the detail on this is awesome, Motts!

great use of sepia, great subject (gotta love Victorian pieces!), and i love how the left side is the precursor to what the right side becomes...

"entropy in [slow] motion," kinda

what's more disturbing: that it's headless, or that it's got glass shards up its ass?

the colors, textures, and sneaky use of zigzag infinity are just fantastic here, Motts!

btw: it's good to be "back"!

that's just a fact--even to this day--about antiquated plumbing. i live in an old Victorian and my wife won't flush any of her sanitaries down the toilet for fear of clogging up the system. and the same thing with similar houses in the surrounding area--no feminine products whatsoever, else it means dire shit for the sewage system....

what Lynne was saying is not only correct, but there was an exact color that was used in many institutions that had to be discontinued for the very reasons she stated, though from what i recall, the phrase "more insane," not "more revved up" was used.
the name of the color (presumably this one) was/is called Baker's Pink.

Motts, this is my absolute favorite of ALL of your lonely chair shots--really evocative work here, brother-man!

Motts, this, i think, is one of your Top 5 Interior shots--period. This is one you've got to sell when you get that whole element of the site up and running, for sure!

Motts, it was boring because you didn't have the actor they hired to play the witch hovering over you, pretending she was going to kill, cook, and eat you. ;-)

creepy, and fucked up--love it! Motts, you might've disliked it, but fog simply owns!

Motts, this is SUCH a surreal shot! awesome, awesome, awesome....

this is so very sad...but the mentally ill are usually very difficult to live with...VERY DIFFICULT...so it's sad for many different reasons...

probably because of all of the angles and colors--that's why i like it, anyway...plus, these something about a woodedn staircase with ornamental balustrades.

i keep trying to match up the printing on the title of the piece with the printing of the sheeps' names. does anyone else think that someone put the title in afterward? they don't seem to match, but then again, i can't find an "o" that isn't over-embellished (as the "o" on "Jo" is). for some reason, i get tripped out when i see all upper case letters and then see a lower case "b." it must be the poseur detective in me.

i completely understand and even agree with you, but seldom do important figures in local art scenes, budding entrepreneurs, or the independently wealthy frequent such abandoned treasures. it's usually just kids looking to blow off steam and, for lack of a better phrase, "fuck shit up." yes, it ruins the sometimes incredible beauty of these places, but if you had to sign a non-violence contract before entering, we wouldn't be looking at these Motts Gems. it's the inherent dichotomy of humanity: take the asshole with the artist...(the bad and the good).

i just marvel at the stuff people leave to rot. weren't these things important for power? why do you think someone just said, "well, can't bring it home, so just leave the fucker"? i realize eBay has revolutionized reselling, but there've been ads in tabloids for like a few hundred years--why wouldn't the owner have re-sold it? sorry, there's just a part of my brain that goes, "nah, it can't be important or someone would have taken it or sold it!"

really like how the weeds fill the negative space

this is a very cool shot--wonder what it'd look like in IR...

how the hell do you know what this stuff is? i always wonder about contraptions like these but can never quite imagine what they're for...

seems like a good candidate for a vertical/horizontal panorama

i see what you mean, but consider this: people are tagging over other people's tags, which is just...wrong!

Radical Ed, i think they're boot cuts...but, Motts, you don't get your legs snagged from time to time...?

another great shot--very "Fall of the House of Usher"-esque!

eww...

...and from behind looms...MOTTS! dude, seriously this IS your hallmark...other than this great site, that is...

hmm...other than the background being white, i wonder what other reason there coul dbe for painting the sheep black...