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 Steed
        
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
 |  |  | Back with a bang
< on 7/14/2008 8:28 AM >
|  | | | I really didn't disappear from this site or anything, but for the last two weeks I've been without a working camera. It really messed with my mind, particularly my memory, and I know I couldn't survive much longer without having a camera. Repairs ended up costing only $70, so I got my camera back on Saturday. There was a lot of catching up to do.
1. This was the first picture I took.
2. The repair shop is next to a train yard, so while I waited for my wife I took a couple pictures of the trains.
3. It was raining pretty hard, and if I got too close to the window my camera would get soaked.
4. This is where the repair shop is, in a fairly large electronics market.
Fortunately, Sunday was a clear day so I took my scooter out and revisited a few sites.
5. This place was in a neighbourhood that used to be an important Catholic site in Korea.
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7. I returned to Double Dragon Street (you might remember it from the "Blondes Have More Fun" thread) to see how demolition was coming along.
8. That church is officially on my deathwatch list. It's only a matter of time.
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11. I decided to make a tactical retreat when I saw someone on another roof.
12. Spot the toilet.
13. A couple of units in these places weren't abandoned. The nearest one really reminds me of my own apartment.
14. I got up on a rooftop to take pictures of this neighbourhood, which will probably be entirely gone in a few years.
15. Yeah, uh, magnificent.
16. The demolished part used to have a karaoke bar and a urology clinic.
Getting down from the rooftop, I nearly fell into a dangerous trap. I unlocked the stairwell door on the 19th floor and went all the way down, but I found that all the doors were locked. Fortunately the first floor was open, or I would've had to go all the way up again.
17. And one final picture of my cat, who loves urbexing windowsills.
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Robin
Location: China
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1 on 7/14/2008 8:57 AM >
| | | | "I know I couldn't survive much longer without having a camera
i can feel that"
camera is become a part of your life!
anyway
nice work!
[email protected]
INS:callmerobbinhood
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mistergray
Location: Denmark
Gender: Male
What me worry?
| | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 2 on 7/14/2008 11:43 AM >
| | | | Very nice work on #3. Looks great.
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seicer
 
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 3 on 7/14/2008 11:46 AM >
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A miniature train set 
The photos are depressing. Unique, dense neighborhoods are being replaced with bland, uninspiring towers.
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_liss_
Location: Hudson Valley,NY
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 4 on 7/14/2008 12:19 PM >
| | | | Those towers are really depressing. Do they all say Samsung on the side? And if so, why?
Thanks for sharing, and cute kitty!
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 5 on 7/14/2008 12:38 PM >
| | | | Posted by _liss_
Those towers are really depressing. Do they all say Samsung on the side? And if so, why?
Thanks for sharing, and cute kitty!
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Samsung is just the company that built those ones. Maybe wherever you are you know them only as an electronics company, but over here they're called a "chaebol," which is a sort of feudal mega-corporation that has interests in all industries in the nation. The second and third largest chaebols are Hyundai and LG.
Usually these buildings have awful names, the weirdest being simply "We've."
In this area where I was, there's also a big project called "Brownstone" (written in large black Korean letters in the picture below). Not surprisingly, they're just more stark white concrete towers (not brown and not stone).
Oh yeah, here's another pathetic name I found: "Honorsville."
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Todd D.
Location: Maryland
Gender: Male
| | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 6 on 7/14/2008 1:42 PM >
| | | | 3 the trees and every thing sure does look like a mini train set is it? these place you goto always have some random guy living in them haha, I don't know how but they do.
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Zack
Location: Burlington, VT
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 7 on 7/14/2008 3:04 PM >
| | | | Looks to me like the "mini train set" look is because he has a tilt/shift lens.
Great Adventurer and Artist Photographer |
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 8 on 7/14/2008 3:14 PM >
| | | | Posted by Zack
Looks to me like the "mini train set" look is because he has a tilt/shift lens.
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Nah, done in photoshop. Although the heavy rain added to the effect.
[last edit 7/14/2008 3:14 PM by Steed - edited 1 times]
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nohbdy
Gender: Male
| | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 9 on 7/14/2008 4:23 PM >
| | | | is that the samsung logo on the side of the buildings?
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Lord
above and beyond
| | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 10 on 7/14/2008 4:32 PM >
| | | | #14 is an Incredible view..
lol @ #3. It IS a miniature right?
I wanna live in a SONY building.. but only if it comes with a PS3!!
I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on |
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Senseriffic
Location: Elizabeth, NJ
I am drowning in a digital sea
| | | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 11 on 7/14/2008 7:19 PM >
| | | | Posted by racetraitor
I really didn't disappear from this site or anything, but for the last two weeks I've been without a working camera. It really messed with my mind, particularly my memory, and I know I couldn't survive much longer without having a camera. |
oh I know how that is my poor friend Travis had his camera stolen and he said,"its like a piece of my soul has died" so emo 
awesome shots, and yeah I spotted the mini trainset, I knew it looked a little funny
[last edit 7/14/2008 7:20 PM by Senseriffic - edited 1 times]
The blind lead the blind into bottomless pits,
Still we smile and deny that we're cursed.
But of all our iniquities ignorance may be the worst. |
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Doomed
Location: Fredrock, Murdaland
Gender: Male
Unethical Self Serving Elitist.
| | | | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 12 on 7/14/2008 8:25 PM >
| | | | another great set man. i like your "mini" illusion you do... very nice.
I'm coming down fast, but I'm miles above you. |
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 13 on 7/15/2008 5:27 AM >
| | | | Posted by Lord
#14 is an Incredible view..
lol @ #3. It IS a miniature right?
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*Sigh*
No.
Posted by Lord
I wanna live in a SONY building.. but only if it comes with a PS3!!
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I'm not sure how the zaibatsu work in Japan, but it wouldn't surprise me if they had Sony buildings. It's probably more likely you'd find Mitsubishi apartments though.
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tholcomb
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Gender: Male
Captain Baghead!
| | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 14 on 7/15/2008 4:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by nohbdy
is that the samsung logo on the side of the buildings?
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Yeah, it's some of their "work and play" sweatshops.
They're trying a more friendly approach than Nike or Disney.
EDIT: spelling
[last edit 7/15/2008 4:04 PM by tholcomb - edited 1 times]
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flux
Location: North Carolina
Gender: Male
so many places... so little time...
| | | Re: Back with a bang
<Reply # 15 on 7/15/2008 4:37 PM >
| | | | All the buildings look the same... they really need to add something more easy on the eyes. Be creative like the guys in Dubai or something.
Capturing God's beauty and mans decay. |
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