Imagine you're on a boat ... and you see the Titanic sink

... and you don't have anything to do for the next 2 hours and 40 minutes.

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Photographing The Nuclear Disaster In Fukushima

VICE accompanies photographer Donald Weber to the buffer zone at Fukushima, Japan, where the eerie silence mirrors that at Chernobyl, and follow him as he attempts to document the unfolding nuclear crisis.

Japan - Before And After The Quake And Tsunami

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Prypiat

‘Pripyat is a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. It was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 but was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster.’

Photos by Tomasz Zawadzki.

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Irene NYC

Two young filmmakers went out during Hurricane Irene to document their Manhattan neighborhood. It looks so peaceful this way.

 

Become A Cop Graffiti

I had to look twice to check if this was serious. Graffiti is illegal. But because of the earthquake in Christchurch M&C Saatchi came up with this idea. "Street artist, Otis Frizzell, has captured a moment from four true NZ Police stories and stencilled each one on a wall near the site where events unfolded. “You too can do something extraordinary. Become a cop."

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Ash Lake

Argentina's Lake Nahuel Huapi had the unfortunate luck of being near a volcano that is filling it up with its ash.

Tornado Scar

The brown scar that runs across the centre of this image shows the path of devastation left by a tornado that tore through south-west and south-central Massachusetts last week. The picture was taken by the Landsat 5 observation satellite 438 miles up in space.

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Joplin Before And After

"Drag the slider right and left to see before and after images of the area around Joplin High School — or what now remains of it — just two days after a deadly tornado leveled neighborhoods in Joplin, Mo., on Sunday."

Holy Shit!

Isaac Duncan shot an intense first person video of a F5 tornado, shot from inside of a walk-in storage fridge at a gas station in Joplin, MO. He returned later and shot a video showing the aftermath of the tornado’s devastation.

"The video i took of the F5 tornado while at Fastrip on east 20th street. We huddled in the back of the store until the glass got sucked out , then ran into the walk in storage fridge. Sorry for the lack of visuals but the audio is pretty telling of how intense the storm was."



Aftermath:

Eclectic Method - The Apocamix

Eclectic Method with The Apocamix. Nice video with all the possibilities of the end of the world.

Eclectic Method - The Apocamix from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

4-27-11 Tornado Tuscaloosa, Al

Wow! Unreal! Today's tornado in the States.

This person probably ran up the stairs.

4-27-11 Tornado Tuscaloosa, Al from Crimson Tide Productions on Vimeo.

Oil'd

A year ago, a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.

As the year anniversary was fast approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.

So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I created this short animation. I've spent all of my free time in the last month putting this together to help illustrate just how dependent we truly are on oil.

Designed, animated and written by Chris Harmon

Oil'd from Chris Harmon on Vimeo.

South Sanriku - Tsunami Seen From Shizugawa High School

Japan tsunami ... the worst video clip ever.

New Tsunami Video, Japan

Tsunami ravaging Kesennuma port. How many times you look at this. It stays creepy. Almost surreal.

Christchurch February 2011 Eartquake - Aftermath

Devastation in central Christchurch following the earthquake of 2011. Provided by Civil Defence.

Tsunami

New tsunami footage from Japan.

Tsunami building:

With Your Car In The Tsunami

This person was in his car during the tsunami in Japan ... and he survived.

Japan - The Town Of Shintona In Miyagi

Images from what remains of the town of Shintona in Miyagi prefecture, one of the areas worst affected by the Tsunami.

Aftermath - The Japanese Tsunami from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

Nuclear Boy

'Nuclear Boy' was created based on the simple analysis of the current state of the Fukushima Nuclear power plant by media artist Kazuhiko Hachiya. It aired on Japanese television.