Location: International
Website: www.urban-decay.livejournal.com
This is a community for people who find beauty in decay. If you love abandoned buildings, historical places, things that are falling apart--anything of the sort, then this is the place. Here you can post photos of things you have seen and share them with others who will appreciate it.
For the purposes of this community, Urban Decay is defined as any form of decay or degeneration [other than that specifically banned in rule 2] found within an urban environment. This includes graffiti, machinery and trash. "Urban" is defined as anywhere within a built-up area - city or town: the standard dictionary definition.
Community rules:
1 - This is a moderated community. Posts must be approved by a moderator, which may take up to 24 hours, possibly more. Until a post is approved, it will not be visible in this community.
2 - This community is for urban imagery. Similar communities which may also be of interest include (but are not limited to) rural ruin, rundown town, abandoned places, dead machinery and deathly decayed.
3 - Due to the image intensive nature of this community, we ask that all photos posted outside a lj-cut tag be no more than 800 pixels wide, and that there be no more than two photos outside a lj-cut per post.
4 - Please include a location (city/town) and description of your photo(s) if possible.
5 - Images in which a person is represented as the decay [that is, where the "Urban Decay" concept is being implicitly applied to the human subject, such as a street dweller] are banned and will be deleted/rejected.
In addition, images that feature a person as the focus, but the emphasis of the "decay" is the setting surrounding the person, are discouraged (though not banned). A couple of people-shots in a set might be tolerated but please don't overdo it. Approval of posts containing images with people in them is up to the discretion of the moderators.
6 - Do not post photos belonging to other individuals without permission/credit. Also, do not use images posted in this community without permission/credit.
Unauthorized use or theft of other people's images will be referred to the LiveJournal Abuse Team for investigation and further action.
7 - Posting links to sites or other LiveJournal communities that are appropriate to the topic of this community is acceptable and encouraged. However, it is the responsibility of anyone posting such links to ensure that the link has not already been posted. Entries pointing to links that have already been posted may be deleted without warning.
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Metropolitan Cityscapes
Location: International
Website: www.metropolitan-cityscapes.org
As devotees of Architecture we often travelled to visit famous buildings, not satisfied to only view them in books. Each Architectural quest brought us to places we might never have thought to visit, walking streets we otherwise would not have walked. In the end, it was the journey and not the destination that mattered. In these places and on these streets, we bore witness to scenes outside our usual experience. The array of foreign sights, sounds and smells quickened our senses as we breathed in these new vignettes of urban life.
Each journey's end left a growing desire, a need to create something we could hold onto to remind us of where we had been, a special keepsake to rekindle our memories and enable us to share stories with friends. And so the expeditions began.
We started with Sydney, then our home, walking every street, recording every building. We then moved onto Berlin, explored Paris and then London. It became an addiction. Eckard cycled for two solid weeks to capture the dense, intricate hive of Tokyo. He hiked up and down the steep lanes of Hong Kong and travelled twice to Beijing to document a city that was rapidly changing for the Olympics, taking more than 3000 photographs.
Cities are divided by a multitude of invisible boundaries; surprises are waiting around every corner. Walking every street means crossing these boundaries, a tedious process leading to exciting discoveries. We became accidental explorers, and inevitably perceived the city through different eyes.
The centre of a city, its beating heart, is a palimpsest overflowing with imagery. Layers upon layers of stories have accumulated and disappeared through time. Behind each facade, each brick, each pathway, untold stories, memories and dreams are waiting to be narrated. Above all the noise, if you listen carefully, you can hear your own tale of the city.
To tell our stories of the city, we peeled away all the complex urban layers so that only the bare bones of place remains. Each line drawn and cut on every cityscape has a distinct story. Metropolitan Cityscapes are a new vision of the city as organism. Each city is as different, and as beautiful, as we are.
Metropolitan Cityscapes is an homage to the cities we have visited and those that have inspired us. In making them, we hope to create a starting point for your own stories and experiences.
Current and former residents of Berlin, Sydney and Tokyo, Chauntelle Trinh and Eckard Buscher have a long held fascination for cities and the urban milieu. Working in the fields of Architecture and Design, they dealt with the minutiae of the city but yearned to explore the macrocosm of metropolitan life. They have been making art collaboratively since 2007.
Website: www.metropolitan-cityscapes.org
As devotees of Architecture we often travelled to visit famous buildings, not satisfied to only view them in books. Each Architectural quest brought us to places we might never have thought to visit, walking streets we otherwise would not have walked. In the end, it was the journey and not the destination that mattered. In these places and on these streets, we bore witness to scenes outside our usual experience. The array of foreign sights, sounds and smells quickened our senses as we breathed in these new vignettes of urban life.
Each journey's end left a growing desire, a need to create something we could hold onto to remind us of where we had been, a special keepsake to rekindle our memories and enable us to share stories with friends. And so the expeditions began.
We started with Sydney, then our home, walking every street, recording every building. We then moved onto Berlin, explored Paris and then London. It became an addiction. Eckard cycled for two solid weeks to capture the dense, intricate hive of Tokyo. He hiked up and down the steep lanes of Hong Kong and travelled twice to Beijing to document a city that was rapidly changing for the Olympics, taking more than 3000 photographs.
Cities are divided by a multitude of invisible boundaries; surprises are waiting around every corner. Walking every street means crossing these boundaries, a tedious process leading to exciting discoveries. We became accidental explorers, and inevitably perceived the city through different eyes.
The centre of a city, its beating heart, is a palimpsest overflowing with imagery. Layers upon layers of stories have accumulated and disappeared through time. Behind each facade, each brick, each pathway, untold stories, memories and dreams are waiting to be narrated. Above all the noise, if you listen carefully, you can hear your own tale of the city.
To tell our stories of the city, we peeled away all the complex urban layers so that only the bare bones of place remains. Each line drawn and cut on every cityscape has a distinct story. Metropolitan Cityscapes are a new vision of the city as organism. Each city is as different, and as beautiful, as we are.
Metropolitan Cityscapes is an homage to the cities we have visited and those that have inspired us. In making them, we hope to create a starting point for your own stories and experiences.
Current and former residents of Berlin, Sydney and Tokyo, Chauntelle Trinh and Eckard Buscher have a long held fascination for cities and the urban milieu. Working in the fields of Architecture and Design, they dealt with the minutiae of the city but yearned to explore the macrocosm of metropolitan life. They have been making art collaboratively since 2007.
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