Wednesday September 5 2007

first part | second part

These links take you to a site full of pictures taken by a Ukrainian woman who rides her motorbike through the no-go zone around Chernobyl. You really need to have a look. There are lots of half-caved-in houses, derelict apartment blocks and nameless abandoned villages. And there’s one shot of a creepy homeless guy passed out on the grass. It’s unbelieveable.

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There are rivers full of abandoned container ships.

 

11 Comments »

  1. That was just…wow…

    Comment by nailpolishblues — Wednesday September 5 2007 @ 9:29 pm

  2. Seconded.

    That was disturbing and beautiful.

    Comment by Tomás Ford — Thursday September 6 2007 @ 1:54 am

  3. Heh, cool hey. I just wish the photos were bigger / better quality.

    Comment by Mark — Thursday September 6 2007 @ 3:22 pm

  4. Yeah, thanks for the links. I spent an hour reading all of her stuff. Very interesting!

    Comment by Julia — Thursday September 6 2007 @ 11:58 pm

  5. I’m trawling through wikipedia reading about other nuclear accidents right now. I thought that there were just a few, but I was way wrong.

    Comment by Mark — Friday September 7 2007 @ 12:25 am

  6. Yeah, Kraftwerk’s live version of Radioactivity kinda woke me up to that. They listed quite a few and I was like “duuuuuuuuuuude” when I checked them out.

    I am such a nerd.

    Comment by Tomás Ford — Friday September 7 2007 @ 3:17 am

  7. Egads, I am such a nerd.

    …I just read what I wrote.

    Comment by Tomás Ford — Friday September 7 2007 @ 3:17 am

  8. I did exactly the same thing, Mark.

    And then, for reasons best known to myself,I spend two hours reading about plane crashes.

    Let us all be nerds together.

    Comment by nailpolishblues — Friday September 7 2007 @ 1:09 pm

  9. I’m glad I’m not the only one who gets lost in wikipedia tangents. I went to look something up the other day and got side tracked into reading about Romanian royalty for a half hour. I completely forgot whatever it was I went to look up in the first place.

    Comment by Becky — Friday September 7 2007 @ 4:29 pm

  10. Just remarkable. Where did you find this?
    …
    Not sure what else to say about this that could possibly matter.
    Thank you.

    Comment by Miss Andrea — Saturday September 15 2007 @ 9:45 pm

  11. :)

    I found it while reading Noe Venable’s website. She’s a singer from the US.

    Comment by Mark — Sunday September 16 2007 @ 3:48 pm

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