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This is just brilliant:

http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk

Should appeal to fans of the whole Ghost Box/ Broadcast/ Threads/ Look Around You/ 1970s British oddness aesthetic.

Add in a bit of Wickerman-style spookiness...

Strange, yet oddly familiar....

This is intriguing, I actually thought for a short while it was a real place and I was already planning my trip there lol

Very surreal indeed, nice one for posting.

If you like places with odd aesthetics you may like a place called Dungeness on the south coast of England. It is a really surreal place, I love it there. It is the closest thing we have to a desert in England and there is a huge nuclear powerplant, light houses and some pretty odd looking homes, some look as if they belong out of some texas chainsaw massacre type film. There is also pre world war 2 concrete radars and a nature reserve (becuase the powerplant attracts unique species due heating the surrounding water ways)

http://99seconds.com/blog/bike-road-3-dungeness

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dungeness&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=qHQrUeOUAoba0QXZpoHACw&sqi=2&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=889

If anyone knows of any other surreal / odd places to visit, mind posting them?

Thanks - I love that whole aesthetic.

Hard to describe, but a lot of BoC's visuals and imagery play on it.

All BBC educational programmes, old cold war installations, and a very unsettling feeling of 1970s otherworldliness, where everything is a bit wrong...

I saw an original copy of Protect and Survive recently and the look and feel of it was fascinating - so matter of fact; it looked like a science textbook from when I was at school, yet it was about surviving a nuclear holocaust. I even liked the font.

beautifully done!

This is awesome, nice find man

A_Northern_Soul wrote:Thanks - I love that whole aesthetic.

Hard to describe, but a lot of BoC's visuals and imagery play on it.

What you said. Thanks very much.

Ah, just came here to post this. It really nails the jarring atmosphere of the time, doesn't it? I made a long post about it on Reddit, but being of the age to remember the stuff this site (and yeah Look Around You) were parodying, it gives me the shivers to look at it. It's not just in retrospect either, the stuff it's riffing on was just as goddamn spooky back then, I have no idea why.

The dust settled all pretty round here then :) I like the cassette rave piaaaannooofoortttee

" I have no idea why." I know! That's the strangest thing. That whole aesthetic & atmosphere just taps into SOMETHING. I find it really hard to describe

PS - Yay! Louise is back!

[quote="A_Northern_Soul"]" I have no idea why." I know! That's the strangest thing. That whole aesthetic & atmosphere just taps into SOMETHING. I find it really hard to describe

PS - Yay! Louise is back![/quote]

You know, for a hot second I thought this place was real. Til I saw the hilarious posters.

Ps yay I missed you :) pianoforte coaxed me back with nice words, little scamp

I wish I could visit there lol. I love the tape recordings a lot, it really helps to set the mood of this imaginary place.

louise wrote:I like the cassette rave piaaaannooofoortttee

thanks!

louise wrote:pianoforte coaxed me back with nice words, little scamp

awwww, glad to know that I did something right...

[quote="pianoforte"][quote="louise"]I like the cassette rave piaaaannooofoortttee[/quote]

thanks! ;)

[quote="louise"]pianoforte coaxed me back with nice words, little scamp[/quote]

awwww, glad to know that I did something right... :oops: :)[/quote]


I did reply to you to say hey & things but the message didn't send, just sos you knows. :)

Book available for pre-order (and very good it looks too)

Until 15 mins ago, there WAS a nice little soundtrack available too, including BOC (natch). Server just gone done, but keep eyes peeled - it looked good

Mexicola wrote:Book available for pre-order (and very good it looks too)

Until 15 mins ago, there WAS a nice little soundtrack available too, including BOC (natch). Server just gone done, but keep eyes peeled - it looked good

Thanks for that, looks good, going to have to purchase I think. Playlist seems to be working again.