tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post2660550576418764930..comments2023-09-24T09:46:20.734+02:00Comments on Magic Lantern Show: The Show Must Go On . . .Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-1709764864790139792009-09-19T13:50:02.990+02:002009-09-19T13:50:02.990+02:00Je n'ai guère eu le courage de lire les répons...Je n'ai guère eu le courage de lire les réponses en anglais, si personne ne l'a écrit, sur la cinquième image, ça ressemble à un hérisson pour ramoner les conduits de cheminées.Sar@hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10861476412769481985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-47164889348956562332009-09-18T05:23:08.028+02:002009-09-18T05:23:08.028+02:00Thank you for linking this wonderful photographer!...Thank you for linking this wonderful photographer! What fantastic documentation. :)Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13302700145350385530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-67045988845769135652009-09-17T15:43:16.647+02:002009-09-17T15:43:16.647+02:00You know Owen, I'm not a huge follower of the ...You know Owen, I'm not a huge follower of the current fad for photography of derelict places - the way some photographers seem to thrive on trash material sometimes leaves me utterly cold. But I find your photos extremely moving in that they record an activity that was stopped suddenly. Work half-done, bottles in the fridge, professional magazines, it's amazing !<br /><br />The Georges Brassens was quite moving, as was the one above it and the one about "thanatopracteur, un métier d'avenir" (where did you read that they don't use regular lipstick?)<br /><br />A fantastic post !Nathalie H.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-24148181225182831102009-09-17T04:19:32.506+02:002009-09-17T04:19:32.506+02:00Oh you Watercats ! I'll tell you a secret, I t...Oh you Watercats ! I'll tell you a secret, I took that magazine home with me, and now it is stashed in my office collection of the weird and wonderful... I couldn't just leave it there to rot. But it is not under my matress, I assure you !!! No, although I'm strangely fascinated by cemeteries and places like this, I'm not a necrophiliac... But listen, I'm sure if I came to Ireland, which I'd love to do one of these days, I'd be able to track down some interesting run-down abandonment somewhere, I can't believe that there's none whatsoever about in such a big island... my magic nose has rarely failed me in the past... in the meanwhile, keep the great music coming, I'll be by your place soon !Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-9720262002390128862009-09-16T22:02:19.979+02:002009-09-16T22:02:19.979+02:00I want the machines, (especially the one with the ...I want the machines, (especially the one with the tutle and hare).. I want the drawers with the letters in and I want the big cogs!.. where do you find these places.. I would love to explore a place like this! Evereywhere over here has been fenced off, locked up, health and safety'd to the hilt!.. I must admit I found the magazine with the cadaver lipstick add a bit wierd, and disturbing.. it was like something a necrophiliac would have stashed under his matress, lol... :-OBatteson.Indhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10846214578565824955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-19465078255913526022009-09-16T21:52:26.962+02:002009-09-16T21:52:26.962+02:00Ah Loulou, sacrée fée Loulou, quel plaisir tu me f...Ah Loulou, sacrée fée Loulou, quel plaisir tu me fais là... bien sûr le numéro trois est présent pour faire homage à tes séries de trois... et si tu as remarqué, il y avait aussi trois photos de chats dans le post ci-dessous... et trois petites étages pour tenir les oeufs dans la porte ouverte du frigo ici... ah là, il y a des trois partout. Un million merveilleux mercis pour ces mots mirifiques dont tu me combles avec... Bisoux à vous tous à Delhi !<br /><br />PS finalement on pourrait arriver à imaginer que le "macabre" en fait n'est qu'un autre aspect de la vie qui pourrait devenir très touchant et fascinant, car nous sommes tous concernés tot ou tard...