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Apr 15

flight001: Belgrade, Serbia

flight001:

Belgrade, Serbia

mycoldsummer: (by serni)

mycoldsummer:

(by serni)

implosions-: We Are Tiny! (by ulysses.O)

implosions-:

We Are Tiny! (by ulysses.O)

appealtoemulsion: Montezuma Castle National Historic Monument, Arizona Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon MC 50mm 2.8, Fuji Neopan Acros, TMAX Dev @21C This is what I did for Spring Break ‘11. 

appealtoemulsion:

Montezuma Castle National Historic Monument, Arizona

Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon MC 50mm 2.8, Fuji Neopan Acros, TMAX Dev @21C

This is what I did for Spring Break ‘11. 

tankthinks: ZHANG XIAO

tankthinks:

ZHANG XIAO

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6072: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Chicago Chicago is a fake town built in the Middle Eastern desert, serving as a gigantic city simulation for soldiers in training. From the essay “Walking Through Walls — Frontier Architecture” by Eyal Weizman: The core of Chicago was built in the early 1980s as a small training site simulating a Lebanese village, at a time when Israeli forces were occupying Lebanon. It was extended into a larger urban environment to accommodate the training of special forces in their operation to assassinate Saddam Hussein in Tiqrit. The operation was aborted after several Israeli soldiers were killed in an accident. What had been a small Lebanese village was transformed into a section of an Iraqi town. During the second Palestinian Intifada, Chicago was further expanded to offer a blueprint for different types of Palestinian urban environment. It now includes an area called the Kasbah, a section simulating a refugee camp, a downtown neighbourhood with broad streets, a section resembling a rural village, a dense market area with narrow alleys, and urban outskirts. For special training sessions, and to make the site look realistic and alive, the military employs a stage-set designer normally employed in a well known Tel Aviv theatre to provide and organize the relevant props and effects. In similar mock-up sites, simulations have been designed by fun-fair, theme-park and filmset specialists. Action film directors are brought in to help military planners think up possible scenarios for complex urban fights. Soldiers, actors, civilians — and sometimes prisoners — simulate urban crowds. Special effects and ‘cold-fire’ systems, recordings of urban life, the sounds of planes, tanks and gunfire, and the revolting combination of smells from cooking, decomposing bodies, sewage and stagnant water are released throughout this and other mockup cities, to give military forces a ‘taste’ of the ‘urban mayhem’ of refugee camps and urban slums.

6072:

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Chicago

Chicago is a fake town built in the Middle Eastern desert, serving as a gigantic city simulation for soldiers in training.

From the essay “Walking Through Walls — Frontier Architecture” by Eyal Weizman:

The core of Chicago was built in the early 1980s as a small training site simulating a Lebanese village, at a time when Israeli forces were occupying Lebanon. It was extended into a larger urban environment to accommodate the training of special forces in their operation to assassinate Saddam Hussein in Tiqrit. The operation was aborted after several Israeli soldiers were killed in an accident. What had been a small Lebanese village was transformed into a section of an Iraqi town. During the second Palestinian Intifada, Chicago was further expanded to offer a blueprint for different types of Palestinian urban environment. It now includes an area called the Kasbah, a section simulating a refugee camp, a downtown neighbourhood with broad streets, a section resembling a rural village, a dense market area with narrow alleys, and urban outskirts. For special training sessions, and to make the site look realistic and alive, the military employs a stage-set designer normally employed in a well known Tel Aviv theatre to provide and organize the relevant props and effects.

In similar mock-up sites, simulations have been designed by fun-fair, theme-park and filmset specialists. Action film directors are brought in to help military planners think up possible scenarios for complex urban fights. Soldiers, actors, civilians — and sometimes prisoners — simulate urban crowds. Special effects and ‘cold-fire’ systems, recordings of urban life, the sounds of planes, tanks and gunfire, and the revolting combination of smells from cooking, decomposing bodies, sewage and stagnant water are released throughout this and other mockup cities, to give military forces a ‘taste’ of the ‘urban mayhem’ of refugee camps and urban slums.

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surferdude182: (by Naomi Hayes)

surferdude182:

(by Naomi Hayes)

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