Industrial Heritage Photography of Haiko Hebig

dalton

#1 – 4:52 PM August 28, 2007

The photos are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

Vanwall

#2 – 5:47 PM August 28, 2007

Fascinating! Like an end-of-the-world travelogue.

MiketheGreat

#3 – 6:37 PM August 28, 2007

These photos look really familiar. It looks like the same control room that Rammstein used in their Live Aus Berlin photoset.

Anonymous Anonymous

#4 – 7:45 PM August 28, 2007

Does that TV still work? :P

Sparrowhawk

#5 – 8:52 PM August 28, 2007

Personally, I like this one.

http://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/001514.php

Anonymous Anonymous

#6 – 9:15 PM August 28, 2007

I grew up in Eastern Washington State and there are abandoned missle silos full of old equipment rooms. When we were young we had to break the chain locks to get in but the treasures of old computer consoles were worth the effort. There's something oddly beautiful about outdated and useless computer equipment.

tboot

#7 – 10:04 PM August 28, 2007

I used to go to school on an American Air Force base in England when I was a kid in the very early 70s, and we used to sneak into this underground complex that was obviously some kind of war room. Just like the movies: Gigantic table maps with little figures to move around on them, a big console area with phones and control panels, other huge maps on the walls that could slide back and forth in front of each other. Y'know -- just like Dr. Strangelove! Didn't take pix, sorry to say, but I have fond memories of post-apocalypse dreams from those days.

gavin

#8 – 11:40 PM August 28, 2007

As a TV producer, this has always been a secret passion of mine. Thanks for this fantastic link.

FPF422

#9 – 12:01 AM August 29, 2007

Love those abandoned/derelict places pictures.

and also the new Boing Boing comment format ;)

Anonymous Anonymous

#10 – 3:05 AM August 29, 2007

So ... you found a cool link, posted it to one blog, then posted a link to that blog entry on the other blog. Boingboing, the only blog in the universe that linkjacks ITSELF.

strider_mt2k

#11 – 4:50 AM August 29, 2007

Love the new site Boing Boing!

Those pics are incredible.
That's the kind of stuff I'd love to stumble across some time.

Anonymous Anonymous

#12 – 6:35 AM August 29, 2007

a link to a link, are you kidding me?

Joel Johnson

#13 – 7:12 AM August 29, 2007

We're still trying to figure out the best way to tie together posts from the Gadgets section to the front page, without bifurcating the discussion between two permalinks. We still haven't quite figured out the perfect solution, obviously, but we're working on it, I promise!

I think we may be putting up something more formal later asking how everybody thinks would be the best way. We're all aware this isn't quite optimized for minimum suck.

cait

#14 – 8:48 PM August 29, 2007

I made the same association as a couple other commenters: military tech. What's that about?

I had the chance to visit Minuteman Missile National (U.S.) Historic Site (www.nps.gov/mimi), where they've preserved an underground control room for launching missiles. Cozier than Hebig's sprawling consoles, but vastly evocative.

laptop530

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