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Enter Pyongyang
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Erin Crawford
#1 - 2014-08-10 11:51:46 UTC
A side of the capital city we don't get to see very often. Blending time-lapse photography, acceleration and slow motion, HD and digital animation: Enter Pyongyang

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#2 - 2014-08-10 12:01:06 UTC
Derrick Miles
Death Rabbit Ky Oneida
#3 - 2014-08-10 12:19:16 UTC
Awesome film work there.
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2014-08-10 12:48:46 UTC
yeah ok, Northern Korea and all that.

The sad thing of all this? It actually seems to be a very nice city.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#5 - 2014-08-10 14:10:07 UTC
Grimpak wrote:
yeah ok, Northern Korea and all that.

The sad thing of all this? It actually seems to be a very nice city.

well its full of normal people , of coarse it is.

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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2014-08-10 15:24:16 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Grimpak wrote:
yeah ok, Northern Korea and all that.

The sad thing of all this? It actually seems to be a very nice city.

well its full of normal people , of coarse it is.

no, not that.

I mean that there's a certain aesthetic that it's quite pleasing to the eye. Clean streets, orderly crowd, relatively low traffic. Some stuff is old (subways for example, and those buses do look like from 80's USSR), but everything seems to run well and there's no rush anywhere.


..then again, it's a dictator's dream metropolis.

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[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right
Erin Crawford
#7 - 2014-08-10 16:07:20 UTC
That's exactly what struck me. Everything is so very clean and orderly. Like you say, the streets are clean and there's non of the filth that, for me at least, is usually associated with the poor or poverty stricken. The roads are open and wide, little traffic, etc.
I imagines it to look a lot worse than this.

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Lido Seahawk
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2014-08-10 20:20:03 UTC
Erin Crawford wrote:
That's exactly what struck me. Everything is so very clean and orderly.



Sterile is the word you're looking for, I believe. As in scrubbed clean of anything that could inspire an independent thought...

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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-08-10 20:44:19 UTC
Lido Seahawk wrote:
Erin Crawford wrote:
That's exactly what struck me. Everything is so very clean and orderly.



Sterile is the word you're looking for, I believe. As in scrubbed clean of anything that could inspire an independent thought...

yeah I can see that.

it doesn't look unpleasant tho.

[img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]

[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right
Yokai Mitsuhide
Doomheim
#10 - 2014-08-10 22:21:21 UTC
Erin Crawford wrote:
That's exactly what struck me. Everything is so very clean and orderly. Like you say, the streets are clean and there's non of the filth that, for me at least, is usually associated with the poor or poverty stricken. The roads are open and wide, little traffic, etc.
I imagines it to look a lot worse than this.


It does look worse...anywhere outside of Pyongyang.
Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2014-08-11 07:37:53 UTC
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
Erin Crawford wrote:
That's exactly what struck me. Everything is so very clean and orderly. Like you say, the streets are clean and there's non of the filth that, for me at least, is usually associated with the poor or poverty stricken. The roads are open and wide, little traffic, etc.
I imagines it to look a lot worse than this.


It does look worse...anywhere outside of Pyongyang.

and that's the problem, isn't it?Straight

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[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right
Erin Crawford
#12 - 2014-08-11 08:24:44 UTC
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
Erin Crawford wrote:
That's exactly what struck me. Everything is so very clean and orderly. Like you say, the streets are clean and there's non of the filth that, for me at least, is usually associated with the poor or poverty stricken. The roads are open and wide, little traffic, etc.
I imagines it to look a lot worse than this.


It does look worse...anywhere outside of Pyongyang.


That's very true and there's enough evidence to show that too. Just the scenes shown of the city show us something, that to me, almost look so clean that it seem like a movie set; there's something unreal about the reality of this city and yet it is!

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stoicfaux
#13 - 2014-08-12 02:09:46 UTC
I found the lack of people rather disquieting. As in population density. And in the density of the buildings. The roads were huge (due to greenspace) with "no" traffic. There weren't enough people and cars for that many office buildings. And no food carts serving the working masses.

It kind of reminds of a disaster/dystopian movie where small elements of society maintain civilization after a plague has wiped out 80% of humanity.

OTOH maybe it was the weekend.

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stoicfaux
#14 - 2014-08-12 02:14:31 UTC
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
Erin Crawford wrote:
That's exactly what struck me. Everything is so very clean and orderly. Like you say, the streets are clean and there's non of the filth that, for me at least, is usually associated with the poor or poverty stricken. The roads are open and wide, little traffic, etc.
I imagines it to look a lot worse than this.


It does look worse...anywhere outside of Pyongyang.

No, there are problems in the city itself. Take the Ryugyong Hotel for example.


Or for a more melodramatic history of the hotel:
Tower's height:
330 m (1082 ft.)

Floors: 105

Ryugyong

The construction of the 330 m tall tower in Pyongyang, North Korea began in 1987. It has a total 360,000 m² (3.9 million ft²) floor space and 105 stories. The building should have been opened in 1989, by that time it could have been the tallest hotel in the world and the 7th largest skyscraper. North Korea have spent ~$750 million or 2% of the country's GDP on the Ryugyong Hotel. The hotel was designed to have 3,000 rooms, 7 revolving restaurants, casinos(!), nightclubs(!) and Japanese lounges. In 1989 -the original completion date- they had several construction method and material problems therefore the opening was delayed, but in 1992 the construction came to a complete halt due to funding problems, electricity shortages, and the prevailing famine.



And, no, it's still not functioning as a hotel.

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Erin Crawford
#15 - 2014-08-12 08:18:08 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
I found the lack of people rather disquieting. As in population density. And in the density of the buildings. The roads were huge (due to greenspace) with "no" traffic. There weren't enough people and cars for that many office buildings. And no food carts serving the working masses.

It kind of reminds of a disaster/dystopian movie where small elements of society maintain civilization after a plague has wiped out 80% of humanity.

OTOH maybe it was the weekend.




Well said!
In fact, any chance you happened to watch the movie Divergent over said weekend? because... "a disaster/dystopian movie where small elements of society maintain civilisation after a plague has wiped out 80% of humanity"
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