Thanks for the link 

i love this thread. 

Cars, interiors, products, everyhing from the 50s. Pretty cool "sci-fi" stuff there.
http://www.plan59.com/main.htm 

Spirit, you continue to rock this thread =D 

totally beautiful. I hate most modern cars because everything seems too look too generic and functional.

I wonder if that style will come back at all. I think Dodge may have made a couple of interesting cars with a 50s influenced look, but I can't think of any others.

Not a 50s or car buff though, so what do I know? ;) 

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=1831039&blogID=201099720&MyToken=e538ef43-de38-4ed2-8775-8c86d4096b7e

more on this building here:
http://www.opacity.us/gallery85_the_island.htm 

http://seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/

This is an extensive set of pictures along the LA River which you may recognize from Terminator 2 and other TV shows and movies. I bet any money that the guys from HL2 were checking these out when they were doing the boat chase stuff :) 

cool. Quake 4's Aqueducts were a bit like that, minus the water (and interesting gameplay ;)) 

ok, they're just going out of their way to make LA depressing. 

http://www.jeep.com/wrangler/models/rubicon.html 

 

written down. Retraction. 

i've seen a lot of canals like that around southern california (even as far north as santa cruz.) They are almost always dry or have a tiny trickle of water in them, and I think they are usually more for flood control than for aesthetics.

But they look cool. 

We have some of those back home in Adelaide, they are dry most of the time but are more an emergency measure in case there is a lot of rainfall. 

We don't have those in Perth, to my knowledge. Perhaps our drainage is more favourable? 

 

 

 

http://www.cliffhouseproject.com/photos/photos.htm

Also check out the "maps" and "blueprints" pages.

Bonus Link: here's a aerial photo panorama of san francisco after the earthquake:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/San_Francisco_in_ruin_edit2.jpg 

 

architecture in america at that time was very much "take europe's buildings and make the windows bigger," which shows in those images pretty well. 

http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php?extend.107

Pretty cool article about how a map author modded q3map2 to allow for all sorts of new mapping techniques to be used.

Nice screenshots too :) 

http://www.worldcityphotos.org 

sure it does :p

http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Portugal/ 

http://www.zahkunst.net/ Abandoned stuff, mostly in b+w. Pretty cool.