Kevin Cyr’s paintings of urban vehicles are simply amazing.
These certainly make my photographs of the very same subjects less exciting to look at now. I would love to order a large print of one of these! Thanks CP!
Exploring the ruins of New York
August 6, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
Palladium Boots has unveiled a short video about exploring the urban ruins of New York City (and the surrounding boroughs). In the video, they hit up big spots like the Freedom Tunnel, the Glenwood Power Plant, and the Red Hook Grain Terminal. I’ve been to all 3 and I’ve shown photos here of the places before, but if you want a better view of them without actually having to go there, then you’ll want to watch the video because it’s sorta interesting.
Detroit Wildlife
January 30, 2009 @ 12:10 am
Detroit Wildlife from florent tillon on Vimeo.
Gordon said I should watch this video called Detroit Wildlife of one person’s depiction of Detroit City as a wonderful transforming landscape rather than a decaying former metropolis. The video is a teaser for what looks to be a larger production and it certainly makes me want to find out more about Detroit (or even visit the city if I can in the future).
In Detroit Wildlife, the city is seen as an empty and haunting place filled with feral animals, homeless people, and abandoned buildings everywhere you look. It really reminded me of the movie I Am Legend where New York City starts being taken over by shrubbery and nature as human existence is gone. In a sense, the current state of Detroit is an urban explorers dream and part of the reason why I now want to visit the place before it falls any further into deprecation.
As I watched this documentary, I began to realize how something so tragic as the dead man frozen in ice could have happened in a place like Detroit. It doesn’t justify the act of leaving a body there for a month, but it does shine some light on the potential causes of why something like this would happen in Detroit.
Dead body found frozen in ice at abandoned Detroit warehouse
January 29, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
Photo: Max Ortiz / The Detroit News
The Detroit News has a very sad and disturbing story of urban decay and indifference that will shock you. The image above is actually of a dead body frozen and forgotten in a block of ice inside the well of a cargo elevator at the Roosevelt Warehouse. [via]
The Roosevelt Warehouse is a former Detroit Public School book repository that’s been controversial in the past for literally letting many books and supplies rot and waste away while many of Detroit’s school children had no money for supplies.
The image above is an all-encompassing look at just how terrible conditions have gotten in Detroit where even a human body will be left unreported and unattended to for about a month! From the article, it seems as if there’s a general lack of care for the city and its citizens and this formula of indifference certainly spells disaster for what used to be one of the major metropolitan cities in America.
But seriously, it is that one picture above that would move me to action. How can a city and its people get to such a point that even a fellow man is considered indistinguishable from the rubbish around him?
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