TechniColor: Desolation and Renewal

So many photographers and artists are capturing the eerie remains of failed cities and abandoned structures, and since I've come across so many this week, I thought I'd share a lot of them with my good friend InterWebs.

And then there's all the other stuff I've been waiting to show you interspersed throughout.

mab-ken via gadling


An abandoned mining island in Nagasaki, Japan.

French By Design

Oh I would sing and sing and sing in this beautiful shower.

Probably at my someday vacation home in...somewhere tropical-ish.

I got bored and wondered why the QWERTY keyboard is laid out the way it is.

There. I wiki'd it for you.

via the coolest

An abandoned Ukrainian Submarine base













Dad: "Aw, my tomato plant is dying." [sigh] "Evolution."
No, Dad, not evolution.

ohdeedoh

An adorable and creative setup for fitting three children in one room.

design*sponge

Inflatable 70's stools.
I like them in a kind of quirky way...

after the final curtain via  buzzfeed



Abandoned theater and scaffolding in Newark, NJ

 via Industrial Design Served


Francois Hurtaud designed Eva as a means of waste recycling.  Though it appears minimalistic and sleek, the system has eight major components...one of which is an aquarium! 

Read  about how it works.

















 Tiffany Arment via  green wedding shoes


Rainbow wedding.
















 via colossal


Ransom Riggs documents the creation of desolation surrounding the Salton Sea - an accident. 
An abandoned city.
















Images of the Voila Gallery via apartment therapy

None of that should work but it all kind of does, you know?

yeowatzup via  gadling

Abandoned vacation resort in New Taipei, Taiwan.

Photographer Ocvirk Kus Danica in loftlife via apartment therapy

A former stable converted into a loft. Check out the other sweet pictures.

This song is so very stuck in my head right now.
When it comes on and I'm in my car, I break it down like the whitest kid you know.

anthropologie



Aw I would wear this dress and its delicate hem every single day.
In my room. While I twirl in front of the mirror.














Am I Wearing Pants?
Avoid the pants-less pandemic. This is important.

brown dress with white dots via dwellings

A dockside dinner.

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre via Time

Abandoned Spanish Gothic theater in Detroit 
Spooky, eh?

Self-portrait with my grandmother

 via my modern metropolis

Anna Di Prospero is the artist behind this beautiful series of self-portraits. 

They are emotive and touching, and so well-done.

Self-portrait with my father

via hiphipgingin

If only I had the patience [and that beautiful hair].

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre via Time

Abandoned dentist chair in the David Broderick Tower in Detroit

Q: Is swimming good for your figure?

A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

All your health questions and more answered in a very reliable Health Question & Answer Session.

Gordon Wiltisie via The Telegraph

Camping off the side of a 4000 ft cliff.
A small part of me wants to try it.

via the coolist

Abandoned Russian water park.

decopeques

I love this loft - the basic bedframe, the dark brick wall, the high high window. 

It looks like a magical little space...

Things Organized Neatly

A dismantled Volkswagen golf, piece by piece.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

-Emerson

I went to a workout class with my parents. It was miserable - I have no sense of rhythm. Even the 70+ year old ladies beside me got their groove on...while I kind of walked around in circles and looked embarrassed.
Skip to 25 seconds to see what I look like in exercise class.
PS - sorry - you'll have to go to youtube to see it.






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Encouragement


Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness,
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.


Psalm 51:6-8


God renews. 

-bRob