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From an abandoned mental institution in Norway. One year after my first visit, I went back with new camera (Canon 5D mII) together with Martin and Geir.
Great day. Went through all three buildings. Sad to see them even more vandalised than last time. I tried to shoot other things than corridors and rooms, but I guess I will upload a couple of those as well.
Info about the place: Parts of Lier Psychiatric Hospital was closed in 1986 and are still abandoned. It is located outside Oslo in Norway.
Here the doctors tested new medicins and ways to help the patients. Lobotomy, electroshock and drugs like LSD was used.
It's a spooky place with a very interesting history.
Other Lier sets:
Lier first visit - black&white
Third visit - fewer better shots
Youtube video: Lier Asylum
Post on my blog with theese pictures and more.
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If you are inspired to do urban exploration after seeing my pictures, do so at your own risk. It can be dangerous and illegal and I'm not responsible for your decisions and actions. Don't steal things, break in or vandalize places.
I've been volunteering at the Maryland state archaeology lab processing artifacts. The things we are working on are from a 19th century site in Baltimore. This is a piece of a 19th century transfer print Pearlware dish that was in one of my bags today. The task is to separate all the different materials into their own bags for storage and list them on a data input form. We mostly have just pieces of things- some very small. I had two bags of ceramic shards and that ended up with 23 after sorting and describing.
I have a BA in Anthropology/Archaeology that I earned in my late 30s while working full time in accounting. So nice to put it to use now that I have retired!!! As strange as it sounds, I enjoy this. There's a mystery about who had the piece last and how it ended up where it was.
My contribution to the epic V&A Steamworks WunderKammer (Wonder Cabinet) project. Check out everybody's artifacts now. This was a great team effort and fun to be involved in! Kudos to Guy for the concept and for doing all the real work.
Official titles and descriptions of each object:
1. Book of Abominations (must never be opened - reading will cause end of world!)
2. HG Wells time machine, demo unit (as seen here)
3. Carved jade statuette of Ganesha.
4. Ancient Egyptian treasure box, with ebony carving of Anubis.
5. Ancient Egyptian mummified cat.
6. Atari 2600 joystick (...the most precious of all!)
Abandoned compression video project, 2009. Made with the help of Download Finished.
An archeology of a compression filter.
See blogpost: rosa-menkman.blogspot.com/2009/02/from-compression-artifact-to-filter.html
A couple of months ago I was approached by a company that asked me for my knowledge on glitch and compression artifacts. They were especially interested in recreating bleeding pixels. I recognized their ideas in the work of Sven Konig and send them to his website (on which in 2005 already, Sven published a script that can be used to create such artifacts). Later the company send me an email that said they unfortunately cancelled their project.
I made my own video though, and send it to Goto80, but in the end we also decided it seemed boring to just reuse a technique developed by somebody else - because it feels no longer as an experiment.
I kept track of the bleeding pixel effect and noticed its growing popularity, especially over the last few weeks. This lead me to write a small archeology of this particular compression artifact.
The bleeding pixel effect (or datamoshing) is located in a realm where compression artifacts and glitch artifacts intertwine. The artifacts caused by compression are stable, although unpredictable. Therefore, technically, they are not a glitch because the method is reproducible. They are however often perceived as a glitch (an error). The bleeding effect relies on deleting the information within one frame per 25 (more or less, depending on the frame rate) in a divx or xvid video. I think the most interesting thing about using this effect is that it shows the materiality of digital film by translating the grain of the celloid into the digital pixel.
Timeline.
I know there are more works out there, but these works seem (for different reasons) more important or referenced too.
* Sven Konig. aPpRoPiRaTe!, 2005.
Online distributed software script made to appropriate complete video files found in file sharing networks with minimal effort.
In 2007 Sven and Bitnik collaborative project Download Finished saw the light of day. Download Finished is a website that "transforms and re-publishes films from p2p networks and online archives. in Downloaf Finished, found footage becomes the rough material for the transformation machine, which translates the underlying data structure of the films onto the surface of the screen. the original images dissolve into pixels, thus making the hidden data structure visible. through Download Finished, file sharers become authors by re-interpreting their most beloved films."
* Takeshi Murata. Monster Movie, 2005. Single channel digital video on DVD 4 minutes; sound by Plate Tectonics
* Paul B. Davis (collaboration with Jacob Ciocci/PAPER RAD). “Compression Study #2”, 2007. DVD projection (edition of 7)
* David OReilly. Compression Reel, 2008. Vimeo Video
* Data Mosher. Chairlift - "Evident Utensil" Music Video, 2009. Vimeo Video
* Nabil Elderkin. KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak", 2009. Vimeo Video
Since the release of the last three videos (by O'reilly, Chairlift and Kanye), there has been a lot of back-and-forth comment-talk on who was the first to use this effect. The Kanye video will not even be released because "there is another video out there using the same effect". Even so, most of the video makes seem to be quite nice to me and didn't get me tired of the effect yet.
I think it is only a matter of time before we will see that this artifact is developped into an browser script, like we have seen with much praised image-glitch plugins and browsers like glitchbrowser (2005/2008) developed by dimitre, ant scott, iman moradi.
Then this enchanting artifact will be changed into just another default preset or cultivation.
©2008 Phillip Nesmith - A wet-plate tintype of two water jugs tied at the handles for better carrying while crossing the Arizona/Mexico border. To see how these jugs looked when I found them click here.
This artifact was collected in 2006 near Aravaca Arizona while I was working on my Borderlands photo project.
Another plate can been seen here.
Agence Métropolitaine de transport (AMT) MR-90 car 485 and generator car 603 are seen on display at Exporail. The MR-90s are some of the newest additions to the museum's collection, having been retired in 2020. These were the last generation of equipment that operated on the Deux-Montagnes Line prior to its shutdown for conversion to light metro.
Strange horizontal banding appeared in this photo of a fluoruescent light. It makes it more interesting, I think. (5157a)
This was captured on out of date Ilford HP5 who's film canister was actually rusty and contaminated with moisture which caused all sorts of quite interesting artefacts, splodges, marks, dots and more on the developed negatives.
Lord know what havoc iron oxide (rust) traces caused in the developing fluid - the nice guys at eye culture (Bethnal Green Road, London) probably had to completely refresh all the chemicals afterwards - thanks guys! Still I'm pleased with the result and that extra character. Recommended.
This Clock artifact somehow managed to Survive all these Years. Not in the best Part of Town. Looks Pretty old Though. Glad I was able to Snap it. Hope it doesn't get Salvaged or Destroyed or something. Nice to see things From the Past
According to my four-year-old granddaughter, this ancient stone tablet, dicovered by she and Grandma on their journey back from the frog pond, is laced with gold and inscribed with secret, mystical symbols that can make you invisible if you can crack the code. We're working on that now!
An escavation was recently sent from the museum to find and bring back any artifacts that survived from the ancient ruins of their ancestors.
One of the artifacts they found was a strange metallic alloy with unknown letters written across it. Unsure of what the translation is, they hope that one of the visiting aliens might recognize it.
Entry for the 2011 MocOlympics - www.mocpages.com/moc.php/291293
Humboldt Point, 5,000 BC – AD 1000, pink chert
Desert Side Notch Point, AD 1100 – Contact, obsidian
Leaf-shape Knife, Unknown time period, brown chert
Gypsum Point, 3,000 BC – 1,000 BC, andesite
(below) Logandale Corrugated Ware (?), AD 500 – AD 1100