Ice-bound Russian ships wrecked off Kamchatka
Kamchatka is a Russian peninsula in the far North, home to seals, volcanoes, and a large industrial-era ship graveyard, where rusting hulks of tankers, trawlers, and tugs lie embedded in icy permafrost, slowly sinking into harbors they once stood tall and upright within.
A huge tanker sinks into the ice.
‘Slumpy’ the tumble-down Detroit mansion
‘Slumpy’ was a favorite of Detroit ruins-aficionados, up until recently (2007) providing hot sparks of tension between various websites who documented its 20-year decline and hoped to capture its ultimate crumbling on video. I don’t know who won out in the end, but surprisingly there was somebody there, and filming, when the slump finally became a collapse.
Collapse: toppled apartment building in Shanghai
A few months back (around July 2009) this block of apartments in the Minxing district of Shanghai toppled and fell on its side. It was one of many brand new buildings as yet unoccupied, now something of a tourist attraction as authorities figure out just what to do with it. One construction worker was killed in the collapse, which is awful but quite lucky compared to the numbers that would have died had the thing been occupied by the 300-odd residents who had already bought apartments within it, and were waiting to move in.
Still fairly pristine, just on its side.
The ruination of the Kanagawa Toyo Bowl
The Kanagawa Toyo Bowl was one of several 1980’s alleys built during Japan’s bowling ‘boom’, coinciding with the years of the economic Bubble. For a while the Toyo Boru in Nagoya was the largest in the world, boasting 260 lanes over four floors. When the Bubble collapsed in the early ’90’s so began the end of the bowling boom, and all of the Toyo alleys across the country eventually went into receivership.
Pachinko, slot, bowl.
Dave Hill’s ‘Girl on an Adventure’
Dave Hill is one of the leading lights in HDR composite photography, layering multiple images together to recreate whatever he can imagine, to stunning and impresive effect. The ‘Dave Hill Effect’ is well-known in photography circles, a certain kind of washed-out, high contrast, stark imagery. Check out a few shots here, and go to his site to see the bulk of it.
Girl on an Adventure
Tawnymoor – a poem
by Michael John Grist.
Make the feet for children’s shoes,
Down the alley, back from hell,
This whole town is made of iron
Witnesses shall turn to steam
Their Pockets filled with earth.
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Grub the mantles, merrymen!
Seize the steam and come to me,
Here the zephyr rings on steel,
the judge becomes a narwhal’s spike
fill it with his blood.
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