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The Accumulation Of Ruin Space
In Between The Ruins On The Edge Of The Salton Sea (Salton Sea, previously)
Inhabiting Construction
Decline And Fall Of The Italian Villa
Jamie McGregor Smith is interviewed at TNI about his photograph series Borrow, Build, Abandoned, reviewed in The New Statesman and the New York Times, of the disused Olympic complex in Athens.
The Architect Of Ruins
How Can You Hide From What Never Goes Away?
In Between The Ruins On The Edge Of The Salton Sea (Salton Sea, previously)
Inhabiting Construction
Decline And Fall Of The Italian Villa
Jamie McGregor Smith is interviewed at TNI about his photograph series Borrow, Build, Abandoned, reviewed in The New Statesman and the New York Times, of the disused Olympic complex in Athens.
The Architect Of Ruins
How Can You Hide From What Never Goes Away?
The earth is becoming a solid mass of scar tissue, as the tracks of human endeavour scour crosshatching into its surface.
posted by BlueHorse at 11:01 AM on June 11, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by BlueHorse at 11:01 AM on June 11, 2013 [1 favorite]
I've been doing some minor apartment renovation recently, and that has spurred me to thinking again about two ideas that I revisit periodically:
1) The tragicomic impulse to look at e.g. a collapsing villa and entertain the thought "Oh, that's just efflorescence - a little sulfamic acid will take that right out. We can probably find matching window hardware at Restoration...That switch box just needs to be reseated and spackled in correctly this time...I know a guy, works mainly on brownstones, that can match this concrete..."
2) The sheer amount of trash and crap in Amtrak's northeast corridor right-of-way and the decaying warehouses and lots lined up alongside, lights still on but owners absent.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 11:46 AM on June 11, 2013
1) The tragicomic impulse to look at e.g. a collapsing villa and entertain the thought "Oh, that's just efflorescence - a little sulfamic acid will take that right out. We can probably find matching window hardware at Restoration...That switch box just needs to be reseated and spackled in correctly this time...I know a guy, works mainly on brownstones, that can match this concrete..."
2) The sheer amount of trash and crap in Amtrak's northeast corridor right-of-way and the decaying warehouses and lots lined up alongside, lights still on but owners absent.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 11:46 AM on June 11, 2013
The earth is becoming a solid mass of scar tissue, as the tracks of human endeavour scour crosshatching into its surface.
12 Amazing Earth Scars
posted by the man of twists and turns at 12:29 PM on June 11, 2013
12 Amazing Earth Scars
posted by the man of twists and turns at 12:29 PM on June 11, 2013
Fascinating set of links! The aesthetics of ruins is an engrossing topic. Memento Mori for civilization (or not)
posted by clockworkjoe at 12:50 PM on June 11, 2013
posted by clockworkjoe at 12:50 PM on June 11, 2013
Excellent post, man of twists and turns. I'd read the first piece, but not the others. Thanks!
posted by homunculus at 5:19 PM on June 11, 2013
posted by homunculus at 5:19 PM on June 11, 2013
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