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Colossal@thisiscolossal.com |
Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...
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The Male Hysteric
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It looks like people are dancing in the middle.
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QuiJohn
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Clearly the best room
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Fioko
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Kowloon Walled City is one of those things I find myself reading about every few years. Although it was a crime ridden, unsanitary, fire hazard of a hellhole, it's still fascinating that this ultra compressed chunk of urban culture existed. It feels both alien and relatable at the same time.
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Lynne Ann Morse
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📌
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Jim Pyke
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Another fold out from the same book. Really cool book if you can get your hands on a copy.
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Jerry Chen
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SuziQ Leathers
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Beautiful!
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Ur Multimedia
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I wish you could buy prints of the full-length illustration :(
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brockmeyer.bsky.social
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Faine Greenwood
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Devilish
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I'm just imagining the smell.
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Whim Gruent
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That's so wonderful! So much intricate detail everywhere! And it's great to see it as a snapshot of life, instead of "just" a cross-section of empty architecture.
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Virginia S. O'Possum
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This is amazing.
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Al Sirois
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Wow! Would not have wanted to live there.
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Ace
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thank you Kung Fu Hustle is now on the agenda for viewing in the future (probably later today)
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Scarlet The Fiend
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New TTRPG setting
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Ali Fleih
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r/UrbanHell
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Bearded Jayhawk
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IIRC there's supposed to be a decent documentary about that place.
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Jono
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This is stunning.
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Pernille Rudlin
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Brings back memories of flying back to the UK as a child from Japan on Cathay Pacific, with a stopover in Hong Kong. Flying so close to the apartments of Kowloon City left such a deep impression of me that to this day I sometimes have dreams of being in a plane which lands on a road in a city.
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Two Turntables and a Nixraphone
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Holy shit @coolhand.bsky.social needs to see this
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