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more about #losangeles Wheema: check out the "lake" on google earth (look at Owens Lake California 93545), thats one of the little townshpis that were founded there and the rest see... more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: LA probably did it just to have a cool place to film apocolypse and Michael Bay movies. more » evildead1971: i have to visit more » EBone: Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown. Try "Cadillac Desert" for those who like to read. more » Althestane: This ruined landscape is beautiful in it's own way. Which begs me to ask, are there any photographs or images of this place BEFORE it became a dustbow... more » Aaron Roberts: "Today, Keeler ranks as the second dustiest place on Earth, after Kazakhstan's Aral Sea" As opposed to what - places like the Sahara desert? Where e... more » Aaron Roberts: So now aqueducts and the resulting changes they bring are science fiction?!?! Wow - who knew that Roman engineering was Sci-fi! Back to the future i... more » Ruthless, If you let me: Anybody else aware that Owens Valley residents tried to sabotage the LA aqueduct by dynamite operations? I am sure LA water travels further by man-ma... more » Life-Without-Buildings: Check out David Maisel's amazing photographs of Owen's Lake. The colors and shapes are unbelievable. It almost looks like some sort of alien landscape... more » ManchuCandidate: Somewhere the ghost of Noah Cross is laughing. more » phoghat: In a spooky voice, with a flashlight under my chin: "In The Year 2000" more » Chip Overclock: I live near Golden and work (currently) around 120th and I-25. You and I and Mrs. Overclock (etc.) should get together for dinner sometime! more » Boas_MC: I think the more interesting shots from Minority Report and I, Robot would have been those that show that much of those cities' current architecture i... more » hamshank: excuse me: we seem to be lacking the ones where it's the cockroaches riding around on horses, crunching our bones under-hoof ... more » Ryozenzuzex: What about New Chicago? more » Chip Overclock: The big pink building shown in Woody Allen's SLEEPER ("The Institute") is the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) i... more » Meldrick: Aw, has it really been that long since Buck Rogers boogied around in New Chicago that you'd forget that, but use TWO images from a freakin' toy cartoo... more » Elpon: I can never picture Paris without a fiery meteor hurtling toward it. more » slaine17: Another London more » Starlionblue: TLDR. ;) Seriously, the slide show engine needs work. I would like: - An option for an actual slide show, where the next image loads automatically. D... more » -
#urbanapocalypse
How Los Angeles Destroyed the City of Keeler
Keeler, California was once an attractive lakeside resort on the shores of Owens Lake. But as waters from the lake were diverted to Los Angeles, the shoreline receded, triggering a small, quiet apocalypse in Keeler. More » -
#futuremetro
What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
What will the New Yorks, Londons, and Tokyos of tomorrow look like? Will they be technological Edens, grim dystopias, or entirely obliterated? We look at science fiction's take on the future of today's cities to gauge our urban future. More » -
#scifashion
Wear Your Hometown Monsters With Pride
London just wouldn't be the same without its werewolves, and the real charm behind New York lies with the giant alligators in the sewers. These t-shirts let you show off the monsters that really make your favorite city special. More » -
#ghosts
The Art and Science of Making Ghosts Visible
I've been thinking about this haunting piece of photoshoppery ever since I saw it on the Dinosaurs and Robots blog last week. Designer Kevin Kidney created it by merging two images of the Los Angeles street where he lives: One from today, and one from 1909, when Los Angeles was riddled with cable cars. Human ghosts are not the only ones that return to remind us of the past. Sometimes the ghosts of public transportation return too. More » -
#worldwithoutcars
The Public Transit Projects that Should Have Been
Urban history is littered with the dead bodies of scrapped public transit projects. When eager commuters and car companies turned the automobile into the most popular form of transit in the world in the twentieth century, many cities set aside plans for expanding their public transit systems, such as the electric tram system planned for regions feeding into Melbourne, Australia. In some cases, city planners actually ripped out existing transit systems like Los Angeles' once-enormous cable car network. What would these cities and others look like if their public transit systems had continued to thrive and we lived in a world without cars? We've got five alternate urban histories of public transport for you below. More » -
#conceptart
The Jazz Album Cover That Became Blade Runner
Syd Mead's concept artwork for Blade Runner has always looked a bit like a jazz painting. It's meant to portray a saturnine view of downtown Los Angeles in the future, but the only things in it that are even slightly futuristic are the armored-looking dumptruck on the street, and the hulking mega-skyscraper in the background which is probably meant to be the Tyrell corporation. Besides that, the image is a wash of signage, mostly featuring Asian text. All it needs is an accompanying saxophone track and this could serve as the cover image to an album, circa 1963. More » -
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#exclusive
Trippy Re-Interpretations of Stan Lee's Comic Book Characters at Art Show
io9 took a spin through Gallery 1988 and Golden Apple Comics last night in Los Angeles as artists like Ruben Rude, Travis Lampe, Brandon Bird, Patrick Gannon, Misha, Angry Woebots, Jeff McMillan, Sarah Coleman and Daniel Danger paid tribute to Stan "The Man" Lee through reinterpretations of some of his most famous characters. The result was some seriously trippy artwork ranging from X-Men plushies to a sort of wacky Mickey Mouse meets The Hulk on acid painting. Take a look for yourself in the gallery below. More »
