Morbid Fascination

[tealin]

Some very interesting photo collections regarding Chernobyl:

Ghost Villages
Contaminated Vehicles
Lost City

Odd, to think this happened in my lifetime. It looks like fifty years ago.

Comments

[kaptainsnot.livejournal.com]

These are pretty brutal. The fair grounds...:(.

[tuff-ghost.livejournal.com]

I find Chernobyl incredibly fascinating too...I actually made a post almost exactly like this one a few months ago. I'd found an incredibly creepy video from inside the sarcophagus that I wanted to show off. Sadly, it seems to be e-extinct now.

[angelgrl131.livejournal.com]

this has nothing to do with this picture in particular, i just wanted you to know that I find your drawings phenomenal, I especially enjoyed the ones from Harry Potter and DiscWorld. It was so amazing when I saw your drawings and they were exactly how I pictured the characters in my head! I think you're extremely talented and I wish you the best of luck with your artwork.

[fairy-gany.livejournal.com]

I was born in May 1986, in the South of France... Creepy...
Yeah ! Tealin's drawings are awesome ! Remuuuuuuuuuus !!!!!!!!

[morbid-bunny.livejournal.com]

That's very eerie. Makes you shiver. Looks vaugely like something out of a Miyazaki movie. Especially that contaminated plane-helecopter thing Oo;

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

I remember when this happened... I was almost four years old, but I remember seeing the footage of the hospitalized kids and Gorby coming on TV with the "Aich don'ts gknow vacht ze chell eiz chappgningch" look on his face.

I wish they had better pics of those sinking freighters! And those must be mutant boars that wonder the streets at night, foraging for radioactive goodies!

[timba.livejournal.com]

This is weird, simply because I was watching a program on Chernobyl last night.

They came before

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

From the "Lost City" slide show:
. . . The poster advertises a Soviet club for young children, the Octoberists.

I guess they predate the Decemberists by a couple of months.

[niteflite.livejournal.com]

Good lord, icon love. I might just have to steal it from you.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

No, actually, the Decembrists predate the Octobrists by nearly a century ... that was the name for the members of an unsuccessful revolution before the one in October 1917, and yes, that's where the band got its name (though they added the third E themselves).

Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrists)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, it was just the 20th anniversary... hence the sudden media attention.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I was thinking!

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think of something intelligent and meaningful to say, but all that's coming is "God, it's like something out of Nausicaä..." (which I watched this afternoon.)

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

Damn, those pictures are eerie and just..guh. Like the one with the graffiti girl reaching up to push the elevator button. Or that fairground. I was like 1 1/2 when it happened, but damn.

This makes me rather creeped out, given I am currently near Three Mile Island. I actually drove past it recently and it's....pretty intense is putting it mildly (granted it was late at night and foggy, so I'm sure that had something to do with the feeling of the place too) :X

[morbid-bunny.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike ;D

[pyri-prongs.livejournal.com]

Gosh, those are eerie. The thought of deserted towns, especially ones of that magnitude and for the reason it's a ghost town, freak me out O.o
It's a slightly creepy, disquieting feeling knowing that nature's slowly spriting the town away.

[avidita.livejournal.com]

I remember.
Born 1979 we weren't allowed onto playgrounds anymore, because sand accumulates radiation. And we couldn't eat a lot of things, Nutella f.e., because nuts and other foods were heavily contaminated.
I was afraid of rain for months after that.

[tulanoodle.livejournal.com]

The fact that they would know that only adds to their awesomeness.
THEY ARE SO COOL!!!!
GAH! I love those guys :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Maybe on their next CD they'll have a song about a horse that falls through the ice. [snicker]

This is such a stupid feud. I mean ... comically stupid.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I think the consumption of the town by the surrounding woods is possibly the best end fo rit I can think of ... fittingly Miyazaki.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Wow!

Freaky images! I agree with you... it is hard to realize this happened not that long ago.

Correction . . .

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

GBS has TWO songs about horses falling through the ice on their latest CD "The Hard and the Easy" available at music stores everywhere, and from Amazon.com. As an extra added benefit, their lead singer doesn't sound like he's about to throw himself off a bridge.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

HAVE I MENTIONED THIS IS A STUPID FEUD???

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Whoa - quite a slap in the face to hear from someone who was actually affected directly by what happened there. It was scary enough for those of us safely on the other side of the world.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Many of those images do have an almost poetic quality - like where the trees are slowly reclaiming the land (almost like a promise - or a warning - of what the world could look like if we aren't too careful as a species) - others, scary yet cool (like that big helicopter). The pictures of the abandoned homes and the school just made me sad - something about seeing where people were supposed to live and eat and sleep and laugh and play, where they kept their most prized possesions - left forlorn and forgotten, slowly rotting away - I'm overly sentimental about stuff like that.
I was just listening to a radio segment concerning the anniversary of the disaster, and it highlighted the brave firemen (I thought of this when I saw the pic's of the fire trucks) who were called to the scene, who knew they were doomed, and went in anyway to control the fires, and, sure enough, died days later. I can't even imagine, being the priviledged little weakling I am...

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

But it is really amusing for the spectators! :)

[fairy-gany.livejournal.com]

I found it on Mugglenet. And I saw "V for Vendetta" yesterday, so I really love the icon of V on you LJ...

[avidita.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even that near. Northern Germany, near Denmark, actually. But The Cloud went directly over our heads. And the weather forecast always praid that it wouldn't rain.
It was scray, yeah. And it left a distinct fear of those big hemispheres of concrete in the landscape. But I really enjoy telling about it. It didn't cripple me or anything. Just like the cold war. We had friends in the DDR and visited them sometimes. There was a file about me, man, I was 9 years old. I remember a lot. But since nothing ever really hurt me, in retrospective it was all just a very big and scary adventure.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Whaaaa - a file about you??? What did it say?

[avidita.livejournal.com]

Daughter of blabla and blabla, who are 'friends' of blablabla, who are therefore suspected of treason.
We sent them care packets with west-foods and goods and they sent us communist odds and ends. Their daughter was my pen pal. Once I tried to hide my dolls from the soldiers at the border (because the dolls were sleeping, it was way after midnight. Which decreased the time you had to spend waiting in line, there). That made them search our car extra carefully from then on.
All that was in my little STASI file. Pathetic, huh? *g*

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

I think that's more excitement than I would ever want in my life. Good grief!

[rebekah-weasley.livejournal.com]

Wow. They gave me shivers...
But I must say, I love you icon!

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) Tealin made Voldie... I made the GIF.