by Marco Mancosu | Jul 30, 2015 | industrial, news
Hashima Island, the fortress island near Nagasaki, Japan, has been awarded UNESCO World Heritage status after Japan and South Korea resolved a spat over whether to acknowledge the site’s history of wartime forced labour. Hashima, also known as Gunkanjima, or...
by Marco Mancosu | Jun 17, 2015 | news
“Ghost Towns”: the very first 8K video uploaded to YouTube. Ghost Towns, a slow-panning short movie filmed in Bodie, California, abandoned mining settlement and now California State Park, is the very first 8K video uploaded to YouTube. 8K resolution (or...
by Marco Mancosu | May 14, 2015 | news
Efterklang, a Danish trio, will present an opera in an underground Cold-War bunker in Copenaghen, Denmark. Co-composed with Dane Karsten Fundal, Leaves – The Colour of Falling is a genre-crossing operatic production that will take place underground in a huge...
by Marco Mancosu | May 4, 2015 | resorts
Watch Hidden in the Sand, a great documentary about the fate of Varosha, famous abandoned tourist resort in Cyprus. Varosha is an abandoned tourist resort in Cyprus, fenced off and guarded by Turkish army since 1974. Hidden in the Sand, the documentary below,...
by Marco Mancosu | May 1, 2015 | resorts
Varosha is a resort in the city of Famagusta, Cyprus, fled by its inhabitants in 1974, when the Turkish military invaded the island. In the early 1970’s Varosha was number one destination in Cyprus, and one of the Mediterranean’s most glamorous and popular...
