[ 02.2015 | Los Angeles ]

the term ‘Arma­geddon’ derives from the Ancient Greek ‘Harma­gedōn’ / Late Latin ‘Arma­gedōn’. accord­ing to the Book of Reve­lation (16: 14-16) it is the mythic place where demonic spirits gath­er the kings of the world for the battle on the great day of God Almighty. Arma­geddon is inter­preted as ei­ther a lit­eral or a sym­bolic loca­tion – often referred to as the area of the moun­tain/ Megiddo in north­ern Israel. the term can stand for any end of the world scenario, e.g. the block­buster of the same name (1998) in which Bruce Willis saves the world from the impact of an approach­ing aster­oid.

surely not over­sized was my rental car in LA last year in which I dis­covered my sur­round­ings. doing so I expe­rienced some lonely side street and secret corner. on one of my random ‘this-place-looks-weird-enough-to-stop’-trips I found this garage. it looked so oddly beau­tiful, I had to capture it. using old pieces and fix­ing even older things or com­bin­ing them to create some­thing com­pletely new have always fasci­nated me. and so I stopped and won­dered. fasci­nated by for­merly working machines.

apropos ‘working machines’. the Trans­formers is a media fran­chise produced by the toy com­panies Hasbro and Takara Tomy. the success story of the line of trans­form­ing toys began in 1984. the story is about sentient, living robotic beings (mostly from the distant machine world of Cyber­tron) and fac­tions of these robots in dis­guise in a never-ending struggle for supre­macy or even­tual peace on earth. today, the fran­chise about the mechan­ical changers includes books, comics, films, animated series, and video games. machinery.

sources: biblehub.com | transformers.wikia.com