Pripyat: A Vision of the Future?

Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

Wow. Absolutely haunting view of Pripyat and Chernobyl… and reminiscent of the future world I imagine in LILIUM, though the world 300-ish years from now, as depicted in GOD HAS HEARD and OUR LADY OF SORROWS is considerably wetter, greener, and warmer. There is nearly no metal left remaining in the ruined battlefields of the novels, only jungles, sinkholes, massive sunken cities, and broken concrete, plastic and foam.

The song is ‘Promise Land’ by Hannah Miller, in case you’re wondering.

Chernobyl and Fukashima really ought to be a warning to us all… but as it turns out, humans don’t learn from the past very well.