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Posted on 12/01/18 09:27:04 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
I had occasion to stay once again in the hotel with the curious dumb waiter (as seen in the Challenge now lost in the two-year chasm of forgetfulness) and was once again intrigued by its quirkiness. This time, I was fascinated by the placement of this chair in the hallway. Now as everyone knows, nobody every sits in the chairs in hotel hallways. Nonetheless, the position of this one beneath that water tap seemed particularly bizarre. Unless there's a purpose for it after all? High res is High res is here.  |
Posted on 12/01/18 10:15:15 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
I don't want to be unkind Steve but, as someone who has spent half his working life living in hotels, this one looks seriously frayed and shabby. Reminds me of the old British railway hotels of my youth. The one's that had communal bathrooms and toilets down the corridor. ........ and you went back there .....? _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 12/01/18 11:52:58 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
It's a charming hotel, but with more than a touch of Fawlty Towers to it. It was built in the 12th century and remodelled in the 17th, and could probably do with another bout of modernisation. |
Posted on 12/01/18 12:00:08 PM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
For anyone who is old enough to remember, here is the other dumb waiter challenge  |
Posted on 12/01/18 12:10:47 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
Along with some new chair covers ................ _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 12/01/18 12:12:44 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
Which gives me a suitably bizarre and Belgian idea ........  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 12/01/18 4:29:37 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
In keeping with Steve's suggestion the hotel has had some modernisation and the dumbwaiter is now hydraulic!  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 12/01/18 9:29:51 PM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 920 Reply |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
Very nice David. Those chairs are definitely rigged. In a time when natural resources are dwindling, heating of apartment blocks is becoming more and more expensive. Don't waste methane gas. Sign above fire extinguisher reads...."In case of back flash, use fire extinguisher." Small print reads...."In case extinguisher is empty, use coffin."   _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 13/01/18 04:52:59 AM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
Those chairs are truly and utterly shabby. I say people - many, many people over many, many years - have been sitting in those chairs. The one on the other side of the cabinet looks as if it's been sat in since 1968. The one closest to us looks like a cat has been at the arm rests. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 13/01/18 04:58:54 AM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
And, I wager, a visit from an exterminator. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 13/01/18 5:15:59 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
The cabinet is leaking again ...  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 13/01/18 7:14:30 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3229 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
I may have stayed in that hotel... on a different floor perhaps.  |
Posted on 13/01/18 8:59:00 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1864 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
Michael Sinclair would like it to be known that he will not make any comment on the "ambiance" of this quaint hotel, but would like to agree with Trump on his most recent outrageous comment concerning the hotel. 
UPDATED from a 15 framer to a 30 framer for smoother continuity NOTE: same JCB from an earlier entry some months ago, but different rubbish dump and road 
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Posted on 13/01/18 10:06:51 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4002 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
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Posted on 14/01/18 04:26:32 AM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3062 Reply |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
Nicely renovated Gordon. |
Posted on 14/01/18 1:22:45 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
Thank you Michael. As soon as I saw the hallway I made a call to the local emergency decorator. He interrupted his tea break to get it fixed. _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 14/01/18 1:51:49 PM |
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Mariner
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Posted on 16/01/18 10:20:31 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
http://vimeo.com/251281301 Leaking cabinet!! That's hilarious Jo!!  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 16/01/18 10:27:06 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
David, thats brilliant how you have incorporated the two images! Well done _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 16/01/18 10:34:30 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 688: The hotel hallway
Well thank you. Love your small touches. The spinning beach ball and the spreading puddle. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
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