<br /><br />=======<br /><br />Hi English R., you are quite welcome indeed... and I do like stone-age women, err, women of the stone trade, or whatever... hope all is well with you and Hub and the dogs, sounds like a handful. So now I'm curious as to how such letters really are used... sandblasting, ink transfer, other? Will have to track down an expert and ask... Sounds like quite a bathroom you installed for those folks ! <br /><br />========<br /><br />Salut Cergie, certes, nous avons créé une société tellement complexe avec tellement de machines complexes que forcement il y en aura qui vont tomber dans l'oubli et disparaître des connaissances des gens, peut-être dans mille ans un archéologue va les retrouver et sera émerveillé par nos créations historiques... Merci en tout cas de ta visite ! Et oui, c'est Brassens, qui d'ailleurs a bien chanté une fois ou deux des croque-morts et pompes-funebres il me semble... il est génial...<br /><br />========<br /><br />Hi Marguerite... merci ! And wow, so far you all are having a very quiet hurricane season, strange how one year can be so active, and the next year, almost nothing... strange indeed... Were you there when Katrina came through Louisiana ? <br /><br />========<br /><br />Hey Roxana ! "Somebody"? Hmmm, I wonder who you mean ? Perhaps the gargoyle who sits on my shoulder whispering instructions in my ear, which is how I find these things in the first place... :-D And I absolutely loved your pale faces and poetry with them...<br /><br />=========<br /><br />Laurie ! you're back ! Hope you are extremely well, I thought you might like this one... wish you'd been there, I'm sure you would have enjoyed it. And just a couple of days later not far from this place I found a second site with abandoned gravestones out behind a stone cutting shop... more photos to come... it was a fruitful Summer... take care...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-63410487103663347632009-09-16T21:27:53.498+02:002009-09-16T21:27:53.498+02:00Adam, now that is a very pertinent, important ques...Adam, now that is a very pertinent, important question : Who does put port in a fridge ? Perhaps people who like it cold and don't want to water it down with ice cubes as some folks do ? Personally I prefer my two fingers of port at room temperature... anyway, this bottle was bone dry, I checked... of course !<br /><br />And wow, you really have an eye for detail, noticing some of the magazines looked clean... The one with Brassens on the cover was pretty grimy, dusty, but the others may have been tossed around recently by other visitors / scavengers / photographers like me ? There were some empty beer cans looking fairly recent that suggested some folks had been there not long before me.<br /><br />========<br /><br />Susan, glad you enjoyed Tom B.s blog, his photos are wonderful... and was just over looking at the vultures at your place. What amazing birds...<br /><br />========<br /><br />Harry ! C'est fou, ton français est parfait... alors, c'est quoi ton secret, tu avais une grand-mère française ? Merci en tout cas, je passe pas mal de temps à chercher des sites amusants comme ceci à photographier... So, you're interested in making your blog photos bigger on your page ? I did a post on that very subject back last Spring, somewhere around March or April I think, the title was something like "A Technical Interlude", and it explains in some detail how to make images bigger on the blog page. Basically it involves editing both the HTML of your blog layout in the blog parameters, just set the widths wider in the template, and then each time you post a photo, on the post editor where you create the post, use "Edit HTML" at the upper right, and change the width and height in the HTML, and change the "s" value from the default of 400 to something bigger like 1024. Anyway, that's what I use... good luck...<br /><br />=======<br /><br />Ah sacré Jeff, seulement toi aurait remarqué que le frigo avait toujours une lumière allumée... pour nous éclaircir dans la nuit noir de la disparition des choses... tu as raison sans doute, toute se transforme, soit lentement, soit rapidement, soit parfois d'une manière carrément explosive... mêmes les meilleures tisanes en bouteille se transforme, parfois en acide si l'on ne les consomme assez vite... En tout cas, merci mon ami, là tu débordes de gentillesse ! Touché le crapaud fou du lanterne magique... allez, à bientôt...<br /><br />======== <br /><br />Hi Techno, true indeed, some folks, like me, collect all sorts of rusty old junk to decorate their lives with... although I'm running out of space now, so I tend to collect just photos these days... But there were some classic pieces in this place, for sure....Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-84354155324496874012009-09-16T21:03:55.472+02:002009-09-16T21:03:55.472+02:00Hi Martin, many thanks for your visit, and I assur...Hi Martin, many thanks for your visit, and I assure you, no certification whatsoever, expert or otherwise, is required to peruse these pages and sound off if one has something, anything, to say..., these pages are wide open to the greater public, whoever that may be. Am still waiting for the greater public to find out about this marvellously fabulous humble little blog, as currently the traffic meter is not exactly wearing itself out. But that's ok, there are a few really wonderful folks dropping in here, and all are welcome. It has already gone way beyond my wildest expectations. Anyway, many thanks for the reference to Idiot Hat, I took a quick look, will get back over there later if I can... time is short these days...<br /><br />=======<br /><br />Hey backwards "Hole@", guess we're all getting worn out slowly but surely, glad you enjoyed, even if a bit creepy, I couldn't believe this place, especially that it was wide open, no door, no gate, no guard dogs, just like an invitation to come on in...<br /><br />========<br /><br />Hey Bill, the ABAD show in NYC sounds like it was incredible, wish I could have seen that. Many thanks, this was a crazy place to shoot some pictures, I kept thinking someone was going to jump out from a dark corner...<br /><br />========<br /><br />Hi Dedene, yeah, I'm totally mystified as to why they just went off and left everything, some of the machines must have cost thousands when they were new. I would agree with you in thinking the death trade must be thriving even in these hard economic times, if not even getting a little boost from hard times...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-68371437571270986462009-09-16T18:29:50.137+02:002009-09-16T18:29:50.137+02:00Oen, I am speechless! All I can say is: " ...Oen, I am speechless! All I can say is: " " and " ".<br /><br />Fantabulous!<br /><br />LaurieLauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006665414059398782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-53123254737372822242009-09-16T16:11:07.107+02:002009-09-16T16:11:07.107+02:00you have indeed an eye for... hmmm, how should i c...you have indeed an eye for... hmmm, how should i call it, macabre details? :-)<br />i love the unfinished sculpture and the magazine ones, somebody has quite an ironic sense of humour...Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05650840495095863057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-69572202126995364402009-09-16T15:09:40.334+02:002009-09-16T15:09:40.334+02:00Hi all... am a little slow getting back here to re...Hi all... am a little slow getting back here to reflect on and answer all your kind and thoughtful comments here... but I will... little by little. Amazing how little things like having to work for a living, a bit of illness (3 out of 4 or the Toad family currently have nasty colds, and I'm one of them, but not to worry, it isn't pig flu... yet), a few car problems, family life, and social life, what little there is, can keep one from blogging away... but such is life I suppose, an exercise in finding balance...<br /><br />=======<br /><br />Saj, well I didn't really think those boots had made it all the way to New Zealand, but one never knows. The Cosmos were delish, and I didn't over indulge, hic !, just had a few to try to drown the cold, but it didn't work... nice time trying though. Will have to look up your white stone when I have a minute... so you know someone who actually makes up corpses ? I guess one becomes somewhat resiliant and stoic in such professions, mortuary humor is renowned as a coping mechanism... sooner or later I guess we're all headed that way... what was the title of the Jim Morrison biography : No One Here Gets Out Alive ? <br />Cheers and thanks for the drinks...<br /><br />=========<br /><br />Dear Fram, can't wait to hear what Mr F. thought of all that ! Thanks so much for this lovely long message here ! Yes, of course, you are absolutely right, that is George Brassens on the cover of that magazine, la Grenouille realized immediately, but it hadn't even occurred to me when I took the picture that they might have put someone famous on the cover of such a magazine. I'm tempted to go back and see if it is still there to see if there was an article about Brassens, maybe about his burial, in that issue, or if it was just cover decoration.<br /><br />I'll take a look for the Malaysian in France blog, haven't seen that before... <br /><br />And you've touched on a multitude of other thoughts here too, abandonement, waste; yes, France is no less victim than America or or other "western" nations where conspicuous consumption and conspicuous waste have become commonplace... the norm... which provides a wealth of material for a guy like me who loves to document deterioration...<br /><br />See you soon I hope ! Gotta run to work now...Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12622587942009516590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-60473115549520108822009-09-16T00:45:37.794+02:002009-09-16T00:45:37.794+02:00As always, Owen, your imagination is working overt...As always, Owen, your imagination is working overtime, cher! :) Enjoyed your interesting photos and especially the one of the type case. Great post!Margueritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15846051579802335412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-5703649764788813532009-09-15T23:28:57.336+02:002009-09-15T23:28:57.336+02:00Ah ! Je confirme : c'est bien Brassens sur la ...Ah ! Je confirme : c'est bien Brassens sur la couverture et il n'était pas si agé, il est mort il y a bientôt 28 ans à l'âge de 60 ans.<br />[Sa pierre tombale sur mon blog <a href="http://cergipontin.blogspot.com/2006/11/ste-georges-brassens.html" rel="nofollow">Cergipontin</a>].Cergiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14623905868861239570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-57803465783666403492009-09-15T23:19:47.534+02:002009-09-15T23:19:47.534+02:00C'est ainsi la vie, Owen, les entreprises disp...C'est ainsi la vie, Owen, les entreprises disparaissent avec les personnes qui ont le savoir, les outils de travail sont démantelés et plus personne ne sait à quoi cela sert.<br />J'ai visité il y a peu une papéterie, une usine à papier dans le Limousin, artisanale. Je n'ai pas les mots pour expliquer, il y avait une machine à composer les textes à imprimer, mon mari serait là il saurait expliquer. Cette machine moule en plomb au fur et à mesure de l'écriture sur un clavier, une jeune femme est formée depuis deux ans par quelqu'un qui sait encore pour ce travail et l'entretien de la machine. Cette jeune femme dont la formation n'est pas terminée ainsi que la personne qui la forme sont ce qu'on appelle au Japon des "trésors vivants"; c'est moi qui ai fait ce rapprochement. Et j'ai pensé qu'il aurait fallu former plus d'une personne car si celle ci disparait, le savoir disparaitra. Comme ont disparus bien des savoirs déjà.<br /><br />Il existe, sais tu, un salon du funéraire à Paris, et paraît-il on y rit énormément...Cergiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14623905868861239570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-56325809022481085132009-09-15T23:17:19.592+02:002009-09-15T23:17:19.592+02:00Owen, thanks for the promo, glad you like us women...Owen, thanks for the promo, glad you like us women of the stone world (by association). I suspect the type face is made to fit in a frame and serve as a cache for sandblasting the lettering, so much faster than chiseling. We sand blasted a large scene on a piece of green marble for a bathroom years ago. Egyptian story of creation, very phallic, for a woman who had just divorced a well known high tech emperor (company begins with O). That and surrounding the bathroom TV with marble and making the side of the bath tub wide enough for the German Shepherd to sit and share his mistress' evening bowl of ice cream after kids and horses were put to bed. 48 slabs used in that mega-space.English Riderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712384532126551307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-82907114620129765072009-09-15T20:51:53.246+02:002009-09-15T20:51:53.246+02:00"Macabre", ce terme m'a envahit tout..."Macabre", ce terme m'a envahit tout de suite avant qu'il n'apparaisse plus loin sur ta page. Ta plume est un régal, tes histoires au fil du temps passé sont des trésors pour les humbles lecteurs qui te suivent.<br />J'aime tout particulièrement les panneaux orange, puis bleu. <br />Là encore, c'est Tim Burton qui s'impose à moi et l'évocation de monstre créé de toute pièce tels des Frankesteins en série illustre parfaitement cette idée.<br />Je vais m'arrêter là car tu as déjà eu de longs commentaires, tu connais notre admiration pour tes photos, ton regard définitivement pas comme les autres, ta plume délicieuse et ta manière si singulière de nous faire aimer le MACABRE (si si !).