Nonbiri walker has a number of amazing videos walking around different places in Japan. Here’s one of Takayama. I stayed here in a traditional Ryokan in the early spring one year. It looks much more amazing in winter.
I have started watching more and more of these kinds of quiet virtual visits to many places around the world during covid when travel was pretty much off the table. I especially love these ones without influencer chatter. You experience it just as if you were there yourself…
In real life, the scariest things are not ghosts or ghouls – it’s running into other people alone and in a place where there is no help or law. The most horrible things can happen.
This urban explorer runs across a homeless guy in the depths of an abandoned factory at 22:00. To say he is extraordinarily lucky nothing happened is an understatement. When working with homeless, it is vitally important to understand that many suffer from serious mental health issues, could be on reality distorting drugs, and are so often assaulted that many have learned to aggressively defend themselves/attack others if someone approaches them at night. In this case, he simply backs off and leaves without incident.
Even more frightening is what he didn’t see at the time. Homeless often spend nights in groups as a safety measure. If you encounter one person, you may have just walked into a group of folks in the area. As it turns out, later in the video after he did analysis, at least one other person is seen behind a pillar he didn’t even notice and walked within 10 feet of them.
He could have very easily been robbed, assaulted, or killed. It’s a reminder that the dangers of an abandoned location are not just the mold, asbestos, toxic chemicals, and structural hazards – people can be some of the worst dangers.
Norwegian Xplorer has some great videos of driving around the extreme portions of Norway in winter. In this video, he travels through a polar vortex storm as he drives between Vadso and the extreme northeastern city of Vardø. He braves closed roads along the artic ocean. It’s pretty amazing.
Japanese commercials HD ツ has a whole Youtube channel dedicated to the amazing commercials that run in Japan. They keep it up to date and have some great collections of the funniest, most strange, and coolest commercials.
Includes collections like this series of dead-pan gold of Tommy Lee Jones (who knew he was so popular in Japan?)
Kabuki is the highly stylized Japanese theater tradition that dates back hundreds of years. Kabuki In-Depth is an amazing YouTube channel that describes many of the elements to Kabuki, as well as has summaries of famous Kabuki plays and famous performances/performers. It’s an amazing place to start if you’re interested in the art form.
I think this is an amazing untapped art form that has a lot to offer modern audiences.
Why wait for the Indy 500 when there is the Wienie 500!
Quite frankly, these hot doggers are going to haul buns and let nobody catchup! The one that can cut the mustard is going to grill the competition, smoke their buns, come out top dog, and relish in victory!
The game backstory as explained in the manual is that an Ancient Egyptian priest has put a curse on a pyramid dedicated to the Sun God Re. Any object obstructing Re’s shrine from the Sun would be destroyed. The protagonist is an unnamed archaeologist who learns that on 26th October, 1930, a total eclipse will obstruct the sun above Cairo, and that the curse will cause the Moon to explode, devastating Earth with debris. He decides to travel to the pyramid and destroy Re’s shrine, preventing the curse.
The game starts having just arrived with a biplane parked outside the pyramid he is about to enter, two hours before the eclipse. Can he destroy the shrine and save the earth from destruction?
