January 22, 2006

Vanishing Point This is a website about exploring some of those spaces, about immersing oneself in stormwater sewers and utility tunnels and abandoned industry, about tapping into the worlds that are embedded in our urban environment yet are decidedly removed from the collective experience of civilized life. This is a website about spaces that exist at the boundaries of modern control, as concessions to the landscape, as the debris left by economic transition, as evidence of the transient nature of our place upon this earth.
posted by dng 18 years ago
  • Holy cow, dng! What an amazing find, I love it. Many bananas ))))))))))))))))) for you!! I like all the information that has been included. Great photos.
  • Related.
  • Reminds me of the book American Ruins by Camilo Jose Vergara. And I'm chuffed that the Vanishing Point web site has shots of the Carborundum Building - I lived near there for a while, and remember it well! (Although I never went in.)
  • What a great site. Nice job.
  • How many days is the posting marathon? Great stuff as always, dingles.
  • Great stuff dng. Here's our local subterranea, which I really must get round to visiting,
  • Me have connection refused-o. Gimme what the witches gave Macbeth to see Banquo's kids!
  • The picture on their homepage is my new desktop. Very nice!
  • Along the same lines (and possibly the inspiration for Vanishing Point): Infiltration, a Toronto zine whose publisher, Ninjalicious, recently put out a book on the subject of urban exploration. He managed to see the first copies of the book before he succumbed to a terminal illness last fall.