Abandoned Monastery

An abandoned monastery in northern Spain. Nature is coming back, destroying more and more of the old buildings.

Beautiful Decay

Two beautiful post-apocalyptic paintings by the Swedish artist Andrée Wallin. It’s easy to be seen where the allure of such sceneries can be found.

Big Tits Zombie

Big Tits Dragon (2010) is a Japanese fantasy-horror film. Because of the zombies it’s also a kind of post-apocalyptic movie.
I love the strange colours and sceneries of these trash movies. The world is already gone and we’re living in a weird panopticon. And despite all the big titties the film is profoundly sad.

London Futures

A new exhibition shows London landmarks in an environment transformed by climate change. From rice fields in Parliament Square to ice-skating on the Thames, 14 familiar views of the capital have been digitally transformed by illustrators Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones. The exhibition runs from October until March 2011 at the Museum of London.

The Walking Dead

Some covers of the comic book series "The Walking Dead". One of my favorites. In my humble opinion the covers are really great art.

Robert’s Ruins

Hubert Robert (1733–1808) was a French painter who marks the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Like many artists of his time he traveled to Italy to visit and study there architecture, museums and landscape. Soon ruins became his favorite subject, which earned him the nickname "Robert of the Ruines".

Interior of the Temple of Diana at Nimes (1771)

Roman Ruins (c. 1760)

The Old Bridge (c.1775)

But even though he chose classical ruins as subjects he painted them in a romantic manner. It’s a sweet decay reminding of greater times which have long passed by.

Disaster Architecture

The Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pasadena, California was designed by the Californian firm of architects Morphosis and finished in 2009.

The terra cotta facade is fragmented and reminds of buildings after earthquakes. To me it looks like the quotation of disasters like that in Chile 2010 – in this case more a kind of anticipation.

Atomic Apocalypse

Back in the Fiefties fear of a nuclear war was real. So Collier’s published a series about how New York would look like after an atomic bomb. Reminds of the more romantic post apocalyptic stuff from today.

Terminator Styling

I stumbled upon this Dior advertising. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think that it’s possible to show an eye like this without quoting good old Arnold.
This red mechanical eye is already an icon, which was even quoted by the last Terminator film.

Industrial Gothic

Industrial Gothic is a comic book series illustrated by Ted McKeever and published in 1995. The story is settled somewhere in a dystopian future with lots of nice ruins.
The images are from volume 1.