You know you're a true photographer when you make statements like: "I went back, excitedly, to shoot some crappy old carpet." By the way, the Japanese have a concept for what you're describing in these photos: Wabi Sabi. It means perfection in imperfection--a kind of melancholy, real-world, weathered, broken-and-repaired, dying, suffering...kind-of-thing.
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I was a young kid in the 1970’s. I hated this era so much, but now I’ve embraced it. I was a teenager in the 80’s a huge Duran Duran fan peppered with the rolled up pastel coloured shoulder padded jacket sleeves that was given to us by Miami Vice. Designer stubble too. I used to shoot with a Mamiya 645 and a Mamiya C330 twin lens reflex, you know, when photographers were brave maverick types who had to change 120 or 220 roll film mid flow at a wedding reception without interchangeable backs. Oh yes, we had balls of steel back then while the rest of the people shot with their crappy 110 cartridge cameras. Boy they were bad. I never sported a moustache though. I was too busy trying to pull on my skinny jeans like Ross from Friends. And yes, I did smack myself in the face a few times trying to pull them on.
Thanks Nick.I appreciate that! I’ve got to say your approach and your channel is quite unique and your dry sense of humour, ( yes, that’s how we spell it over here, like colour instead color) is so funny. In fact the best TH-cam video I’ve ever seen and which made me laugh so much was your trip to Paris. If any of your new subscribers haven’t seen it I suggest they watch it. I too have a love of great architecture, film and California in particular. The light there is sublime. So when I came across your channel a few years ago, it was photography Nirvana,for me. I love American buildings, particularly iconic gas stations of the past, anything that screams 1950’s America. I also love the look of the average American streets. Why, I don’t know, but I do. When I was in San Francisco I shot the Painted Ladies as you do, but then as everyone else was photographing them I was drawn to apartment blocks joined together, one side pastel blue and the other lemon in colour. The way the sun has side lit them just drew me in. I was the only one photographing them. I have that image framed in my bathroom. So, inspired by your passion of film photography, I have had my passion reignited for film. My latest purchase is an old rangefinder Canon Canonet, which I bought on my birthday the other week. It’s a nod to my late Grandad who gave me his Canonet, my very first camera when I was a young boy. Time to burn me some images on to film. Thanks for all the great videos you make. The fact we only get to see you once in a while means we all really look forward to having that little bell notification that Nick Carver is in town, so pull up a seat and enjoy the show. Less is more as the saying goes. Sorry for rambling on, but you really do have this TH-cam thing well and truly nailed.
There’s nothing like the smell of a public library that hasn’t changed the carpet or curtains since 95’. The look, the smells, the or the ambiance give you a funny feeling inside. Maybe nostalgia, or trauma from the late book fees - I don’t know but it takes you back to simpler times!
This reminded me of an engineering building at nuclear plant I visited a few years ago. One Friday in the late 80s, they sent everyone home and canceled construction of the plant. It looked like they had left the day before I arrived. Old half-read newpapers and magazines were at people's desks along with mugs that still contained coffee and daily calendars that hadn't been changed in 25 years. It truly looked like a zombie apocalypse or that I had stepped back in time. Sadly, I was unable to take pictures, but it was such an odd experience that I'll never forget it.
I love it! My era of corporate reality was 1983-1994 and these pictures really hit the nail on the head with me. "Dead Inside", reminded me of corporate headquarters in Livermore CA, now long gone.
So many of those shots are stunning, the staircase at 10.41 is compelling and a beautiful composition, film has done something digital couldn't with that, makes me feel weird but I keep looking at it, it's like deja vu, an emotional overload. And you and your friend nailed it Nick. I worked dressed in a suit in a place not unlike like that until 1999. Quit and got in to construction, outside a lot of the time and my soul has thanked me! Man your work's good.
Thank you for the kind words. And I agree that film capture vs digital here would be vastly different. Glad to hear you got out and are living a happier life, my friend!
It’s great to see you open up to something new! I think we all need to be constantly trying new techniques and styles in our photography. I love this new work, Nick. I’m so excited to see more of it!
I smashed the like-button so hard the moment you turned around! Edit: Now that I've also seen the pictures I wish there'd be a double like-button. A few years ago I probably wouldn't have cared for them, but today I think they are more interesting than most other photos I've seen in a long time. Your and your family/friends description of the feelings evoked is spot on I think.
I was born in 75 in ireland and this really gets me .Every thing seemed to have three dimensional geometric(al) shapes printed in primary colours back then.very Miami vice .We had nothing like this around here but it loooks so familiar to me . American culture just seeps in from movies music and tv I guess . If photography is there to stir emotions you have definitely done that here Nick great job man. This is definitely up there with your best work for me .
Liked all the pics...love the "suite" series; especially the vertical blinds and the carpeted/soft side partition walls. Reminds me SO much of the various offices I inhabited during that timeframe. Makes me think...Man, I'm glad I'm retired now!
I almost choked on my xray specs! That opening is hilarious and I love the fact you seem shy at admitting you like this incredible shots. If someone can't see how good these are they aren't worth listening too. Not many folk can muster up such tight comps and atmosphere from anything let alone an old 80's mall. In awe, just great.
that poolside site has waken something in me, something so radically hip-horrible yet unstoppably cool. Amazing photos as usual, just when it seems like it might be a rehash, you keep going and doing something different. Inspiring work!
