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Never Seen An American City Like This

March 25, 11 //
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Recently the Census bureau released the latest populations of cities across America. Detroit’s rapidly declining population clocked in at 713,777. A staggering drop from their boomtime in 1950, when the population was a thriving 1.8 million.

Which means there is enough space in Detroit to fit two cities. Fifty percent of the landscape is in decay.  I can’t imagine what that must be like, walking around a metropolis when half of it is dead and empty.

French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre set out to document the decaying buildings of an American city in decline. Their book “The Ruins of Detroit“ was published in December 2010.

A few choice pieces from their book that I grabbed from The Denver Post.  My particular favorite being the Dali-esque melting clock.

I will say that this current state-of-being really presents a unique filming location for a city that could use the funds. “The Walking Dead”?  Are you guys listening?

via Mindy McCutchen

Cloud City

January 16, 10 //
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Pretty extraordinary picture of Dubai.

Can you imagine being at one of those windows, just above the cloud line, looking across a field of other floating skyscraper-islands piercing through the clouds?

via Erik Neilsen, who proudly admits he had Boz Bosworth hairstripes back in the day.

Another “Behind-The-Curve” Discovery!

January 15, 10 //
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Meetup.com is GREAT.

I’m moving to San Francisco and spent the afternoon meandering through all the SF meetup groups – it’s the most entertaining form of an anthropological dig.

There’s a Northern California Vampires Meetup group (162 Vampires!)…the San Francisco Ex-New Yorkers Group….The Eckhart Tolle Silent Local Group (you have got to be lonely if you’re meeting up with people to be quiet)…Fried Chicken Sluts….Starting Over Without Him…The Jewish Response To The Clean Energy Challenge…Boggle – for people who like to play Boggle, but stipulates that “anyone of any age is welcome, except serial killers and birthers”….Swing Goth (as in Goths who like to swing dance)…Bay Area Cold Fusion User group….Bay Area Social Anxiety Disorder Meetup group (wha? How do they even get together?)…Intentional Love Making Circles (if that’s not a sex group then that’s an unfortunate name)….Wittgenstein and Nietzsche Discussion Group (I’m sure this is what the developers of the www thought it was going to be like)…the San Francisco Lonely Empty Nesters club (such a catchy name, but only 2 members)…and then there’s Fun Times San Francisco for “female (and female-identifying) only.”

Plus 2,000 other groups.