Monday, June 09, 2008

Scenes from the Apocalypse

We took a drive to the south side of town during our trip to NM a few weeks ago. We'd been told that a technological park "rivalling Silicon Valley" was being built in the area south of the airport. Not necessarily sold (people in Albuquerque always seem convinced that the rest of the country is on the brink of moving there), we decided to go check it out ourselves.

Also located in this area is a relatively new film studio. Seems production is cheap there and they are drawing some larger films. We'd heard (and the link above confirms) that T4 was being shot at the time.

So back to the tech park. We found one lonely building housing a solar energy company. Roads seem to be in place to support more, but who knows how long that will take.

What was more interesting were the cars on the road. It appeared they'd been hit by....something. We figured it was a set for T4. Check it out.

Note the CA license plates.

This fella got mangled pretty good.

Now I may actually see T4 so that I can say "Hey, I saw that!" when those cars show up in the film.

9 comments:

Megan said...

I would bet you are right, but still, you never know what those techies might be up to!

Pugs said...

Are you sure that you didn't just wander into a stolen car dumping ground? You know how those Mexicans are...

Slave to the dogs said...

Megan, it would have had to be the solar company since they were the only occupants we could find. New formm of power generation, perhaps?

Pugs, awful funny for stolen cars to be dumped near a film studio with big lights around, doncha think?

Metro said...

My guess is that it's for the new Fatherland Insanity video called "So Gas Just Hit $6 a Gallon: What You Can Do" Subtitle "The Road Warrior 2009"

Slave to the dogs said...

Metro - I too thought it looked very Road Warrior-esque. They need some sort of public tran terminal in the background for your video!

justacoolcat said...

Totally cool.

Slave to the dogs said...

JACC - only the Governator could make it cooler!

Pugs said...

True Slave, besides the ywould probably steal the big studio lights as well, LOL!

Kitty said...

That area had our party spot when I was in high school - you know, the kind with twisty dirt roads that only the teenagers know the routes through to the kegger in the dirt? Good times out at Soapbox. Anyway, I know they're filming the USA network show In Plain Sight there - it's about US marshals, so wrecked cars might not be out of order.

I have to laugh at Albuquerqueans thinking they're just at the verge of the next population boom. So true.