Industrial Revolutions
A guy riding a bike through a post-industrial landscape. Highly enjoyable.
Posts Tagged ‘industry’
This Machine Destroys Everything
Pretty gruesome: a machine that shreds everything you put in it.
Siberian Ghost Cities
We’ve had Japanese ghost towns, and pictures of Chernobyl today before. But this photo series on the Dark Roasted Blend blog tops everything: Siberian industrial “ghost” cities, which are still inhabited today.
People in the cities of Cherepovetz, Norilsk and Kadykchan live in these apartments, go to work (in the factories), take a bus, go to the grocery… All in very harsh conditions.
We’d like to call them “ghost towns”, but they are clearly not abandoned. Amazingly, people still live in them, go to work in the harshest possible conditions (paradoxically making it the richest and mightiest industrial area in Russia) and then come “home” to relax in inhuman weather, non-existing infrastructure, in dangerously dilapidated buildings…
Truly, this is an “abandoned, terrifying, ruined environment”, multiplied to the N-th degree! Judge for yourself.
Check this out, there are way, way more photos here. Otherwordly, like Tarkovsky’s Stalker…
- Edit: One caveat though, according to commenters on the blog these pictures are from particularly bad areas of the cities, so not entirely representative. Still…
