If you need fancy interior scenery for your post-apocalyptic noir-thriller. Some fascinating shots in this collection that lend themselves to inspired touches of faded elegance and abandoned grandiosity.
"Look upon my works, all ye might..." indeed.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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I think that pic of the dentist chair forced a Sanity check.
Way cool creeposity.
I've seen some of these before, but not others. Growing up just outside of Detroit, it's potential as a post-apocalyptic/urban gothic setting was obvious and I ran a very long-lived campaign set there.
Impressive and sad stuff.
I used to live about a quarter mile from the old Bladerunner-like railroad station that is so prominent in those pictures and fell in with a crew that explored those ruins.
In fact I wrote a post about a long ways back: http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2009/05/discreet-charm-of-city-ruins.html
I've driven past that old railroad station many times, and even from a distance an incredible sadness emanates from it.
There are, and have been, many projects in the city where buildings were re-done and saved, but unfortunately this has yet to be one of them.
If they books had been moved to a library in use, those pictures wouldn't depress me as much as they inevitably do.
Yeah, that's the thing that really shocks me the most: expensive equipment, grand pianos, libraries full of books, and police files just abandoned. It's not like these places were systematically shut down; they were just abandoned.
This exhibit was at my local art museum (Akron Museum of Art) and the photos are HUGE -- like 10x20 feet. The amount of detail is stunning. Just incredible.
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