urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell antitecture. Jono 2008-05-11T22:47:21Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:274623 2008-05-11T22:47:21Z 2008-05-11T22:47:21Z ...are some spectacular ruins. One likes to show itself, and one likes to show itself impenetrable...<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3670.jpg"><br /><br />wanna see more? click the thingie...<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3660.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3659.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3657.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3678.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3680.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3686.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3690.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3705.jpg"><br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:274294 2008-05-11T22:41:17Z 2008-05-11T22:41:17Z Some snaps from our nation's capital, where I have been for most of this past week...<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3608.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_5052.jpg"><br /><br />wanna see more? Click the thingie...<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br />'the hill'<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_5090.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3569.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_5072.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_5071.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3722.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3789.jpg"><br /><br />the monument:<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3585.jpg"><br /><br />Oligarchy-HQ...err...the Supreme Court:<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_5035.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_5057.jpg"><br /><br />looking over the locks, one rainy night...<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3601.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3615.jpg"><br /><br />Human Rights memorial, rainy night...<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3633.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3626.jpg"><br /><br />I'm glad to be back-<br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:274065 2008-05-08T22:40:13Z 2008-05-08T22:40:13Z <img src="http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee51/xanthropy1/IMG_0984copy.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:273759 2008-05-08T22:39:04Z 2008-05-08T22:39:04Z <img src="http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee51/xanthropy1/IMG_1078copy.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:273416 2008-05-06T03:43:47Z 2008-05-06T05:04:03Z Not Detroit, not Buffalo, not even dear sweet Hamilton, no. Perhaps the most dangerous location I've ever been to - <br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3440.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3349.jpg"><br /><br />want to see more? click the thingie...<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br />A mere few days prior, the roof had come tumbling in, and all the building was leaning toward that great bright hole...<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3377.jpg"><br /><br />Our first entry, ridiculous, but ultimately fruitless, was harder to get out of than in...<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3342.jpg"><br /><br />A few feet took ages, as we eked our way in, fully aware that the wrong step or momentary rest could bring the beast right down upon us...<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3402.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3444.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3443.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3442.jpg"><br /><br />What a beautiful, awe-inspiring, awful, disaster we sought-<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3382.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3381.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3380.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3379.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3385.jpg"><br /><br />A place beyond beauty, the aesthetics of decay - an utterly damned place...and still - stunning. A man died in this place...me and a friend attended a fruitless public meeting to discuss the future potential for its now fated hallways...<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3392.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3391.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3424.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3432.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3434.jpg"><br /><br />As the time passed, I began to secretly worry that the structural integrity of the building was not our only concern or fear...<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3492.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3474.jpg"><br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:273340 2008-05-05T15:25:40Z 2008-05-05T15:25:40Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3187.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:272897 2008-05-04T03:00:52Z 2008-05-04T03:00:52Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3289.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:272761 2008-05-04T02:53:47Z 2008-05-04T02:53:47Z Looking at his music: Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Clara Rockmore's work, Locust Toybox, Philip Glass, and on and on - <br /><br />(some of us have had it at the back of our minds for years, but what does this sort of work really 'do' for us - why do we watch it...)<br /><br />A brilliant, if 'internet' dark, look at things which remove us from 'things' - an escapism so fully vile, dirty, and distant, that we cannot help but feel better about the other side of the monitor while watching - one so unspeakable, we recognize it.<br /><br />any of them:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.fat-pie.com/flash.htm">http://www.fat-pie.com/flash.htm</a><br /><br />Yuk-&gt; urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:272618 2008-05-04T00:52:32Z 2008-05-04T00:52:32Z Colours are best just after a storm...<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3316.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3308.jpg"><br /><br />wanna see more? click the thingie...<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3300.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3303.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3317.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3319.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3334.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3336.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3291.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3292.jpg"><br /><br />...it was a 20-minute window of sun, before the cool of proper dark began to set in.<br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:272331 2008-05-03T20:37:26Z 2008-05-03T20:38:09Z "I thought, particularly auspicious that the rows of houses were interrupted here and there by patches of waste land on which stood ruined buildings, for ever since I had once visited Munich I had felt nothing to be so unambiguously linked to the word 'city' as the presence of heaps of rubble, fire-scorched walls, and the gaps of windows through which one could see the vacant air" (Sebald, 'The Emigrants').<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3266.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:271972 2008-05-03T20:31:28Z 2008-05-03T20:31:28Z rain + barren demolition site = lots (and lots) of mud.<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3162.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3167.jpg"><br /><br />wanna see more, click the thingie...<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3265.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3280.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3272.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3278.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3208.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3216.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3198.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3250.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3248.jpg"><br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:271680 2008-05-03T04:14:36Z 2008-05-03T04:14:36Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3134.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:271482 2008-05-03T04:13:42Z 2008-05-03T14:53:47Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3151.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:271228 2008-05-03T03:52:53Z 2008-05-03T04:16:36Z Stopped by the very populated 'Gallery DK' last evening-<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3104.jpg"><br /><br />wanna see more? click the thingie..<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3112.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3108.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3115.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3119.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3103.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3118.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3120.jpg"><br /><br />my favorite pieces...<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3122.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3123.jpg"><br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:271020 2008-05-01T02:09:56Z 2008-05-01T02:09:56Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_2771copy.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_2776.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:270636 2008-05-01T00:17:54Z 2008-05-01T00:17:54Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_2887.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:270397 2008-04-30T05:00:12Z 2008-04-30T05:00:12Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3096.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:270276 2008-04-30T04:46:12Z 2008-04-30T20:50:02Z I.Love.You<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3067.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3053.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:269894 2008-04-29T23:41:38Z 2008-04-29T23:41:38Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_2955.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_2957.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:269764 2008-04-29T21:49:06Z 2008-04-29T21:49:06Z ...that is a VERY good question.<br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/cars1.jpg"><br /><br />to see the snaps individually, and what they are of, click the thingie...<br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br />3 Lamborghinis: (from left to right) Countach LP, Diablo 25th anniversary, Miura<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0570.jpg"><br /><br />Dodge Daytona Charger:<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0540.jpg"><br /><br />Shelby Ford Mustang GT500:<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0543.jpg"><br /><br />Ford 'Bullitt' Mustang:<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0546.jpg"><br /><br />Lamborghini Gallardo SE and Duel-cockpit concept Spyder:<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0573.jpg"><br /><br />Lamborghini Jalpa:<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0575.jpg"><br /><br />Audi TT-S, 2 parts:<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0561.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0564.jpg"><br /><br />small Brits:<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0523.jpg"><br /><br />1936 Ford Roadster:<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0528.jpg"><br /><br />Nissan Skyline R32 GTR:<br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_0531.jpg"><br /><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:269407 2008-04-29T04:28:29Z 2008-04-29T04:28:29Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3086.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3080.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:269191 2008-04-29T04:23:32Z 2008-04-29T04:23:32Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3007.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3044.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:268950 2008-04-29T04:21:06Z 2008-04-29T04:21:06Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_3001.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:268587 2008-04-29T04:18:30Z 2008-04-29T04:18:30Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_2982.jpg"> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:jonathancastell:268479 2008-04-29T04:17:15Z 2008-04-29T04:17:15Z <img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_2914.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk19/xanthropy2/IMG_2915.jpg">