November 5, 2009 @ 11:02 pm
I’m very much liking these paintings of ordinary looking houses by Robyn Sweaney, who takes her artistic inspiration from her hometown of Mullumbimby.
If you are in NSW, Australia, Robyn’s work will be on display at the Iain Dawson gallery from November 10-21.
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.
June 11, 2009 @ 10:32 am
Photo by beatnikside on Flickr
The photo above is of a so-called stubborn nail-house in Edith Macefield, Seattle, one of several worldwide that Deputy Dog has compiled together in a mega-post about stubborn home owners who refuse to vacate their properties despite rising development around them.
What a wonderful picture!
May 7, 2009 @ 5:13 pm
Ever since I saw Amy Bennett’s work at Today and Tomorrow I’ve sorta fallen in love with her fictional neighborhoods. Amy creates miniature dioramas and then paints them to look like surreal and pristine neighborhoods filled with life. I think I like how all of her work is so clean and yet mysterious and haunting because of its perfection. I’m struggling with the idea of living in a place like this and being absolutely disgusted by it at the same time. It’s a weird feeling…
April 24, 2009 @ 11:46 pm
Well, it seems like there’s a small piece of Detroit within New York City limits.
Photographer Lynn Guarino has photographed the remaining bungalows in Far Rockaway which have been left abandoned and in a state of decay because of changing demographics in the area. The bungalows were reportedly built in the 1940’s to be the vacation houses of upper-class families, but when New York City started building low-income housing in the area, people split and never looked back. Now, many of these houses are left to rot with no prospective buyers lined up.
The photos are shown in an animated GIF (yeah, WTF seriously…), but you get a sense of what’s going on after several loops or so.
March 30, 2009 @ 3:49 pm
Kevin Bauman has a wonderful set of photos showing 100 abandoned houses in Detroit. [via]
Detroit has been the poster-city for rapid urban decay lately and every time I read a new story about its deteriorating state, I get the urge to book a plane ticket and see the city for myself. Kevin writes that there are about 12,000 abandoned homes in Detroit which leaves a lot to be photographed and exploreed. I think I’d be up for the challenge and adventure.