Your videos only get better, your passion is contagious, and I fully understand you going back to shoot the carpet. Whenever I see one of this videos I want to grab my camera and shoot.
All my film shooting was done during the '80s because well, that's all there was. I actually shot Velvia 50 mostly because it was the '80s and it was just vibrant saturated goodness and I loved it. The nostalgia is strong with this one. Those were some excellent shots sir.
Very interesting video. I loved the late 80, the best time in my life. I was 35-40 young and really enjoyed life. It was also that time I got my first real Camera, a Hasselblad. Still have it today and using it.
Wow we are getting spoiled lately! What a break from the norm. I was born in 1981 so I know this architecture all too well. Reminds me of a private elementary school I attended in San Dimas in 1990 that I kid you not, looks JUST like this. I’m sure it’s still there. Pasadena city college also maintains a building from this era. Indeed you brought me back. I was NOT expecting this from you of all people. I loved it. Images looked great! Thanks for the journey and look forward to more!!!
Thanks for the kind words! And I guess it’s just because of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, but I feel like San Dimas is almost Miami-level in terms of perfect cities to match the era.
Don’t think I’ll ever open my mind far enough to consider the popular taste of this period anything but a ghastly nightmare BUT these pictures are great and just like any other period it’s always fascinating at a distance.
As an architect and architectural visualization guy, I really love those pictures. Calm, moody surreal and as you said it feels dead. Like a sadpocolype happened. 😅
Love the photos. Keep them coming. Because making them has meaning for you they have meaning for us. It is far harder to derive meaning from a Joshua Tree - unless you have as visceral a reaction to a tree as you do to the thought of wasting your whole life in an 1980s office!
It's kind of amazing that late 80's architecture has already become archeology matter! This building was a paradigm of what once was called "post-modern" architecture (not the most significant example of it, though) and 30+ years later only, this is considered kitsch as it could be, but a photographer comes to immortalize it, and that is a good thing, because it is very likely that next tenant will probably completely transform it or just level it to the ground and build something else on it. So your work - and I very much like that you're doing it on film - is more like archeology. A testament of what was once and soon be gone. Music of that time remains (you can use a short excerpt as long as you quote the copyright owners) but this office building will probably soon be gone and it will only live in the memory of the people that once worked there and... your pictures. Keep on doing that. It's important that someone does it.
1. I'd love to have a Mamiya 645.It was my dream machine back in the 70s and 80s. 2. That building is just cool as it is. Sometimes architects have final say about how a property can be changed and in that building, updating would take all the modernization out of it and it would be a sin. 3. I shot a bunch of lofts in the Deep Ellum District in Dallas last spring and I didn't want to stop. My point is interesting environments cause interesting photos. It's a chemical reaction and I can't help it. Thanks for sharing.
Did you just say "communal cornhole?" I'm crying. With your healthy sarcasm, I don't know if you mean the lawn game or the more saucy version a la Urban Dictionary. Great stuff yet again.
Would really love to see more in this theme. This is the kind of building/interior I always hope to find when exploring old and abandoned buildings. Man I want to document in the US one day as well. Would love to buy your book when it’s done so please keep us posted Nick!;)
I love the 80’s & 90’s and that building is deep fried gold. Great series and series title! Architectural photography is probably what I get most excited about these days, but it’s gotta be old buildings with character. Potted palm plants are one of my most favorite compositional elements. Great find!
Nick, thank you for this. The nostalgia, the theme, finding inspiration in this. I enjoyed the photos and video a great deal and I am looking forward to more.
I did watch this yesterday but I had to come back and view your images again. Being in a part of Florida during the period, it's all too familiar. You took some great images!
Great photos and idea - good to have an aesthetic and photos from "Late-Century" office space, for nostalgia or documentary purposes. Drab and dead inside, love it!
The era I started in photography at an advertising agency photo dept. We used the early Mamiya 645's, Nikon F (the battery pack for the motor drive you wore over your shoulder)and an old Calumet 5x4 camera. New subscriber, great videos.
Ready Player One was fantastic for those who lived through the 80s. Thank you for going out on a limb and sharing them. I actually like them quite a bit. I also think that as the 80s "get older" that these photos will only become more interesting. Thanks!
I know exactly what you mean as I’ve been doing a similar project! Also since building a darkroom again after years away from traditional printing it’s given me a real boost to get out there again! I had forgotten how good things look shot on film! Digital is wonderful but it’s never given me the same buzz as processing my own start to finish! I’m just about to load my RB67 with Portra and the other back with ilford FP4 ahhhh! Life is good, 😎😎👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🍻
I remember when they built that building. As a 3rd grader I use to ride my bike over there with my dad in the evenings to weave in and out of the pilons. Had just moved to CA from WI.
I love your videos! I just wanted to say that you inspired me to get my first print done! So I did it through the same place you do it through, and I got a 2x3 foot print hanging in my living room here in Chicago!
So cool hearing your thoughts on these photos and seeing how stoked you are with the results. Such a rad concept. Can’t wait to grab myself a copy when it’s all said and done! Keep it up, Nick! 😎
My first camera was the Yashica Twin-lens reflex and what a beauty it was. The excitement of watching my images appear in the developer-tray in the eerie red light...
I like it, some of the pictures are really nice. Been thinking of doing something similar for a while. The end of an era more than a decade, and that era seems more alive to me than the current one. Thumbs up as always.
