Hey pals, a few things real quick:
1) I’ve neglected updating this site in awhile since I’ve been working on non-comics related projects and zzzzzzz, but if you want to see a few photos and random sketches, I’ve been posting stuff frequently on Tumblr and Instagram, so check those out and then congratulate me for finally doing stuff on the internet that everyone else has been doing for years.
2) Added a bunch of new stuff to my Etsy store, and books and jewelry and bric-a-brak and junk are still for sale.
3) Here are some photos of a few abandoned places I’ve explored recently. I’ve been talking about doing a blog of this stuff for awhile not but then instead I just keep eating triscuits and play gin rummy online because meh, January.
Old sugar mill ruins and military bunkers on Vieques Island:
Three abandoned asylums:
Medical room above an abandoned morgue:
A WWII gun rack shelter
And last but not least, Hurricane Sandy uncovered some WWII relics that no one knew were there since they’d been hidden under the sand and bushes for decades. This is a quick before/after of a gun mount that is out on the beach right now at Fort Tilden at Battery Harris:
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Do the blog, Julia. The photographs you take are interesting. You capture the beauty in the strange and the creepy; the gothic grandeur in the abandoned.
I prefer gin rummy for the elegant simplicity of the rules. Let people draw willy-nilly from the discard pile and chaos breaks loose.
Hi Julia,
I’m halfway through The Infinite Wait and it is amazing. I’ve been staying up at night reading it. I love your drawings and how you tell a story through these little moments, many of which are snarky and sarcastic or feature farts prominently, but add up to so much more. You are awesome.
Congratulations on the Cartoonist Studio (Slate) nomination!
You might have already seen this, but if not, it’s worth checking out:
http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index.html
I’ve heard this type of thing criticized as “ruin porn” — perhaps with good reason.
Holy crap! The fifth photo down looks like it was taken from a scene in ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’! The scene where all the patients are in the swimming pool, an orderly is wheeling one of the patients, The Colonel into the pool in a wheelchair. Looks like the exact same pool.
Careful! Abandoned building hopping is basically a form of kleptomania – no matter how many you get into, you’ll just want to do it more and more…
These pictures are nice.
I find the first two particularly beautiful!
hey!
your book and everything just arrived without the tiniest damage! way faster than expected!
thank you so much.
regards from germany!
hej julia,
yesterday i spent a rainy, boring and grey sunday (involving a lot of cookies) when a handsome fella brought me a parcel with your comic and all the lovely stuff that came with it – thanks for saving my sunday! you’re great!
all the best from barcelona.
More disturbing evidence of your brass lady-balls.
Hi, I just felt the need to say that the 10th photo was where I had found someone who had committed suicide. I’ve felt the need to go back there since Sandy happend, I don’t know why. I live in Rockaway Park. I can’t get into Fort Tilden now, but this shows me what I’ve needed to see since Sandy. It sounds weird that I want to go back to somewhere where I was literally tramatized, but since that day in ’07, that place has become “special” to me. It’s hard to explain, and it probably sounds crazy. I’m so happy that I’ve found your picture of it. I was afraid that it would be gone forever.
You’ve probably seen this by now but anyway:
The 33 Most Beautiful Abandoned Places In The World
http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-33-most-beautiful-abandoned-places-in-the-world