on earth

[Elyris]

Don't know if this belongs here, but I thought this might be a thread of 'the pandoran way of life' examples on this planet.

I'll start with this one:

http://www.123inspiration.com/tippi-deg ... fe-mowgli/

[Elyris]

Also - just as a side-note:

http://www.monbiot.com/2013/10/07/rewild-the-child/

[flighter]

It fits here perfectly well. Plus, we are not in the military to have stuff done in an extremely strict order

[spudtrooper15]

Those pictures with the little girl are so incredible!

[Elyris]

And article

http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/04/2 ... n-america/

[Elyris]

Not much goin on in here.

What about a few portraits of 'clan people' ...


http://www.archaeoforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=2372

[Elyris]

I simply didn't know where to post this.
It's worth watching (doesn't take long and you don't have to listen to anything nor to really read all of the stuff - it's kinda self-explaining.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgXE16KrXBk

[vanyahaheights]

Documentary about an antistic boy getting a healing from Mongolian shamans... (dunno if it fits here in this thread)

[Nawmtirea]

Everyone should watch the documentary "Who Killed The Electric Car", about General Motors repossessing and crushing all of their EV1 electric vehicles back in 2001, even though everyone that leased them loved them. It's a rather slow moving documentary, but you'll never buy another GM car again once you watch it. They killed the EV1, replaced it with the Hummer and Escalade that get only 10mpg, and dictated to everyone that we can only buy combustion engine vehicles that pollute the air and cost thousands of dollars in gas, oil and maintenance over the life of the vehicle (then had the nerve to fly in on private jets to ask for a government bailout in 2008 when they were going bankrupt because no one wanted their obsolete gas guzzling vehicles). The follow up documentary "Revenge of the Electric Car" moves a little bit faster and shows you just how much blood, sweat and tears (and personal fortune) Elon Musk has put into the Tesla Motor Company (he draws an annual salary from the company of one dollar). I know that GM employs a lot of people in North America, but any other business that doesn't progress with the times would go out of business, not get billions in government assistance to keep making fossil fuel cars. Toyota kept making hybrid cars even after GM killed the EV1, and have been making the Prius for 14 years while GM did nothing to improve the fuel economy of their vehicles from 1979 to 1999 and has been sluggish with improving their fuel efficiency right up to present day. GM doesn't deserve your business because they have never cared about the environment or the air you breathe and sold North America out to the rich oil tycoons. I wouldn't drive a GM car if you gave one to me. Hopefully by the time I need another car in 4 or 5 years the Tesla Motor Company (and Daimler and Toyota, whom Tesla provides electric powertrain systems for) will have finally killed off the combustion engine vehicle for passenger cars. How many people have died in wars over oil? Good riddance to evil oil, the sooner the better.

[Elyris]

Well - the best solution would be to make cars or at least everyday driving redundant. That's what they call infrastructure (no: it doesn't mean 'as many asphalt streets as possible'). Live, work, groceries, doctors and so one - everything in walking distance. My grandpa always stated that his father deicided to live in their flat because his working place was in a 10minutes walking distance. The 'future' would be 'going back' on this point.


On another note.

[PunkMaster]

