dr lopez Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 yeah except pretty much all modern architecture owes itself to american grain silos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I love this thread. Reminds me of my own town though it's not nearly this bad yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCONES TO DIE FOR Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 we had a detroit dj over for our night recently and went to dinner him with, he was quite passionate about detroit itsself and said its worse now than he has ever seen it, rough beyond belief. Which DJ was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elusive4 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 this thread is fucking clueless on quite beautiful some of these. but I guess it's not nearly as beautiful if you actually live there. says who'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 please explain elusive? preferably in 48 premastered wavs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 we had a detroit dj over for our night recently and went to dinner him with, he was quite passionate about detroit itsself and said its worse now than he has ever seen it, rough beyond belief. Which DJ was it? dj maaco/detroit in effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macca Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 we had a detroit dj over for our night recently and went to dinner him with, he was quite passionate about detroit itsself and said its worse now than he has ever seen it, rough beyond belief. Which DJ was it? dj maaco/detroit in effect Was a fun night :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 please explain elusive? preferably in 48 premastered wavs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 rust belt problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 cool 'ruins of detroit' photos from here... http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 i'm assuming many US cities driven by industrial jobs are in similar situations. if we could just knock all this old garbage down and rebuild without going through millions of dollars of lawsuits to protect some piece of "history", buffalo would actually have a waterfront. as it stands, there are many derelict grain elevators and other various industrial behemoths waiting to collapse. **why build these giants on the waterfront, instead of creating public spaces like parks? well, they had to dump all their waste somewhere... I personally don't have a problem with the grain silos being there. It is a big part of Buffalo (and the US's) history, and a lot of good things came from having them there (beer). It is sad to see them fallen in to such disrepair, certainly... but I am iffy about the idea of "waterfronts" any how.. I mean, if you plan to make it all green space, certainly...please yes, let us do it. I just think it brings in a lot of investment opportunities that seem kind of slimy... ie building town houses with insanely high rent, turning them in to the well to do centers of cities and towns, or turning them in to consumer centers and tourist attractions. I think the bigger problem lies in all of the chemical industrialists taking up waterfront space. Take a drive down the Robert Moses in Niagara Falls... The sweet smell of burning plastic, human shit, and waffles will fill your nose and possibly make you vomit. Conversely, drive down River Road and drive past places like Dupont, or the rest of the rusting industrial hulks that litter the waterfront view. Now that shit is an atrocity. At one point, places like Detroit, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls were seen to be the future of American cities... all the right tools, and all the wrong people fucking it up. I wish I could feel positive about it and have hope for change.. and I will commend any one that tries and does feel that way. But as of now, I think they should just leave it as is and have modern day ruins. A big marker of what not to do. Maybe throw in some super mutants and let people play IRL Fallout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 those are great pictures, never thought of doing that my friend took this picture when he was in detroit while on some kind of beach look closely at the upper left (i used content aware delete in photoshop to remove him from the picture, didnt work too well) are cooling towers a rare sight over there? plenty of them over here. check out the lovely grangemouth... Fiddlers Ferry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ricky Downtown Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 the third photo keltoi posted is the same cathedral on the cover of madlib's medicine show number 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Can some one explain, or point me in the direction of an article, as to why Detroit has all these massive abandoned buildings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 oops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Can some one explain, or point me in the direction of an article, as to why Detroit has all these massive abandoned buildings? isn't it cos it used to be thriving with big bucks coming from the car industry ... which is now long since shut down. no more jobs for the massive population it once supported so people have deserted the place in search of work leaving a ghost town. this is more educated guess than actual knowledge though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 dunno how i managed to quote myself there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 The collapse of a major industry, people leaving a city meant for 4 million people to live and work elsewhere.."white flight" to the suburbs. fiscal mismanagement. all sorts of reasons. What happened in Detroit was the biggest example of what happened throughout the entire rust belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktait2 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I grew up in a rural area outside of Detroit, about a 45 minute drive. My brother lived there for quite some time, I think early 2000s until this year. He, like most Detroit residents, had a love for the city. I think you'll find the people in Detroit sympathize with the city, it's problems are their own. The problem is, they're living through these issues that the media is so keen on glorifying. 'Ruin porn' has become a huge export, specially in the photographic community. I'm guilty of it but now there's something unsettling about the whole thing so I tend to steer clear. It's a great place, despite the media's personification. People are generally friendly and welcoming in a way I don't often find (sure as hell not here in Toronto). One of the driving factors that failed Detroit was the growing gas prices in the 70s and 80s which in turn created a demand for fuel efficient cars. Detroit, driven by the big 3 American automotive manufacturers, never seemed to clue in and continued to make clumsy gas guzzlers. No one bought them, businesses failed, people lost their jobs, and so on. Right now though I think there's a bit of a revitalization happening. There's a growing artistic community in Detroit, which has always nurtured it's culture. VBS did a small special on it if you care. cool 'ruins of detroit' photos from here... http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/ Also the fourth pic is a police station I visited a while back. It was small from the outside, but the inside contained a large complex with all the necessities. It had a large garage (with porn posted on the walls), jail cells, shooting range, and lots of other interesting rooms. Archives and records, mainly mugshots of blacks from the motown era, covered most of the rooms of the first floor. I read a police report of an search on home in which the officer shot a dog that attacked him, and was repeatedly shot afterwards by multiple officers when the dog struggled to attack again. One room had police riot gear; tear gas canisters, masks (I took one), shields, etc. The evidence room was still fully stocked. It was basically full of shelves that held a random assortment of items, all with a small tag on them. There were oddities like game consoles, a large section of hammers, a larger section of knives. I didn't find any guns but I couldn't venture in fully. the third photo keltoi posted is the same cathedral on the cover of madlib's medicine show number 10 That is the United Artist Building. Stunning architecture all around. Even had a vault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 please explain elusive? preferably in 48 premastered wavs [media=] [/media] Wow, this is IDM as FUCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Npoess Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 http://io9.com/5913561/detroit-plans-to-shrink-by-leaving-half-the-city-in-the-dark?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YO303 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Is it true that Detroit have a huge abandon baseball stadium ? When I heard that at first I was " that's fuckin' IDM" but then I realized how fucked the city must be to have an abandon baseball stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktait2 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Tiger Stadium. It was abandoned in 2000 and finally demolished in 2009 (I think). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elusive4 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 "Is it true that Detroit have a huge abandon baseball stadium ? When I heard that at first I was " that's fuckin' IDM" but then I realized how fucked the city must be to have an abandon baseball stadium." yeah. when a brand new stadium is built and the team no longer operates out of the old/original stadium, i guess you could refer to it as "abandoned". and while demolition was in limbo due to possible rehabilitation via other projects (and private investments) , i guess you could still refer to it as "abandoned" too. clueless fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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