Dead Mall Series | The $100 Mall : The Disaster of Pittsburgh Mills - General

[video=youtube;mOlffr73fuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOlffr73fuM&t=549s[/video] - Welcome to the $100 Beige kingdom of generic, and um... -- Wait i'll think of something.. :thinking:

What a... thing... A video about an unpopular shopping centre, with some weird corrupted tanning advertisement crammed in the start I'm absolutely hypnotised while watching this and don't know why I barely even know what to call this emotion which is a mix of curiousity, confusion, mild laughter, and boredom

that is one ugly mall I mean Galleria.

Weird, there's a mall near me called Crossiron Mills that's almost identical, save for the beige walls. The layout and some of the decor is so similar it's uncanny. Must be the same designer or something?

Thought this was gonna be a Dead Rising thread

I really dig these videos a lot. I recently watched [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYRwSrli8yk]Tested's interview with a company called Nomadic[/url], which is seeking to buy up space in malls to do large scale physically interactive VR (where the props in VR have a physical equivalent that is fully tracked, as is all world geometry). Imagine a fully dead mall like some in the series that we've seen, with a fully decked out mall and multiplayer experiences. Dead Rising VR???? [editline]10th June 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=ScottyWired;52336875]What a... thing... A video about an unpopular shopping centre, with some weird corrupted tanning advertisement crammed in the start I'm absolutely hypnotised while watching this and don't know why I barely even know what to call this emotion which is a mix of curiousity, confusion, mild laughter, and boredom[/QUOTE] Depending upon how old you are these videos can stoke different emotional reactions. I'm in my mid 20s and I grew up briefly during the hayday of malls and consumer culture, when a trip to the mall was considered a full day of recreation. Like we'd just go for 5-7 hours on a weekend or whatever and hangout in a bunch of different shops, and this was the norm. To see videos of the dead malls is just showing how much that chapter of history, culture and experience is being closed. The internet is overtaking retail in major ways and these videos represent sort of the changing of massive industries and economies and in many respects culture in a very relatable way for people who grew up with these things. It's really, really jarring to see malls completely empty like this if you've ever spent time in American malls. People have been lamenting recently the doom of the "town square", wherein people would gather for political purposes; to a large extent, the mall was a similar public space, albeit largely for recreation instead now that recreation is being moved to the electronic spaces on the internet, which some feel to be a fracturing of local community. just social changes, manifested.

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;52337036] It's really, really jarring to see malls completely empty like this if you've ever spent time in American malls.[/QUOTE] More of a surreal experience for me. There's a gut feeling that says "this is wrong" but as the presenter commented, this mall has [I]always[/I] been like this and visibly so. It's a 2/10 on the existential crisis scale

[QUOTE=Pythagoras64;52336913]Weird, there's a mall near me called Crossiron Mills that's almost identical, save for the beige walls. The layout and some of the decor is so similar it's uncanny. Must be the same designer or something?[/QUOTE] I was just thinking the same thing since I live near and worked at one called the Arundel Mills Mall. It's eerie to think that's what the mall would look like if it was completely dead. There's a mall in Glen Burnie, MD that's like this. It's like an outlet mall but man it has like 4 store open in it.

I live close to this mall. I can confirm it's a terrible place. Only good thing around there was the cigar shop, but I'm almost certain they boogied out years ago.

[QUOTE=PN_Redux;52337343]I was just thinking the same thing since I live near and worked at one called the Arundel Mills Mall. It's eerie to think that's what the mall would look like if it was completely dead. There's a mall in Glen Burnie, MD that's like this. It's like an outlet mall but man it has like 4 store open in it.[/QUOTE] I believe he did a mall in Glen Burnie, Glen Burnie Mall to be exact. [video=youtube;2jAjwPTo4oY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jAjwPTo4oY[/video]

is that vaporwave in the background

[QUOTE=Whibble;52338560]is that vaporwave in the background[/QUOTE] It's edited in.

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;52337036]I really dig these videos a lot. I recently watched [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYRwSrli8yk]Tested's interview with a company called Nomadic[/url], which is seeking to buy up space in malls to do large scale physically interactive VR (where the props in VR have a physical equivalent that is fully tracked, as is all world geometry). Imagine a fully dead mall like some in the series that we've seen, with a fully decked out mall and multiplayer experiences. Dead Rising VR???? [editline]10th June 2017[/editline] Depending upon how old you are these videos can stoke different emotional reactions. I'm in my mid 20s and I grew up briefly during the hayday of malls and consumer culture, when a trip to the mall was considered a full day of recreation. Like we'd just go for 5-7 hours on a weekend or whatever and hangout in a bunch of different shops, and this was the norm. To see videos of the dead malls is just showing how much that chapter of history, culture and experience is being closed. The internet is overtaking retail in major ways and these videos represent sort of the changing of massive industries and economies and in many respects culture in a very relatable way for people who grew up with these things. It's really, really jarring to see malls completely empty like this if you've ever spent time in American malls. People have been lamenting recently the doom of the "town square", wherein people would gather for political purposes; to a large extent, the mall was a similar public space, albeit largely for recreation instead now that recreation is being moved to the electronic spaces on the internet, which some feel to be a fracturing of local community. just social changes, manifested.[/QUOTE] One of our indoor malls were subjected to this, though it happened much earlier in the late 90s. It largely converted to a strip mall, with the interior space used for offices and a movie theater (which is still popular). Interestingly, just maybe 10 blocks away, the largest indoor mall in South Dakota is still thriving, up until recently still retained the early 80s decor of gold/brass accents everywhere. :v:

What were they thinking with the design of that shithole? That aesthetic would've been ugly and dated in 1990, and it was opened in 2005.

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;52337084]More of a surreal experience for me. There's a gut feeling that says "this is wrong" but as the presenter commented, this mall has [I]always[/I] been like this and visibly so. It's a 2/10 on the existential crisis scale[/QUOTE] oh no doubt. im just saying that is what drives my personal fascination with these videos. his monotone voice mixed with the vaporwave definitely amplifies the surreality of it all, and for me that surreality mixes quite nicely with the existential crisis of my youth fading into obscurity

Shopping centres here are popping up like crazy all the time, albeit there's open spaces and they're considered the square of the town or suburb but they're still very popular

there's a mall like this near where I live, it's empty as shit, it's designed in such a way that a local once described it to me as if "the architect had a brain aneurysm halfway through" the only reason anybody ever goes there is for the woolworths (which if I'm not mistaken is also losing money)

General consensus is that Dan Bell was a bit too snarky in this video. I hate to say it, but I agree. This is definitely not one of his better Dead Mall videos.

[QUOTE=elevate;52341607]General consensus is that Dan Bell was a bit too snarky in this video. I hate to say it, but I agree. This is definitely not one of his better Dead Mall videos.[/QUOTE] The video content is stellar as always and the tan commercial bit was amazingly unexpected. But I agree he was a little harsh in the commentary on this one. I get its his opinion and there is a usually some snark and this one was worthy don't get me wrong, it was destined to fail. But the level of snarkiness feels...out of character. That's the best way I can describe it.