For those wondering, I just spoke to a good friend who also grew up in the same town and mentioned the traction this post got and he clarified that the roll is actually real, the holder is leftover from when the previous building burnt down decades ago but the property owners replace the roll on it every few years when it inevitibly decays and have been doing so for about 3 generations, hence why it was there when we were kids and still is now, it’s just sort of a running joke/“urban legend” for the town.
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I can confirm that other than the contrast and saturation being tweaked slightly because I can’t stand when the color temp feels off in my photos, it’s completely unedited, it’s up there, and has been since I moved to that town when I was about 6, idk if it helps as proof but here it is on google streetview lol
The odd thing about it, the building it’s on is currently a financial investment broker, there’s a small mural lower down at ground level on the wall with various 1800s politicians, and that roll has been there since I was a kid and has been there about 22 years at least, up until the investment broker moved in a few years ago, the building was abandoned, it was owned by a real estate mogul who owned most of the buildings on the square but moved several states away decades ago and left the properties to rot, he died a while back and his children sold the properties off so things started opening and the roll is just… still there lol I have no clue if it’s art, if it’s a joke, or if it’s real and decades of the elements just petrified it or something, the rumor around town when I was in elementary school was the building previously in that spot (there’s a parking lot below frame now) burned down but the toilet paper roll survived and will be there until the end of time.
Thanks! Wish I could remember exactly where but it was taken while I was on the road with some friends last year, based on its position in the camera roll most likely along Highway 287 south of Ennis, MT.
I appreciate it! They’re definitely some of my favorites as well, especially my dead mall shots.
Thanks! I started out doing liminal space photography mainly, I’ve since branched out but I’ve tried to bring over the general feel from my earlier work into my newer photos as well.
I’m not quite sure, I do know that it’s in the area around here so it very well could be.
It’s actually a set of a cabins in a reeeaally small town in western Missouri
Aha, being subscribed to my state’s conservation magazine does come in handy lol
I believe it’s actually Bush Honeysuckle but I’m not entirely certain.
Hey not bad! I love low angled shots like that.
Ahh okay that makes a little more sense, glad it worked!
Thanks! I’m not sure if the image may be getting compressed by lemmy upon upload but this one should be 23 Megapixels, unfortunately I don’t have a higher res version since 24MP is the max resolution of the camera I used.
Even I didn’t notice it until I read this and now my disappointment in my own work is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Actually this was taken pretty late at the University Plaza Hotel in Springfield, MO. It looks a bit less liminal and backroomy during the day but with the lights lowered and no one around it looks really cool, this was around 11pm or so I think.
Not at the moment, or if I do the account is so old I don’t remember it lol
I wound up putting another comment down below, I spoke to a friend of mine that also grew up there and whose parents still live there and have for quite a while, turns out it’s a running joke from the property owners, idl what type of tp they’re using or if there’s some other roll of paper that looks like tp they put on but you’re mostly correct, the original building burnt down a long time ago but the roll holder was left, so the property owners where putting on regular tp rolls as a joke, and have been doing it for about 30 years now, I assume they’re using some kind of rolled wax paper now considering the condition it looks to be in so it doesn’t degrade as fast but yeah, turned out to be just a running joke the owners do.