Love this stuff to bits! I have a passion for aged works of human kind and the shelter from nature it represents, like a sun bleached railway sleeper giving a hint of long past oil stains or buildings like these. Seems to touch the soul of many people. Thank you, really great images, they touched my soul.
'Dead Inside' great title and for somebody like me who is a photographer and a natural outdoor person, but has had to get the corporate job to pay the bills, can totally understand where you're coming from!! Really love the abstract interior shots and that Fuji Pro 400 was the perfect choice of film. Looking forward to seeing more, and can definitely see this as a coffee table book.
Awesome Movember mustache, awesome 84 Reagan Bush hat, awesome MTV shirt, awesome place, super super awesome photos 💪 I will buy that piece of superior art once you finish your book. Really looking forward! And thanks for the poolside.fm tip, beautiful page!
Alright, these images really capture the time and the explanation is good. Please keep them coming. I enjoyed the outdoor images just as much as the carpet images. There is a risk of getting lost in the nostalgia trend that I feel is ongoing still but I trust in your unique style and skill to make this consistent enough to not just be a trend and to mean something beyond 'cool, pastel colors'. Excited to see more images like these.
@@nickcarverphoto Haha, it is. I worked at a company like that man. It even had almost the same name. No joke. We used to kick and beat the print machine. And the coffee machine. And my boss only cared about his forms, time punch cards and excel sheets. Total madness haha.
I like the photographs. Makes me think of Miami Vice. The mustache, Magnum P.I. The only good that came out of the 80s, for me, was my daughter. However, I do get your drift regarding inspiration. Dead Inside... I like that, it fits the space, and the corporate mantra from the era. It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. - Frank Zappa
I started photographing architecture in OC back in the late 60's. I photographed South Coast Plaza being built, the Fluor buildings, Fashion Island/Newport Center, The City shopping center in Orange and the Bank of America building. Before the B of A building was finished I shot the interior and photographed fireworks from the top floor. (The City ;was torn down and became The Block of Orange, and I lived right across the street), I photographed the Crystal Cathedral being built. The cross on top of the older building used to shine into my bedroom a couple blocks away. I shot UC Irvine being built. The buildings surrounding South Coast Plaza as they went up. Basically a whole lot of buildings. I originally wanted to be an architect then got bit by the photography bug while at OCC. And then i got bit by the computer bug so kept switching majors. Later I got into photographing older buildings like the original Lido Theater in Newport. Have you ever been inside the Santora Building in Santa Ana? Back in the 70's I wanted to go up and down every street in Huntington Beach within a mile of the ocean to document it before it changed into what it is now, a bunch of $1 million and up homes and expensive retail shops. I photographed Maxwell's and Golden Bear across the street, Sugar Shack (which is still there and still popular), a bunch of the little surf shops up and down PCH. The pier being torn down to build the new one.
As a born-and-raised OC resident, I love hearing this kind of thing. I’m sure I’ll be telling similar stories about all the buildings I’m shooting now. I’ve been in the Santora Building several times, mostly for the art walk down there. Santa Ana has some great old structures.
@@nickcarverphoto You'll most likely see the phase where the buildings from the original boom in the 60's and 70's are being renovated or torn down and that will be a worthy project to document. Four years ago I moved to St. George, UT, couldn't afford to live in OC anymore. Anyway there'a a woman photographer whose published a book of collected photos showing the beginnings and growth of the area, something similar to what I wanted to do with Huntington Beach back in my youth. wchsutah.org/documents/images-of-faith-book.php
@@nickcarverphoto The first time I visited St. George/Washington Utah 4 years ago I was reminded of OC back in the 60's during it's crazy growth phase. When my folks moved into a new home in Santa Ana in 1960 us kids could literally walk around the corner, about 3 houses away and be in orange groves. Harbor snaked through farmland from Fairview in Santa Ana to Newport Blvd in Costa Mesa. My dad worked at Ford Aerospace in Newport (that's where Ford Rd got it's name, that's where the facility and testing grounds were, now it's all expensive homes.)
@@nickcarverphoto Did you by any chance go to OCC? In the 70's they were considered one of the top Photo Depts west of the Mississippi. I've known several Brooks students who told me if they had to do it all over again they'd have gone to OCC and saved the money.
I keep pressing the like button every time I watch this video so that it stays at the top of my liked videos list and I never lose it (even though I know what to type to search for it)
I love these. Also I think as photographers, we have the responsibility to capture things (feelings, moments, people, buildings, etc.) before they are gone forever.
Must admit Nick when I saw the title of this vlog I wasn't sure it would be for me, but I absolutely loved it and the images were fantastic too! Keep up the great work.
I loved this video and your photos on Instagram. I photograph on film (mostly) the old and/or abandoned places around Tucson and Southern Arizona. I want to record them before they are gone.
Late to the game here...but LOVED the vid! I graduated HS in ‘85 and this was a blast from the past. Also...really dig the poolside.fm! Thanks for making me feel old!!!! LOL
This is my favorite video you’ve ever made and that’s saying a lot cause I’ve been loving and binging all your videos these past few months. Can’t wait to buy Dead Inside one day.
Makes me wish the old carpet was still around at the PDX airport. The white open truss construction against the turquoise geometric carpet would be perfect for this series.
This is oh so wrong but oh so right. I think it has to be called method photography like method acting. You totally committed to the role. If you’d taken anything other than 80’s cameras with you I would have been disappointed. And I understand the carpet. You are not alone.
