The Metropolis

[morsla]

Dear diary,

On the holidays, I went to Coruscant. It had suburbs named "Chicago" and "Toronto," but I wasn't fooled at all. As soon as the sun went down, all traces of the natural world disappeared from the landscape and I knew that I was a long way from the old-fashioned trees and rocks we have back home.

More pictures under the cut...

Downtown Chicago, from the Hancock tower


Chicago - Lake Michigan shoreline


Downtown Toronto - finance district


Toronto - the expressway

Comments

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

The downtown Toronto one is a great shot - straight out of a scifi movie...

[morsla.livejournal.com]

...or something out of a Cyberpunk game :)

Somewhere out there, there's a team working out how to kidnap a corporation scientist from the brightly-lit building in the centre, using only a helicopter, a large quantity of explosives, a briefcase full of forged ID, and a virtually unlimited quantity of ammunition.

[melbournian.livejournal.com]

I like that one too. Everything seems too clear and ordered to be real. There's no visible pollution or anything.

As for the scifi movie aspect it reminds me of Bladerunner - it's such a classic.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty good description of Toronto in general, actually... it's a very clean, ordered place.

[umbra-mentis.livejournal.com]

*whistles*
Wow, they're just stunning :)

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I'm just glad that I was stubborn enough to stay up the Hancock building (and the CN tower) for the couple of hours it took until sunset faded properly...

Of course, posting pictures has made me miss having a working camera again. It's sitting on the windowsill upstairs, in the vain hope that some sunlight might dry out the innards enough to fix things. If I was still working at CSIRO, I'd have a lab full of silica-gel-filled dessicators on hand for just such an emergency.

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Really, really like these pics!
(*waves* I sometimes lurk and have a squiz at your miniatures and photos.)