Whoa – Biosphere 2 is truly spooky as depicted in the photos. I remember being fascinated by the idea and reading about it in the paper, but of course I’d completely forgotten about it. It looks like it hasn’t completely met its demise, however; there is an active website listing upcoming lectures, workshops, etc. I suppose they’ve managed to keep their research current, although many of the websites that came up talked more about the failure of B2.
The L.A. photos don’t seem spooky, exactly, but rather mind-boggling. The only time that I’ve seen L.A. that empty is like, 7 a.m. on New Years Day. I can only imagine that he got some sort of special permit to block off the streets in order to get all those shots.
Whoa – Biosphere 2 is truly spooky as depicted in the photos. I remember being fascinated by the idea and reading about it in the paper, but of course I’d completely forgotten about it. It looks like it hasn’t completely met its demise, however; there is an active website listing upcoming lectures, workshops, etc. I suppose they’ve managed to keep their research current, although many of the websites that came up talked more about the failure of B2.
The L.A. photos don’t seem spooky, exactly, but rather mind-boggling. The only time that I’ve seen L.A. that empty is like, 7 a.m. on New Years Day. I can only imagine that he got some sort of special permit to block off the streets in order to get all those shots.
Those Biosphere 2 photos are great. A similar project to the EmptyLA collection (although these were apparently done opportunistically rather than with digital editing) is Tokyo Nobody: http://www.multilinkmagazine.com/2007/12/17/masataka-nakano-tokyo-nobody/
J-man: the EmptyLA photos are simulacra: the photos were taken of normal street scenes and the cars and humans edited out.