Wow that is some good stuff. It's amazing how that era just stamps itself. I'm from the East Coast but a corporate building from 1987 would look exactly the same in New England as it does in California minus the palm trees. And shaving your beard is some serious dedication to fitting the theme!
me too, I would invest a few bucks in a "dead inside" book ... really liked the pastel colours , and redundant nature of the subjects in the shots ... the through the door shots, plants and the funture shots I am big sucker for ...
This is amazing! What a fantastic building! I could move in and live there. Not the office parts, though. "The deadness... of corporate life. How it eats away at your soul." Dead Inside. Perfect!
Great work! I rediscovered film photography earlier this year, and one of the first cameras I bought was the camera I dreamed of owning when I was 15 years old back in 1987. The Mamiya 645 Super with an AE-prism finder and an electric winder. I thought it looked so cool and modern in the ads in the photo magazines back then. I have a couple of lenses, but the 55mm f2.8 gets the most use. But I can't decide if I love or hate the sound of that power winder, though.
Haha! At 12:31 in a hallway outside my office (also an old building) we have the same motivational poster. Along with several that match it. Love the photos Nick, old carpet rules! Wait what? :-p
This Could only be an American Video, because here in the Good 'Ole UK I'd die to work in a building built as recently as 1987! My own current workplace where I minister to the sick and needy of this parish (I am a nurse) was probably built about 1900, has no double glazing, damp in all 4 walls, radon gas in the basement, peeling paint, carpet you can't tell what colour it is and a ridiculously small car park. Oh well, can't have it all. I'd love to wander happily through all those potted plants...
Love the outfit. Born 1980 and I always thought the 80’s were the last great era of civilisation filled with creativity and innocence! The world took a strange turn after that. Loved the photos, the outside ones especially actually as they really captured that time period.
The stache is back! There's so much I love about this that I don't know where to start. Excellent photos and I was LOVING the color pallet. Inspiring stuff. Also, kudos for keeping those glasses on the whole video. Love the commitment.
I was a pre teen kid in the 80's and by the 90's we just hated on the 80's all we could but, like you, I now really appreciate the 80's for all it's weirdness.
Fantastic. I was bit by the Stranger Things bug when I binge watched it during a vacation in February. I fell in love with Eleven and I fell even more deeply in love with the setting. It full on called back to my childhood and memories came flooding back... and feelings... and a longing for those simpler childhood years (granted, I wasn't fighting monsters from another dimension). The pics are great. I feel like you captured the whole decade just perfectly. Now, my friend... find yourself some thin, brass frames and put those babies on the wall ;-)
Nick Carver thanks for the reply! I’m extremely intrigued by your work. It’s so refreshing to enjoy content that isn’t focused on the latest and greatest. I’m sure many others feel the same. Any chance you’d ever make it down to Florida? We have palm trees here too!
I would defiantly buy a "Dead Inside" book.
Noted!
@@nickcarverphoto I second that with a "Dead inside" T-shirt in a Intel logo
I third that, seriously man!
I'm onboard too. So many memories... some of them good.
same. there's so many random bits of pictures he tells us about and i'm just like "dude..i'd buy that in book/zine form..."
“It’ll punch you right in the nostalgia bone” put that on a tshirt
You know you're a true photographer when you make statements like: "I went back, excitedly, to shoot some crappy old carpet."
By the way, the Japanese have a concept for what you're describing in these photos: Wabi Sabi. It means perfection in imperfection--a kind of melancholy, real-world, weathered, broken-and-repaired, dying, suffering...kind-of-thing.
I think another good description would be liminal spaces. A feeling of distant nostalgia, but also emptiness for some reason
To my eye, this is the best work you have shown on TH-cam.
Thank you sir.
I disagree. This is not Nick’s best work by a long shot. But it’s by far, the coolest!!
I agree with this.
I would love to see this project turn into a photo book
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I was a young kid in the 1970’s. I hated this era so much, but now I’ve embraced it. I was a teenager in the 80’s a huge Duran Duran fan peppered with the rolled up pastel coloured shoulder padded jacket sleeves that was given to us by Miami Vice. Designer stubble too. I used to shoot with a Mamiya 645 and a Mamiya C330 twin lens reflex, you know, when photographers were brave maverick types who had to change 120 or 220 roll film mid flow at a wedding reception without interchangeable backs. Oh yes, we had balls of steel back then while the rest of the people shot with their crappy 110 cartridge cameras. Boy they were bad. I never sported a moustache though. I was too busy trying to pull on my skinny jeans like Ross from Friends. And yes, I did smack myself in the face a few times trying to pull them on.
Ha! Man I loved every word of this comment. Thanks for watching.
Thanks Nick.I appreciate that! I’ve got to say your approach and your channel is quite unique and your dry sense of humour, ( yes, that’s how we spell it over here, like colour instead color) is so funny. In fact the best TH-cam video I’ve ever seen and which made me laugh so much was your trip to Paris. If any of your new subscribers haven’t seen it I suggest they watch it. I too have a love of great architecture, film and California in particular. The light there is sublime. So when I came across your channel a few years ago, it was photography Nirvana,for me. I love American buildings, particularly iconic gas stations of the past, anything that screams 1950’s America. I also love the look of the average American streets. Why, I don’t know, but I do. When I was in San Francisco I shot the Painted Ladies as you do, but then as everyone else was photographing them I was drawn to apartment blocks joined together, one side pastel blue and the other lemon in colour. The way the sun has side lit them just drew me in. I was the only one photographing them. I have that image framed in my bathroom. So, inspired by your passion of film photography, I have had my passion reignited for film. My latest purchase is an old rangefinder Canon Canonet, which I bought on my birthday the other week. It’s a nod to my late Grandad who gave me his Canonet, my very first camera when I was a young boy. Time to burn me some images on to film. Thanks for all the great videos you make. The fact we only get to see you once in a while means we all really look forward to having that little bell notification that Nick Carver is in town, so pull up a seat and enjoy the show. Less is more as the saying goes. Sorry for rambling on, but you really do have this TH-cam thing well and truly nailed.
