Dead planes
Friday, March 12. 2010



Some astounding images of a dead Russian sea plane. (Spotted on a @eleventhvolume tweet).



Some astounding images of a dead Russian sea plane. (Spotted on a @eleventhvolume tweet).

Detroit Book Depository

Michigan Central Station

City Hall Subway

Toronto Subway
A couple of great recent galleries on ruins and abandoned buildings. The first, from Web Urbanist is a general look at the increase in ruins and our appreciation of them; the second, from the Infrastructurist site, is a look primarily at abandoned stations and their strong allure.

DLR. East London 2008
Sleepy City leaves London for Paris.

Paris 2008
Long live Sleepy City...

Curvature
It's been an age since we featured anything from motts over at Opacity - this latest photo set from the abandoned shell of the Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island in New York's East River has some fabulous images.

Buffalo State Hospital, Darkness
For some other examples of his work, see this set of the Buffalo State Hospital.

The Quadrant (photograph courtesy of Doilum)
A cracking Flickr set from in and around the River Wandle in South London.
Nothing is as vast as empty things - Francis Bacon

Moselely Baths
Ten thousand years in the future, long after the Côte d’Azur had been abandoned, the first explorers would puzzle over these empty pits, with their eroded frescoes of tritons and stylised fish, inexplicably hauled up the mountainsides like aquatic sundials or the altars of a bizarre religion devised by a race of visionary geometers - JG Ballard

Victoria Baths
More abandoned swimming pools at Polar Inertia