Urban Decay - Page 9

Ymir's blood · #**201** 09-07-2012, 01:11 PM

The doll shot brought a tad of cynicism in me.

Empathy Doll Shot - Television Tropes & Idioms

Dorothy A. Dix hospital won't be too far from where we're staying, but it's AFAIK still open and has been revamped considerably.

curses · #**202** 10-02-2012, 04:27 PM

The Daily Mail had some nice images of Detroit decay today. The disused factories are my favorites.

Detroit's amazing transformation captured on camera after it loses ONE MILLION residents in 60 years | Mail Online

Janet · #**203** 10-03-2012, 12:25 AM

Speaking of Detroit decay, they have started lighting the Central Terminal. Apparently it's decrepitude has become famous enough that they are working on restoring it.

ETA: Wow, it took Tea and Kittens so long to block that site that I was beginning to think I missed this terminal when I installed it.

erimir · #**204** 10-03-2012, 03:26 AM

Tea and Kittens?

MonCapitan2002 · #**205** 10-03-2012, 08:54 AM

I think what has happened to Detroit is a national tragedy. It has less than half of its peak population in the 1950's. The fact that a third of the city lies unoccupied is horrifying in its own way.

Ymir's blood · #**206** 10-03-2012, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by curses

The Daily Mail had some nice images of Detroit decay today. The disused factories are my favorites.

Detroit's amazing transformation captured on camera after it loses ONE MILLION residents in 60 years | Mail Online

I love the shot of the melty clock.

Janet · #**207** 10-03-2012, 04:37 PM

Tea and Kittens is an add-on for Firefox that replaces links to the Daily Fail with pictures of tea and kittens. It's a lovely thing.

curses · #**208** 05-24-2013, 04:21 AM

I'm bumping this thread with a couple of links. One isn't urban decay, per se, but it's just awesome and you should look at it. Warning-two photos containing dead bodies. Ymir has already clicked the link.

Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City | Mail Online

And this one because the houses are very well preserved.

Photographer Niki Feijen's eerie images of the abandoned farm houses | Mail Online

Edit: Oh dear god what's become of me? They're both from Daily Mail.

erimir · #**209** 05-24-2013, 04:47 AM

curses · #**210** 05-24-2013, 04:50 AM

Love the framing in this. Just a beautiful shot.

livius drusus · #**211** 05-24-2013, 05:03 AM

CURSES!

curses · #**212** 05-24-2013, 06:06 AM

Aww dammit. Scooped by the masked history blogger again!

Ymir's blood · #**213** 05-24-2013, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by curses

Ymir has already clicked the link.

I've already seen the photos twice.

Anastasia Beaverhausen · #**214** 06-10-2013, 11:36 AM

Bennett School for Girls - Abandoned Photography at Opacity

MonCapitan2002 · #**215** 06-11-2013, 01:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by curses

I'm bumping this thread with a couple of links. One isn't urban decay, per se, but it's just awesome and you should look at it. Warning-two photos containing dead bodies. Ymir has already clicked the link.

Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City | Mail Online

And this one because the houses are very well preserved.

Photographer Niki Feijen's eerie images of the abandoned farm houses | Mail Online

Edit: Oh dear god what's become of me? They're both from Daily Mail.

If I could thank you twice for that first link I would. Those photographs are awesome. The photograph Erimir posted is particularly impressive. There's a stark beauty to that shot that I really like.

wei yau · #**216** 06-11-2013, 05:20 PM

Thanks for the thrad bump, I was thinking about this thrad not too long ago.

These aren't urban, but are fascinating nonetheless.

The hulking grandeur of abandoned submarines

I love how they resemble the skeletons of some mythically large sea monster.

curses · #**217** 06-11-2013, 05:50 PM

Those are cool, wei! Where are they?

wei yau · #**218** 06-11-2013, 05:56 PM

They are here: The remains of two XT-Craft midget submarines, Aberlady Bay, Scotland, UK

curses · #**219** 06-11-2013, 06:02 PM

Oops, totes missed that link in your post!

That Puget Sound pic reminds me of one of my favorite places to investigate on Google Earth-the boneyard in Arizona, where military aircraft go to die.

AMARC the biggest plane graveyard, Tucson, Arizona, USA

livius drusus · #**220** 06-11-2013, 09:37 PM

It looks like a tribal print.

ChristinaM · #**221** 06-12-2013, 04:33 PM

I grew up in the South Bronx during the years when slumlords were burning it all down and this is what my old neighborhood looked like by the time it was over. I remember sitting with a bunch of relatively rich kids during my first year in college and they were watching a Yankee game while the Bronx was on fire all around it. They were pointing and OMGing about how people could live that way and all I could think of was "fuck, that was my old house". I never admitted though because I was young and embarrassed in front of the silver spoon set.