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May 07, 2007 |
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Apocalypse Suburbia
FOUND by Ivy Cooper
in St. Louis, Missouri
A few years ago while I was out running, I found a color negatives strip on a residential street. This one seemed to sum up the American suburban landscape experience pretty well. But, the damage to the negative makes it look downright apocalyptic.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
i find this middle america suburban landscape downright depressing. i need trees. *real* trees, not the 2 or 3 strategically placed.
and grass. yeah, i need grass. you can keep the asphalt.
what was the reason for this pic, i wonder?
more like infested than apocalyptic
You're right - its the creepy red splotches... and this looks like it might have been taken from a car window.
to be really really boring, it kinda looks like a shitload of bugs that've splattered on a car window
Wow-that is a creepy effect...but funny, at first glance I thought it was of a ticker-tape parade.
TGI fridays is america's worst chain casual dining restaraunt.
This picture is absolutely beautiful. It's a perfect model for the decay of society and of bourgeois suburbia.
It looks just like this area near me... and I'm sure everyone else will say the same thing.
It reminds me of a George Romero movie. Does it make anyone else feel like hiding at the mall?
Looks like: Any exit, off any highway, anywhere here in the middle, with nuclear fallout the day after invasion.........Wolverines!!!
P.S. Dirty FOUND rocked INDY last night. We maxed out BIG CAR's space, it was SRO. Nice turnout my Indy brethren. Apparently the counter culture still thrives here in 'Nap-town.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this was it was a picture taken just before the big tornado hit in Kansas.
It doesn't look anything like where I live- thank GODDESS!
Makes me think of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels. I know it's the wrong color, but... Thread, anyone?
I thought the same thing. The orange splotches looked like flying debris right before a tornado. When I realized it wasn't the picture kind of made me feel cold and dreary because it looks like it was taken on a cold and rainy day.
Makes me think of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels. I know it's the wrong color, but... Thread, anyone?
Many of us drive by this exact same scene everyday and never see it for ourselves. We ignore the perceived ugliness of urban life. There are many who would find a night at the Holiday Inn & dinner at TGIF quite the special treat. Everyone has a different reality.
i really like picture finds, they always get my imagination going. this one is awesome, and apocalyptic is the right word to describe it.
i'm so glad i don't see shit like that on a daily basis. I see a lot of concrete (downtown, not strip malls) and not many trees, but at least there's not all that toxic orange shit floating around, y'know?
What is that? Desquimated yuppie skin?
whoa kari, you're right!
where's a dragon when you need one? (for the thread or suburbia itself, you decide)
the spots in the sky look to me like a massive release of balloons of various shapes & sizes, so i think of the picture as festive rather than depressing, despite the utter banality of the other elements.
When I first saw the picture, I thought it was one I had taken. 15 years ago on my and my husbands 5th anniversary we were passing through Tacoma Wa. We were in an area just like this one. Over the tops of the buildings the moon was so full and so big that I had to take the picture. Once the film was developed the moon could barely be seen in the picture. I ended up with a non-descript town like this one. Perhaps that's what happened here.
Damn...looks like the hot sauce truck exploded again.
Its a stakeout. And Lt. James McCullough and his partner have been looking for that special waitress, the one with all the right flair (on her uniform). Suddenly James gets a hunch, drops his chalupa and fire sauce goes everywhere. Steph won't be there, tonight's her night off... [TO BE CONTINUED somewhere down ↓ the line]
this is so utterly depressing.
i already hate humanity for creating places that look like this,
and this picture makes me think it's a prophetic red, splotchy end to the blight mankind is upon the world.
i hope it comes soon.
It was a dreary winter's day. The leafless trees appeared naked and skeletal. Burt, eyes glassy and bloodshot from total lack of sleep, slowly eased his red pick-up in to a spot marked "compact". He popped open the door and stepped out onto the damp asphalt. After pausing a moment and taking in a lungful of the newly washed air, he pulled a red bandana from his breast pocket and wiped a smudge from his favorite pair of ostrich skin boots. And proceed into the Fridays establishment. After having his fill of steak and fried onions, he casually walked over to the Holiday Inn and rented a room. Yesterday Doc informed Burt that a 40 year, three-pack-a-day affair with the Marlboro man don't come cheap. And and just at the moment that Burt took his immortality into a loving embrace--12 year old Cody Horton, on his way to the Grand Cayon, pulled out his new, disposable Kodak, and snapped a picture of a red pick up that caught his fancy while driving through Anytown, USA.
i refuse to every live anywhere that looks like this; that is a product of living my entire 18 years on an island.
It looks like the pizza delivery guy hit the brakes hard and somebody's not getting their dinner in 15 minutes or less.
Star Wars 4, attack of the red rain.......
Awesome tital, I know. ^o^
Perhaps the car window this was shot through had a residual type of "shoe paint" on the window? You know like when people write on your windows and it doesn't come off completely for weeks?
jan i agree.. that is definatly pizza.. and im sad because i love pizza and tgifreaking gross killed it..:-(
I'm a day late, but thank goodness I didn't miss much. However, this pic does give me the creeps.
Terrie, I wanted you to know that I enjoyed your story! Very good!
That is weird because I know where that is...and I agree with Jill, shoe paint is very possible...often the reminents of highschool seniors in STL after spirit week. Never a good time.
bradlea, dont whine about hating humanity, do something about it. change your world for the better, and try to help humanity while you're at it. theres no piont in whining if you're not going to make it better.
Ah but there is no thread anymore! :( . which makes me sad because what are the dragons to fight???
I read alot of anne mccaffrey.
They they pushed the red star out of orbit by exploding the engines of the old colony ships!!!!!!!!!!!
no more thread.
hear hear rachel!
thanks rachel, i can see where you would have thought i was just whining.
don't worry, i try.
texas?
kingman, arizona?
To me it looks more like it is raining confetti than the end of the world. Kinda like TGI Friday's is having a party
Wow Bradlea, what an uplifting person you are! Have you ever considered being a motivational speaker?