It’s a bit of manga, a bit of ruin porn… and whole lot of beautiful.
Factory Fifteen’s Megalomania is the perfect blend of wistful see-what-we-got-ourselves-into sublime fantasy.
Wait for the ferris wheel… (it gave me palpitations).
MEGALOMANIA from Jonathan Gales on Vimeo.
Obscure, sublime, rich with political and historical weirdness… Bulgaria’s Buzludzha monument is a testament to abandoned Communist glory.
Photographer Timothy Allen not only drove and hiked deep into the snowbound Balkan Mountains to give Buzludzha the love it deserves, he braved the elements and flew over it in a microlight to document the lonesome concrete saucer from above.
Oh, Buzludzha. I think I’m in love.
(via Boing Boing)
Get ready for an uber magical Monday afternoon dance party.
(via Wooster Collective)
A wistfully photogenic account of a hopeful time in America… The story of an abandoned rocket factory in the Everglades. (via Boing Boing).
Space Miami – Aerojet-Dade Rocket Site Documentary from Coffee and Celluloid on Vimeo.
When I was a kid, we used to play in the abandoned concrete lookout towers that dot the coast of Vancouver Island.
My heart skipped a beat when I saw these astonishingly creepy-beautiful photos of abandoned bunkers. I love the way they’re lit, and presented against steel grey skies.
I wandered haphazardly tonight to one of my most absolute favourite websites ever: Abandoned Places. Get ready for hundreds of obsessively, beautifully shot photos of empty factories and institutions… most of them shot in Belgium.
Sepia tone never looked better. And the navigation is… gothic without being pretentious: mysterious and sublime. If only every web browsing experience was this rich and playful… The site’s labyrinthine structure is a perfect analogue for exploration and discovery.
Troy Pavia shoots beautiful, spooky photographs of abandoned places. At night.
These pics are pushing so many of my buttons at once, it’s making me kind of mental. Check out the abandoned amusement park and the mobile homes. Put them together and you get an American holiday gone horribly, beautifully wrong. (via @pique_mtl)
Photos of the rust belt – so gorgeous they’ll make you weep.
(Via Coudal)
Really this blog is going to be a whole lot about a handful of small obsessions…
Starting with these delicious shots of abandoned swimming pools in the UK. Enjoy!
(via Coudal)
