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Relics of the Keishin Hospital 2. HDR

Mike Grist October 2, 2009Haikyo, Hospitals, Kanagawa

Keishin Hospital was once a pre-eminent site of super high-tech radiology equipment, leading the charge as Japan raced into the modern era. Some 2o years ago that dream fell by the way-side though, and the place was left to the vandals. They tore out everything that could be torn out, leaving only a few metal fixtures too heavily stapled down.

Then came the taggers, followed by the true grafitti artists, and the young people shooting documentaries, and the cosplay kids playing truant from school. Keishin has a whole other life, now that it’s dead. In this part we’ll look mostly at what once was. In the second part we’ll look at what is now.

Foreboding approach to Keishin Hospital.

The Friend Catcher

Mike Grist October 1, 2009Zine

by Paul D. Brazill

The morning after Charlotte killed her father, the air tasted like lead and the sky was gun metal grey. She stared out of the window of her East London flat, barely focusing on the rows of concrete blocks being smudged by the Autumn rain.

The ensuing days of gloom collided with weeks and the weeks crashed into months.

And then it was Spring.

Ice-bound Russian ships wrecked off Kamchatka

Mike Grist September 30, 2009Russia, Shipwrecks, World Ruins

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

Mike Grist September 29, 2009Residential, USA, World Ruins

‘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

Mike Grist September 28, 2009China, Residential, World Ruins

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

Mike Grist September 25, 2009Entertainment, Haikyo, Kanagawa

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’

Mike Grist September 24, 2009Uncategorized

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

Mike Grist September 23, 2009Poems, Stories

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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Skeletal hotels on the Sinai Peninsula

Mike Grist September 22, 2009Egypt, Hotels / Resorts, World Ruins

The Middle East was the cradle of civilization, once lush and verdant lands ravaged by over-farming, over-population, and ensuing desertification. Modern cities like Dubai in the UAE seek to prolong their existence via their last resource, oil, building vast and bizarre structures in the water and on land in hopes of bringing in business people like tourists to a theme park. It may work. If it doesn’t, this is what it will look like.

Cactus Hotel

Willow’s Cross

Mike Grist September 21, 2009Zine

By Mari Mitchell.

My name is Willow. I do not look, or feel like a Willow.. Willows are statuesque; they should be graceful and ethereal. I resemble Mrs. Potato Head. I have an older stepbrother named Patrick. He does not look like a Patrick either, more like Jack Skellington only with more hair and flesh. Everyone knows that Patricks have red hair, freckles and should be short. I do not think our parents are very good at naming things.. We are five years apart in age and from different planets. I of course am from Earth and he is from the planet Weirdo with its moons Stupid-Head and Dumbo.

Where we live you can get gas, liquor, or you can be saved by Jesus, but if you want anything else, you have to go to town. In town we saw a bad horror movie – Patrick’s choice, he loved it by the way; ate some yummy Thai food — my choice; and shopped– Mom’s choice. It was on the way back that we noticed it.

Image from here.

“Hey, would you look at that,” Patrick said with a small amount of glee in his voice.

“Look at what?” Mom asked.

He pointed to a small white cross with something written on it along the side of the highway. Its yellow flowers waved to us as if to get our attention.

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