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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
YEZZIR: "'Sup, New York"

Yashica-A shot from last week's Roosevelt Island shoot. Typical Beaumont accidental double-exposure, but also quite cool.

More to come...

Labels: Men's Photo Club, photography, quicksnaps, roosevelt, YEZZIR

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 1/13/2010 06:06:00 PM 0 comments

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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Hi from Roosevelt Island and Renwick

Atop the Roosevelt Island Parking Garage. I found this empty can and decided to put it on my head and asked Ben D to take my photo. Larger here.

Ben D, Royal Scourge and I trekked out to Roosevelt Island at 8am this morning on a quest to locate and photograph the abandoned Renwick Mental Hospital. We had heard much tell of these ruins and had all been discussing a trip out at some point or another, but we spurred into action by my friend J. Diamond (who in the end couldn't make it) and finally headed over today.

Renwick Hospital, Southern Tip Of Roosevelt Island

From WikiMapia on Renwick here.

Alas, upon arriving we discovered a slight snag to our plans: the entire lower part of the island was locked behind a fence.

We'd heard tell of a barrier to get past but clearly this was something else; from the chain-link fence in front of us, we couldn't even see the hospital. We walked east down the road a bit (you can see it running across the island at the top of the image above) and I found an opening in the fence near the smallest of the three boxes to the far right of the map. I climbed through and began wandering around but something was wrong--there was construction equipment everywhere and almost no vegetation to be found. And as I walked around with ginger concern, a cop car drove by and I had to dash behind a wall to get out of site. I called Ben to ask him where he and Mike were and he told me that they had in fact just opened the part of the fence on the far western side of the road and it looked like we could enter, so I climbed back through the hole and met up with them. Sure enough, we were able to walk through and follow the road alongside the southwestern coast of the island. But the ruins of the hospital... after seeing all sorts of spooky night time photos, final verdict in winter 2010 is, well, not all that interesting.

By 10am, we'd finished exploring what we could of the area near the hospital by, so we ended up turning the entire day into a Roosevelt island photo adventure, which I think in the end I think worked out better. I only had film cameras with me (my Nikon FM2n and Alex's Yashica-A) so I don't got anything yet, but Ben shot digital and once again got some great shit, captured in the photo at the top of this post and in the ones below.

This car, according to Google Earth, has been in this spot for 8 years. Photo by Ben D. Larger here.

Photo by Ben D. Larger here.

Back in Manhattan. Photo by Ben D. Larger here.

Labels: Men's Photo Club, photography, roosevelt

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 1/10/2010 06:31:00 PM 0 comments

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Roosevelt Island: Southern Tip

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Musings From a Public Bathroom On Roosevelt Island

"NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED."

Labels: curiosities, lolgore, Men's Photo Club, photography, quicksnaps, roosevelt

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 1/10/2010 11:38:00 AM 1 comments

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jayson said...: you needed to have added "SLEEP WITH THE VULTURE.'; 1/11/2010 09:58:00 AM

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Rosie Isle

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View From The Top #2

Also from the Manhattan side of the Roosevelt Island Tram.

Labels: Men's Photo Club, photography, quicksnaps, roosevelt

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 1/10/2010 09:38:00 AM 0 comments

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View From The Top

From the Manhattan side of the Roosevelt Island Tram.

Labels: Men's Photo Club, photography, quicksnaps, roosevelt

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 1/10/2010 09:37:00 AM 0 comments

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