"we're off for a dark country ride."

yesterday i didn't go to class and started my fall break a day early. however, i did put a dent in my video installation project by spending the afternoon driving around brown summit and shooting with Lauren. The first location we found was an old abandoned farm house. We trecked through a severely overgrown lawn up to the porch, and on the first step i tried to take, my foot went through the the rotting planks. We made it inside to find old tattered couches, 1950s scales, torn up shag carpeting, probably one of the first treadmills ever made, and what appeared to be old magazine tear-outs of David Hasselhoff. After shooting in each of the rooms, we headed out to find the next spot. We drove aimlessly for quite sometime without much success, so we decided to stop and ask a woman closing up her garage if she could point us in the direction of some abandoned houses or tobacco barns. She told us to pull in to the next driveway over, and said she'd meet us over there to point out some places. We came to find out that they owned the surrounding fifty acres of land, which had been in their family for centuries. There was a caving in log cabin across the street that her husband told us was built in the 1700s. He explained that his father died under the tree in front of the cabin. She walked us over there and pointed out a house that no one lived in, except perhaps the ghost of her husbands grandmother that each of them reported to have seen. The yard was filled with old cars, two ambulances, random chairs and equipment, washing machines, and moldy lawn ornaments. Once we finished shooting, we headed back across the street to their house to thank them and get my car. She ended up taking us on a tour around her farm to show us her miniature donkey, Chester, three of her ten horses, the and the most adorable piglets i have ever seen in my life. They were both incredibly nice, and definitely made my day a lot more interesting than i would have ever expected. The whole situation was hilariously bizarre.
Here are a few shots from the day: