small to do a decent job =( I love how tthey used plexiglass instead of normal plywood. Hopefully they will take care of this site for sometime into the future. Or reuse it without butchering it, like Danvers.

Again... another maddening colour. The room is small enough to make anyone crazy, and floresent lightings not a bonus at that (floresent lights drive me nuts). The whole room screams of danger and hazard.