five and diamond

me and Wall

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:40:00 GMT

me and Wall, originally uploaded by fiveanddiamond.

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...

4-08-08

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:01:27 GMT

front (first) house, originally uploaded by fiveanddiamond.

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...

bard pool merge 2

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:18:47 GMT

bard pool merge 2, originally uploaded by fiveanddiamond.

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.

doll crossing

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:16:36 GMT

dollcrossing, originally uploaded by fiveanddiamond.

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

Hudson waterfront, Now and Then

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:18:18 GMT

Hudson waterfront, Now and Then, originally uploaded by fiveanddiamond.

Bard Swimming Pool 3.25.08

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:11:11 GMT

Bard Swimming Pool 3.25.08, originally uploaded by fiveanddiamond.

test to see about blogging from flickr

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:12:16 GMT

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.

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:59:09 GMT

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....

photo study for collage

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:45:25 GMT

Rope Alley, Hudson NY

life c@n be beautiful

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:28:47 GMT

I called this the "life C@n Be Beautiful" house, just a few doors down from my shop:

,

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.

time capsule exhibit B:diary of a mad housewife

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:03:35 GMT

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

Thu, 17 May 2007 02:00:13 GMT

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

x-posted in found object

basilica

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:38:55 GMT

Basilica Industria, Hudson. Yesterday:

V-day shop window

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:53:42 GMT

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.

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:24:54 GMT

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!)

it's a boy

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:37:17 GMT

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

SOME THING SMELLS

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:31:25 GMT

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:

keegan slide show

Retail Skeleton

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:18:57 GMT

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.

window

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:42:49 GMT

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

Love Apple Farm, Ghent NY

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:24:49 GMT

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.

Dorothys House

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:08:14 GMT

Abandoned farmhouse near Grand Gorge NY, just outside the Catskills in Dairy Farm country.

It reminded me of Dorothys house
in the Wizard of Oz.
I spotted the decaying roof from the road and pulled over. Had to cross a wide stream and bushwhack to get to it.

tools arranged on porch, strangely clean

kitchen

pigtail curtains

upstairs bedroom

the f**k room looked very ominous

and I didn't like how fresh the sheets looked, so I headed out to the barn

Where I took my favorite pic of the lot, very post-twister in feel.

barn and outhouse

larger sized versions of these photos are on flickr if you click on them ...

Abandoned Catskill Mts Motel Cabins. Rt 23

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:38:23 GMT

Abandoned Catskill Mts Motel Cabins

This car reminds me of Edward G Robinson. It needs a big cigar.

Cadet Dog Food, because you care for your pet

There were about 4 shacks, but all caved in.

"Balsam Pillows, Fresh and Sweet"

a Few more in my Picasa Web Album:

motel shacks

Oct 4, 2006 - 11 Photos