Sijun Forums :: View topic - "Must See" Massive underground Japanese water syst

jfrancis · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 2:24 pm

http://www.g-cans.jp/photo/index.html

UnFocuzed · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 4:07 pm

good lord.

Sumaleth · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 4:17 pm

Looks like someone made a 1:1 scale Half-Life 2 map.
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eyewoo · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:00 pm

fabulous
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skullmonkeys · member Member # Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 183

Incredible.
Does anyone know what this so called 'g cans project' is?
besides taking photos of course

-Tepox- · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:21 pm

Those are definately most interesting photos I've ever seen. Thanks for posting the link Jfrancis!

Spectra · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:29 pm

Indeed those are "must see"!! Thanks for sharing, please keep posting URL to site of interest like this one, especially if it�s not in English... I would probably never guessed there was such awesome photo on this site!
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Lunatique · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:15 pm

They look so surreal that they almost look like matte paintings from a movie instead of something that exists in real life!

Impaler · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:45 pm

These are great. They remind me a lot of Naoya Hatakeyama's work. Too bad I can't find a decent link to any of his work.
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Paintball!

Blind Tree Frog · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:58 pm

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/21/gcans_massive_underg.html

Blind Tree Frog · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:02 pm

http://www.octopusdropkick.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1139
Another link with people saying they've been there.

ozan · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:20 pm

many of them look like renders to me. anyone around here been to tokyo?
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ozan · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:28 pm

i found more photos, but im not sure if they are from the same project. they're big though.

http://www.geo-site.jp/photo4/sakasita.html
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Popeye · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:54 am

i think those are photo manipulations. but they are very cool indeed.

Max · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:43 am

Wow, this is amazing. Still not sure though if these are real.
Hard to believe. Looks lika a fake but since ther are people who say they have seen it first hand...oh well

this one is very Doom� like Very Happy

oDD · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:51 am

i hope half life 3 will look like this Razz

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Gort · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:56 pm

whoa - those are awesome!
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Steven Stahlberg · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:11 pm

Of course it's real, this is the biggest anti-flooding system in the world, and where else would you find it except Tokyo? It's also a tourist attraction between flood seasons. Very cool.

ozan · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:23 am

stahlberg, you think so? how can you be sure?

i've been looking at these images for awhile now. i think the first 3 images in the gallery look real fishy.

also, is the fact that when i search for g-cans all i get is bloggers quoting other bloggers. if it's really the largest of it's kind, and has been in the works for 12 years, i think i would be able to find a more credible site talking about it in detail.

this is a screen shot of http://www.g-cans.jp/photo/11.html with a quicktime viewer window on top, found here: http://www.g-cans.jp/facility/panorama.html
it's interesting to look at the differences in the 2.

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Steven Stahlberg · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:58 am

Hm... well, why would it be a hoax? It's not bold enough to be fun to get away with... Smile

Secondly, imo these are real, not painted or 3d in any way. Not even photo-retouching, collage or whatever. Possibly VERY large scale models, but I don't think so, and why would anyone go to so much trouble for such a useless hoax? It could be some other huge structures, not "G-Cans", but again, what a lame hoax that would be...
Thirdly, it all has the ring of truth to it. Flooding in Tokyo, controlled by a newfangled system that's the biggest in the world... japanese architecture is very advanced, and they're competitive enough to go for 'biggest in the world' just for the hell of it... Smile

And they'd obviously be using it as a tourist attraction too, if they could. Oh well. No one here from Tokyo who can set us straight?

GordMacDonald · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:40 pm

Whether or not they are real or not, they are a useful resource

but further: Technology-wise does anyone want to put anything past the Japanese?

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jfrancis · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:06 am

Steel Mills and other heavy industry

http://lightsourcephoto.com/steel.htm

sedgemonkey · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 8:15 am

Industrial tech always looks like a futuristic wonderland. Browse any modern manufacturing plant and there's all sorts of cool tech flying around. A lot of plants offer tours especially if they've got the latest and greatest to show off.
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