Filed Under (Photography) by Geary LeBell on 27-10-2009
This home; virtually destroyed by fire several years ago, still contains traces of the family that lived there. The name, hand, and foot print of what appears to be a child who lived there is imprinted into a small concrete pad measuring approximately 30″ x 30″ at the base of the front entrance.
Inside, the ceiling and walls are largely collapsed which makes me wonder “How long will this structure remain standing?”. Graffiti drawings inside the front foyer, the only room that appears you can enter relatively safely (Don’t Enter, It’s Not Safe!), bring color to an otherwise dim and dreary room.
Would like to see this place for yourself? Coming east along Spingbrook Rd. from the town of Springbrook, make a left on Bronson Rapids Rd. and keep following it until the road starts to twist and turn, it will be on your right.
Anyone know the some history surrounding this house?
Filed Under (General) by Geary LeBell on 19-08-2009
Time Series
This is one of the coolest photo ideas I’ve come across. It’s been at least a year since first encountering the photo series “The Arrow of Time” which inspired me to start a time based series with my family. Seeing how people change and family grow over the years is truly amazing. What really makes this idea so appealing to me is that you can see the changes happen without flipping a page or losing the impression of the past images, all the images can be visually strung together almost like a movie where each frame has been flattened out onto a canvass.
A real version of the series is also under consideration. Custom frames would be built with dimensions of approximately 2″ by 3″ in size and arranged on our rec room wall in a way similar to the InTime page. Custom frames can be reproduced at later dates with similar wood characteristics, dimensions, color, etc…, allowing the complete series to “look” the same. The orientation of the framed photographs on the wall would be horizontal, running the length of the room as opposed to vertical like the website.
Having a physical InTime series on hanging on your wall is even more valuable than the seemingly impermanent, but still socially valuable online version. Like most things on the Web, interest fades and eventually disappears into iblivion (Internet Oblivion). It can be compared to looking at digital photos on a computer screen or real photos in an album with pages that you can flip through. Being in the physical presence of photos that can be touched and felt offer significant personal meaning and are inherently more valuable to us, our family and society in general.
View the InTime series now.
Thx for the correction!