Your strange post-industrial landscape photo of the week

[hirez]

http://www.oboylephoto.com/steel/beth_steel8.htm

The middle two photos specifically. I Have No Idea.

The rest of the site's rather good, too.

Comments

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

The last photo in the group is great. The hooks look like jellyfish.

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Incredibly atmospheric set.

Really must do some 'postindustrial' stuff here. They're knocking huge chunks of later additions to the Mill down and it's exposing some great original features...

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

In fact, I'm drooling at that whole site. The guy is GOOD on a level you rarely see. Very different approach and technique but the feel he has for the industrial setting reminds me a lot of John Davies.

[reddragdiva]

The nearest door on the first is a record cover. Time to write "Little Joe Firecracker"!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. The shipyard set(s) give me the shudders, which is generally a sign of quality workmanship.

You've come across Bernd & Hilla Becher, yes?

[drumiller.livejournal.com]

I think the lil dangly bins are for the step-completed workpieces to, where they are whisked away by the magic of Clever Pulley Systems to the next workstation where the process repeats.

Thus: Square Bins from Workstation A (in the middlebits) to Workstation B(against the wall), Round Bins from Workstation B to Final Assembly Oversight C (not shown). Or some crazed permutation therein.

[(Anonymous)]

The last photo in this (tediously java driven) set would suggest that this is the employee locker room.

http://designedbreakdown.com/photo/big_steel/galleries/2007-07-15/index.html

The baskets carry loose personal effects, the hooks jackets, etcetera, and the rows and chains mean that storage that would ordinarily take up great quantities of space horizontally instead takes place vertically. A simple lock on each chain case (the cylinders in Row A et al) would prevent folk from raising or lowering baskets that were not their own.

Quite why a complex that had room enough for warehouses did not have room for larger locker complexes I know not, but this site suggests there were multiple 'employee welfare' buildings, and as such it might have been for proximity to particular parts of the site.

http://invisiblethreads.com/potd/collections/2005_bs/group_wel.php

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Quite excellent.

The middle ones remind me of a static representation of a László Moholy-Nagy kinetic sculpture (e.g., http://www.moholy-nagy.org/Film%20Previews/Lichtspiel%20Film%20Preview.mov). The multiple lines remind me of the Bauhaus influences in the movie "Metropolis," especially in Rotwang's lab.

I know what that does

[(Anonymous)]

It's the machine what created pinhead...that's Leviathan's little brother, Chet.