There is more to urban exploration than taking a walk in the city.
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Ghost Signs
Flickr: Faded Signage
Flickr: Ghost Signs
Flickr: Ghost Signs (a second group with the same name)
Flickr: Old Painted Wall Advertising
Flickr: Old Signs
Flickr: Ghost Signage
Flickr: Ghost Ads
Flickr: Half Lost Signs
Flickr: Old British Signs
Flickr: Fragmented Urban Language
Flickr: Typographic Decay
Flickr: Barn and Building Painted Advertisments
Flickr: Ghost Letters
Flickr: Forgotten Wall Ads
Flickr: Dead Signs
Flickr: Vintage Signs/ Murals
Flickr: Typographic Decay
About Typographic Decay
“An investigation of what happens to typography, when it’s given a fixed ephemeral existence and allowed to interact with its environment.”
The photos being shown in this group are a collection of individual explorations, and naturally found occurrences in both digital and analogue mediums that attempt to explore this statement.
Typographic Decay is a term coined by Edrea Lita and Marek Okon in 2007 when they both were investigating how physical typography interacts over time within a physical or digital environment. This investigation later became a paper they presented in October of 2007 at Plus+ International Design Conference held in Birmingham, England.
I found two similar groups on Flickr:
Flickr: Ghost Letters
Flickr: Fragmented Urban Language
You can also find many sites and groups about Ghost Signs in general.
I don’t know where these were taken. I should ask her if she can remember or figure it. She found this on her drive back up to Ontario from Florida.
Saved from a collection on an abandoned site.
Is there anyone that knows WHY people make so many 'cat' things,
and hardly any 'dog' things? This is true even of cross-stitch
and other crafts. mutters something about conspiracy
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I was asked to write why I like documenting the old, abandoned houses. I had different ideas in mind right away but none really fit. Since then other elements have come along and I’ve tried to build the full picture. Part of it the loneliness of the old place and yet their strength in standing, enduring.
Today, while watching a documentary about the geography under the Great Lakes I had another idea:
I like the old houses because they show our own history, the impact we have had on the land and at the same time the old places erode and become part of the physical geography, just another bump on the land of rocks, earth and water.