went out exploring today with dagr/ian. i met him with dan and monkey boy josh last year when i took them to the terminal. ian’s from welland so it’s not too far. he called from a hotel in rochester, so i suggested jackson sanitarium in dansville and headed out to meet him down there. i don’t know anything out in rochester really, and there was no time for research. anyway spent a few hours in the building, and looked around the basement for the first time in 4 trips – i remembered my flashlight this time haha. found some really great pamphlets from when the place was owned by mcfadden and marketed as an expensive resort/spa. 2$ enemas. 3$ colonic flushing (what is the difference?). found a bill for over 1400$!! from 1958!! that was tons back then. i’ll be scanning those once they dry out and flatten out.
once we finished there, ian had found another place in town while he drove around waiting for me, so we went out there. i was a bit iffy about a blue truck that showed up and sat there, so i didn’t go in, but he went in for a quick look around. will have to check it out if i’m down that way in the future. it’s not exciting enough to warrant a special trip. we decided to go back to buffalo, so he followed me home and i took him to cargill – he hadn’t been to any of the grain elevators before. the sun was setting which always makes cargill look extra pretty, so it was good timing on our part. lots of turkeys hanging about. like…birds, not idiots. and deer in the river. spent some time there, and i took him to the marine star to scope out the unfortunately new graffiti on the boat. makes me mad that someone got on the boat when i still can’t, and that they went and ruined things with spray paint. oh well.
since none of these locations were new to me i spent most of my time taking stupid self portraits. we’ll see how lame they come out haha…i tried to crawl into a small safe for one of them, real low light, we’ll see if it turns out at all. i hope so, cuz i ended up with dust and plaster down my pants lol.
time to check out some of the digi pics i took…oh, one note. i hadn’t been there since the trip with lei, james and brian, so i made sure to stop by the room where james had put together a small art installation to see if any was left…
2.5 rolls of film to get developed later…