architecture

Monday, September 19, 2005

The decay rides


These photos of an abandoned amusement park in Japan remind me simultaneously of the recent film *Requiem for a Dream* and of an old black & white horror "classic" called *Carnival of Souls* –


– which has an unintentionally hilarious scene in which the spooked-out heroine refuses to leave her car during an undercarriage check-up...


In any case, the photographer's research continues elsewhere, and with consistently high quality; and, in this context, I might humbly suggest checking out an old BLDGBLOG entry on Gunkanjima Island (which the above photographer also explores). (That is to say, he/she explores Gunkanjima Island [also called Hashima – 'Gunkanjima' means battleship, and is just a nickname], not BLDGBLOG's old entry about it...).

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