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The abandoned Japanese town that inspired PS2 horror game Siren is predictably unsettling
Graveyard town.
Graveyard town.
I went to college in a rolling campus up on a forested hill, where the woods served as a playground on bored Sunday evenings, and frequent late-night power outages meant sneaking into empty administrative buildings, or finally searching for that deserted amphitheater tucked away in the forest, resigned to wood rot in its abandonment. There were days I would walk across campus and not see a single other student anywhere on the winding roads, dirt trails, or cement plazas of the school. But even then, the emptiness of these real, physical spaces rarely felt as eerie as that of the…
The Lithuanian street artist Morfai has a way with repurposing old objects. He’s used digital trickery to make broken public spaces whole again, and assembled bottlecaps into enormous mosaics. His recent work may be his biggest yet, though: he “stole the moon” and trapped it in an abandoned building in the city of Kaunas like the fey act-2 subquest of a JRPG or something. This moody making-of video goes into greater detail about how Morfai accomplished the feat, but, short version: tarps and fire. That this building didn’t burn to the ground immediately is something of a miracle. The result,…