Erik Stinson

Ruins

21 Comments

1. October 9th, 2014 / 2:59 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

   I recently learned that contemporary pueblo cultures do not use the term ‘ruins’ to describe ancestral pueblo dwellings, b/c they believe those sites are still occupied by their ancestors, and the current physical/material state of the architecture is just a different part of its life cycle…. interesting shift in worldview, I thought.

2. October 9th, 2014 / 3:38 pm Erik Stinson—

   in an more infinite landscape, before maps and private poverty, there might have been room for the spiritual and the historical

3. October 9th, 2014 / 3:42 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

   I think there are some uncanny places where that kind of room rubs up against the private and mapped… like Detroit.

4. October 9th, 2014 / 5:06 pm Matthew Simmons—

   RUINS

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnPMFhz-RhU

5. October 9th, 2014 / 7:09 pm deadgod—

   There’s this cool scene.

   And there’s this amazing Facebook page (and linked site).

6. October 9th, 2014 / 8:45 pm ĴɎĦ—

   Magnetic Legacies

7. October 9th, 2014 / 9:09 pm mimi—

   DAMN, those malls

8. October 10th, 2014 / 12:22 am jereme_dean—

   think you should definitely get some sort of honorable mention for finding the most banal movie clip on youtube.

9. October 10th, 2014 / 10:13 am mimi—

   Tarkovsky’s Stalker

10. October 10th, 2014 / 12:53 pm deadgod—

    godard is worth your patience, son

11. October 10th, 2014 / 12:56 pm deadgod—

    It’s a great project. I doubt the sensationalism (?) of “dead”, but maybe that’s its point.

12. October 10th, 2014 / 4:04 pm mimi—

    also, there’s a “dead mall” scene in Gone Girl

13. October 10th, 2014 / 7:26 pm jereme_dean—

    only an academic would think film warrants or deserves patience…

14. October 10th, 2014 / 8:43 pm deadgod—

    That’s just not true, jereme. I think some movies are worth patience, and I don’t have the political skilz to be an academic.

15. October 10th, 2014 / 9:02 pm mimi—

    “dead house” might be more sensational….
    and creepy

16. October 11th, 2014 / 11:35 am mimi—

    or haunting, cool –

    for example:

    http://englishrussia.com/2007/02/01/water-running-through-abandoned-houses/

    (check out the comments – many mention Stalker)

    or this:

    http://www.photographyserved.com/Gallery/100-Abandoned-Houses/196639

17. October 11th, 2014 / 1:35 pm deadgod—

    I first thought ‘haunted’ rather than “dead” malls, but the former seems as sensational a term as the latter in the current pop-cult economy.

    In the Rostov-on-Don link, I think commenter LEVON is right: the windows from inside the building are shaped differently than the windows from outside — it’s not the same building. (On the inside, it seems a lot larger, too… but that could be an illusion?)

    Detroit has become pretty representative of urban evacuation (Tim mentions it, above). I’ve read that as many as a quarter of a million ‘homes’ in the city limits are abandoned but still repairable, but man, that’s a lot. (For example, the building in that stream above “Abandoned House 24 / $35.00”, with “REGINA” over the front door, just below the bricks crumbling below the oval window, looks pretty nice.)

    It’s important that history blame corporate mismanagement and larceny and fiscal conservatism in government for the neutron-bomb of ‘Detroit’… those, or blame black people!

18. October 11th, 2014 / 7:10 pm mimi—

    also, there’s a ‘ruin’ in the last episode of True Detective

    have you seen True Detective?

19. October 13th, 2014 / 2:46 am deadgod—

    memento mori

20. October 13th, 2014 / 10:58 am mimi—

    awesome
    especially like #4 & #9

    and am curious, WHY they’re abandoned

21. October 13th, 2014 / 11:00 am mimi—

    re: Detroit, have you seen Searching for Sugarman?