This website Forgotten Detroit was a total thing a while back, but I'd forgotten about it until just now, and since internet-wise, most of us have the logical induction and developmental secondary schemes of sensori-motor coordination of an infant roughly between the ages of eight and twelve months, *spikes old college psychology textbook in your face* that means it basically didn't exist that whole time I wasn't looking at it. Like your girlfriend when you're on a business trip, for example. Or a fat man's shadowy penis.
Forgotten Forgotten Detroit, you might call it, if you see what I'm getting at there. **UPDATE: there's a book out now that documents this stuff called . Go buy it or whatever**
Most of the pictures on the site are riveting examples of decaying abandoned buildings in Detroit, or, to put it another way, buildings in Detroit. Although to be fair, this old theatre below doesn't look much different than the average mid-size concert venues we have here in Boston. No offense to the Orpheum. Feel better about where you live on the other side:
OK, a little offense.
I'm not sure why the ruins of lost cities like this, (and that post I did on Chernobyl a while back) fascinate me so much. Maybe because they're a reminder of how insignificant we all are, and how before we know it the plaster tiles of our head-ceilings and the paint on our wall-faces will inevitably slough off like so much water-ravaged architecture. Maybe it's because I'm really into tagging. It's like art you put on a wall, you see, only it's not your wall. Blogging is a bit like tagging, in a way, in that no one over the age of 19 takes it seriously, and none of these assholes have figured out a way to make any money doing it yet.
And that's the end of the post. There are dozens more photos like this at Forgotten Detroit. Although if you're not looking at it, doesn't even exist? *high fives Dalai Lama* *jumps Great Wall of China on snowboard*
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6 comments:
@the pics - didn't some asshole say (in much pertyier words) that the beauty of creation is magnified by destruction? if not, make sure to cite me should you use that half-thought in your day-to-day attempt to impress birds.
@you jumping the great wall of china on a snowboard - i'd pay for the plane tickets. i bet joubert would totally be down.
1.2 seconds of googling turned up this supposed quote (thanks, www.omg-picasso-is-a-god.blogspot.com!):
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
i don't think that was the quote i was thinking of, but you never know with me, and i figure if i cite picasso i'll look much more smarter re: art.
consider the trip booked
This was a coffeetable book at the NYE party I was at, not that I'm going to get uppity about stealing images from artists for the purposed of making your blog more interesting especially when you make a fucking deal out of people stealing music every time I turn around. Seriously, good post here.
Doesn't liking to the original website and mentioning it a couple times cover that as far as internet etiquette goes? JUST NOT SURE.
DEFENSIVE
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