Drive out of L.A. for a couple of hours, and you will come across TOADS: temporary, obsolete, abandoned and derelict spaces and landscapes. Troy Paiva captured those ghost towns, cold war relics, abandoned mass-transit stations, car cemeteries, and aircraft boneyards in a superb book called
Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration. Samples on Paiva's
Lost America. Via
Boing Boing.
illustration via lostamerica.com
