Photographs of Decaying Olympic Sites

[Hugh Mughnus]

Stumbled across this in my facebook feed and thought it was pretty awesome.

 

It's photos of old Olympic sites "after the games". IDM as fuck lol.

 

http://io9.com/after-the-games-photographs-of-decaying-olympic-sites-503372635

 

Some of them look like really eerie.

[Hugh Mughnus]

And here is more abandoned shit...

 

awesome pictures.

 

Mansions:

 

 

http://io9.com/9-of-the-most-fascinating-abandoned-mansions-from-aroun-471010619

 

 

Power stations:

http://io9.com/these-abandoned-power-stations-are-majestic-in-their-de-473517743

[Friendly Foil]

Oh man, bookmarking these for later. thanks!

[KovalainenFanBoy]

Those are actually really cool, I love that kind of stuff. But abandoned buildings were voted most IDM last year already, get with the times StephenG, jeez

[Alcofribas]

it's hard for me to really get a feel for what this topic is about from the homepage without a more descriptive subtitle.

 

p.s. pictures of decaying buildings and shit are awesome

[YO303]

the dream is over

[Soloman Tump]

The Athens photos are really sad. Just shows how fucked the eurozone is.

[Hugh Mughnus]

Those are actually really cool, I love that kind of stuff. But abandoned buildings were voted most IDM last year already, get with the times StephenG, jeez

 

Lol I'm living in the past! wait a second... wasn't it incomplete skyscrapers last year?! haha

 

 

The Athens photos are really sad. Just shows how fucked the eurozone is.

 

I feel the same way.

 

 

 

side note: would love to drop acid in pretty much all of the places pictured. Seems like it'd be quite an experience.

[ambermonk]

So loads of money get poured into construction for a two-week event, and then the sites get abandoned?

Some of the photos remind me of the ghost town of Prypiat in northern Ukraine, which was abandoned during the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986. There are apparently some abandoned amusement parks in Japan as well.

[MadameChaos]

Some of these are pretty eerie. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/abandoned%20amusement%20parks

[BobDobalina]

 

Eureka, pretty sure this is where the secret BoC code has been pointing to all along... 36 = 6 x 6 > six hexagons > leaving for it in about a 1/2 hr if anyone wants to join!

[ambermonk]

Some of these are pretty eerie. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/abandoned%20amusement%20parks

Yeah one of those is the landmark ferris wheel of Prypiat.

 

This one is quite fuct up tho:

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7slvmKLy81rqzpggo1_500.jpg

 

 

(Not NSFW, but might creep some people out)

 

[Hugh Mughnus]

that ones awesome man

[azatoth]

Those Olympic sites just shows how much of a scam the Games are. Billions of taxpayers money gets funelled into the pockets of private entities on the false premise that it's going to increase the value of the areas involved, help the community and other BS, only to become abandoned soon afterwards.

[blackdust]

I find it amazing the 2004/2008 ones almost look as worse off as the 1950s one and backward

[th555]

Neat link. The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam is still in use, IIRC.

 

Gotta love Chernobyl pics as well: