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Author: Zanf on July 17 2006 Viewed 6742 times. 39 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I have an interest in abandoned things. Whether they be items, cars, boats, buildings or cities.
I love that they were once loved, used, treasured and then left, possibly in a hurry or through slow, unrealised rejection. Sometimes its just that it is decided not to be used and then all use of it is shut off from those that could possibly utilise it or it is left and eventually noone remembers it.
Places that have been 'forgotten' and then rediscovered I enjoy the most. Like Danvers hospital in Boston - Although I have never visited it and more than likely never will see it (it was due to be completely demolished by this summer), it holds a strange allure for me. It was formerly a mental institution that was of an incredible size and must of housed so many residents, all lost and abandoned in their own way. It is the location for the psycho-thriller film, 'Session 9'. link
I have read that some former patients actually returned to the derelict site and squatted there - lost and not knowing where to go/how to reintergrate into society and so return to a place of familiarity, of so much routine.
The photos fo the deserted theme park in Japan are spooky and yet exhilirating at the same time. A place that was once full of people who were on an adrenaline trip, now sits dormant, losing its function when the thrill seekers are gone. Its like its holding its breath, awaiting the gates to open once more and the throng of people to climb upon the backs of its rides. Instead, like Danvers, it becomes a sanctuary for wildlife.
This is how the world will look if 12 monkeys was to becomes reality or a larger version of the next place: Chernobyl
The same is true to a degree of Chernobyl: it is decaying slowly whilst awaiting the return of its inhabitants and yet it decays faster than the radioactive material's halflife, that is now ingrained so deep into its very fibre that the two are insperable. A new inhabitant has taken residence and has the lease for the next 1000 years.
Hampi or Vijayanagar is an abandoned city in India that is a few hundred miles inland from Goa. It was the capital of the Hindu empire until the combined armies of the five Muslim kingdoms-Bidar, Bijapur, Golconda, Ahmednagar and Berar-destroyed it in 1565. I visited Hampi in 1997 and took 2 rolls of film. Neither of which came out at all.
The first image which is my most local which I intend to try and visit this summer: the Maunsell Sea Forts. There was a few of these designed by guy Maunsell, situated in the Thames estuary to repell any German planes or possible invasion during WW2. They were abandoned until the 60's when a few pirate radio broadcasters took residence in them. Now, I believe only one exists in the form of the photo and now some sort of preservation society has been formed and the cities authorities have decided that it would be 'jolly good' to keep them for posterity. Knowing how the Labour party works, they have probably thought about turning them into plush casinos.
There was one other place that comes to mind that fascinated me and that was the Japanese coal mine island that frn posted in a blog possibly about 18 months - 2 years ago. I cant remember the name of it or I would have posted links and pics.
I know, not music related but my music is sort of an abandoned place at the moment. Ive been so busy with other stuff that it has sapped all my enthusiasm for it and I keep hitting a wall that Im writing the same song over and over but with slightly varying phrases.
I am trying to conceptualise different methods of writing to drag myself out of those deeply furrowed grooves of habit, to approach and value sound in other ways. I am also trying to use different software to break my approach and working methods. Usine is top of the list at the moment but Im also terrible for reading manuals and staving off the desire for instant gratification so its an uphill struggle to do anything more than just process a loop.
Anyway, just a quick reminder that Im selling off loads of records: link
And sorry that this blog was so long and irrelevent.
image links [in order they are displayed upo top]:
Maunsell Sea Forts on the Thames [UK]: link
Danvers State Hospital [Boston, US]: link
Japanese theme park: link
Chernobyl: link
Vijayanagar [Hampi]: link | |
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bla
ever heard of the principality of sealand?
that was an abandoned sea fort built by the british in ww2 but it was outside of british waters so they had no real rights to it and it got 'squatted' by some people who declared it an independent state
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Zanf
Yes. Dont they offer passports or soemthing as well - Ive seen pics and its looks like a shitty oilrig, rusting away. Well, its not even that:
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jdg
actually thats where my servers are hosted, at havenco on sealand.
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room
i love the pics of the Maunsell Sea Forts on the Thames
nice blog mate
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Zanf
Some other points of interst that I shall regall you with!
Hampi/Vijayanagar: the photo of the chariot there - the wheels actually turn. The temple that it is contained within [Vittala temple] have columns that when struck, all have a certain asigned musical pitch.
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jdg
some of those remind me of this: link
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bodo
us belgians know a thing or two about abondoned buildings:
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some really impressive coal mines are scattred in the southern part of this land,
and there are several equally impressive office blocks in various city centres
loads of places are squatted and/or used for throwing parties
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Logo
I've always wanted to go to Danvers State Hospital, but was way too much of a wuss to go. It's a shame that it's being demolished. Maybe I'll muster up the courage to see it from a distance (with binoculars) before it's gone  .
btw: have you ever heard of the Salton Sea in California, check it out (esp. Richard Misrach's amazing photos of it)
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race4prize
haha oh mang, the maunsell sea forts. they are my forts. off whitstable beach where i live, a short boat ride away, i can see them from my house. that shit be crazy.
where do you live man?
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race4prize
oh and btw
one of the maunsell sea forts is soon to be a modern recording studio. lol
they used to also be the base of a pirate radio station by one of my dads 'mates', Bob Le Roi
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Unknownforce
more pics from japan - from that same site link
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we should arrange an stfu on the Maunsell Army sea forts
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the Japanese theme park pics are amazing. love the roller coster ride pics, very creepy looking.
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