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Miniluv by `arctoa:iconarctoa:

Categories Photography > Architecture > Exterior

©2008-2009 `arctoa
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Updated 27/02/2008 @ 18:40


Location: Quayside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Date: 02/09/2005 @ 14:35
Light Conditions: Bright/Overcast

Camera: FujiFilm FinePix A405
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Focal Length: 6 mm
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Shutter Speed: 1/900 sec.
Aperture: F/7
ISO: ISO-160
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Post-work: Crop / Levels / monochrome / Colour Balance
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The Ministry of Love (or Miniluv in Newspeak) is one of the four ministries that govern Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The purpose of the Ministry of Love is to enforce loyalty and love of Big Brother through fear, torture, and brainwashing. The Ministry of Love building has no windows and is surrounded by barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, hidden machine gun nests and armed guards.

Another recycled piece that has been pulled from the shelf and dusted down. From now there'll be a selection of new and recent pieces, but for now here is the last of the re-releases. The following words were posted with the original version of this piece, and I re-post them unchanged from those sentences.

Welcome to the asylum. Sure, so I'm speaking of incerceration but this can be taken in a much wider focus; most people are slaves to something, trapped within confines; be they physical or emotional matters not, the results are the same.

This... this is just another foray into a dystopian future that's not so far from being conceivable.

This building is actually a modern art gallery these days, but its original function was as a flour mill, built way back when. It's located right next to the river Tyne, on the Gateshead (south) side.

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~Beowolfe03 Feb 27, 2008, 11:46:45 AM
That's quite frightening. It really does look like some kind of dystopian monolith. You have to wonder what people were thinking when they originally built that. It gives me the willies.

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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*MatchstickART Feb 27, 2008, 1:06:11 PM
I like this, it has a creepy, dark feel to it. Nicely done.
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`arctoa Feb 27, 2008, 2:13:01 PM
Yeah, before it was converted into the art gallery that it is now it was a fairly alarming building sat next to the river. Even now it's kind-of sinister in certain lights, as I think this image shows. It was what first popped into my head when I viewed it on my computer. I'm glad the effect comes across, anyway.
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`arctoa Feb 27, 2008, 2:13:34 PM
Thank-you for that, it's appreciated.
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`limnides Feb 27, 2008, 5:37:00 PM
I don't think you could have possibly picked a more fitting title for this piece. The looming angle and the crisp contrast really give it a very sterile, anti-utopian atmosphere.
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`arctoa Feb 27, 2008, 6:02:43 PM
I remember trying to think of a title for the original piece for some time before coming up with what I did, whereas it popped straight into my head this time around. The titles that appear straight away are usually the best ones, I think. It's good that you think it is appropriate. :B
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~NO46574 Feb 28, 2008, 3:49:56 AM
WOW!!!!excellent shot
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`arctoa Feb 28, 2008, 4:22:52 AM
Thank-you for that, I appreciate it.
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~Iinventedthenight Feb 28, 2008, 6:34:20 AM
I love the pic and the dark feel to it. great photo!
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`arctoa Feb 28, 2008, 6:41:16 AM
Thank-you for that, and for adding this to your Favourites collection: I appreciate it.
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