Creepy, Bizarre, Isolated Places

[Greg Nog]

They make my stomach get an erection!

[Ignatius]

Which can be painful, mind.

[Thermofusion]

My other thought was, if I could get to Yugoslavia with a camcorder, I could probably make a hella neat-looking low budget dystopian scifi flick on the cheap. Who needs production design when you can just drive out and use that brutal concrete shit?

[kyle]

MOAR!

[img width= height=]http://acidcow.com/pics/20101028/abandoned_monument_in_bulgaria_02.jpg[/img]

Monument in Bulgaria

My other thought was, if I could get to Yugoslavia with a camcorder, I could probably make a hella neat-looking low budget dystopian scifi flick on the cheap. Who needs production design when you can just drive out and use that brutal concrete shit?

Ugh, I just seriously wish that we would take a few million dollars a year and just build huge dystopian sci fi monuments around the U.S. and just leave them to rot.

Actually, build them in California and sell weed at them = PROFIT

[Thermofusion]

Ugh, I just seriously wish that we would take a few million dollars a year and just build huge dystopian sci fi monuments around the U.S. and just leave them to rot.

This is yet another reason why I wish Obama would finally live up to that socialist reputation he's been branded with. We could be building all kinds of crazy fucking modernist shit right now.

[kyle]

This isn't as isolated as I wish it were, but it is very creepy and bizarre.

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I'm going the next time I'm in Lexington

Dogg, what are you talking about? Whatever it is, you didn't actually, you know, post it.

http://creationmuseum.org/

[peacocks]

Ugh, if I ever went there I think I would become very, very angry.

[Thermofusion]

Around the corner you’ll find fresh made burritos with all your favorite fillings, walking tacos, taco salads, and a full line of Coca-Cola products.

Walking tacos! Evolution?

God's plan for your stomach is junk food and Diet Coke

[kyle]

Haha, I actually reposted that already a few pages back. Ooops!


Seriously though, those Yugoslav and Soviet monuments are like the best Post Rock covers ever.

[davy]

Haha, I actually reposted that already a few pages back. Ooops!


Seriously though, those Yugoslav and Soviet monuments are like the best Post Rock covers ever.

I was going to say, the first time I saw those images, the link said "Russian Monuments." I guess somebody got factchecked.

[kyle]

Haha, I actually reposted that already a few pages back. Ooops!


Seriously though, those Yugoslav and Soviet monuments are like the best Post Rock covers ever.

I was going to say, the first time I saw those images, the link said "Russian Monuments." I guess somebody got factchecked.

Yeah some people had problems with referring to Yugoslavia as "Soviet". You can read the comments in the link if you want.

[davy]

Seriously though, those Yugoslav and Soviet monuments are like the best Post Rock covers ever.

Speak of the devil:



http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15539-unknown-mortal-orchestra/

[davy]

Can't say I blame them, really.

[YojimboMonkey]

I saw this post on the Chicagoist blog the other day and realized the church in question was right along the route I've been taking when doing the full bicycle commute lately. So this morning I stopped and took a picture. The area is fenced off and does not look safe so I doubt I'll be doing any intrepid urban exploration.



Don't miss the companion post about adjacent Sherman Park also. It's really something. I tried cutting across the park on my bike a while back--there are paths, and these beautiful old stone bridges across the lagoon--only to find out that the entire center of the park is a path-free group of baseball diamonds. Check out the Google maps link and you'll see what I mean.

Also be sure to click through to the WBEZ photos of the church from just over a year ago. It was really something, once.

[YojimboMonkey]

The horde went exploring at an old neglected overgrown supposedly "haunted" cemetery in our town today. I took a fuckload of pictures; I won't bore you with all of them but I'll post a few. Unfortunately my actual camera had a dead battery so they are cell phone pics.  

The cemetery is called Bachelor's Grove. Here is one site about it that is fairly factual. Here is another site about it but this one is all whooooooo, ghosts, spooky.

Here is a spooky story about the cemetery. When I uploaded these pics to Facebook, Facebook's face-recognition prompted me to tag a friend where there was no face. whooooo, spooky

[G.C.R]

wooo! Hella pretty light in that last one.

[davy]

Hey, how come nobody told me that there's a Kowloon Walled City level in Call of Duty: Black Ops?!

[kyle]

Hey, how come nobody told me that there's a Kowloon Walled City level in Call of Duty: Black Ops?!

Whoooooooooaaaaaaaa.

[davy]

And it's not even like, a place that looks like Kowloon. It is Kowloon by name. What's really impressive is that the Walled City is presented as it stood during that time -- late 60s early 70s. It wasn't quite the solid block of slum that it became in the 80s -- the buildings were still coming together, and that's how it is in the game.

At one point, as you come out of a stairwell onto a roof, a jet liner roars just over your head. Kowloon Walled City was adjacent to a busy airport, so this is factually correct as well. Nice touch.

[kyle]

Pre-Coruscant

[Jacob_Evans]

A friend of mine and I visited an abandoned motel in Atlanta, Texas. It wasn't terribly creepy, or isolated, but the vulture perched atop the sign gave it that impression:



More here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/revjdevans/sets/72157627649997444/with/6134523639/

[jebreject]

Great pics!

[alex]

Just came across these pictures of a never-finished, abandoned amusement park in China. Seemed worth posting here.

[davy]

Yes! Awesome!

[clare]

Especially shrouded in the Beijing super-smog!