Kin-dza-dza

Spend any time on FFFFound, and you'll probably come across this image sooner or later:

Kin-dza-dza

Seemingly defying gravity, an impossible cantilever, a tethered spaceship made from corrugated iron sheeting, a rusting Howl's Moving Castle.

Here's another view.

Kin-dza-dza

The reality is that the original photograph, of an abandoned grainery, near Krasnosilka in Ukraine, was simply photoshopped to remove the other struts. But it's amazing how the perception of the structure is alterated so completely by simple photo-trickery. The enthusiasm of the comments shows just how much people wanted it to be true.

Kin-dza-dza

There's another one here:

Kin-dza-dza

With this series of image manipulations, photoshopper Kyryl has created a new archetype of rural structure. The Germans, of course, have a word for it - lügengebäude - "a building of lies," an elaborate edifice of interrelated falsities.

Is "form follows fiction" the new language of architectural production?