Quote:AMERICAN RUINS is a feature-length, filmic journey through the relics and ruins of abandoned America: forgotten factories, derelict railroads, overgrown amusement parks, ghost towns, missile silos and mental hospitals -- an America history cinematically excavated from its debris. AMERICAN RUINS paints a uniquely visual portrait of the places that American "progress" has left behind.

The film is ultimately a scrapbook of short cinematic portraits. Some of the vignettes are documentary, some are experimental and impressionistic, some are musical, and others are mysterious and pensive. All of the portraits add up to a journey that is often exciting, but ultimately sobering: America's ruins are not those of an empire past, but the discarded debris of an empire present. This film listens to the stories ruins tell, the histories they imply, and the future they might suggest.

Pretty cool, thanks for posting. There are some real architectural gems that are just falling apart. One here in Memphis is the Tennessee Brewery. It would just cost too much do get it up to today's codes. They took an interesting approach. On the weekend's they open a part of it, and have games, food trucks, local beer, and live music. It is a really good time and is packing people in. Maybe somebody will get inspired and find a way to save it.

That Tennessee Brewery is a beautiful building. I hope it's not razed.

(05-28-2014 02:29 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  That Tennessee Brewery is a beautiful building. I hope it's not razed.

I do too, but it's gonna take some seriously deep pockets to renovate that bay boy.

(05-28-2014 02:59 PM)JerryJeff Wrote:  

(05-28-2014 02:29 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  That Tennessee Brewery is a beautiful building. I hope it's not razed.

I do too, but it's gonna take some seriously deep pockets to renovate that bay boy.

It'd make one hell of a dance club...

(05-28-2014 03:36 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(05-28-2014 02:59 PM)JerryJeff Wrote:  

(05-28-2014 02:29 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  That Tennessee Brewery is a beautiful building. I hope it's not razed.

I do too, but it's gonna take some seriously deep pockets to renovate that bay boy.

It'd make one hell of a dance club...

Yep, if folks can make a club out of an old church someone can make one out of that building.

(05-28-2014 03:37 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(05-28-2014 03:36 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(05-28-2014 02:59 PM)JerryJeff Wrote:  

(05-28-2014 02:29 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  That Tennessee Brewery is a beautiful building. I hope it's not razed.

I do too, but it's gonna take some seriously deep pockets to renovate that bay boy.

It'd make one hell of a dance club...

Yep, if folks can make a club out of an old church someone can make one out of that building.

I'd rather see it as a museum, but that's just me. America will be ruins before too long anyways, thanks to this so called "progress."

I love see pictures of abandoned buildings, something eerily enchanting about them

http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/thanks-fo...deshow/%3E

(05-28-2014 04:14 PM)ODUChm Wrote:  I love see pictures of abandoned buildings, something eerily enchanting about them

http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/thanks-fo...deshow/%3E

You too huh? Do you like movies about the earth looking like that all over? I do...

Over/under on how many years it takes for it to become a strip mall...

Because you know that is a real possibility these days...

(05-28-2014 04:21 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(05-28-2014 04:14 PM)ODUChm Wrote:  I love see pictures of abandoned buildings, something eerily enchanting about them

http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/thanks-fo...deshow/%3E

You too huh? Do you like movies about the earth looking like that all over? I do...

Yep, loved that history channel series about the world after people

I'm fascinated by abandoned buildings, sad that they wound up in that condition. Those photo collections of Rust Belt cities (primarily Detroit) always catch my eye, even if I wish they never got that way in the first place.

The fact that so many incredible works of American architecture have been razed or rebuilt beyond comprehension makes me wish Americans put more value into historical structures. If there's one thing I envy about Europe, it's the richness of their architectural history. In a few hundred years, I doubt many of America's historic buildings are still standing to give new generations a glimpse into another era.

Pretty cool video.

We have been losing so much of our creative talent and even technical
know how over the last few decades. Spurred by mainly European
immigrants who had seen and worked on unusual buildings in Europe
and could imagine different methods of construction.

That's a pretty awesome find.

Makes you wonder what the aspirations were for those people that lived
there or worked there. Who they were and why it was built the way it
was in the first place. Interesting.

What about a casino? So many levels. Pack that puppy full of table games.

(05-29-2014 07:44 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  What about a casino? So many levels. Pack that puppy full of table games.

I think the only thing that would fly would be some mixed use development. Retail and apartments/condo's.

(05-29-2014 07:44 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  What about a casino? So many levels. Pack that puppy full of table games.

I still think a museum would be a more natural fit for an old abandoned brewery. Lost/Found Tennessee archives would be perfect.