Terminus: MLK JR SE

[jack_babalon]

"All your cities lie in dust"
July 22nd, 2007
~Rob M.


All your cities lie in dust - close up

This is another wonderful part of 'Old Atlanta' currently being torn down to make way for more condos, lofts and coffee shops.

If you don't mind the heat in the Hood then check out MLK Jr Dr, along with her swank little sister Decatur Ave while you still can. A small stretch of abandoned factories, mills & office buildings built in the early 1920s that have have become an integral part of Atlanta's psychic background. If architecture is, as a philosopher once eloquently phrased it - "Frozen Music", then this neighborhood would be a beautiful little dirge. There is a certain poetry in the aged brick buildings with their eyes of broken windows looking down on you and their doors of smashed locks both inviting and unsettling at the same time. A place where badly aged Lost Boys found shelter in the ruins, where vandal-artists created secret aerosol galleries and where the adventurous could find inspiration tresspass dancing among the ruins.

You should check it out while it's still here. Photograph it, do model shoots there, film it, stage naked soul raiding parties at night there. Mainly enjoy it while you can before these images are all that's left.



Brittle Skeleton (2)


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July 22nd, 2007
~Rob M.

Comments

[catwalk.livejournal.com]

i love shots like that first one.
i think it appeals to the little girl-dollhouse part of me... and the darling tyke-lego lunatic part of me, too

One out of four ain't bad then:)

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Thanks M. I never got to play with doll houses myself but I had a Death Star Station playset and though I never had lego's I did have hand carved wooden blocks that I used to make forts, towers and even a rudimentary skyline once.

[catwalk.livejournal.com]

well, i dig all the shots, derrrr.... ;-)
that first one just struck me with the idea
that the grafitti had to have been done when
there were floors... then i started imagining
the floors and the walls...
andalsoplustoo, i like cross-sections.
they're cool. :-D

[animeoni.livejournal.com]

beautiful. if i could just get a photographer to shoot me i'd be there!

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Danke. I hope you can get a chance to shoot there, the shots would be incredible.

[ladydagger2evil.livejournal.com]

*poke poke*
I need new models, and with fun looks (and also ones I've never really shot) you fancy a shoot soon?

I've been itching to go shooting over in that area for sometime, and a shoot along those lines.

P.s Rob these shots are tight as is the accompanying words as per usual:)

[re-animating.livejournal.com]

Fabulous location. I especially like the shot up top.
I think I may be one of the few people who gets disappointed when these sites are cleaned up and rebuilt. I just love decomposing old buildings for shoot locations.

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the decomposing buildings. There's an aesthetic that's both urban & gothic at the same time without really being exclusively one or the other. I kept trying to get my film friends to do something there (video, a short movie, fuck even a travelouge).