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Month: March 2010

33-Photo Tribute: RIP Abandoned Hellingly Mental Asylum

When you look at these photos, do you think death and derelict nightmare or do you think urban explorers’ dream? Explorers dared security guards and guard dogs to investigate and to photograph ...

Star Trek Art & Designs: The Next Generation of Fandom

Star Trek has been an ongoing phenomenon since its debut in 1966. Star Trek consists of 2 series on the USS Enterprise, 3 spin offs, an animated series, and 11 feature films. A franchise this ...

Holgas, Polaroids & Pinholes: Lush Low-Tech Photography

10 years into the 21st century, film photography has been almost completely written off as obsolete, with even amateur photographers ditching traditional cameras for the crispness and convenience ...

Suspending Belief: 10 Span-tastic Pedestrian & Car Bridges

Bridges might not get the respect the world's tallest skyscrapers get but these horizontal architectural wonders push the engineering envelope just as hard. From "Galloping Gertie" to the Golden ...

Super Clean City: São Paulo Entirely Scrubbed of Outdoor Ads

Outdoor advertising is so ubiquitous in almost every urban setting around the world, it’s difficult to walk down a street, take an escalator or sit on a bench without getting slapped in the ...

Advertising Misinformation: How to Fake a Business District

When a city's economy begins to fail, those in charge have some choices to make. Should they pump money into local businesses? Should they let the public see just how bad it's getting? One town ...

Itty Bitty Cities: 22 Models That Miniaturize the World

Model cities aren't just the stuff of kids' toys. They're used all over the world for urban planning, architectural proposals and research. But while miniature cities are useful, they're also a ...

Wowsa: Organic Architect Oshatz’s Wilkinson Treehouse

Wowsa! Architect, artist, magician, Robert Harvey Oshatz is all of that and so much more. He is the organic architect responsible for this magnificent home up in the canopy; the coolest house in ...

Steampunk Art: 11 Steam Powered Character & Fiction Elements

Steampunk, the aesthetic of Victorian clothing and steam powered technology, is known best for its old timey costumes and eccentric, cog-laden accessories, but there's a whole side to the ...

Urban Theater of the Absurd: Bizarre Public Performance Art

All it takes is a crawling woman in a hairy suit, a bunch of jumping men with televisions on their heads or a guy projecting his private parts onto public buildings to turn urban settings into ...

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