<br /><br />PS - les 3 tiroirs ouverts sur le dernier tirage sont un honneur "au merveilleux chiffre trois" :-)<br />Bises et à très bientôt<br />LoulouLoulouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805144600478832967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-2575299811221251322009-09-15T20:19:47.193+02:002009-09-15T20:19:47.193+02:00Some of these items are exactly what some people l...Some of these items are exactly what some people look for to place in their garden landscapes. The mysterious metal Cleopatra necklace thingy would be great on a fence.CiCihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615265608675467505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-90175542739247696242009-09-15T19:08:40.643+02:002009-09-15T19:08:40.643+02:00Chaque photographie est un voyage dans l'imagi...Chaque photographie est un voyage dans l'imaginaire et non dans le temps ! J'adore ce type de photos qui représentent des objets rouillés, usagés, mécaniques, oeuvres d'arts ignorées et laissées à l'abandon !...<br />Mais tu es là avec ton appareil pour leur redonner vie dans ton blog et pour le "régal" de nos yeux !<br />Tu nous racontes une histoire à travers ces photographies ! Rien ne disparait tout à fait ! Les choses se transforment et deviennent autre !<br />Tu as quand même déniché une bonne bouteille dans un réfigérateur qui ne doit plus produire de fraicheur mais qui a encore gardé sa lumière allumée ! La preuve... elle nous éclaire pour y voir plus clair dans nos pensées !<br /><br />Ciao Owen ! Merci de nous livrer à travers tes photographies ta sensibilité, ta poésie, ton écriture si fine d'un monde qui ne disparait pas tout à fait !<br /><br />A bientôt Owen !<br />Amitiés !...jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14706496619691322297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-63568880065794581612009-09-15T18:33:00.457+02:002009-09-15T18:33:00.457+02:00Bonjour Owen, belle ! vous avez vraiment trouvé un...Bonjour Owen, belle ! vous avez vraiment trouvé un endroit très frais et fantasmagorique pour nous prendre cette semaine, j'avez vraiment aimé chaque photo, maintenez le bon travail et comment vous obtenez vos photos si grandes à votre page de blog ? Acclamations Owen, HarryHarry 'aka' Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13808195739363094334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-63498007319444811552009-09-15T17:09:51.871+02:002009-09-15T17:09:51.871+02:00Wow - thanks for showing us Tom's blog - I did...Wow - thanks for showing us Tom's blog - I did visit and leave a comment. It just goes to show that beauty and intrigue exist where you'd be least inclined to look.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04122828543615175957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-79567072711665829912009-09-15T14:34:42.403+02:002009-09-15T14:34:42.403+02:00Who puts Port in a fridge!?
It's strange beca...Who puts Port in a fridge!?<br /><br />It's strange because the machinery looks old and rusty, but the magazines quite fresh and new. Perhaps the owner died! Perhaps it is the factory equivilent of the Marie Celeste?Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06453626318828119830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-25879788017114930002009-09-15T14:13:19.469+02:002009-09-15T14:13:19.469+02:00That was really interesting. Isn't it sad to s...That was really interesting. Isn't it sad to see all those things going turning to rust?<br />I would have thought that the death business was good business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-12354701158274698682009-09-15T12:44:56.900+02:002009-09-15T12:44:56.900+02:00Fantastic post - especially since I've just re...Fantastic post - especially since I've just returned from the A Book About Death exhibit in NYC. I love the shots of the magazines and advertisements intermixed with the equipment and debris.William Evertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16552959930900393198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-37760436303832556242009-09-15T08:21:20.529+02:002009-09-15T08:21:20.529+02:00Wow, how very odd. I've worn myself out looki...Wow, how very odd. I've worn myself out looking at the pictures. The lipstick picture is creepy. Thanks Owen.@elohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15974297923741455898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855510751016957422.post-86588793795020846622009-09-15T07:57:31.073+02:002009-09-15T07:57:31.073+02:00Owen,
Thanks for providing us with this mini-exhi...Owen,<br /><br />Thanks for providing us with this mini-exhibition. I'm no expert but I know what I like...and I like this very much.<br /><br />Thanks, also, for the recommended links. I'll check them out. In the meantime you might be interested to visit 'Idiotic Hat' at http://idiotic-hat.blogspot.com/ where Mike Chisholm posts some really nice work too.<br /><br />All the best.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494219959077922220noreply@blogger.com