"You mean on this particular day?" lol
There’s nothing like the smell of a public library that hasn’t changed the carpet or curtains since 95’. The look, the smells, the or the ambiance give you a funny feeling inside. Maybe nostalgia, or trauma from the late book fees - I don’t know but it takes you back to simpler times!
This reminded me of an engineering building at nuclear plant I visited a few years ago. One Friday in the late 80s, they sent everyone home and canceled construction of the plant. It looked like they had left the day before I arrived. Old half-read newpapers and magazines were at people's desks along with mugs that still contained coffee and daily calendars that hadn't been changed in 25 years. It truly looked like a zombie apocalypse or that I had stepped back in time. Sadly, I was unable to take pictures, but it was such an odd experience that I'll never forget it.
That mustache... We must protect it at all cost!!!
I love it! My era of corporate reality was 1983-1994 and these pictures really hit the nail on the head with me. "Dead Inside", reminded me of corporate headquarters in Livermore CA, now long gone.
You were right in the thick of this era. I bet you saw more than your share of shoulder pads.
So many of those shots are stunning, the staircase at 10.41 is compelling and a beautiful composition, film has done something digital couldn't with that, makes me feel weird but I keep looking at it, it's like deja vu, an emotional overload. And you and your friend nailed it Nick. I worked dressed in a suit in a place not unlike like that until 1999. Quit and got in to construction, outside a lot of the time and my soul has thanked me! Man your work's good.
Thank you for the kind words. And I agree that film capture vs digital here would be vastly different. Glad to hear you got out and are living a happier life, my friend!
It’s great to see you open up to something new! I think we all need to be constantly trying new techniques and styles in our photography. I love this new work, Nick. I’m so excited to see more of it!
Thank you very much!
I smashed the like-button so hard the moment you turned around!
Edit: Now that I've also seen the pictures I wish there'd be a double like-button. A few years ago I probably wouldn't have cared for them, but today I think they are more interesting than most other photos I've seen in a long time. Your and your family/friends description of the feelings evoked is spot on I think.
Haha! Thanks, man! I appreciate the sentiments regarding my photos...and my radical attire.
The cover of your book should have the words “Dead Inside” in the shape of the Intel Inside logo from the late 90s.
I was born in 75 in ireland and this really gets me .Every thing seemed to have three dimensional geometric(al) shapes printed in primary colours back then.very Miami vice .We had nothing like this around here but it loooks so familiar to me . American culture just seeps in from movies music and tv I guess . If photography is there to stir emotions you have definitely done that here Nick great job man. This is definitely up there with your best work for me .
Liked all the pics...love the "suite" series; especially the vertical blinds and the carpeted/soft side partition walls. Reminds me SO much of the various offices I inhabited during that timeframe. Makes me think...Man, I'm glad I'm retired now!
I almost choked on my xray specs! That opening is hilarious and I love the fact you seem shy at admitting you like this incredible shots. If someone can't see how good these are they aren't worth listening too. Not many folk can muster up such tight comps and atmosphere from anything let alone an old 80's mall. In awe, just great.
Thank you very much, my friend!
You've done lots of amazing photography on this youtube channel, but this is my favorite. The detail shots of the interior are awesome.
Thank you, my friend.
I love it when Nick gets obsessed with something. He goes all out!
Great one, Nick!
that poolside site has waken something in me, something so radically hip-horrible yet unstoppably cool. Amazing photos as usual, just when it seems like it might be a rehash, you keep going and doing something different. Inspiring work!
Your videos only get better, your passion is contagious, and I fully understand you going back to shoot the carpet. Whenever I see one of this videos I want to grab my camera and shoot.
All my film shooting was done during the '80s because well, that's all there was. I actually shot Velvia 50 mostly because it was the '80s and it was just vibrant saturated goodness and I loved it. The nostalgia is strong with this one. Those were some excellent shots sir.
Very interesting video. I loved the late 80, the best time in my life. I was 35-40 young and really enjoyed life. It was also that time I got my first real Camera, a Hasselblad. Still have it today and using it.
Wow we are getting spoiled lately! What a break from the norm. I was born in 1981 so I know this architecture all too well. Reminds me of a private elementary school I attended in San Dimas in 1990 that I kid you not, looks JUST like this. I’m sure it’s still there.
Pasadena city college also maintains a building from this era.
Indeed you brought me back. I was NOT expecting this from you of all people. I loved it. Images looked great! Thanks for the journey and look forward to more!!!
Thanks for the kind words! And I guess it’s just because of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, but I feel like San Dimas is almost Miami-level in terms of perfect cities to match the era.
Nick Carver yep!!! Every time I mention I grew up in San Dimas, I always get a Bill & Ted reference! 😂
Don’t think I’ll ever open my mind far enough to consider the popular taste of this period anything but a ghastly nightmare BUT these pictures are great and just like any other period it’s always fascinating at a distance.
