For us here at Monster Colors urban art, exploration of abandoned places
go hand in hand with graffiti, just like black olives and mozzarella on your
pizza, monster classics with fats, its all good. So its time to post some of
the worlds top spots for urban exploration, at this point big heads up to
dark roasted blend for this
The Ruin of Ruins: Battleship Island in Japan.
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What's now decay and rot once was bright and brilliantly full of hope:
Who lived here? What were their lives like? What happened? How did
it all come apart? How did it all crumble to almost nothing?
In the case of Hashima Island, or Battleship Island (hope and
optimism became dust and decay because one black resource (coal)
was replaced by a cheaper black resource (oil). Populated first in 1887,
the island – which is 15 kilometers from Nagasaki – only began to really,
and phenomenally, become populated much later, in 1959.
Hashima is, for many ruin fans, the rotting and collapsing grail, the
benchmark all other crumbling structures are measured against –
and seeing pictures of the place it's easy to see why. Not only is
Hashima frighteningly preserved in some places, as if the residents
had just stepped out as few minutes before, but it is also, contrarily, spectacularly
falling down. Beyond its current awe-inspiring state of
decay, the island's dramatic isolation and its bizarre history make it
the ruin of ruins.
Hashima was the most densely populated area – ever. On that tiny
island, crammed into what are now decaying tenements, were thousands
of miners, their families (including children), support staff, administration,
and everything necessary to make their lives at least tolerable. It's hard to imagine
when looking at the empty doorways, ghostly apartments, and hauntingly
vacant corridors what the lives of those people might have been
like.
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