Chernobyl Exclusion Zone:

Started by KMusselman, March 18, 2013, 09:45:16 PM

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KMusselman

Adrenaline & Radiation Urbex, A Good Day to Die Hard?

http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/03/chernobyl-exclusion-zone-adrenaline-radiation-urbex-a-good-day-to-die-hard/

I've always been fascinated with the Chernobyl disaster.  Really good photography presented here.

martialgodmask

Quote from: KMusselman on March 18, 2013, 09:45:16 PM
Adrenaline & Radiation Urbex, A Good Day to Die Hard?

http://www.lovethesepics.com/2013/03/chernobyl-exclusion-zone-adrenaline-radiation-urbex-a-good-day-to-die-hard/

I've always been fascinated with the Chernobyl disaster.  Really good photography presented here.

Some phenomenal pictures, it is incredible what beauty has been captured out of such tragedy. It has become a very photogenic place.... maybe it's the skill of the photographers, or maybe there is something deeper, astral, about it? Who knows, depends what you believe in I guess.

I would like to go, my wife is not so sure!

post-morten

Not inspired by Chernobyl per se, but the two nihilists in Puissance fantazised about terror bombing nuclear reactors in the ex-SSSR for bringing forth the apocalypse. The title track off their "Mother Of Disease" album:

Twenty five determined persons divided into five groups, heading for the former Soviet Union. Our first stop is to be the illegal arms market in a favorable decaying post communist state, where each group will pick up two simple bazooka style rocket launchers and some lighter handguns for self defense in the event of an unforeseen conflict. Then let us seek out our predetermined objectives, five different nuclear reactors  scattered over the vast land. Each reactor chosen second for its location and first for its design. The crown of civilization the mighty RBMK reactor, the largest most powerful yet unsafest and least attended to in the world.

As we reach our targets, silently awaiting the moment to strike, synchronized watches ticking slowly down and judgement day is dawning. All is still as the final second passes. The five heroic groups fire once, and then again, Anti-tank rounds at the main reactor tower where the modulators are held by a once flexible but now severed metal arm, torn apart by military joy. The concrete cracked so violently is burning now, bluish flames are rushing out as uranium turns into the hand of god, a melting god increasing his strength every second. His poison spreading in the wind and melting into the ground, gushing from the cracked manifestation of hybris. We are all dead now, the heroes of the apocalypse, and so are you. And so is the mother disease...

Jordan

I've been very interested lately in Chernobyl as a natural history experiment in post-city rewilding. I strongly believe that within a century or so, one way or another, there will be far fewer people on earth. What that will look like has been a central preoccupation for me lately.

bitewerksMTB

Looks to me that anywhere you aim the camera that there's something good to photograph. A few hours there & you could get enough images for a dozen noise tape covers. I'd be tempted to take one of those gasmasks back home!

A tape rel each with a gasmask from Chernobyl would be awesome!!!!

tisbor

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I like that some of the walls and objects sport hip-hop tags. Going to the Chernobyl area to write your name on walls seems a very logic thing to do.

Potier

Another page dedicated to trips through the Chernobyl-area.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

No HQ-pics but still interesting.