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A homeless persons bedroom, found under a bridge near downtown Akron. They have done their best to make this a comfortable place to spend their nights.

For :icongimmefeedback:

I was wondering if this shot captured the saddness, and the need for us all to have a place to call home?

see this same place in winter
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=Bozack Aug 1, 2011
Wow, that's really sad - you captured it great! I especially think the leafed branch left there, perhaps to make it more homely, is a little sad - when one has to do stuff like that to get ones sleeping place a little more homely, it's just sad.

This was for #GimmeFeedback :)
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*coffeenoir Aug 2, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
It was very sad, yet somehow it showed the human spirit has this need to survuve and to make a space for it's own. We personalize our environment.
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~RadVisual Mar 7, 2011
hehe nice place reminds me jesus of suburbia music video (i dont know why ;P )
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*coffeenoir Mar 9, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Interesting, it has been a while since I saw that video, I will have to look it up! Thanks fhough, I am taking that as a comliment! :D
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*xlntwtch Feb 19, 2011   Writer
:icongimmefeedback:

A photo like this one tells quite a long story in just one shot.
I know writers would call a story written about it a "one shot."
You captured the colors of the graffiti-type 'stake-out' name on the wall above the old couch, a quasi bed (a fold-out couch) perfectly. The blues, whites and reds go very well together, and the general decay of the location is even more poignant with that dead branch over the bed.
Perhaps the branch was once used as shade for a resting homeless person in that area. I'm so taken with this photo (even the floral patterns on the cast away couch) I think about it a lot, and consider writing a short piece about "Phreke," a person who uses good art to make a claim on a 'room with a view' to live in.

Then of course there's the second, winter photo of the same area, with everything burned away. It's poignancy reaches like an arrow in the heart then, to see that. Who burned it? Why? Another amazing photo by *coffeenoir ... :+fav: Thank you.
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*coffeenoir Feb 19, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you so much for the comments. I find I often think of this location, and wonder what or who resided here. Not lomg ago there was an article in the Akron paper about the number of homeless and "couch surfers". I guess that among the known homeless here are a former physician and banker among others.

I would feel it to be an honor if you were to use this setting to write a story.

I appreciate your support and kind words. :hug:
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*xlntwtch Feb 19, 2011   Writer
If I don't "Phreke" out about health problems, I probably will.
I'm definitely interested.
I appreciate your photography.
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*coffeenoir Feb 19, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
When I have a chance to sit in front of the computer without being so tired I plan on reading your two newest pieces. I also have some from another deviant to read that I have been saving forever. :noes:
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*xlntwtch Feb 19, 2011   Writer
:sleep:
Take your time.
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*coffeenoir Feb 21, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
I am planning to get to them either today or tomorrow. Meghan has no class today so we may have a movie day!
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