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heartbreakingly beautiful urban decay
ever wished you could move to a huge, empty building with lots of peeling paint, rusting equipment and defunct, bleeding gauges? me, too. brooklyn denizen, mr. motts over at opacity.com not only finds...
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we love decay. the sweet smell of rotting concrete and rusting iron. a couple of months ago, we pointed to a breathtaking series of photos taken by brooklynite, mr. mott. Images of abandoned prisons,...
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tunnel vision
the underworld has always had its allure. the sequence of photos of abandoned tunnels on dyscario.com are hauntingly beautiful. pictured here is an abandoned saltmine in romania. the grandeur and peace...
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do it with your eyes closed
i grew up on an old wooden rollercoaster. to keep it terrifying, we used to ride it standing up, facing backward, with our eyes closed. so but these 6 rides each got my heart rate up just reading about...
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decommissioned silo fun
just the phrase, ‘decommissioned missile silo,’ inevitably intrigues. the fact that they pop up for sale every now and then always piques my curiosity. here’s a set of incredibly detailed photos of a...
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abandoned spreepark dinos
there’s something about abandoned theme parks that i find irresistible. you can almost hear the screams and smell the cotton candy. when combined with life-sized dinosaurs, where better to stage that...
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what has 88 or fewer keys?
pianos are magical. all those keys and wires and hammers promising dulcet tones. over on urbanghostsmedia.com, they mix the ivory and ebon with rust and dust, showcasing instruments long abandoned. the...
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chernobyl today
26 years ago, the citizens of chernobyl woke to horror. jan smith visits today and finds beauty. in particular, he has been photographing the graffiti that has been growing up among the abandoned...
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the way of flesh
we usually think of skulls as an artifact that survives long after the flesh is gone, but these examples by artist dimitri tsykalov defy that logic. carved from fruits and vegetables, their beauty is...
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invoking the fricative
ooo, two of my favorite things. particle physics and drop-dead gorgeous text animation. words and phrases explode into programmed phonetic signatures that bloom and decay. bonus points to...
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my dog sighs
here’s a fresh take on street art—found tin cans turned into evocative personalities. artist ‘my dog sighs‘ paints charming faces onto the flat ends and then returns the new artworks to the streets....
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pompeii graffiti
graffiti isn’t new. some say cave art was the first. so but here’s a site dedicated to sharing graffiti from ancient pompeii. some nsfw sentiments, but all text, so check em out at your own peril. my...
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jets gone wild
what to do with a field of abandoned airplanes? what else? bring in some wonderfully talented street artists and let them have at it! if you can’t visit the actual jets, ‘the boneyard project‘...
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homemade balls
not everyone has a shiny new football. in africa, it turns out that doesn’t need to be an impediment. this set of photos by jessica hilltout showcases improvised balls. balls made from paper, twine,...
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home, not so sweet, home
butte, montana, my hometown atop the continental divide, is a super superfund site. devastated by a century of intensive copper mining, the crown jewel of the toxic horror show has been the berkeley...
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totalitarian kitsch
intriguing piece over on theawl.com about eastern bloc architecture influenced by scifi. milan kundera called the general style of the time ‘totalitarian kitsch.’ what to call the kiev saucer or the...
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beauty in decay
so many websites devoted to capturing the beauty of abandonment and decay – so little time. if you only have time to view 30 of the most evocative images, then this is the link for you. tattered...
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near the egress
who doesn’t love the circus? in ‘near the egress,’ a hypnogogic 5min montage of sepia-edged tintypes, antonio martinez invokes the unsettling mystery of the ring, sharing with us a fleeting glance at...
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themepark cubed
i’m endlessly fascinated by abandoned themeparks. this is a twist, though. an entire park crushed into one great cube. we can thank james dive of denmark for the squaring.
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