cleansing and makeup remover (towelette) wrote, @ 2006-03-02 12:33:00

i wanna visit gunkanjima
i've developed a liking for deserted buildings ever since that block 15 along short street has been hoarded up, awaiting demolishing ( that block just beside the new lasalle, along rochor canal rd?).



but nothing beats Gunkanjima (battleship island), a fortress like island off the western coast of japan. it was a mining island since the 1880s, but has been abandoned in 1974 when the mines shut down. It is called a battleship island coz of its hight sea-walls. so chio! can die.



Saiga Yuji has this excellent collection of photographs on Gunkanjima. mind blowinggggg. do check it out.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/

	artichoke77 2006-03-02 08:32 (link)
	wow. thanks for sharing! i luv the images. i also have another 2 books on places similar. one is on the kowloon walled city and another on the chernobyl nuclear power plant area. the images are so haunting. such extreme conditions of habitation. gosh. ok i must find a book on gunkanjima too!!!!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

warg 2006-03-02 09:32 (link)

omg. heartstop. i love the one with the narrow urban corridor with the rails running vertical streams down the building sides. its like this Street fighter comic book stylisation of abandoned urban islands, with craters blasted out of streets and building sides where stray fireballs landed. And during ocean storms the roiling sea will spray mists onto the silos and landing platforms. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	besatisfied 2006-03-02 11:36 (link)
	i love the shot of the peeling paint, gives me goosebumps.... lovely pictures, die die must go there to shoot film or photograph one day... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	rebel2000ad 2006-03-02 11:43 (link)
	oh. My. God. I had a dream about this a few years back but it was about S'pore. The photographs of this island is like watching a crystal clear version of that dream. I want to cry!!!!! Thanks David for the link!!! I love it so much!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sleepless77 2006-03-02 23:24 (link)
	They look like the locations for Andrei Tarkovsky films. Very 20th century ruins one. Beautiful. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)