As an architect and architectural visualization guy, I really love those pictures. Calm, moody surreal and as you said it feels dead. Like a sadpocolype happened. 😅
Haha - sadpocalypse. New addition to my vocabulary.
Love the photos. Keep them coming. Because making them has meaning for you they have meaning for us. It is far harder to derive meaning from a Joshua Tree - unless you have as visceral a reaction to a tree as you do to the thought of wasting your whole life in an 1980s office!
It's kind of amazing that late 80's architecture has already become archeology matter! This building was a paradigm of what once was called "post-modern" architecture (not the most significant example of it, though) and 30+ years later only, this is considered kitsch as it could be, but a photographer comes to immortalize it, and that is a good thing, because it is very likely that next tenant will probably completely transform it or just level it to the ground and build something else on it. So your work - and I very much like that you're doing it on film - is more like archeology. A testament of what was once and soon be gone. Music of that time remains (you can use a short excerpt as long as you quote the copyright owners) but this office building will probably soon be gone and it will only live in the memory of the people that once worked there and... your pictures. Keep on doing that. It's important that someone does it.
1. I'd love to have a Mamiya 645.It was my dream machine back in the 70s and 80s. 2. That building is just cool as it is. Sometimes architects have final say about how a property can be changed and in that building, updating would take all the modernization out of it and it would be a sin. 3. I shot a bunch of lofts in the Deep Ellum District in Dallas last spring and I didn't want to stop. My point is interesting environments cause interesting photos. It's a chemical reaction and I can't help it. Thanks for sharing.
Did you just say "communal cornhole?" I'm crying. With your healthy sarcasm, I don't know if you mean the lawn game or the more saucy version a la Urban Dictionary. Great stuff yet again.
Like I said, that place is HIP. 😂
Omg a Nick Carver video!! 😍😍😍
Would really love to see more in this theme. This is the kind of building/interior I always hope to find when exploring old and abandoned buildings. Man I want to document in the US one day as well. Would love to buy your book when it’s done so please keep us posted Nick!;)
I would love prints of some these photographs! They're absolutely wonderful. You should definitely make a book themed around old corporate vibes.
Good to know! I really hope I can build a big enough portfolio of this kind of work to make a book on it.
I love the 80’s & 90’s and that building is deep fried gold. Great series and series title! Architectural photography is probably what I get most excited about these days, but it’s gotta be old buildings with character. Potted palm plants are one of my most favorite compositional elements. Great find!
Ahhhhhhhh Highschool years!!!, Glad to see you're back.
Nick, thank you for this. The nostalgia, the theme, finding inspiration in this. I enjoyed the photos and video a great deal and I am looking forward to more.
Thank you, James!
Left photo at 10:59... incredible! The geometry and shadows draw me right in. Next level stuff!
I did watch this yesterday but I had to come back and view your images again. Being in a part of Florida during the period, it's all too familiar. You took some great images!
Oh yeah Florida during that time period especially.
Great photos and idea - good to have an aesthetic and photos from "Late-Century" office space, for nostalgia or documentary purposes. Drab and dead inside, love it!
The era I started in photography at an advertising agency photo dept. We used the early Mamiya 645's, Nikon F (the battery pack for the motor drive you wore over your shoulder)and an old Calumet 5x4 camera. New subscriber, great videos.
Building & interior have that 80's Miami Vice vibe.
Ready Player One was fantastic for those who lived through the 80s. Thank you for going out on a limb and sharing them. I actually like them quite a bit. I also think that as the 80s "get older" that these photos will only become more interesting. Thanks!
I agree that they will get better with time. Like seeing photos from the 20’s now.
I know exactly what you mean as I’ve been doing a similar project! Also since building a darkroom again after years away from traditional printing it’s given me a real boost to get out there again! I had forgotten how good things look shot on film! Digital is wonderful but it’s never given me the same buzz as processing my own start to finish! I’m just about to load my RB67 with Portra and the other back with ilford FP4 ahhhh! Life is good, 😎😎👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🍻
I remember when they built that building. As a 3rd grader I use to ride my bike over there with my dad in the evenings to weave in and out of the pilons. Had just moved to CA from WI.
A few less houses and a lot less traffic back then.
Love the images Nick, the geometry and colour is truly fabulous.
Bro can you please make more videos? These film boyz of TH-cam are killing me!
Haha. Thanks man. Definitely got more coming.
Always innovating Nick keep the creativity flowing. Being from that era I love the theme and the pictures
Great video! There are some unbelievable 50's and 60's era Miami buildings that have this "La Cubana" aura about them. Similar concept, different era.
Oh yeah I love that aesthetic too.
I love your videos!
I just wanted to say that you inspired me to get my first print done! So I did it through the same place you do it through, and I got a 2x3 foot print hanging in my living room here in Chicago!
So cool hearing your thoughts on these photos and seeing how stoked you are with the results. Such a rad concept. Can’t wait to grab myself a copy when it’s all said and done! Keep it up, Nick! 😎
My first camera was the Yashica Twin-lens reflex and what a beauty it was. The excitement of watching my images appear in the developer-tray in the eerie red light...
I like it, some of the pictures are really nice. Been thinking of doing something similar for a while. The end of an era more than a decade, and that era seems more alive to me than the current one. Thumbs up as always.
