Sketch my mind

A new set for an apocalypse movie?  No. The riots in Kiev. This is happening right now.

Those breathtaking pictures were taken by the young and usually happy tumblarian girl RedMisa during her volunteer work at Kiev.

"I never thought that I would cry for my native country. I’m not particularly patriotic, I do not like politics, large gatherings of people, meetings and inspirational slogans. but I still go to the central street of Kyiv almost every day, doing volunteer work, doing all I can to help. two months of no change for the better, things were getting worse and worse. but when the killings began, catching the protesters in the streets and beating them up…that was the last straw for me. I do not know what to expect next."

Some called them the ‘UFO houses’ or ‘ruins of the future’ on account of their bizarre appearance. And there’s little doubt that the abandoned buildings making up Sanzhi Pod City constituted one of the world’s strangest modern ghost towns before they were torn down in late 2008. This series of images takes us on a retrospective wander through the ruins, which became an offbeat tourist attraction and remain the subject of online discussions and articles.

Resembling Futuro houses, the unique structures in New Taipei City were built in 1978 as a holiday resort aimed at US military personnel serving in East Asia. But the project failed to take off and was abandoned two years later amid rumours of unfortunate accidents that cast a bleak shadow over the development.