This past week, Mike Powell and Juergen Horn suddenly came across the opportunity to become urban explorers in Macedonia. They were staying at a resort hotel near Lake Prespa and saw Hotel Evropa, built during the Communist era when Macedonia was part of Yugoslavia.
We spotted the Evropa while driving along the coastal road. It would have been impossible not to, because the building is monstrous. And at least for us, it was irresistible. When I say this place has been “forgotten”, I mean it. The Evropa is not “under new management” or “scheduled for demolition” or under any sort of protection, private or governmental. It’s simply there, totally deserted.
With nothing prohibiting us from doing so, we explored. The Evropa has been ransacked, everything of value stripped and stolen. We went up to the upper floors, into the hotel rooms, out onto the balconies, down to the lounge, and into the basement. I’m not given to panic, but while exploring this hotel, I felt the clammy hand of terror on my heart. Every time I turned a corner, I did so half-expecting to discover something gruesome. If I had been captured and subsequently tortured by some disfigured Macedonian maniac… it would have been awful, of course, but not all that surprising.
Of course, they took a ton of pictures of the crumbling resort. See the best of them at For 91 Days.
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Strange choice of image. There are so many things they /could/ have done with it - but no, they descend to scantily clad women.
You could have balls of fire with explosions when they collide.
You could have tendrils of beautiful plants unfurling behind the ball with showers of seeds on impact.
A comet flying through space with planetary creation for the impact.
But no - revealing glimpses of a woman trumps the lot. How very predictable.
Yup, gotta have a picture of a scantily-clad woman to distract investors from the fact that it's a really dumb idea.
As for an LCD, I wouldn't want to masse on that. The whole point of doing it this way is to preserve the feel and play of the table.
And and yes it is an overpriced pointless luxury item... the 125,000 probably doesn't even include the table to play on.
Could probably do this for way less with some sort of open source software, a laptop, a video camera, and a much cheaper projector.