Google Street View Detroit

I could spend hours looking at these. They definitely chose some nice days for taking the pictures - lots or clear crisp shots from the google van. It's amazing how easy it is to find interesting shots. It's not even a tough search, with about 90,000 abandoned homes and buildings in the city. Just randomly drop down on the map and some neighborhood and you'll eventually find photos like these. Really apocalyptic. Obviously very sad, but like a car accident on the side of the road, it's hard to stop looking.

quite beautiful some of these. but I guess it's not nearly as beautiful if you actually live there.

Very interesting indeed. Good post.

Detroit is kind of amazing. A truly bizarre set of circumstances that have created an unbelievable urban environment. In a sick way I kind of love that real life detroit is FAR worse than the decayed shithole that Verhoeven created.

it looks like a small southern town, but it's a big northern city.

Hurf durf, more like Detoilet...

I'm going to move to detroit after school. seems like a wise career move

those are great pictures, never thought of doing that

my friend took this picture when he was in detroit while on some kind of beach

look closely at the upper left

(i used content aware delete in photoshop to remove him from the picture, didnt work too well)

Why does some places look like a third world country in the world's richest country?

/kanakori

i've heard tell that there are packs of feral dogs roaming some of the more abandoned areas of detroit

clarence boddicker aint got shit on feral dog packs

  On 5/16/2012 at 9:52 AM, dr lopez said:

I'm going to move to detroit after school. seems like a wise career move

this is like 75% serious

edit: 4600th post.

edit 2: also Devil's Night is getting crazier and crazier every year cause there is just so much shit to burn

Detroit is the future.. a taste of things to come.

I lived there between 99-03. I used to wake up on Sunday mornings and roam around some of the abandoned areas. Totally surreal. You could walk for blocks and not see anyone.

  On 5/16/2012 at 9:53 AM, Awepittance said:

those are great pictures, never thought of doing that

 

my friend took this picture when he was in detroit while on some kind of beach

 

 

look closely at the upper left

 

(i used content aware delete in photoshop to remove him from the picture, didnt work too well)

are cooling towers a rare sight over there?

plenty of them over here. check out the lovely grangemouth...

  On 5/16/2012 at 9:54 AM, azatoth said:

Why does some places look like a third world country in the world's richest country?

 

/kanakori

HA!

But cool photos. Kinda wish this year's most IDM thing was Abandoned Houses/Cities/Apartments.

Let play that game where you try and guess if the image is from Detroit or a screen-shot from Fallout or Stalker

  On 5/16/2012 at 4:40 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/16/2012 at 9:53 AM, Awepittance said:

those are great pictures, never thought of doing that

 

my friend took this picture when he was in detroit while on some kind of beach

 

 

look closely at the upper left

 

(i used content aware delete in photoshop to remove him from the picture, didnt work too well)

 

are cooling towers a rare sight over there?

 

plenty of them over here. check out the lovely grangemouth...

 

yea, i have never seen cooling towers in real life

The cooling tower pics remind of this photo:

Texas has a couple nuclear plants somewhere, but there are plenty of refineries on the coast and of course a plethora of rigs out in the Gulf.

You can see the lights the rigs give off in this satellite image. I've been on a cruise out of Galveston and they're everywhere as you sail out - bit surreal and I won't lie, they're kinda pretty to look at when night falls.

Back to Detroit - all the pictures and images I see of remind of this documentary, which I know has been posted on watmm a few times. Especially the part @ 1:40

Wheres the techno?

I'm going to Detroit next week for the Movement festival.

Planning to see Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson + Inner City live, Carl Craig + 69, Eddie Fowlkes, Kenny Larkin, Blake Baxter, Stacey Pullen plus a ton of other artists

  On 5/16/2012 at 7:23 PM, chassis said:

Wheres the techno?

  On 5/16/2012 at 7:05 PM, jules said:

  On 5/16/2012 at 4:40 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/16/2012 at 9:53 AM, Awepittance said:

those are great pictures, never thought of doing that

 

my friend took this picture when he was in detroit while on some kind of beach

 

 

look closely at the upper left

 

(i used content aware delete in photoshop to remove him from the picture, didnt work too well)

 

are cooling towers a rare sight over there?

 

plenty of them over here. check out the lovely grangemouth...

 

 

yea, i have never seen cooling towers in real life

I've seen so many cooling towers in the States

But I used to live across the river from this

Which uses the goddamn Atlantic in lieu of a cooling tower, so I might be desensitized a bit

Mugging?

"Out of despair, desperate people make great art." - Sir James Gruffington Churles III esq

we had a detroit dj over for our night recently and went to dinner him with, he was quite passionate about detroit itsself and said its worse now than he has ever seen it, rough beyond belief.

i'm assuming many US cities driven by industrial jobs are in similar situations. if we could just knock all this old garbage down and rebuild without going through millions of dollars of lawsuits to protect some piece of "history", buffalo would actually have a waterfront. as it stands, there are many derelict grain elevators and other various industrial behemoths waiting to collapse.

**why build these giants on the waterfront, instead of creating public spaces like parks? well, they had to dump all their waste somewhere...