He’s One Bad Mutha– Shut Your Mouth! But I’m Talking About DREXEL SHAFT!
So, as we were saying on Friday, the poor old Drexel Shaft finally met that great Cialis Pill in the sky yesterday morning. And of all the videos we’ve seen of this — and there are many — Kevin Martin’s slowed-down, tripped-out version (above) kinda gets it across best. Behold: A metaphor for industrial America! The dreams of our fathers! A visual dick joke so gentle and sublime you could almost weep! This is our last dance; this is ourselves. Happy Monday, Philadelphia. Now let’s go out and fuck some more shit up.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:08 am
That was pretty cool.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:31 am
holy crap! a post before noon!
November 16th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Thank god it’s gone, no more screwing up my sunset photos from the Philadelphian.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Oh and cool video. i love the slo mo. Great thinking outside the box.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
wow, my iPod happened to be playing “Eve of Destruction” just as I saw this post. Highly recommended as a soundtrack!
November 16th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I know this place is most likely overflowing with asbestos and in disrepair – but a creative repurposing would have been exciting. A most famous example of this sort:
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/tatemodern/tateext.jpg
I’ll miss the shaft – but its destruction made for the subject of this beautiful video.