Monday, December 5, 2011

What's Left of Detroit

Detroit

Granted, it was after the bar closed. Still, getting a couple of shots taken with a ten-second timer by setting the camera down in the middle of the road makes for one lonely animated gif.

Here's a static shot of the Fisher Building's doorway from the median of another empty intersection:

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34 comments:

  1. Dr.KennethNoisewaterDecember 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM

    I like that camera-on-the-ground method, dammit. And you made a gif! How cool is that?

    Now, the second picture I just flat-out like. If I could think of something neat to do with it, would you let me use it? It has a great mood, plus that entrance is so ornate and grand. I dig that.

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  2. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 1:38 PM

    I don't have a problem with anyone lifting anything I do here.

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  3. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 1:41 PM

    Hmm, looks different at work than it does at home. Mild camera jiggling to make shot#2 shows more. Maybe I have some kind of multiple-shot timer on there. Gotta check.

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  4. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©December 5, 2011 at 1:43 PM

    Put your hands up for Detroit!
    ~

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  5. JenniferDecember 5, 2011 at 1:45 PM

    When I've been in Detroit, I've always thought, "Hmm, and this is what it's like after a nuclear bomb goes off... the people are gone, the buildings remain."

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  6. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 1:49 PM

    Oh, and I forgot to look it up. I believe that is the Fisher Building. There may be a better doorway shot out there; the thing is pretty amazing.

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  7. Dr.KennethNoisewaterDecember 5, 2011 at 2:01 PM

    I don't have a problem with anyone lifting anything I do here.

    Well! Your permission means less now. No, no...kidding. It's actually good to know because while-- as you say--there are better pictures of the building, they are either a.) copyrighted or b.) I don't have permission to use them. And since I sell some of my works, using that kind of image is a no-no. So having access to images like this is really nice for me.

    "Thank you" would be a shorter way of saying that.

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  8. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    while-- as you say--there are better pictures of the building

    OH THANKS.

    Let me know if you want the larger file. This one received a mild rotation in the GIMP which might've messed up some fidelity.

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  9. Dr.KennethNoisewaterDecember 5, 2011 at 2:30 PM

    Hey, it was your pic that got my creative juices flowing. It looks so neat, all lit-up and desolate. And, yeah, I'd need a bigger file.

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  10. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 2:41 PM

    Working late, so the bigger file may not make it before tomorrow.

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  11. Smut ClydeDecember 5, 2011 at 2:58 PM

    May I recommend the Rossio Station archways in Lisbon?

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  12. Dr.KennethNoisewaterDecember 5, 2011 at 3:05 PM

    D'oh! Those are SO GREAT. Augh!

    But I love the scale and desolateness of subby's pic.

    W/v wonders if the design is "bahus"

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  13. Smut ClydeDecember 5, 2011 at 4:13 PM

    More foteaux of Rossio Station now uploaded.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/21542477@N08/6462833549/in/photostream
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/21542477@N08/6462833557/in/photostream/

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  14. Dr.KennethNoisewaterDecember 5, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    Sooooooooooo cool. So--*cough*--do I have permission to use your pics too?

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  15. Smut ClydeDecember 5, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    Go wild. Please no double-goatse though.

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  16. Dr.KennethNoisewaterDecember 5, 2011 at 5:09 PM

    I MAKE NO PROMISES.

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  17. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 5:10 PM

    Ha ha ha. All the goatse can do is spread Spread SPREAD.

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  18. Dr.KennethNoisewaterDecember 5, 2011 at 6:13 PM

    Truth.

    I am hanging out here 'til Dennis quits hinting that I am dumb and uninteresting.

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  19. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 6:24 PM

    You know, there was a period there where I strictly used JanusNode names, a new one per comment. It was kind of fun except that every now and then I'd post something I wanted to see again or something in the thread was interesting and I couldn't use my name to get back to it.

    Anyway, it's fun to be a dozen people carrying on an argument with one.

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  20. Dr.KennethNoisewaterDecember 5, 2011 at 6:45 PM

    I kinda wanna be Drummers the Molecatcher...or simply "Horror" now.

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  21. RachelDecember 5, 2011 at 7:19 PM

    Last time I checked, you can use a copyrighted image as long as you change 10% of it.

    Rossio Stn. is beautiful!!

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  22. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    In the US that's not right. Figuring out what's derivative and what's not happens in a courtroom and that hinges on how much money you have to fight such things.

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  23. zombie rotten mcdonaldDecember 5, 2011 at 8:07 PM

    "horror" is for short:

    Mespoilage Churchyards-Seated the Tentacled Horror

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  24. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 8:08 PM

    I was impressed that Churchyards made it together with Horror.

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  25. zombie rotten mcdonaldDecember 5, 2011 at 8:10 PM

    I think Jennifer means "neutron" bomb. A nuclear bomb takes the buildings away too, mostly.

    Technically, it is my understanding that the neutron bomb does too, just less in relation to the people killed, he pedanted pedantly.

    Mankind really is a clever bunch of psychopaths, aren't we?

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  26. Substance McGravitasDecember 5, 2011 at 8:12 PM

    You could always just murder everyone in a city one by one, brain by eaten brain.

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  27. zombie rotten mcdonaldDecember 5, 2011 at 8:15 PM

    I am hanging out here 'til Dennis quits hinting that I am dumb and uninteresting.

    BUT YOU DYED YOUR HAIR RED.

    What an odd thing to use as an indictment.

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  28. zombie rotten mcdonaldDecember 5, 2011 at 8:15 PM

    You could always just murder everyone in a city one by one, brain by eaten brain.

    SOME DAYS, I AM TEMPTED.

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  29. Smut ClydeDecember 6, 2011 at 12:06 AM

    BUT YOU DYED YOUR HAIR RED.

    It isn't naturally that colour? My heart is broken now.

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  30. El ManquécitoDecember 6, 2011 at 2:32 AM

    I think Jennifer means "neutron" bomb

    I knew this because I once played in a neutron band; every performance there was nothing left but the empty chairs.

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  31. fishDecember 6, 2011 at 5:41 AM

    YOU ARE LARRY THE BOAFISH?!?!! I hate that guy!

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  32. JenniferDecember 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM

    Pfft... nuclear... neutron... potato... potahto... :) You knew what I meant, I think.

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  33. zombie rotten mcdonaldDecember 6, 2011 at 9:18 AM

    At least you didn't say nukular, Jennifer. I would have gone nuclear.

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  34. JenniferDecember 6, 2011 at 1:58 PM

    At least you didn't say nukular, Jennifer.

    Oh please. Give me more credit than that. If I had, I would have gone nuclear.

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