Daily Blog 07/31/2012
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‘Ruin Porn’ — the Aftermath of the Beijing Olympics – NYTimes.com
The photographic genre known as ruin porn — those grim pictures of mothballed auto factories, dead power plants, vine-swallowed houses — has a new theme: Olympic venues.
The Reuters photographer David Gray looked at some of the 2008 Olympic sites in Beijing and found a surprising amount of neglect and decay after just four years.