Love this stuff to bits! I have a passion for aged works of human kind and the shelter from nature it represents, like a sun bleached railway sleeper giving a hint of long past oil stains or buildings like these. Seems to touch the soul of many people. Thank you, really great images, they touched my soul.
1987 was the best year I wasn't alive for. Nick you're the man.
'Dead Inside' great title and for somebody like me who is a photographer and a natural outdoor person, but has had to get the corporate job to pay the bills, can totally understand where you're coming from!!
Really love the abstract interior shots and that Fuji Pro 400 was the perfect choice of film.
Looking forward to seeing more, and can definitely see this as a coffee table book.
You're the best Nick. These are sooooo good to watch
Thank you!
Awesome Movember mustache, awesome 84 Reagan Bush hat, awesome MTV shirt, awesome place, super super awesome photos 💪 I will buy that piece of superior art once you finish your book. Really looking forward! And thanks for the poolside.fm tip, beautiful page!
Alright, these images really capture the time and the explanation is good. Please keep them coming. I enjoyed the outdoor images just as much as the carpet images. There is a risk of getting lost in the nostalgia trend that I feel is ongoing still but I trust in your unique style and skill to make this consistent enough to not just be a trend and to mean something beyond 'cool, pastel colors'. Excited to see more images like these.
Awesome video and images Nick, love it! Thanks. Nice reference to Office Space btw, with the TPS-reports 👍😊
Such a great movie
@@nickcarverphoto Haha, it is. I worked at a company like that man. It even had almost the same name. No joke. We used to kick and beat the print machine. And the coffee machine. And my boss only cared about his forms, time punch cards and excel sheets. Total madness haha.
I like the photographs.
Makes me think of Miami Vice. The mustache, Magnum P.I.
The only good that came out of the 80s, for me, was my daughter.
However, I do get your drift regarding inspiration.
Dead Inside... I like that, it fits the space, and the corporate mantra from the era.
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. - Frank Zappa
I remember the 80s well and you have captured it in these building photos. Nicely done!!
Thank you!
This was a great location and I love the work you got from it! Even the outdoor ones you weren’t as jazzed about.
Thank you!
10:55 a favorite image! I'm quite surprised. I wasn't expecting to like these shots but wow. I actually like quite a bit of them.
Kudos to you for keeping those glasses on the whole time. Love these photos!
I started photographing architecture in OC back in the late 60's. I photographed South Coast Plaza being built, the Fluor buildings, Fashion Island/Newport Center, The City shopping center in Orange and the Bank of America building. Before the B of A building was finished I shot the interior and photographed fireworks from the top floor. (The City ;was torn down and became The Block of Orange, and I lived right across the street), I photographed the Crystal Cathedral being built. The cross on top of the older building used to shine into my bedroom a couple blocks away. I shot UC Irvine being built. The buildings surrounding South Coast Plaza as they went up. Basically a whole lot of buildings. I originally wanted to be an architect then got bit by the photography bug while at OCC. And then i got bit by the computer bug so kept switching majors.
Later I got into photographing older buildings like the original Lido Theater in Newport. Have you ever been inside the Santora Building in Santa Ana?
Back in the 70's I wanted to go up and down every street in Huntington Beach within a mile of the ocean to document it before it changed into what it is now, a bunch of $1 million and up homes and expensive retail shops. I photographed Maxwell's and Golden Bear across the street, Sugar Shack (which is still there and still popular), a bunch of the little surf shops up and down PCH. The pier being torn down to build the new one.
As a born-and-raised OC resident, I love hearing this kind of thing. I’m sure I’ll be telling similar stories about all the buildings I’m shooting now.
I’ve been in the Santora Building several times, mostly for the art walk down there. Santa Ana has some great old structures.
@@nickcarverphoto You'll most likely see the phase where the buildings from the original boom in the 60's and 70's are being renovated or torn down and that will be a worthy project to document.
Four years ago I moved to St. George, UT, couldn't afford to live in OC anymore. Anyway there'a a woman photographer whose published a book of collected photos showing the beginnings and growth of the area, something similar to what I wanted to do with Huntington Beach back in my youth. wchsutah.org/documents/images-of-faith-book.php
@@nickcarverphoto The first time I visited St. George/Washington Utah 4 years ago I was reminded of OC back in the 60's during it's crazy growth phase. When my folks moved into a new home in Santa Ana in 1960 us kids could literally walk around the corner, about 3 houses away and be in orange groves. Harbor snaked through farmland from Fairview in Santa Ana to Newport Blvd in Costa Mesa. My dad worked at Ford Aerospace in Newport (that's where Ford Rd got it's name, that's where the facility and testing grounds were, now it's all expensive homes.)
@@nickcarverphoto Did you by any chance go to OCC? In the 70's they were considered one of the top Photo Depts west of the Mississippi. I've known several Brooks students who told me if they had to do it all over again they'd have gone to OCC and saved the money.
I keep pressing the like button every time I watch this video so that it stays at the top of my liked videos list and I never lose it (even though I know what to type to search for it)
I love these.
Also I think as photographers, we have the responsibility to capture things (feelings, moments, people, buildings, etc.) before they are gone forever.
Thank you! And I couldn’t agree more.
Must admit Nick when I saw the title of this vlog I wasn't sure it would be for me, but I absolutely loved it and the images were fantastic too! Keep up the great work.
That’s the best compliment I can get. Thank you!
I loved this video and your photos on Instagram. I photograph on film (mostly) the old and/or abandoned places around Tucson and Southern Arizona. I want to record them before they are gone.
