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From the Blogosphere, Pictures of the Recession
I'm well aware that there are other things happening in the world right now (even in our own country) than the economic downturn (or crisis or collapse, depending on your news source), but there just seem to be so many angles on it that I thought it warranted another post. Yes, it's not the first, and it surely won't be the last, but hopefully it's worth reading.
A few days ago on boingboing.net, my go-to site for all things weird and wonderful, there was a post about a group of artists in Detroit who bought up a few houses for cheap (one was just $100) and set about creating a new, off the grid community. The story itself was remarkable, and gave some hope that good may come of this recession in the end.
There was, however, another story on the same page that caught my eye: a photo essay by two French photographers that appeared originally in Time magazine. There's very little I can say about the pictures of architectural gems of a once-industrious city literally rotting away, except that it is quite tragic.
Elsewhere on the blog, more recently, are pictures from around the world of people and places affected by the current global economy, from discarded newspaper boxes in San Francisco, to unemployed factory workers in China, to unfinished apartment towers in Kiev. It reminded me that we're all in this together, and one way or the other, things will come around in the end, eventually.