Valatiel Hey...you guys think that the cubbyholes from before were supposed to have drawers on them, too?

Location: Green Hill State Hospital  Gallery: Swarmed

	Valatiel They probably could have seen the outside before it got all overgrown, Tony. Just my assumption.

Location: Green Hill State Hospital  Gallery: Swarmed

	Valatiel "Please read the first letter at the top for me."

Location: Green Hill State Hospital  Gallery: Swarmed

	Valatiel It's a good door picture and everything, but what got me was the reflection in the window. Very cool.

Location: Green Hill State Hospital  Gallery: Swarmed

	Valatiel All right, I'm sorry to bring the quality of the whole conversation down, but...it reminds me of a Donkey Kong level. Or Donkey Kong Country. The industrial part.

Location: Studebaker Stamping Plant  Gallery: Around the Bend

	Valatiel Yeah, it's beautiful and everything. I just also think it lends itself to images of rusty nails and frantic trips to the hospital.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

	Valatiel I wonder...what would be the point in peepholes if they DIDN'T keep patients down there?

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

	Valatiel ...great, as if this pic was creepy enough. Now I can't stop imagining a guy hanging by his neck just out of the frame. Wonderful.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

	Valatiel For the longest time I couldn't figure out why this shot bugged me, then I realized...no bleachers. Are they behind you?

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

	Valatiel Lynne, I used to work in a group home for people with disabilities, and I always thought the haggling over the terms was really lame. Your post shed a lot of light on that subject for me, though. I guess I never really thought of it in that way before. Thanks.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

	Valatiel I find the flatness of the figures disturbing. Anyway, I don't really understand the symbolism either, but at least it's in pretty good condition.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

	Valatiel That IS a nice view. And a lot less gross than the rest of the building.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

	Valatiel This picture just screams "Tetanus".

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

	Valatiel Yeah, this tunnel is definitely creepier than the last tunnel.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel Soup is the perfect food. You can make anything into soup. Even if you're down to bare essentials, chances are there's at least SOMETHING in the pantry that you can boil in water and convince someone to eat. I dunno, though, I find the assembly line attitude evident in the picture more than a little depressing.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel I was gonna say, was that a wheelchair just for torsos or something? You can see what Lynne is talking about, though...if you look close you can make out where the rest of the attachments were supposed to go, I think.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel It looks like the entire place has had seen it's share of water. This is a good shot, though. It's very hard to make random trash seem beautiful.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel I agree, this definitely makes me think. I hope whoever had the job of watching the laundry brought along a book or something.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel I think it was more of a good intentions thing. They painted the room in some kind of a cheery theme, and then lacked the enthusiasm to do anything more with it. Nothing really makes me assume that, I guess, except that's how I see it playing out. Although putting the kid's name on the wall probably made them feel important.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel Christ, how depressing if it was just one slide. You know the older kids would totally hog it.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel Probably just water damage, but I was thinking of that part in "The Ring" where the chick's in the well and she suddenly finds her hands full of a dead person's hair.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel Now that I think about it, it seems like it would have been just easier to have an aide standing by. That way you got the entire room under surveillance, whereas the plexiglass windows just seems, I don't know...inefficient.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel Yes, but, then again, it IS just a bathtub.

Location: Dever State School  Gallery: Institutional

	Valatiel I think falling asleep at night would be a thousand times worse simply because you'd do nothing but think about how low you've sunk. Wow...this is depressing.

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude