Abandoned castle

[lapsedmodernist]

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[paracelsus.livejournal.com]

Your 'found architecture' photos are so often striking for colour and composition.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

More great photos!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

danke

[the-macnab.livejournal.com]

The first shot strongly resembles the mansion in Tintin's The Seven Crystal Balls--which, given how close you are to Belgium, probably shouldn't surprise me.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

well, this castle is in Belgium...do you have a picture of the castle you mention?

[the-macnab.livejournal.com]

From tintin.com, you can see the drawn panel in the middle:



I think that the volume I have on it at home includes a reference photo of the house Herge modeled the drawing on...I'll check tonight.

[beginnersmind.livejournal.com]

You need to claim that house in the name of all things beautiful and bring us all in to fix it up!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I already claimed it! So on the esoteric-photographic-phantasmogorical strata of the universe it is already ours...the matrix of the material reality is really inconsequential...although Belgian squatting laws are not nearly as progressive as the Dutch ones.

[smschrader.livejournal.com]

Those are insanely beautiful. You must claim the castle as yours!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thanks and I agree!

[annabelle.livejournal.com]

that castle looks amazing. i'm so happy for you to have such a gorgeous playground for your photography. :)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

it's delicious. I was quite happy to find it, too.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

That 4th photo? Totally a portal into some magical steampunk wonderland. Gorgeous!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[pivovision]

what an amazing place.... what did it feel like in there.... if i ever make it to belgium i will surely beg you to point me in this direction...... ♥

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

what did it feel like? cold and bright and unhurried and a little bit ghostly.

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Those are amazing. Totally.

Any idea why this one's abandoned?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

it was used by the gov't for military things, and then was abandoned as a part of budget cuts in the 1990s.

[sissyhips.livejournal.com]

Incredible!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[apropos.livejournal.com]

Wow, beautiful.

I don't know how you feel about horror movies but these photos remind me of the sets of the "torture-porn" genre (one of which, I'm not sure which one, I watched against my will while hallucinating feverishly in a hotel room bed in Goroka--Emily was entranced by the movie and watched it on repeat). #2 and #4 especially are very torture-porn unheimlich.

If you can bear to watch those films there is probably something zeitgeisty to be said about them + urbex.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I think torture-porn films have a "grunge" cinematography sometimes, which can have the same look as some of the editing in this batch of photos. Also, of course, Hostel = Eurosetting. (I found Hostel interesting, by the way, in terms of anxieties about globalization, legacies of cultural imperialism, etc.) what was the plot of the movie?

[pdanielson.livejournal.com]

How does a place like this become abandoned? I wonder if it's still structurally sound enough to be renovated.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

cost-cutting! I assume it could be salvaged, but it would require a lot of work. Some of the floors were missing, and the stairs were pretty rickety. Still, structurally sound enough that the floor didn't collapse under me.

[remsaverem.livejournal.com]

The star ceiling, I love it. Do you have any more?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

of the ceiling? yeah, a few. Or in general? I have tons more! Will post soon.

[sun-moon.livejournal.com]

Absolutely loved these pictures! What a find - but from viewing your work over the past year or so I'm not too surprised. Love the angle of your ceiling photo. :)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[chickenmoon.livejournal.com]

That last one? LOVE.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you; that ceiling was celestial bliss.

[zerodivide1101.livejournal.com]

You still Etsy-ing prints? I may actually have some budget for making my apartment less like a white box in the forseeable future.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I haven't put more stuff on Etsy at the moment for logistical reasons BUT I am going to put a bunch of stuff up for sale through livejournal soon (so that I can handle the print orders/mailings while I am in the US in the second half of December and people can get them for the holidays if they want). Stay tuned!