five and diamond

11:40 am: me and Wall

Rummaging through pics from last year and dug these up. This was some of the most beautiful wallpaper I'd ever seen around Hudson. Frustrating because it was the only layer on plaster and impossible to remove. The new building owner ripped it all out of course--it's now a chic white gallery...

11:01 am: 4-08-08

Fun discovery yesterday;
a cluster of abandoned summer cottages, within walking distance of the Hudson River.
This is what I saw from the road that made me pull over:



But then when I ventured back into the woods I found more, including this:

and this:


Railroad style housing, main entrance being kitchen





with cherry and strawberry wallpaper



Bathroom with yummy swan and lotus wallpaper




A room I wouldn't enter, with a floor like quicksand:







Larger sizes and a few more on my flickr page...

04:18 pm: bard pool merge 2

One of the photoshop collages I created with the old and new pics of the Bard Pool. This is the one that took the least time (under 5 minutes) but had best results.

10:16 am: doll crossing

This little doll was crossing at the corner of 5th and Diamond but didn't make it.

01:18 am: Hudson waterfront, Now and Then

06:11 pm: Bard Swimming Pool 3.25.08

test to see about blogging from flickr

09:09 am: Tony Thompson's new show at Carrie Haddad gallery made me think of this photo I took last year of the ever-present puddle down in the wasteland past Basilica. I flipped the camera for the reflection shot, then came home and flipped it back in photoshop. Then I attached the two to each other, for this effect.

By fiveanddiamond at 2007-04-15

Tony's paintings explore the same idea and are quite beautiful. If you're near Hudson stop in at 622 Warren Street to see the show.

07:58 am: My friend Richard took me kayaking on the Hudson yesterday. Across the river in Athens we spotted this love shack perched on the shore:


Fortunately Richard is a partner in crimes of passion, so we decided to park the kayaks and check it out.





It was part beach house,
part tree house,

part house boat (kitchen portholes:

The bedroom had built-in bunk beds:


The living room had a fireplace
and deck, with full view of the river, marina, and Mt Merino.



The kitchen even had a washer dryer:

What more could you ask for....

10:44 pm: photo study for collage
Rope Alley, Hudson NY

01:26 pm: life c@n be beautiful
I called this the "life C@n Be Beautiful" house, just a few doors down from my shop:

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This was the scene today:



The bulldozer guys said there were problems with too many squatters and crack dealers sneaking in through the back via the alley. One block from Warren Street, where buildings have sold for 1 million dollars. This house wasn't worth saving.


It took me like an hour to find it, but I had this "before" picture on my computer:




They did not tear down the garage in back. Yet.


Tags: abandoned house demolition hudson

03:02 pm: time capsule exhibit B:diary of a mad housewife
What: 1970s scrapbook of an obsessively frugal Albany NY Housewife

Where acquired: In the vast $1-per-item junk field of the Brimfield Flea Market, sept 2006

This thick ledger book was used as a household scrapbook/shopping log by a woman named Ivis; it is filled with advertisements clipped from newspapers and magazines, detailed handwritten lists of items purchased, and copious self-congratulatory "notes-to-self" about the savings reaped by shopping at garage sales and church thrift shops:


"Billy Beer Can Trophy $1.97" Ivis writes, "Was $5.00. Just needed to be tightened".

Entry for May 7 1973, with picture of a curtain rod: "I paid only 35 cents for this traverse rod at a rummage sale-corner of Western and Main St. Perfect condition."
"meatball press. 25 ¢"
"enamel vomit dish 5 ¢"

Ivis took a lot of pride in her bargain shopping. Was she on a strict budget?. Was she childless with too much time on her hands?

Did she ever actually buy one of these exercise-cycles-- or did she just keep cutting the picture out of magazines over and over and over with the good intent of pedaling her inches away?

I don't know. The only remotely personal note I can find in this book is at the end of huge list of household cleaning tasks to do for May 10 1979:
The last line reads " Shave my legs --Change my handbag from Brown to White".


I guess summer had arrived.
Please feel free to send any interesting 20th century ephemera to: Lisa's Time Capsule Project, c/o Five and DIamond Vintage Clothing, 502 Columbia St, Hudson NY 12534

09:59 pm: cheap Xmas ornament bird left outside all winter. Feet are plastic but wings made of real feathers

x-posted in found object

06:35 pm: basilica
Basilica Industria, Hudson. Yesterday:







Tags: hudson

08:49 am: V-day shop window
Here's the V-Day shop window. The dress I made about 3 years ago. It was pretty sloppily made for a costume ball- was originally a bedspread that I got at Sals. Upper hem at left breast still has "do not remove under penalty of Law" tag. The image behind the dress is a huge scrim(?) from when sothebys had a big auction of Duke and duchess of winsor items.

08:23 am: mother nature left this on the roof of my car yesterday after our huge snowstorm (in upstate NY): x-posted in found_objects(where in 12 hours I received 15 comments-Take that myspace!)

06:37 pm: it's a boy
In my favorite junk shop today I spied this cigar box for $1. Inside were several cigars, each unwrapped, labelled with a name and birthdate, and rewrapped and taped. All date to the 1950s.

x posted in found_objects

06:29 pm: SOME THING SMELLS
63-69 North 5th st. Taken by Eminent Domain. The plywood came down and there was a one week "window" of opportunity to hop through windows for pics and wallpaper samples. Yesterday they boarded it back up with crappy flakeboard.










Complete slide show here:

09:18 am: Retail Skeleton
I took this photo a couple months ago. Upper Rt 9, Greenport, where Widewaters is threatening to build 565,000 square feet of retail space this county simply doesn't need. This is the previously aborted project from several years ago that has been sitting like a big dinosaur (sp?) skeleton.

05:42 pm: window
from that trip into the catskills a few weeks back..... here's the thumbnail, orig deleted due to high-bandwidth, :(

11:16 pm: Love Apple Farm, Ghent NY

Most of the photos from this place were ho-hum, even with the big fabulous house and many barns, but I like this one, taken on front porch. There are three barns, one small one filled with tack and tools, one decaying in back (seen here through broken shutter), and one huge one I couldn't see inside.