Everyone should watch the documentary "Who Killed The Electric Car", about General Motors repossessing and crushing all of their EV1 electric vehicles back in 2001, even though everyone that leased them loved them. It's a rather slow moving documentary, but you'll never buy another GM car again once you watch it. They killed the EV1, replaced it with the Hummer and Escalade that get only 10mpg, and dictated to everyone that we can only buy combustion engine vehicles that pollute the air and cost thousands of dollars in gas, oil and maintenance over the life of the vehicle (then had the nerve to fly in on private jets to ask for a government bailout in 2008 when they were going bankrupt because no one wanted their obsolete gas guzzling vehicles). The follow up documentary "Revenge of the Electric Car" moves a little bit faster and shows you just how much blood, sweat and tears (and personal fortune) Elon Musk has put into the Tesla Motor Company (he draws an annual salary from the company of one dollar). I know that GM employs a lot of people in North America, but any other business that doesn't progress with the times would go out of business, not get billions in government assistance to keep making fossil fuel cars. Toyota kept making hybrid cars even after GM killed the EV1, and have been making the Prius for 14 years while GM did nothing to improve the fuel economy of their vehicles from 1979 to 1999 and has been sluggish with improving their fuel efficiency right up to present day. GM doesn't deserve your business because they have never cared about the environment or the air you breathe and sold North America out to the rich oil tycoons. I wouldn't drive a GM car if you gave one to me. Hopefully by the time I need another car in 4 or 5 years the Tesla Motor Company (and Daimler and Toyota, whom Tesla provides electric powertrain systems for) will have finally killed off the combustion engine vehicle for passenger cars. How many people have died in wars over oil? Good riddance to evil oil, the sooner the better.

The GM electric car was set up to fail by the corptocracy anyway. the Tesla however is an independent free market concept car that is taking the Establishment by storm.

[Elyris]

Just read on the news:

There are constant protest in Brasil against the immense costs of the Football World Championship - while at the same time the population and it's needs get totally ignored.
This time the protests in the capital Brasilia looked kinda familiar

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/demo- ... 15049.html

(A row of photos under that link.)

[Kiyevanie]

Yepp - have seen the pictures too and thought the very same thing.

[Elyris]

No traffic since May?

*drops stuff*


pretty




cute





*tries to summon Sagune*

[Elyris]

The heck everybody >_>

So today I learned about a place called Kowloon Walled City or Hak Nam (wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City)

That's actually so damn cool/crazy/unbelievable - like the future were already real in the past. Or as if Tsutomu Nihei (the guy behind Blame! and Knights of Sidonia - grandmaster of the Sci-Fi megastructure) actually worked in the profession he learned and planned some buildings. That whole thing was pure, flashed-out cyberpunk. People built after their need within close limits so it would've also been a place for going-to-be architects to go to see what's really needed and necessary and how infrastructure is developed in 'real life'.



















There's a photography book coming out in the next time about it (I think it's called "City of darkness" or so) and I am really considering buying it as this is simply too awe-imspiring.

[Tsatu]

That's in a league of its own.

It would be interesting to see more pictures that capture the site as it grew, seemingly organically.

The closest thing I'd seen before was this abandoned tower in Venezuela.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centro_Fin ... onfinanzas

[Kiyevanie]

That's indeed cyberpunk alive, right in our time.

And still - to me the only thing architects could learn there is how not to do it... just looking at those pictures gives me a) the creeps and b) an acute bout of claustrophobia. It's one of the rare moments I'm really gratefull for Germany's rather strict building and fire protection laws.
There's just no light and fresh air in that thing
Plus, I'd be afraid that something crashes down the very next moment.

I've heard of that tower in Venezuela and found it fascinating but that wasn't so closed in and had a lot more light coming in.

[Elyris]

Yeah because the outer walls were missing.




I know what you mean. What I was thinking is that instead 'creating' stuff that just prooves to be useless in real life they can look what is really needed and needed first and how the problem of many people in small spaces can be solved creatively. All too often a big fuss is made about new/modern architecture and in the end it's not even really suitable for everyday human life in it. So one can learn from such examples in a lot of ways.

And it really is so much ... dunno just so unbelievable that this really existed. I'm still totally awestruck.

[Elyris]

Have a look: http://www.survivalinternational.org/

[Elyris]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q





So cool.

[Elyris]

This:

[Kiyevanie]

What is it? A tooth?

[Elyris]

Carcharodon megalodon


Did you watch the vid? (I still don't know how to link the videos correctly.)

[flighter]

Since the last major software update of the forum, there is still no good script for links. I am working on it.

[Elyris]

Ah, I see. It's OK. The possibility that it's me was much higher to start with.