Late to the game here...but LOVED the vid! I graduated HS in ‘85 and this was a blast from the past. Also...really dig the poolside.fm! Thanks for making me feel old!!!! LOL
Thanks for watching! And I hear that...we're all starting to feel old.
This is my favorite video you’ve ever made and that’s saying a lot cause I’ve been loving and binging all your videos these past few months. Can’t wait to buy Dead Inside one day.
Makes me wish the old carpet was still around at the PDX airport. The white open truss construction against the turquoise geometric carpet would be perfect for this series.
Awesome pics, they brought back memories of when I worked in buildings from that era.
Thank you!
Classic! Gotta say I wasn't sure where this was going but I get it now! looking forward to more......but I still don't know why!!
This is oh so wrong but oh so right. I think it has to be called method photography like method acting. You totally committed to the role. If you’d taken anything other than 80’s cameras with you I would have been disappointed. And I understand the carpet. You are not alone.
Method photography - that’s good. Like Daniel Day Lewis, but taking photos. Haha
How has this project been affected by Fuji Pro 400h being discontinued?
I love it Nick! I started high school in 1989 so it hit me right in the NB for sure.
Oh man you were in the thick of it.
Wow that is some good stuff. It's amazing how that era just stamps itself. I'm from the East Coast but a corporate building from 1987 would look exactly the same in New England as it does in California minus the palm trees.
And shaving your beard is some serious dedication to fitting the theme!
me too, I would invest a few bucks in a "dead inside" book ... really liked the pastel colours , and redundant nature of the subjects in the shots ... the through the door shots, plants and the funture shots I am big sucker for ...
Cracking vid 👍being a gentleman of 49 I sure dig the photos. Always top notch work Mr carver
Thank you sir!
This is amazing! What a fantastic building! I could move in and live there. Not the office parts, though. "The deadness... of corporate life. How it eats away at your soul." Dead Inside. Perfect!
Awesome video! Love the building and the photos of it! :)
paused and rewound many of the photos. very nice, gonna open my eyes a little wider in the future
Great work! I rediscovered film photography earlier this year, and one of the first cameras I bought was the camera I dreamed of owning when I was 15 years old back in 1987. The Mamiya 645 Super with an AE-prism finder and an electric winder. I thought it looked so cool and modern in the ads in the photo magazines back then. I have a couple of lenses, but the 55mm f2.8 gets the most use. But I can't decide if I love or hate the sound of that power winder, though.
Another interesting watch Nick. Nice idea for the shoot and definitely inspiring images.
Nice stuff man. Good to see someone passionate about what they're doing. You should make a photo book
Thank you for the kind words and the encouragement. I really hope I can make the book happen someday.
Haha! At 12:31 in a hallway outside my office (also an old building) we have the same motivational poster. Along with several that match it. Love the photos Nick, old carpet rules! Wait what? :-p
This Could only be an American Video, because here in the Good 'Ole UK I'd die to work in a building built as recently as 1987! My own current workplace where I minister to the sick and needy of this parish (I am a nurse) was probably built about 1900, has no double glazing, damp in all 4 walls, radon gas in the basement, peeling paint, carpet you can't tell what colour it is and a ridiculously small car park. Oh well, can't have it all. I'd love to wander happily through all those potted plants...
Yeah that’s a good point. Most of your buildings are older than the United States. 1987 seems old by our standards.
Love the outfit. Born 1980 and I always thought the 80’s were the last great era of civilisation filled with creativity and innocence! The world took a strange turn after that. Loved the photos, the outside ones especially actually as they really captured that time period.
I feel the same way. I assumed that was just my nostalgia showing, but the last era before the internet seems especially unique.
Amazingly told. I love these photographs too. Excited for more series’s like this!
The stache is back! There's so much I love about this that I don't know where to start. Excellent photos and I was LOVING the color pallet. Inspiring stuff. Also, kudos for keeping those glasses on the whole video. Love the commitment.
@16:01 the Pic in right is definitely the 'Yeah, I would buy that print' kinda good.
As someone who was born the year that this office was built, nostalgia hit me *hard* at 12:27 and 12:51
I was a pre teen kid in the 80's and by the 90's we just hated on the 80's all we could but, like you, I now really appreciate the 80's for all it's weirdness.
Been rewatching alot of your videos and it would be super cool to see the progress of the ”dead inside”-project!!!
Wow that’s really good. Thanks for sharing. Great name for the book!
Fantastic. I was bit by the Stranger Things bug when I binge watched it during a vacation in February. I fell in love with Eleven and I fell even more deeply in love with the setting. It full on called back to my childhood and memories came flooding back... and feelings... and a longing for those simpler childhood years (granted, I wasn't fighting monsters from another dimension). The pics are great. I feel like you captured the whole decade just perfectly. Now, my friend... find yourself some thin, brass frames and put those babies on the wall ;-)
Amen to that. I got addicted to stranger things. Wish I could teleport into it. Haha
Loved this. Even though I was born in 95’, everything about those pictures was relatable. Thank you so much for sharing!🙏🏼
Now that’s really good to hear. I love when images can appeal to more than just the obvious audience.
Nick Carver thanks for the reply! I’m extremely intrigued by your work. It’s so refreshing to enjoy content that isn’t focused on the latest and greatest. I’m sure many others feel the same. Any chance you’d ever make it down to Florida? We have palm trees here too!