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Echo Park · #21 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 2:50 AM**

thats awesome.

ColDayMan · #22 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 3:27 AM**

Awesome!

kcexpress69 · #23 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 3:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by denveraztec

I almost put on some polyester pants and matching coat! Very cool!

Don't forget the Jeff Lynn wig and a pair of platform shoes.

What do you say we pop in an 8-track of KC and the Sunshine Band?

Excellent pictures BTW

Stanz · #24 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 5:16 AM**

damn, hideous.

great thread.

dvdmsy · #25 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 5:37 AM**

I love those kitschy 50's - 70's apartment buildings! They can look good in any city, but are (for some reason) especially nostalgic and cool when there are a couple of palm trees waving in front of them. Maybe I lived in one somewhere off the Strip in my former life...

KevinFromTexas · #26 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 3:31 PM**

Nice shots. I like that kind of 60s architecture.

This is different.

Great_Hizzy · #27 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 3:53 PM**

Were those pics all from the Hamilton area or were they a collection of pics from all over?

flar · #28 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 3:56 PM**

They are all in Hamilton. Hamilton has hundreds of apartment buildings of this vintage.

flar · #29 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 3:58 PM**

It's kind of funny they all have names. I actually like this building, "Caletta":

Thundertubs · #30 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 4:55 PM**

Oh, dear. I hate it. I love it.

I lived in a building like these in Madison, WI. It was hideous (blank cinder block wall facing the street), but it was solid concrete, you couldn't hear a peep from the neighbors and it stayed relatively cool in the summer.

Excellent and entertaining idea for a compilation.

DC83 · #31 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 6:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by xzmattzx

I wouldn't mind seeing almost every building in these pictures destroyed. Few of them look any good. I can take the 70s in doses, but that was too much.

Hmmm, well if you did that Hamilton's skyline wouldn't really exist, unfortunately :s haha

May I add another retro school to the mix? It's the late Queen Victoria School:

photo by me

Chelsea Spy · #32 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 6:21 PM**

great work flar, another cool thread!!

KevinFromTexas · #33 Posted **Jul 31, 2008, 8:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by flar

It's kind of funny they all have names. I actually like this building, "Caletta":

I actually really like this kind of architecture. It kind of reminds me of Frank Loyd Wright with the large overhangs and slab like facades.

-AX- · #34 Posted **Aug 1, 2008, 12:20 AM**

wow, awesome! What is the treatment you gave them?

highwater · #35 Posted **Aug 1, 2008, 12:26 AM**

Jeebus, Flar. You are effing brilliant. If I weren't married, I'd start stalking you.

highwater · #36 Posted **Aug 1, 2008, 12:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I actually really like this kind of architecture. It kind of reminds me of Frank Loyd Wright with the large overhangs and slab like facades.

It's meant to remind you of FLW. It's like the vertical version of the Usonian house.

valleyflyfisher · #37 Posted **Aug 1, 2008, 12:41 AM**

"Here come da Judge"...mint thread.

flar · #38 Posted **Aug 1, 2008, 3:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by -AX-

wow, awesome! What is the treatment you gave them?

I used a script for GIMP (a free alternative to PS) called "vintage film effect" which can be found in the FX Foundry plugin pack. I'm not familiar with GIMP's scripting language, but it looks like the script adjusts saturation and contrast, then adds a sepia layer and then a magenta layer. Obviously more complicated than that but the effect looks good.

I'm not big on radical photo processing, but I think this looks suitable for the subject. I would have preferred to use actual film but I don't have a wide lens for my Nikon FG.

I'm also kicking myself for not taking some shots inside the lobbies of these buildings. Many of them still have the original decor.

HAMRetrofit · #39 Posted **Aug 1, 2008, 3:29 AM**

Hmm a thread named after me. I promise not to let this get to my head. Oh wait it already has.

-AX- · #40 Posted **Aug 1, 2008, 4:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by flar

I used a script for GIMP (a free alternative to PS) called "vintage film effect" which can be found in the FX Foundry plugin pack. I'm not familiar with GIMP's scripting language, but it looks like the script adjusts saturation and contrast, then adds a sepia layer and then a magenta layer. Obviously more complicated than that but the effect looks good.

I'm not big on radical photo processing, but I think this looks suitable for the subject. I would have preferred to use actual film but I don't have a wide lens for my Nikon FG.

I'm also kicking myself for not taking some shots inside the lobbies of these buildings. Many of them still have the original decor.

Thanks!