September 1, 2009 @ 10:53 am
AnimalNY linked to this fascinating project by street artist EVOL that depicts abandoned neighborhoods entirely out of building and window stencils on stone columns.
The location for this ‘city’ is a 10m X 8m hole in an abandoned warehouse floor; the concrete shapes are “probably the former foundation of a huge boiler plant to derive soap from rendered beef fat or other utilization of carcass. however, even 15 years after closing down, it still smells nauseous.
Check out more images of this awesome project at unurth!
June 17, 2009 @ 12:36 pm
I’ve always been a fan of Michael Wolf’s photographs of Hong Kong, but somehow I missed this series he did on corner houses in Hong Kong.
I remember when I was in Hong Kong last summer, I kept seeing these rounded corner buildings and I thought that they looked really weird but kinda neat. I guess there’s so many of them because the planning of the streets in Hong Kong aren’t necessarily hard corners like they are in Manhattan and some other more modern cities.
Anyway, it turns out that there’s quite a lot of these rounded corner houses/buildings and Michael Wolf has photographed a good number of them in his series. Check it out if you’ve got some time. I really should take this downtime in my career to plan a trip back to Hong Kong. I wasn’t there nearly as long as I wanted to be last summer.
April 15, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
Photo by John Nygard @ JPGmag
I’m kind of falling in love with the simple idea behind Skyscrapers, a Tumblr blog that posts nothing but images of tall buildings and skyscrapers. And to make it even better, it’s one of the few Tumblr blogs I’ve come across that actually credits the photographer behind each photo. Good on ‘em! If only every Tumblr could follow such an excellent example.
March 13, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
There’s been lots of news lately about the rapidly declining quality of life in Detroit, a once-booming industrial city that is now almost completely abandoned. I’ve already posted about an incident of a dead body left unattended for about a month in the middle of Detroit’s downtown area and a video that shows the quietness of Detroit, but this series of images by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre at Time magazine really show how terrible the city has decayed.
This is a bad thing for any city to experience, but a part of me really wants to visit Detroit to explore this place and all of its ruins.
