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A most bizarre/surreal experience

Wow, nice touch there Moxie....I'm going to have to play with a couple others and see what i get :D

I'm going back today in a bit - different light and I'll take a few more with the tripod - but I think the sunrise/sunset pics will be the best. So I'll have to go one morning soon and see how it looks.

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Awesome pics, Mr. A! That's a really beautiful old building, which seems to have become a hangout for a few kids who have seen The Lost Boys a few times too many.
 
I went back around 1 PM, different light, but I brought a flash light and tripod. I got a ton of pics, but it will have to wait until later before I go through them all.

Pinhead Cupie was still there :D

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Eh I'm sure it's just 14 year olds playing with teenage angst in their own way. Heck I used to have friends with things like that doll head hanging off their back packs.
 
Moxiemike said:
My hands down favorite shot from the bunch though:

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Remix of the glowy image, done with a glow action i have:

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that's vivid! rich ... straight out of the movie. :cool:

the ladder shot is very nice; good shots mr A. :)

didn't the vampire clan start as a D&D style role playing game? i had some friends in college that used to play this vampire game ... it would take place at all times; they would assume the characters in their daily lives and hide it from the 'humans' (day-walkers ... 'Blade', 'Underworld' etc.) fighting their battle amongst us; err ... playing a game through class. i think some kids just get out of hand sometimes.

i've had a strong urge/association with vampires for quite sometime. i can see how a kid could get lost in it ...

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peace | neut
 
The new pics are up....

Surreal Warsaw 2

In someways not as good as the first, definitely the lighting at sunset made for more interesting shots in some cases. But there were a bunch of things that would have been much harder to do in low light.

Dawn has huge potential, and I'm going back when it gets a little warmer.

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Wow those are some awesome pictures Mr. A!!

i would have freaked out personally, but thats just me....

i need to start saving for a digital camera i guess because threads like this just make me want to go take pictures...
 
This reminds me of living in Argentina, several years after the economic fallout. All those abandoned and dilapidated buildings remind me so much of Argentina. Wow.
 
Nice photography, Mr. Anderson.

It's obvious that it was once a thriving kewpie doll factory. Probably where eyelikeart took the photo he showed us here. And, speaking of creepy, anybody need a new avatar?
 

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This is wild stuff. Having been to Warsaw many times myself, I'd be interested in where this is located. I've only been in "mainstream" Warsaw, so have not seen this building. The "decor" doesn't fit in with my limited perception of the Warsaw personality.

I thought Warsaw was primarily driven by two major industries - printing and prosthetics. I hadn't heard of the automobile manufacturing tie-in before, but I guess it makes sense.
 
emw said:
Having been to Warsaw many times myself, I'd be interested in where this is located.
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You've been to Warsaw? Wow....many times....why?

Its just on the Warsaw side of the East West railroad going through town, right down the street from the main entrance to Winona Lake and the shops there....farther west down the tracks is the larger factory that's still in production that builds engine blocks I think....

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Mr. Anderson said:
You've been to Warsaw? Wow....many times....why?
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Yes...about 20...shouldn't everyone visit Warsaw? ;)

Really, though, I work for a company that has a branch in Warsaw.

Actually, I was last there about 2 weeks ago, and before that (lucky me) on Valentine's Day. We ate at the Boat House that night, right on Winona Lake. Nice place.
 
emw said:
Yes...about 20...shouldn't everyone visit Warsaw? ;)

Really, though, I work for a company that has a branch in Warsaw.

Actually, I was last there about 2 weeks ago, and before that (lucky me) on Valentine's Day. We ate at the Boat House that night, right on Winona Lake. Nice place.
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The Boat House is just OK - the best restaurant in town is Noa Noa - and its up to par with any good restaurant in Chicago, New York or DC. A very strange thing to find in such a small town. You might need to make reservations, but I'd recommend going if you haven't already been.

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Mr. Anderson said:
The Boat House is just OK - the best restaurant in town is Noa Noa - and its up to par with any good restaurant in Chicago, New York or DC. A very strange thing to find in such a small town. You might need to make reservations, but I'd recommend going if you haven't already been.

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Completely agree on Noa Noa. But they are closed on Mondays, which is when we were there. Otherwise, that would have been the choice!
 
emw said:
Completely agree on Noa Noa. But they are closed on Mondays, which is when we were there. Otherwise, that would have been the choice!
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Have you ever been to Spikes next door? They're also good, if a bit more casual. I just wish they wouldn't be closed down over winter, but its an outdoor place and this is Indiana.....they should be opening up soon, though.

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Mr. Anderson said:
Have you ever been to Spikes next door? They're also good, if a bit more casual. I just wish they wouldn't be closed down over winter, but its an outdoor place and this is Indiana.....they should be opening up soon, though.

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No, but I'll have to try it. Now if only they could get some first class hotels as well :p
 
emw said:
No, but I'll have to try it. Now if only they could get some first class hotels as well :p
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Hahahaha - you mean the Ramada or Holiday Inn Express isn't good enough!

We had to spend a week in the Ramada when we moved here last year....bleh....we had the suite with the mini kitchen, but it was me, my wife, 6 month old and a dog....not sure I want to do that again.

Have you tried and B&Bs here? Don't know if they'd be any better, though. And the Ramada has that other house next to the Wagon Wheel theater which is a little better.

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I'm not generally there for more than a night or two, so lodging isn't too unbearable (generally go for the Hampton since I get my HHonors points). I didn't even realize there were bed and breakfasts in Warsaw. I suppose it makes sense, and perhaps I'll investigate. As long as they are "modern" ones where you aren't sharing bathrooms :eek: I've been to those before. No thanks!

I'll have to make it a point to do a little more roaming next time I'm down there, which is looking like the end of April.
 
Wow, well done! Those were amazing pictures. The place has a creepy feel indeed. I agree that it's most likely obnoxious teens defacing it though - I have a feeling the "type" of people that are truly dangerous in those bizarre ways would not be so obvious about it. You KNOW there are squatters there (and the basement looked really spooky, you must have balls of steel)

anyone else think someone put this ladder here deliberatly?
The Ring, anyone? haha
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Thanks for posting these, that was an interesting start to my day.
 
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