In the past week this curious curated post of photos from Bouncing Red Ball have been receiving a lot attention. Their is something to be said about the clean identity of these photos as Japanese Factories at this particular time, but I am going to wait on that commentary. This entices me to draw comparisons with the facilities in East Chicago.

Lately, I’m having a “factory fetish”, (or “k?j? moe” as they say in Japanese) after browsing through some fascinating pictures of factories in flickr, especially those of sielbleu, hanazuc, totoon and beef.200%. The photographers kindly let me reproduce their photos here.

There is something fascinating about factories at night: the surreal colors, the dazzling lights, smoke billowing through the night air, the almost audible sound of a busy industrial complex. The photos themselves conjure up images of some strange, enormous, metallic creatures of the night on an alien landscape.

Bouncing Red Ball » 12 fantastic photos of factories in Japan

Valentine Photos of Factory Outside My Window

Small Comparison

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Thomas East Chicago, Photography, View Outside My Window