This week’s internet previews

Michael John Grist

In Japan, Haikyo is a word for abandonment and also a verb to describe the growing hobby of exploring its modern ruins. Photographer and writer Michael John Grist has an excellent gallery of his visits to derelict love hotels, decaying hospitals, factories, sport stadiums and museums. All are oddly fascinating, post-apocalyptical and strangely beautiful, especially the overgrown theme parks with their rusted rollercoasters and water slides that haven't seen action since the mid-80s. There's also fiction, reviews and a great piece on nuclear explosion craters.

The Tobolowsky Files

You may recognise Stephen Tobolowsky as the over enthusiastic Josh Groban fan Sandy Ryerson from Glee, or as company man Bob in Heroes. He is one of those "isn't he the bloke in?" people, a character actor who pops up in dozens of movies who you can never quite name. Tobolowsky is also something of a master storyteller, as evidenced by his one-man film Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party and this wonderful series of podcasts from US film site slashfilm.com. As well as including tales of his first kiss, details from the set of Deadwood and anecdotes about his disastrous early career, the podcasts offer rather mind-blowing pictures of a younger Tobolowsky with hair.