Vacancy Outtakes- Up in the Air

May 14, 2012 by cybele

Today we are taking down ‘Vacancy.’ The motel room installation is being demolished and heading to the tip (sad but true), and the artworks are coming off the wall and to their new owners. I will be putting the artworks up online soon, and an more PG rated video of the installation performance piece.

To say goodbye to the show I thought these photos taken from the lofty heights of a plane would be fitting. End of one journey, beginning of the next.

I have already started looking into flights to Odessa, and Russian language lessons. The next project is going to be a mammoth one!

This is what happens when the light refracts between a circular polarizing filter and the double glazed plastic plane windows. Neat huh!

This is a lake just outside of San Fran.

This is a very long bridge.

This is the wheat belt.

This is a girl sleeping. This is also testament that I am a creep.

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Vacancy outtakes- Bumbershoot, Seattle

May 13, 2012 by cybele

This kid was giving away free hugs. I made his day when I asked the tweens to go and hug him!

This was one of the tweens. Avril Lavigne. These are prescription glasses. They magnify her eyes.

This was her friend. I now realise her glasses were upside down. Fashion amongst kids is a weird and irrational thing.

This might well be yet another sister of Dakota Fanning waiting in the woodworks.

This guy is clearly an architect. Or German. Or both.

This guy is clearly high. Or tripping. Or both.

This girl reminded me of Spike from Degrassi.

These girls were very popular amongst the drunk boys.

Here is one of their fans.

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Vacancy outtakes- upstate New York truckstop

May 11, 2012 by cybele

These are trucks outside a truckstop in upstate New York.

These are the arcade games on offer at the truck stop. Golden Tee and Buik Chess.

This is the TV room at the truck stop. These are the rather ornate but highly uncomfortable chairs.

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Vacancy outtakes- Boomtown Belle

May 8, 2012 by cybele

Vacancy- Boomtown Belle, Louisiana Delta
The shots taken between the motel rooms.

Photos taken during our mission to find oil down the Delta, only a month after the BP oil spill. We didn’t find oil, but we found a lot of disillusioned people, and very few animals to give us their account.

This is the bus I peed behind. That is the Boomtown Belle looming in the background. An abandoned casino steamboat.

This is the guy, Boomtown Bill who called out from the ‘abandoned’ steamboat to ‘watch out for them gators’ as I covered my bare ass and did up my fly.



This is the same guy, Boomtown Bill who invited us to walk over the plank (and waiting alligators) onto the Belle. He showed us around, we shared some beers and cigarettes in the stinking hot heat, and went gator fishing off the side of the boat. When in Rome.

This is where he slept at night. Under a universe of stars, the warm Gulf air blanketing his sleep. Huck Finn.

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