Tokyo overgrown with vines and vegetation illustrations
Tokyo Genso's photoshopped post-apocalyptic images of Tokyo overgrown with vegetation are haunting and beautiful. Shown here is Akihabara, but there's also several views of Shibuya, Shinjuku and other neighborhoods. Tokyo Fantasy: Images of the apocalypse (via Geisha Asobi)
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I like how Shinjuku looks exactly like it does now
Beautiful. I feel a strange longing for that world! Not sure if I want it for my kids, though.
Reminds me af the fabulous backgrounds in Miyazaki films (of course) - most especially Laputa. I love the way that in that film, there is a whole steampunk S.F. backstory implied in a few throwaway background paintings (bomb craters, ruined train tracks, lost industrial landscapes).
wow, these pictures are so vivid, I can almost feel the clean air and hear the birds in this post apocalyptic scenery.
I kinda like the overgrown city (more then the real one ...)
#3: "I feel a strange longing for that world!" Thats exactly what I feel ... its like seeing the world recover after healed from a virus called human
awesome illustrations
how many here are in/from places that have been destroyed by war? These are past echoes, not prescience.
Here's a couple post apocalyptic cityscapes I've found that really stuck with me. I have no idea where they're from originally, who the artists are or if there's more, my Google-fu is weak. Still thought they were worth sharing.
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@1: and probably Momusian as well.
Wait, this isn't Shanghai 2020?
Somewhere, Ra's Al Ghul is smiling...
What's with the "End Times" fascination, anyway? While I can see stuff like this as a warning, some people, even in the comments here, seem to be looking forward to not being here. If it's paintings like this, it's the resurgence of zombie movies or Rapture-fantasy (or Fallout III, for you nerds). I can see why the Bible thumpers are looking forward to the possibility of a shitty end, but why do other people?
I, for one, like living and would prefer to do so for as long as possible (as long as it doesn't involve exercise or eating right). This is why I hardly ever burn plastic bottles or choke dolphins anymore (they know what they did).
Reminds me of the 1949 story by George Stewart "Earth Abides"
I only just recently saw I Am Legend starring Will Smith. They did the exact same thing with parts of Manhattan. They just happened to have picked my old neighborhood so it was fun to see how they chose to age things - all of the buildings clearly started exactly as they are today and then they "aged" them and added all the overgrown plants and stuff.
Alan Weisman's The World Without Us gives us a detailed account of the process of natural succession in the absence of people. It is wonderful reading.
#3: "I feel a strange longing for that world!" Thats exactly what I feel ... its like seeing the world recover after healed from a virus called human.
Who was it called called global life ''a gaudy efflorescence''?
These illustrations kind of remind me of a manga I read a little while back called YKK -- it's basically a positive-view of a post-apocalyptic world where the human race turned back to their old, close-knit community ways, and slowly settle down and slip away, from the eyes of a very human-like robot. One of those stories that makes you feel really good, but really melancholic.
Reminds me of the anime "Blue Seed" as Tokyo overgrown was in that too.