Abandoned Spaces

[brainpanhandler]

Let me get this straight. They buried a Nazi military-technical college under a small mountain of rubble comprised of the ruins of Berlin, named the mountain Devil's Mountain and then built an NSA radar station on top.

But wait, it got even more Lynchean:

David Lynch has purchased a large property on Berlin's Teufelberg mountain where he hopes to build a university devoted to Transcendental Meditation. But he is in hot water after his guru chanted "invincible Germany" at a lecture about the project.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zei ... 17873.html

But Lynch clearly believes in his plans. "Somehow tonight this beautiful gift has gotten perverted," he said at the forum. "Let's march boldly toward a bright and shining future."

Lynch might have chosen language less evocative of teutonic knights.

[brainpanhandler]

[seemslikeadream]

that's the sun shining through the windows

[Iamwhomiam]

Interesting topic and photos. I feel the draw is the mystery and our interest in exploring the mysterious, perhaps to overcome fear of the unknown, to know what lies just beyond, to wonder why it is now as it is, abandoned of all life and falling or fallen to ruin. At the same time such places serve as momento mori, knowing we too in short time will become just as skeletal and find ourselves in an environment just as devoid of life.

And as barracuda mentioned, one also looks forward, imagining what will in time be, when all existing life and structures have turned to dust.

Oftentimes while looking back in wonder of what once was I find myself wondering about what marvels will be. And I'm sorry to report what I see for the future looks much like many of the photos.



I'm sure the jellyfish archaeologists of the future will wonder what kind of creature would create a clown-god, to which another will remind him, 'the kind that destroys its own. Maybe they took the sacrifices this wretched god demanded a bit too far. Who knows? I think the real clue to our understanding more lies in the wavy mirrors in the antechamber.'

[brainpanhandler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSx47zAZkCc#t=409

Check out the 2:40 mark.

I had to look up this Mr. Blobby business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Blobby

Holy crap.



Someone was trying to give generations of kids nightmares.

[sfnate]

Decay reveals the hidden landscapes of an world that was always there, waiting patiently to be explored by those who can appreciate an ephemeral beauty that seduces the senses even as it retreats beyond memory into nothingness. Melancholy haunts the ruins, and a timeless reverie of dissolution is the spell cast upon those who enter these abandoned spaces, perhaps accidentally but always with an intention of finding another entrance into mystery, where faint etchings on the dissolving walls are the forgotten sentences of a story written by the anonymous authors of our mutual fate.

[Iamwhomiam]

Here here! Well done!

[brainpanhandler]

Donald J. Trump State Park is as ugly and dilapidated as its namesake’s soul

By Marah Eakin @marahe
Feb 28, 2017 11:07 AM

All of that decrepit shabbiness is on full display in a new series of Instagram photos from former A.V. Club Philadelphia City Editor Emily Guendelsberger, a journalist who recently snuck into a GOP retreat by posing as a congressman’s wife. Guendelsberger took a trip up to Trump State Park over the weekend and subsequently declared it an “abandoned wasteland,” posting photos of muddy fields, overgrown tennis courts, and dilapidated buildings. She also captured a picture of one of the grossest looking swimming pools known to man, and it, along with a number of Guendelsberger’s other photos, is posted below.



http://www.avclub.com/amp/251208