The site keeps failing to load or shows me a facebook banner with no close button. So I mirrored the photos and captions: http://imgur.com/a/JdZ7A
I'm very interested in North Korea and this is a fascinating album.
Instagrams from North Korea
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#12So just in case the site goes down again (because when I went there, it appeared to be down, and then recovered):
* http://instagram.com/dguttenfelder (n.b. more recent photos are Philippines, not NK)
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#13How about this site go fuck itself with its "log in with facebook" banner that won't go away
Right click, then inspect, find the element and delete right on the page.
I do this all the time on website that do this cover trick.
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#14The last photo is very interesting. Why does the plot of Madagascar need to be explained beforehand? Is it noteworthy that they omitted that the initial setting is New York?
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#15Grand People's Study House is apparently unheated..
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#16Unable to log in to post this comment, but there is discussion in the comments about how nobody is smiling. One observer points out that although people in the US and Europe rarely smile on streets, nobody was even smiling in the wedding photo. I'd like to point that if you look at wedding photos from a lot of hispanic cultures from more than a few years ago, you won't see many people smiling either. "Say cheese" may…
Some chinese, korean, japanese have very flat faces. You cannot tell anything from reading them.
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#17Everything looks like Eastern Europe in the 80s, except that, as many people noted already, nobody is smiling.
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#18Unable to log in to post this comment, but there is discussion in the comments about how nobody is smiling. One observer points out that although people in the US and Europe rarely smile on streets, nobody was even smiling in the wedding photo. I'd like to point that if you look at wedding photos from a lot of hispanic cultures from more than a few years ago, you won't see many people smiling either. "Say cheese" may…
I photo bombed a wedding photo in that same spot. Apparently most Pyongyang weddings include a family photo there, several a day. They were not smiling in their photos, and I don't think the bride smiled at all (the dress and makeup didn't look entirely comfortable). However, there was plenty of smiling in between photos, mostly caused by the awkwardness of our inability to communicate.
That reminds me, I read somewhere that people in North Korea tend to smile when uncomfortable.
In an amusement park, at a bowling alley, at dancing events, in the park, and playing in streams, it seemed like people smiled about as much as you would expect them to anywhere else. I encountered some who wouldn't stop smiling.
What always tends to happen with photos and conversations of certain things (e.g. DPRK) people tend to see what they want to see and manifest their own narrative. Tend to.
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#19Looks like a nice place to visit. Too bad this is the "Elysium" (Pyongyang) of North Korea. Where are all the pictures of the political camps and people literally starving to death (including children) and living in complete filth and sub-animal conditions.
You can see the outlines of the camps on google maps. They are fairly huge. Surrounding them is a strip of short grass between two fences, which is very visible on satellite photos.
You can see similar strips in the west around secure areas, for instance nuclear power plants or particular buildings in secure sites. Sometimes these are dog areas, or contain mines.
I suspect the inmates don't have android phones though.
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#20The last photo is very interesting. Why does the plot of Madagascar need to be explained beforehand? Is it noteworthy that they omitted that the initial setting is New York?
Not really telling from the photo that they missed the initial setting was new york