Stairs de Macklin

Macklin Street cellar inspired stairs.

Macklin Cellar Texture Adventures

Macklin Street…  Me and Jim descended into the murky depths of the cellar at the weekend and pretty much documented every square inch of the place. It’s awesome down there… It used to be crammed full of old stuff, and weird stuff, like a boat engine and propellors etc. It was good to see it completely empty and actually be able to get around it without getting trapped.

I forgot to charge my camera batteries so Jim let me use his Canon DSLR and took a few shots himself.

Anyway, here’s a few:

There’s three rooms which are pretty nasty and then there’s this… A pristine white meat fridge with hanging hooks and a 30cm thick wooden door and Jim inside… straight out of an eighties slash horror movie.

Me in the cellar, taken by Jim Cork on his Hipstamatic iPhone.

A Room Without a View

I’ve been searching for a many months now for ideas and imagery for the room where Horstmann resides, mostly images of prison cells and derelict buildings, but today I’ve stumbled across the perfect location. My good friend Garrick has recently moved into a new amazing place in Derby so today I went around for the royal tour, the tour ended with his favourite room… The cellar. As soon as I saw it I instantly thought of ‘A Siege of Colour’…