Bruce Sterling points to a couple of sites under the fetching title, The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier: some great pictures of Life in General re-colonising the post-industrial ruins of Detroit, and a blog in much the same vein (and in a neighbouring part of the world) called “carlsonmilliss on adaptive re-use”, but whose subtitle is the much snappier contemporary metamorphoses…
Sterling: “The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier”
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Tagged Bruce-Sterling, Detroit, environment, photography, post-industrial, The Void
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The picture on this post reminds me of the house in the Bernard Rose film, “Paperhouse.”
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/3765/paperhouseck2.jpg
Ah, well… that didn’t work. Here’s the url:
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3584/paperhouse.jpg
Looking again at this picture and the one you linked, in passing, much later, I’m also reminded of the house in Fight Club, and also the houses in Tidelands