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Published: 2004-12-07 01:06:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 642; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 51
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FULL VIEW PLEASE!!!Blue Boy Mansion, a place I'll never get tired of. This is another look of the place from a different angel, and if you look at the middle left vertically, the Astros where I looked down from the top floor in the earlier deviation.
I was Googling away looking if anyone else ever done anything like *suzums and I, and apparently there's not a single pictoral record of Blue Boy Mansion anywhere! Wheeeeeee! We were the first!!
What you're seeing here isn't as bad as the one yesterday, but the soddyness is still there. If I were to stand a few feet backwards, the blender in the fusebox might be seen on the lower left of the concourse. The two door-like things you see in the middle of each floors are actually the zinc elevators, of lifts. That long huge metal pipe on the right is a chimney of some sorts for a restaurant on the other side of the building facing the main street. And that white stuffs hanging on the rails of the first floor... that's bedsheets and proly a pillowcase. Oh, did I mention the zinc lifts? The one on the 3rd floor's stuck open. It couldn't get any better than that happening in a place like this! Lord knows what happens if someone gets stuck. Azrul, my artistic nude photographer and choreographer, who took *suzums and I there, said it was a norm to hear the emergency bell ringing now and then everyday when someone's stuck in one. What to do? Well, just keep ringing and wait... til someone on the 9th floor reset the lift system in the main generator room!
The more one is to see this place, the more one feels as though it's someplace he or she would wanna come back over and over again.. because nothing's gonna move even after a month! There were so many pictures I took last November 6th, including this picture, and the stuffs were still there! An empty cigarrette box, some clothes hanger, a waste basket, that blender, it's like a living museum of some sort here. I've seen living cultural museums in Borneo, but nothing is as surreal as this. Entrance is free 24/7.
Part III tomorrow...
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Technicalities:
Camera: Canon EOS 500N SLR (Film)
Negative: Ilford HP Plus 400 Black and White
Location: Blue Boy Mansion, Tengkat Tong Shin, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Photo Taken: November 7th, 2004
Photographer: Me!
Collaboration with: *suzums
Photo-editing: Macromedia Fireworks MX
Film Roll: #6
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Comments: 6
This is an excellent, highly emotional shot. The extreme perspective and the dark shadows in the far end give the scene a “black hole” kind of feel that draws us into its gaping maw, knowing that once we enter we can never truly escape. This building looks so old and tired, and I can't help but wonder how many generations it has seen, what sad, happy, despondent, hopeful tales it has to tell. It strikes me that there are a number of satellite dishes in evidence, contrasting with and yet seamlessly absorbed by their surroundings, illustrating that in this modern world no matter where one is, regardless of one's position in life, technology is never far behind, hand out, offering seductive “benefits” in exchange for what little remains of our life's blood.
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Very insightful... a mouthful... and well thought of.. Some stuffs i never even thought about!
Yes, the building does look like it's gonna suck u in, yet with its tired look, it's just slumped in the corner feeling desolately submissive. It might have seen like 3 or 4 generations of people in and out.. but i couldnt really tell coz there's no one there whom i could like ask who could give me a definite answer.
Yeah, technology does play some role in "trying" to make this place all the more living that dead.
My god, no one's ever been so emotionally charged than u r when it comes to criticizing my works! Am glad there's someone out there (you) who does..
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You're very welcome. A friend of mine recently posted a photo of an old abandoned wreck of a race car, and I had some similar thoughts. Everything we see, no matter how sad and squalid it might appear on the surface, tells a fascinating tale if we're alert enough to detect it. It was once shiny, new, and full of promise, it has a history of hopes and dreams, of successes and failures. It's an artist's job to look beneath the surface, to think in layers, and to pique the interest of the viewer by bringing out the true story. I believe that's what you've done here whether you were conscious of it or not. This building is teeming with life past and present, not the idealized life we're shown by the everyday media, not the life of Donald Trump, but real lives being lived by real people. What could be more fascinating?
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Consciously nope.. though I did hope i'd grab the attention of the locals here on my photos... coz my main intention on most of my deviations are things commonly seen in the streets but people never noticed.. or choose not to notice, hence the Blue Boy deviations.
LoL! I remember watching an episode of Apprentice where the wind was blowing on his hair and he commented into the camera saying, "See America, this isn't a hairpiece.."
Anyways, yeah, I do like to bring inanimate objects to life in one way or another.. Even the clothes pegs in my gallery.. Hehe! I hope I bring it forth well. Thank you soooo much for the 
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Very weathered and old feeling, torn in memory so to speak. This is very interesting, its almost cold with fear, yet rich in history. I like the satellites in there, mixing old with new, the cloths on the wire hanging, the two people where the door is open, just alot of details to look at here, nice capture.
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*cough..* what a mouthful.. 
Yes, the idea was there to show how old the word "old" is.. that even us urban dwellers coming into such a place makes it seemed as though we're stepping on hot coal.. making sure we're not doing the wrong thing.. since everything, even as bland and "normal" as it seemed, made it looked so antique and every move we took, few pairs of eyes were staring at us..
Yeah, the satellites sure makes the place less intimidating, bringing us back to reality that the place does house people of this millennia, mixed and fused together with that old feeling of cold fear u mentioned. It's the detailing, i have to agree, that makes this shot as though you were to feast your eyes with each and everything around it to make sure you didn't miss anything..
Compelling.. Thanks for the comment! 
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