artificial///natural landscapes

a low-key thread about artificial structures and their place in the natural landscape, and sometimes human interaction with those structures.

@cylindrome i was inspired to post this because of your post in that axe thread about enjoying the aesthetics of heavy industry.

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(this isn’t a mountain, rather a heap of mine tailings – photo is by naoya hatakeyama, who i want to make a post about in the future because much of his work focuses on this sort of thing)

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Not so rickety to keep me from a catnap.

Just an old thresher.

Definitely like places I used to hang doing Imagined Warrior things.

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i found an old external hard drive with a bunch of pertinent images, so i wanted to post a handful to start the thread off and then i’ll post more over time.

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(i always thought of this type of erosion/landslide control structure as gauze holding back the slopes from “bleeding”)


(a still from maboroshi no hikari)

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oh I love koyaanisqatsi

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to post about in the future:

humans utilizing artificial structures in unintended ways, as in:
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Adjacently related, I had a much better pic from someone who’d been there but google gives:

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this would be a pretty good fourth wall candidate too. can imagine the stadium rendered at a nearer LOD to the rest of the island

https://marcwilson.co.uk/albums/9U8LSb/the-last-stand-1

Page is difficult to embed images from but very much worth clicking through to and having a browse.

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Surprise switcheroo reveal collab, FROM/Miyazaki and Guillermo Del Toro

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Oh these got put back in the water so I can try to spot them and not get the shit scared out of me

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agricultural terraces really encapsulate this sort of relationship for me

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