Urban Decay

I love pictures of old buildings. They have so much intricate detail that you often dont see replicated in the glass and steel skinned buildings of today. When I see a delightful old building sitting proudly restored my heart lifts a little - call me crazy but this has been the effect that buildings have had on me. Surprisingly then when I see an old decrepit building whose former glory is behind it I also am inspired. There is something about a weathered rotted out hulk of a building that speaks to me. I can remember back to when I encountered my first really grand ruins in the UK. The ones that I remember the most Fountains Abbey,Melrose Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey. As I got into photography in college, I found myself taking more pictures of buildings than people - much to the chagrin of women that I dated. Whenever I find a really cool photo essay on a ruin I naturally have to check it out. Today is one of those days...From the Blog The Kingston Lounge comes these amazing shots of a long abandoned institution on North Brother Island in the East River of NYC. Here is a shot of the former nurses quarters...

From the why I dont live in NYC anymore files...

I lived in Manhattan for the most of 2002. In my brief time there I saw things that you will see nowhere else (a 6'5" man in a dirty pink tutu being one of them). ...Enjoy the wacky antics what I used to call our "Urban Brother" the wharf rat...

Chernobyl 25 Years Later

From TotallyCoolPix

Interesting photo essay on the area around Chernobyl. Prypiat is the name of the town and the setting for the COD: Modern Warfare mission "Ghillies in the Mist." Not far from here is the location for the COD: Black Ops MP map that I designed called "Grid." In fact for a while we were considering having the Chernobyl reactor as a landmark in the off map area called the sky box.

Cool Ice Sealed Lake

Untouched for millions of years...what will they find?? Cthulhu??


from New Scientist

The Nottingham Caves Survey Homepage

Awesome effort to document the caves under Nottingham. Every video game needs a good cave reference!!


The Nottingham Caves Survey Homepage

Cool Floating City Concept proposed for Haiti

This would make a great video game environment. It would need to be partially destroyed by zombie invasion however.

Kijk Kubus, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Fantastic Cubist Houses...I really need to get to the Netherlands one of these days!

Kijk Kubus, Rotterdam, Netherlands

They have their own site too... I need to live in a house that warrants its own site ;)
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