The Dark Tower

The Dark Tower is a series of books by Stephen King. Despite the novels are set in a post apocalyptic world ruins and the decay of our civilization isn’t that important. King prefers obviously the scenery of the American Old West, the wastelands, the deserts. And their wandering heroes, like the gunslinger.

But anyway I like King’s language his descriptions: "The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what might have been parsecs in all directions. White; blinding; waterless; without feature save for the faint, cloudy haze of the mountains which sketched themselves on the horizon and the devil-grass which brought sweet dreams, nightmares, death. An occasional tombstone sign pointed the way, for once the drifted track that cut its way through the thick crust of alkali had been a highway and coaches had followed it. The world had moved on since then. The world had emptied."

Zombieland

Zombieland is a 2009 American zombie comedy film, which combines elements of a zombie films with a road movie.


Four survivors of a zombie apocalypse are traveling together to "Pacific Playland" an amusement park, which is said rumored to be zombie-free. Sure it isn’t. And so happens the last shoot out in an abandoned amusement park. It’s a very diverting and funny movie.

Beksiński’s Bone Architecture

Some more paintings of the famous Polish surrealistic artist Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005).



Beksiński used different techniques to achieve this characteristic mood of death and decay. One of them was the mixture of organic structures with architecture. Live is converted into dead material, bone architecture.

Post Apocalyptic Evenings

Three more post apocalyptic wallpapers, which can be found all over the web. Though they are probably by different artists I’ll post them together, because they represent the same post apocalyptic view. Civilisation has gone and without any doubt the world is now a better place, a romantic one. Nature comes slowly back.

Mad Bündchen

Gisele Bündchen posing as a female version of Mad Max for DT Magazine in october 2010. I think always if the post-apocalypse is so fashionable it must be a little more than the weird dream of a bunch of lunatics.

Transformers vs. Lady Liberty

An edition of a Transformers comic book. We see once more Lady liberty as the icon of destruction. “Humanity at it’s lowest point”, as it is called.

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad is at the moment my favorite television series. It’s about Walter White a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. To secure his family's financial future he started producing and selling methamphetamine with his former student Jesse Pinkman.

Despite the series black humor it’s at a first look not much about ruins. But at a second it’s much about decay, about the ruin of the American middle-class, struggling in vain to maintain the status, without a secure future and without a good health-insurance.

This pivotal topic is reflected by the impressive beauty of the images of abandoned parking lots, decaying buildings and behind all a vast western style landscape. Above all because of the images Breaking Bad is also a profoundly romantic series, confronting human decay with the beauty of nature.

And last not least there is Saul Goodman Walt and Jesse's criminal lawyer. Above his shabby office there is flapping a trashy Lady Liberty, in this form a well known symbol of American decay.

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.