When The Smell Hits The Fan

Wallpaper from kitchen and bathroom lit from behind 4x30 fairly new fluorescent lamps. Pictures are clickable to enlarge. I think a good enough software could give you the composition of the "wallpaper" by its absorbtion spectrum given the fact that we have in the pictures behind the wallpaper a known source of light and pictures are unprocessed. It's not really wallpaper but some fabric reinforced with animal glue. I bet the material in there is collagen and/or blood from slaughterhouses they used to make glue in the past from. When you have something like this in your bathroom and take a shower it's going to start stinking, and in years even enter the drywall made of sheet rock (gypsum, calcium sulphate which is porous). In my case it migrated from bathroom to bedroom through two layers of sheetrock. There's no insulation in the interior of this apartment.
Cause i got this stuff in the rented apartment both in the kitchen and bathroom. When  they dug the holes outside seen in the pictures below everything inside started to stink to the point it became unbearable then i started to look for the source. Although i spent the last three years cleaning the place in never realized what was going on. The smell was coming and going and sometimes was stronger and sometimes weaker. Somehow we got used to it.

But there's more. The drywall on one of the walls in the bathroom turned brown at places because of so much cigarette smoke coming from one of the apartments beneath inside the wall. That was somehow covering the smell. But that's how i realized the drywall is actually porous because i saw it was brown in all its half inch thickness. When the wall vibrating like from cars and planes it spreads the stuff even more and the smell becomes stronger.

I think whoever wanted to make a point had done it really well.

The stuff, like any toxin, it is probably addictive, hence the title.

1.WB=5500

2.WB, fluorescent
 


Here is a link to a jpeg full resolution together with ARW uncompressed file (Sony ARW). The preview showed by Google for the ARW file in the linked folder is Google's interpetation of that file. The ARW file can be accurately seen only with specialized software that has the Sony codec included. https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B-ShIhkErMIPUDMxcG9YeVc4U0k/edit?usp=sharing

And here is the missing link. Holes have been dug around buildings for some wiring work for lamps for more than a month now. It looks like they are trying to replace the wires or look for a shortcut. This particular hole has been dug for weeks. Strains of mold and bacteria that usually live deep under ground travels through the air, gets inside and attacks the wallpaper which seems to be made of fabric with some sort of organic, maybe animal (i heard in the past they used bovine skin, hoofs and blood from slaughterhouses to make glue) material and makes it stink really bad especially in the bathroom where there is humidity after showers. It was raining for days, i don't know what effect that had on those but i assume it's not like freshly dug anymore. But it's not the stable ecosystem usually encountered in this place at the surface of the ground either.

I'm already starting not to feel anymore the pain from formatting a whole partition that included pictures from the last three months. But i recovered some half of those using photorec and testdisk (with this occasion i discovered a good method of recovering a freshly formatted and deleted partition, you can use a Linux Live CD like the ones for installing Linux and an internet connection, after booting from the CD, you download testdisk then use the command photorec) and here are a three of those included here.

2/14/2012

2/24/2012

Friend With You or Fuck With You...

And another song that i couldn't ever figure the lyrics...