Comments on: The Pearl love hotel, overgrown with brambles

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:56:14 +0000

MJG- Love hotels are indeed weird. I’m thinking the same thing about a homeless person wanting the place to be completely insulated and thus; that’s why it looks like that, but who knows. That’s the mystery of it all.

Great work by the way. Japanese ruins seem to have so much detail because people don’t clean these places out, it’s as though they still have life in them, with the furniture and electronics almost always still being present. Quite interesting.

By: MJG

MJG — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:55:25 +0000

Chris- Yeah, that whole room was really creepy. A human nest. The two adjoining rooms (a sitting room and a bathroom) were also completely taped up and nailed down with tarps over the windows. At first I was thinking I`d walked into some kind of dungeon, and got afraid I`d find a dead body or something. Of course I didn`t. While it would have made an effective prison, I figured it was probably the home of a homeless person who had gone to great lengths to insulate it. I don`t think I have any more photos though.

Notre Dame, good point. Love Hotels are weird.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:54 +0000

I wish there were more pictures of the room with the yanked down tarps, it looks like a mess, but at the same time it’s interesting and mysterious. I’m guessing that’s the room that you referring to as human nest. I can’t help but look at upwards at the ceiling wondering what it must look like. Seeing cardboard and newspaper hanging from it is very interesting too.

Why do you think that room was like that? And also, what the hell does a Cathedral that looks like Notre Dame De Paris on the windows have anything to do with a hotel where people go to supposedly make love. Hahah that’s funny.

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By: MJG

MJG — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:25:12 +0000

Adam- Thanks- glad you appreciated the trinkets, I thought that was interesting to clash with shattered glass. The black and white one, you can see quite a similar shot pre-effects on Mike’s website, the link is under ‘alternate’ in the fact-file.

Alice- It was a creepy, both me and Mike felt weirded out in the homeless guy’s nest.

Leongsoon- True, the whole place looks like a nest. I guess if we had been a bit later, some of those vines would have been in bloom, all green and much harder to plough through.

Lee- Cheers, I’ve been trying to cut down the number of shots I display to just the better ones.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:35:09 +0000

Some lovely shots there Mike. Your best ones up to now in my opinion. Great stuff.

By: leongsoon

leongsoon — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:15:23 +0000

Wow, it’s really amazing how the whole place has been covered with foliage, looks like a nest, very nice!

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:57:25 +0000

Freaky. That gave me the creeps. I guess you could easily stumble onto something untoward one day. I hope not, but I guess you never know…

Alice

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:49:36 +0000

Outstanding ruin and you got some wonderful shots. I especially like the close up shot of all the trinkets. As for your over-exposed blank and white shot, I think it looks great, it would be interesting to see the original shot pre-effects.

Can’t wait to see the rest of your trip.