Raptured
July 7, 2006 8:50 AM Subscribe
"[T]he world's once most densely populated island become totally deserted. The island, after all its inhabitants departed leaving behind their belongings, became an empty shell of a city where all its people disappeared overnight, as if by some mysterious act of God." (MainPage)(Thumbs)(Gallery)
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My ideal vacation would be to visit an island like that and listen to post-rock all day. Seriously.
posted by Mach3avelli at 8:55 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by Mach3avelli at 8:55 AM on July 7, 2006
Yeah, I'm with you on that Mach3avelli. Abandoned places like that are amazingly fascinating.
I wonder what sort of shape it's in now?
posted by vernondalhart at 9:04 AM on July 7, 2006
I wonder what sort of shape it's in now?
posted by vernondalhart at 9:04 AM on July 7, 2006
Wait, are you not allowed to go there?
That's a definite shame. Would LOVE to see the place firsthand.
posted by kafziel at 9:13 AM on July 7, 2006
That's a definite shame. Would LOVE to see the place firsthand.
posted by kafziel at 9:13 AM on July 7, 2006
Lovely, amazing. Thanks.
posted by Divine_Wino at 9:24 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by Divine_Wino at 9:24 AM on July 7, 2006
Fascinating.
The banner on the wall in this photo is for the mine's closing ceremony.
posted by adamrice at 9:30 AM on July 7, 2006
The banner on the wall in this photo is for the mine's closing ceremony.
posted by adamrice at 9:30 AM on July 7, 2006
Dude I totally played this map in Half Life 2.
posted by quite unimportant at 9:36 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by quite unimportant at 9:36 AM on July 7, 2006
Too bad all the fun abandoned stuff is always, far, far away from me. Nice post format, by the way.
posted by AdamOddo at 9:47 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by AdamOddo at 9:47 AM on July 7, 2006
Fascinating post with beautiful photography. Who cares if its double posted; I say triple post stuff like this to make sure people don't miss it.
posted by somnambulist at 9:51 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by somnambulist at 9:51 AM on July 7, 2006
I'm always joining urban decay/entropy/ruins type groups on Flickr, hoping to see stuff like this.
posted by BoringPostcards at 9:58 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by BoringPostcards at 9:58 AM on July 7, 2006
I don't want to vacation there, I want to live there.
I want to drop ship a year or two worth of supplies, wire up a bunch of solar panels and batteries, a satellite broadband link and just... I don't know, probably go out of my fucking head with the solitude and decay and all the ghosts.
posted by loquacious at 10:06 AM on July 7, 2006
I want to drop ship a year or two worth of supplies, wire up a bunch of solar panels and batteries, a satellite broadband link and just... I don't know, probably go out of my fucking head with the solitude and decay and all the ghosts.
posted by loquacious at 10:06 AM on July 7, 2006
AdamOddo, plenty of abandoned sites around closer by. Not nearly on the scale of this, but here is a bunch of abandoned airfields in Fla, and here are some Fla. ghost towns. This kind of shit is all over, just need to look for it.
posted by edgeways at 10:20 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by edgeways at 10:20 AM on July 7, 2006
"Who cares if its double posted; I say triple post stuff like this to make sure people don't miss it."
Let me tell you about this great new comic strip ...
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:29 AM on July 7, 2006
Let me tell you about this great new comic strip ...
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:29 AM on July 7, 2006
Fascinating. I predict at least two post-apocalyptic movies are filmed there in the next ten years.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 11:08 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 11:08 AM on July 7, 2006
Double, triple, OK, but thanks for this. Beyond the striking nature of the photograph the descriptive essay is a lovely piece of "Japanese" writing, even in translation.
posted by persona non grata at 11:30 AM on July 7, 2006
posted by persona non grata at 11:30 AM on July 7, 2006
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