Fascinating stuff. The world is mad.
Anyone watching?
Anyone watching?
DARK TOURIST
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Never heard about this but it looks very interesting
It really is. This New Zealand guy travels all over the world checking out the dark tourism scene which I guess is huge money.
I wannabe a dark tourist...that looks really interesting.
I've always wanted to do one of the Jack the Ripper tours -- so I guess I'm a dark tourist to a certain extent. Going into radioactive area -- HIGH radioactive areas -- meeting up with Escobar's hitman, reenacting crossing the border from Mexico to America -- nope. I'm just on episode 3 and there are 8, so I'm sure I'm going to run into a few more I wouldn't do.
David Farrier is just adorably awkward but a perfect host. He also did the documentary Tickled, which I've also watched and is fascinating.
Always wanted to visit Chernobyl. I'd like to visit the surrounding countryside and looking around.
So dangerous. The air is just poison, the dust settling on you, getting in your hair, on your clothes on the bottoms of your shoes and then you walk that all over the place and pack it to take home to your family in your suitcase.
In this series, they visited areas that were in the big Tsunami in Japan. There are areas that they went into as tourists, on a tourist bus that the readings were beyond safe. So scary, the tour participants took a vote to leave. They had on no protective gear, and they would pass official guards at the roads to certain towns and ALL these workers were Hazmat suited up. But not the tourists. And they ate a lunch in a high radioactive area, a place set up by the government trying to get people to move back into areas that are still extremely dangerous.
Yes, it was fascinating. I want to watch again. Another good one was a documentary we discussed before about a misanthropic photographer and the guy obssessed with curating her work while learning her bio. My favorite doc is Grey Gardens. Yes, I have since learned it has a huge gay following but I'm fascinated (there's that word again) with the whole Beale family. I quote from it all the time. For the longest time I thought it was something no one had seen but now it's embedded in pop culture references.
Is there a thread designated to this film?
Aw hell no. He's swimming in a radioactive lake in one of those countries called, Kazakhstan, Armenistan, Holyf**kmestan that is 100 times MORE radioactive than normal drinking water. And he ate fish out of that lake. WTH.
Grey Gardens? I don't think so. It is mentioned in the Documentary thread as I mentioned it, hahahaha! That was a fascinating one too. The way they were living sort of ties in with the thread Tery just started about abandoned buildings and Flash fiction. Although in Grey Gardens, they were actually still living there.
You should also watch the parody show, Documentary Now! -- They did their own take on Grey Gardens.
Heeeelarious!
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Wow.
I've read several books on Chernobyl and watched some very good documentaries. I was amazed at how high the radiation readings were on the back side of tree limbs, rocks, etc. all these years later. I think being a scientist and going into that area, properly protected, and checking out the soil, animal, etc, would be one of the most fascinating jobs to do. Fukushima also, same deal. How interesting would that be to be able to explore that area?
I'm happy watching all the documentaries that do just that. They are fascinating. Lives just left standing intact, it is surreal. (and also sort of ties in with Tery's thread on flash fiction and abandoned houses. Lives walked away from.)
Yes. One season. Apparently they are hoping to do a season 2.
And I have learned a new phrase:
Give us a hoon.
FlakeNoir, this apparently originated in New Zealand, what the hell does it mean to you?
Give us a hoon.
FlakeNoir, this apparently originated in New Zealand, what the hell does it mean to you?
Can we assign it a meaning till she tells us? Whoever gets the closest wins!
Give us a hoon.....
Could mean help out...lend a hand
Thank you for giving me my weekend binge.
I can't play, I looked it up and know, but I want to hear what a real New Zealander says it means.