November 4
In addition to being a faulty visual metaphor, the train station has also been completely shot to death. For a derelict structure, it’s kind of a happening spot. Each time I passed by I saw another group of kids with camera bags scoping out the gate. When I finally ducked in to check it out for myself, I had to wait for a lady artist from Buffalo, New York, whose shtick is taking nude portraits of herself in abandoned buildings, to put her clothes back on. Afterward I was interrupted by a musician named Deity who was making a video on the roof.—
SOMETHING, SOMETHING, SOMETHING, DETROIT - Lazy Journalists Love Pictures of Abandoned Stuff - Vice Magazine (via Jeremy Levine)
I like this…I won’t lie, I think those pictures of abandoned, decaying Detroit are pretty fascinating but there’s something kind of odd about them too.
