Psychogeography
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- Filed in City
- January 26, 2006
Psychogeography is the study of hidden or non hidden elements of the urban landscape that evoke emotion or ideas, as opposed to participating in the spectacle of commerce. It is a non-commodifiable component of our environment, be it an image that invokes some randomn thought, or a physical object that is not somewhere it should be; an anomoly. It can be a smell or a sound. It can be the way people react to their surroundings. Here is a good example.
Anyways, this picture is of a place that not many people no of. In my world it would be the biggest tourist attraction in Vancouver, but I'm sure somebody thinks its an eyesore. I think it is magic. Keep reading to see a larger version...

This is behind the White Spot on Georgia street. I don't know how long this has been here, long enough for a full grown tree to grow entirely through a chain link fence. Go there. Go and marvel at the awesome power of nature. In a thousand years, when we have choked on our own exhaust, nature will have erased all evidence of our existence. We are nothing.









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That's incredible. Kind of like the woman who became fused to her couch except beautiful.