Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography - The Ruins of Detroit
Detroit, industrial capital of the XXth Century, played a fundamental role shaping the modern world. The logic that created the city also destroyed it. Nowadays, unlike anywhere else, the city’s ruins are not isolated details in the urban environment. They have become a natural component of the landscape. Detroit presents all archetypal buildings of an American city in a state of mummification. Its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great Empire.
Also, this place is on my short list of places to move to.
I’m going to LA and San Diego in two weeks and then I’m going back to Vegas a week after I return. Thank god I got the balls to just buy some damn plane tickets. I need this. This is the reason I took a job as a server instead of even trying to find a real job or go back to school. I want to play. I want to see the world, or at least the US.
life:
I don’t know about you guys— but when I look at these photographs Bill Withers “Lean on Me” is the first thing that pops into my head… Prepare yourself for the cuteness: Adorable Animals Hugging
I bought tickets to see the Mariners play the Yankees. I hate the Yankees. I do not have a good reason for this hatred, but I feel to be a good Mariners fan I must. F you A-Rod! I’m going to this game with Yankees fans from Jersey, god help us all.
(Source: fuckyeahnyyankees)
Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
(Source: understandtheuniverse)