Abandoned beauty was big this week, starting with stunning shots of Japan’s Gukanjima, a kingdom-like island deserted overnight when the coal ran out. Jake and Saha explored the long forgotten Floyd Bennett Field out in Brooklyn. AP captured a fabulously ominous shot of the Stardust implosion in Vegas. And Sam snuck into a frozen Toronto brickworks just ahead of its revitalization.
Hidden politics came to light as Cheney choked on oxygen for Earth Day. Bill Moyers presents a fascinating and well-researched view of why the media bought Bush’s arguments for war (more here). And we learned that explicit segregation is still alive and well at a Georgia prom.
In translation we found some pretty entertaining English in Beijing. Will St. Leger translated the third world landmine problem into a form that brings the threat home. Colbert and Sean Penn translated the world into metaphor in the hysterical Meta-Free-Phor-All. But my favorite translation of the week has to be the the super tiny, super strange theme love hotels of Japan. And don’t miss love hotel photographer Misty Keasler’s other work, either. Revealing, touching, spooky stuff.
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Hahahaha the company I worked for which shall remain nameless was delivering video on demand for said love hotels. With all those fancy carousels and what not who on earth wants to watch videos??
Oh and that explicitly segregated prom article - OMG - what century are these people living in? The quote from one of the students made we want to club her “”There was not anybody that I can remember that was black,” she said. “The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It’s nothing racial at all.”
First I wanted to vomit then I just felt really sad for all those idiots and their incredibly shallow world.
haha. Good point. I have no idea what one needs video for when you’ve got such outlandish real world props. I’d love to see the logs for what shows they watched! :-)
Yeah, the prom thing is bizarre. I know de facto segregation still exists, but this makes you wonder how much Jim Crow lives on in its original form. Nauseating indeed.