Chronicling the scraps of consumer society

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Our consumer/industrial cycle comes full circle with an entropic vengeance and eerie beauty captured in the images at ArtificialOwl.net. This site chronicles the abandoned, wrecked and discarded detritus of our material world. Sea, air, wheel and rail conveyances that served the engines of commerce lie rusted and overgrown with vegetation, while structures ranging from houses to amusement parks to entire "ghost cities" wait to be reclaimed by the weeds and sand. The ship graveyards are particularly creepy.

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