it's a DiRTY word http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog Ad Oculos Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:31:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Doors of Perception http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=651 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=651#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:31:01 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=651 this house had it all !!! wicked doors, peeling wallpaper, shag carpet, and amazing color … gorgeous !!!

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]]> http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=651 0 Administering an Empire http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=597 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=597#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:17:15 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=597 i was fortunate enough to be given a guided tour of a historic office building that has been sitting vacant and abandoned for nearly 15 years …

the property has changed hands several times and finally landing with someone who actually gives a damn about it and its history … unfortunately many parts of it are beyond repair …

they graciously allowed us to freely roam the place after the tour and photograph to our heart’s content … respirators were a necessity here, as the place was filled to the brim with asbestos … this was a seriously awesome adventure …

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]]> http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=597 0 Cadillac Ranch http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=668 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=668#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:32:32 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=668 this place is about as famous an attraction in amarillo texas as the big texan steakhouse is … and seeing that we were cruising near it down route 66, i made the executive decision that we MUST stop and see it … glad i did as it was a pretty cool piece of art …

i won’t bore you with the details of the place, suffice it to say that there is more paint on the caddies than there is in every benjamin moore store in the midwest …

and i of course tagged it …

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]]> http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=668 0 Aesop Rock http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=706 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=706#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:26:32 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=706 oshkosh wisconsin scored a major coup last weekend with regard to the underground hip hop scene … the incredible aesop rock played a small venue show there … he doesn’t tour much these days and for him to come to oshkosh, of all places, was pretty dang cool …

a couple of my really good friends and i got to go see the show, and i even managed to snag a couple good shots of him …

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]]> http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=706 0 House of a Thousand Colors http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=679 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=679#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:56:24 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=679 this house has really seen better days, all entrances were heavily damaged by collapsed porches or trees … but once inside it yielded numerous treasures, in both colors and left over furniture …

every room was a technicolor dream … vivid crayola rooms, soft pastel wallpapers, wow … just plain wow … i love houses like this …

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]]> http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=679 0 Been Gone a Long Time http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=556 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=556#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:37:01 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=556 a rather old place that has surely seen better days … not much left intact here but the shell … still worthy of an attempted exploration …

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]]> http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=556 0 Tractors on the Hedgerow http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=633 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=633#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:49:19 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=633 these tractors have been serving as a fence line for as long as i have lived in this area, and most likely even longer than that … one of them is a 1928 model …

many a time i had wanted to stop and shoot them, and on occasion i had – from the road – but never had i wandered around the field in and around them, up close and personal … and then i just did it …

glad i did too … now someone has closed the field off and posted warning signs all around … a shame really … these awesome relics of days gone by need to be shared and valued as a big part of americana …

where would we be today without the agricultural industry ???

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]]> http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=633 0 Roadside Finds http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=589 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=589#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:40:37 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=589 another eclectic group of autos found along various roadsides … some near, some not so much … all extremely cool in their own way …

the last group is here …

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]]> http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=589 0 the Foote Mansion in Infrared http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=613 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=613#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:17:52 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=613 lately i have been shooting more and more with my infrared 20d … i have grown to love it as i have finally figured out the tricky post production of the files … there are numerous ways one can process infrared files, but my preferred method is to swap the red and blue color channels.

i love the wicked goodness that it gives me … the creepy factor, ominous even …

i will still convert the occasional image to plain black and white though …

anywho, i was able to go onto the foote property and explore the place up close and personal …

many thanks to the folks that made this happen …

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]]> http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=613 0 the Fabulous Foote Mansion http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=618 http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=618#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:58:47 +0000 El TiDY http://www.itsadirtyword.com/blog/?p=618 finally … finally, i was able to explore the grounds of the mansion, unfortunately i wasn’t able to explore the house … it was just not safe … too far gone, too much neglect, too much structural damage for my liking … regardless i was thrilled to be able to spend unlimited time on the grounds looking into every nook and cranny …

what an awesome place this must have been when it was in its glory … sad that it is where it is today … truly sad …

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