Russian Graffiti [art]

Folk art graffiti in the Ukraine, from a collection at English Russia

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Incredible Jelly Art [Liz Hickok]

Artist Liz Hickok has created stunning representations of San Francisco entirely out of Jello-O. ‘I make the landscapes by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which I use to make molds’, she says. ‘I then cast the buildings in Jell-O.

Liz Hickok is a San Francisco-based artist working in photography, video, sculpture, installation, and currently, Jell-O. Hickok received her Masters in Fine Arts from Mills College in Oakland, California. She earned a BFA and BA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Hickok lived and worked in Boston for over ten years before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. via Linkedin

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Liz Hickok’s amazing installation “San Francisco in Jell-O”

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San Francisco City via Funny Cool Stuff Liz Hickok

The piece is called “The First 100 Days: The White House in Jell-O”.

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Twin Peaks

Coit Tower

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10 Haunted & Abandoned buildings around the world

Quote ” Old buildings, abandoned hospitals, industrial palaces overgrown with plants and trees,the remaining walls decorated with graffiti, smashed windows, rain dripping through the roof…“ (Henk van Rensbergen) via http://www.abandoned-places.com

Here’s and selection of 10 Haunted Abondoned buildings around the world

A pile of rubble lies next to the collapsed north wing of the former Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. (Photo: Judith Berdy/Roosevelt Island Historical Society)

Abandoned building in Wellsville, Ohio.

Atelier Decor Plaster Workshop in Belgium:

Extraordinary images, from a mental hospital in Surrey, England, to Michael Jackson's hauntingly empty hometown. 1936 Berlin Olympic Village Outside of Berlin, buildings and facilities used by athletes attending the controversial 1936 Berlin Olympics lie unkempt and empty.

Here is a little photo-session of an abandoned city. When the Soviet Union collapsed, government didn’t have much funds to support some small cities around strategically import objects. People of these cities were left all by themselves. Nobody could support them because any communication with this places terminated after the army decided that they now don’t have money to support those objects.

Thanks to englishrussia.com

The Sweet Juniper blog has a gallery of abandoned Detroit houses that are being overcome by the foliage around them, trees and shrubs and plants growing around, on and in them.

Scooby Doo made an entire series out of the idea of spooky abandoned amusement parks. This park near the Chernobyl disaster was abandoned before it sever opened.

Abandoned train station, Detroit

The Pavilion building, built in 1885, was originally an insane asylum for women. It handled the overflow from the asylum on Roosevelt Island, and typically received chronic cases. In the 1970s, it saw its final use as a drug rehab facility called Phoenix House.

Check out the Complete Story here a fanstaic site and remarkable images

http://kingstonlounge.blogspot.com/2008/08/hart-island.html

On the very northernmost coast of Taiwan lies the spookily bizarre San Zhi resort, which consists entirely of circular, multi-coloured pods stacked on top of one another. Furthermore, these strange habitats have been completely abandoned for a number of years, and are slowly rotting away into nothing.

Erich Morton and his friend James stumbled upon the site of the former Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans. The park was heavily damaged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and has since fallen into disrepair as cleanup and recovery have all but been abandoned (for now). What’s left in the park’s place is a mess of rides that are left half-standing and a lot of rubble from the storm.

For even more Abandoned places check out this fantastic site really put the shivers up me !

http://www.dirjournal.com/info/abandoned-places-in-the-world/

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