going down

.
.
.
even i, always the ardent decay enthusiast and lover of blight, am kind of freaking out and finding it hard not being overwhelmed with the onslaught of neodepression-related architectural and urban occurrences. i was hoping for the day when architecture would be more about buildings crumbling down than going up, but i never thought it would come so fast and be so in-your-face. i certainly didn't see it happening practically everywhere. i'm trying to come to grips with the debacle by compiling a series of keywords:

bust-towns
disasterscape
excesscapes
frozen skyline
see-through buildings
slumburb
unbuilding



care to share?

perilous

.
.
.
the perilous state of mexico
.
.
.


* night scene in neza by brian l. frank for the wsj

strait?

.
.
.
is it?

via brandavenue

narcomuseo

.
.
.
museo del enervante, mexico city
.
.
.

narcobloqueos

.
.
.
from the nyt:

"they kill. they bribe. they launder money. and now mexico’s drug cartels may have their hands in a new activity: street protests."

neverland

.
.
.
neverland, vacant

via fantastic journal

tank

this blog is tanking faster and deeper than the global economy. better find me some stimulus.

slums‘r’us

.
.
.
go read

* m.i.a. portrait by napoleon habeica, from babybabybaby magazine

neodepressed (4)

.
.
.
global warming (plus the tropicalization of old europe)

neodepressed (3)

.
.
.
bolivia on its way to world superpowerdom due to lithium reserves (plus electrocumbia andina becoming the next reggaeton)

neodepressed (2)

.
.
.
toxic mist (plus cheap thirdworld imitation imports)

neodepressed (1)

.
.
.
urban blight (plus not knowing what the f*ck is going on)