600 Diggs and site news
My article on Asylum has reached 600 Diggs, and I`m really pleased. The Digg page got a lot of comments, largely it seems about how bad the HDR is. Looking back on those shots, I can see better what people…
Hello to William Gibson
William Gibson stopped by this website about 9 hours ago and retweeted my Sex Industry in Ruins article. That is awesome. On Twitter he goes by GreatDismal. GreatDismal RTÂ : Love shacks: Japanese love hotels in ruins http://bit.ly/8pK10A I`ve read a…
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…
Gorgeous digital paintings by Pixel Distillery
Lucas Zoltowski is a professional graphic designer who has created some really fantastic images of the apocalypse. Here’s a few, go to his site to see other great work. Apocalypse city
Programming Note
First off- Welcome to all new readers of this site! Secondly- Thanks to all old and continuing readers. Things have changed a fair bit round here, with a new design and a new emphasis on an old direction, with still…
Waseda HDRs
As you’ll know if you’ve been following my recent haikyo explorations, I’m getting interested in the technique of HDR for photography; essentially the process of splicing together several photographs of the same thing (using software that does it all for…
Haikyo Roundup
There’s been a lot of haikyoing action happening round the Kanto plain recently, with some new faces (to me) and new info on old locations- here’s the round-up: Tokyo Times- Lee’s been busy since I last updated here, going to…
Sanyo and BE haikyos, the move
Tokyo Times went to the underground bunker in Yamanashi and managed to de-bunk some of the mystery surrounding it. He found a Sanyo magazine which featured a little icon of one of the odd logos from inside the bunker. It…
Haikyo @ Lakes Yamanaka and Sagami.
Misuterareta- Survivorship goes back to the Sagami Lake area, site of the Hotel Royale, and finds it now guarded by security vans and guard dogs. He ploughs on, and discovers a Pension Hotel surrounded by a wide and strange scaffolding…
The Fix reviews Freemantle Mons
The Fix- Online literature review site The Fix recently ran a review of Something Wicked- the first print magazine one of my stories has appeared in. The reviewer said this about the story: ‘In Freemantle Mons The Leviathan Smile by…
Tuesday’s Links
Urban Explorer Rankings- Hilarious list of the XP ‘levelling’ structure of urban explorers, including pre-requisities and special skills conferred. Level 3 (of 9) Pre-requisities: 1 x hallway photo, open doors optional 1 x apology thread, when called out for graffiti…
Weekly Links
Haikyo and photography links this week, as I’ve been off exploring the Internets for haikyo locations and photography inspirations. David LaCahappelle- Thanks to Velo in the comments for this link, hyper-colorful surreal photos that you’ve probably seen before, as he…
Weekly Links
Gorilla Artfare- Some great apocalypse art: This same scene is rendered in four ‘seasons’ on the site. Red Bubble- Ruins in the desert, awesome: Tells a story in an image. Or begins a story… Neils Valentin- Digital matte paintings for…
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