Slog - Comments on The Dead Island http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island Let us for a moment leave the city of your living... ...and journey to the city that begins at the of end of your life. Over the wall and you are in place that is so dead... ...that even ghosts have abandoned it. Nothing walks down those crumbling steps... ...nothing lives in that cage. To be alive and trapped is better than being dead and gone. The story of Gunkanjima: Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called "Gunkanjima" that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Long ago, the island was nothing more than a small reef.... Copyright 2008 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:34:33 -0800 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:51:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Sweet.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879494 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879494 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:37:54 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Awesome.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879496 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879496 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:37:58 -0800 Comment by John At Work Beautiful

]]> John At Work http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879501 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879501 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:39:03 -0800 Comment by kid icarus Rad.

]]> kid icarus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879519 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879519 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:43:21 -0800 Comment by max solomon i expected more vines.

and dinosaurs.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879525 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879525 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:44:56 -0800 Comment by mirror post of the week
-ethereal

]]> mirror http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879545 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:48:44 -0800 Comment by Great Post Charles I want to go there so bad right now.

]]> Great Post Charles http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879551 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879551 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:50:02 -0800 Comment by louley wow. This is the best Slog post I've seen in ages! Breathtaking.

]]> louley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879561 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879561 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:53:19 -0800 Comment by wisepunk Charles,

You are the Ritchie Sexson of the stranger writing staff. You hit many grounders to second, but when you get ahold of one you really knock it out of the park. Great job on this post, it haunts me.

]]> wisepunk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879563 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879563 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:53:36 -0800 Comment by Shaniqua Jackson Charles is still my boy, even after that "I Am Legend" review!

]]> Shaniqua Jackson http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879584 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879584 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:58:40 -0800 Comment by StrangerDanger GREAT PHOTO OF SEATTLE. Isle de Morte rocked too.

]]> StrangerDanger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879596 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879596 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:00:56 -0800 Comment by brandon neat-O

]]> brandon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879637 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879637 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:07:43 -0800 Comment by Jessica Gorgeous. Reminds me of the pictures taken a few years ago of Chernobyl.

]]> Jessica http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879648 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879648 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:09:42 -0800 Comment by Original Monique Amazing.

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879655 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879655 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:10:39 -0800 Comment by Homo Will I have wanted to go there for years, unfortunetly they closed it to visitors.... I just want to sit down in the street. Just sit, look around, and take it in.

Truly a marvel, and possibly foreshadowing of the industrial age and it's demise.

]]> Homo Will http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879679 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879679 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:20:15 -0800 Comment by thaumaturgistguy Most. Perfect. Zombie. Film. Setting. Ever!

]]> thaumaturgistguy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879687 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879687 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:23:03 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways I wonder if this has ever been used as a film set? If it hasn't, it should be.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879690 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879690 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:23:39 -0800 Comment by infrequent totally.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879710 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:28:29 -0800 Comment by lunge @ 11

The picture of Seattle was taken by slightlynorth .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/slightlynorth/

]]> lunge http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879729 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879729 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:33:09 -0800 Comment by Shawn Uhhh, nice post, but when you take pictures from Flickr for use on a site like this, it is proper to CREDIT the SOURCE and link the image back to the source image on Flickr.

I mean, I'm just saying....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/slightlynorth/2121261690/

Slog, if you won't play nice, I'll have to stop putting my pictures in your pool.

]]> Shawn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879734 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879734 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:33:42 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways these pictures are haunting me; they're like something out of a Miyazaki movie. And the other pictures on the website are beautiful, too.

I've emailed my friend Masaki to try and find out if he knows anything about this place, or if it's a secret in Japan, too.

I'm hoping someone has, or will, do a documentary about this place.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879748 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879748 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:40:50 -0800 Comment by Dougsf Very cool. I'm gonna go read up on that place.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879785 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879785 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:50:42 -0800 Comment by infrequent @17: Battle Royale II

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879814 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879814 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:01:17 -0800 Comment by switzerblog Thank you, Charles, for this great non-boob related post.

]]> switzerblog http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879846 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879846 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:11:12 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Horn 20: Photo linked, writer chastised.

]]> Amy Kate Horn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879852 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879852 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:11:58 -0800 Comment by SeMe Ah yes, Battle Royale with the lovely Chiaki Kuriyama, the gorgeous Go Go from Kill Bill 1. Didnt see part 2, but the first one was great. Students fighting to the death!

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879885 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:20:36 -0800 Comment by elenchos I think we need our own battleship island. Couldn't Seattle pass some kind of ordinance that Vulcan has to build us one out in Puget Sound if they want to raise height limits?

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879953 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879953 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:44:25 -0800 Comment by crazycatguy Stunning.

]]> crazycatguy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879969 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879969 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:49:06 -0800 Comment by ecce homo OK,

That was pretty cool Chuckers. Much better than the black marxist nationalism shit.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879982 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c879982 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:52:37 -0800 Comment by debunker A truly amazing post!

]]> debunker http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880016 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880016 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:07:48 -0800 Comment by infrequent i don't know, i kinda thought it was marxist nationalism shit.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880027 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880027 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:12:01 -0800 Comment by Donolectic This is great Charles, thank you.

]]> Donolectic http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880052 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880052 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:19:34 -0800 Comment by Sosa Just read the book "The World Without Us" which is about what would eventually happen to all manmade creations if humans were erased from the Earth. The author takes the reader to mostly inhabited places like Chernobyl and the DMZ. I'm surprised he didn't mentioned this place. Pretty cool.

]]> Sosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880119 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880119 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:40:43 -0800 Comment by jameyb wonderful! reminds me of the abandoned army Buckner Building, the "city under one roof", in Whittier, Alaska, which I visited several years ago.. the abandoned theater was an especially creepy room.

]]> jameyb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880338 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880338 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:21:04 -0800 Comment by Irena Ah, reminds me of Böcklin's Island of the Dead:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Arnold_Boecklin_-_Island_of_the_Dead,_Third_Version.JPG/800px-Arnold_Boecklin_-_Island_of_the_Dead,_Third_Version.JPG

]]> Irena http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880434 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880434 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:00:52 -0800 Comment by mla Nothing human walks down those steps, but I'm sure many living things call it home.

]]> mla http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880708 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c880708 Architecture Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:50:31 -0800 Comment by Donovan Really excellent words accompanying some breathtaking photos. Even Ecce Homo admits it.

]]> Donovan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c881309 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c881309 Architecture Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:01:00 -0800 Comment by Ryan Pretty sure this was a Metafilter post from about a year ago.

...searches...

Yep, it was.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c881343 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c881343 Architecture Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:38:04 -0800 Comment by freshnycman I think you can see Will Smith driving around in his hot car in the corner of that third pic-

]]> freshnycman http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c881452 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c881452 Architecture Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:09:10 -0800 Comment by Ryan Also, for a more local example of this phenomenon, take a look at Forgotten Detroit.

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c881664 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_dead_island#c881664 Architecture Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:51:59 -0800