- "GOJIRA!" - curious_spider
Red Bridge
No big story here people, as you can see that's just a simple hanging bridge... a red one, on a river...
so, move on, keep browsing, nothing to see here...
alright, alright, I'll tell you!...but remember you didn't hear it from me!...
...that bridge is the only access to a secret biotechnology research
center the Japanese Government built on that small island in Wakayama
Prefecture.
That hidden center has spawned many experiments that later on went on
to become popular culture celebrities:
+Godzilla itself was born there fifty years ago, they never really found any practical purpose for him, but some guy from the Toho Film Company paid peanuts for its copyright and... you know the rest.
+After serving in WWII, a doctor from Osaka called Osamu Tezuka worked in there for a while as the head physician. He got many interesting ideas from everything he saw inside, specially the early computers they used. Those ideas would later evolve to become popular characters and stories such as Astro Boy (Atom), Black Jack, Big X, Kimba - the white lion, etc
+A couple decades ago yet another doctor from Harvard Medical School paid a visit and later on he wrote a novel about some secret island in the South Pacific where dinosaurs were brought back to life by using cloning technology. Eventually Steven Spielberg read that book and the rest is history...
The river is also very useful, it keeps the humans out and the zombies in... as you know, zombies can't stand water.
Update (Jun-3-2008): This photo has been featured as one of the "Top 10 Wired Water Photos - decided by Wired"
Comments and faves
MarianaPichu, aurelio.asiain, clairish, 顔なし, and 508 other people added this photo to their favorites.
MarianaPichu (73 months ago | reply)
Qué buena está esta foto! Felicidades!
Fa.bian (73 months ago | reply)
Awesome perspective, fresh colours! Well done!
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Ash Starkey (73 months ago | reply)
Wow. Very well done all round. Love the background info. The floating red bridge. The so flat green water. the mysterious island. The empty landscape. Muy muy bueno!
THEfunkyman (73 months ago | reply)
nice view !
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siljegarshol (73 months ago | reply)
Very good picture and I like the extra info! Of course the color contrast makes it very striking.
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electronic alchemist (73 months ago | reply)
Just beautiful! You can barely see the zombies.
Alex Schraufstetter Photographer (73 months ago | reply)
Felt into the thumbnail, the bigger the better it is.
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rocdam (73 months ago | reply)
Very beautiful composition.
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rogilde - roberto la forgia (73 months ago | reply)
so beatiful
rogilde ;-)
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chicadecasa (73 months ago | reply)
You deserve "Another Diamond" on your Great Photo!
GetCarter2007 (73 months ago | reply)
Striking view.
Melville B. (73 months ago | reply)
Superb !
You deserve "Another Diamond" on your Great Photo!
aurelio.asiain (73 months ago | reply)
kinda stuff i like.
karaku* (73 months ago | reply)
Woooow....That is amazing!!
Unnnnnnnm.....I can never cross this bridge.
顔なし (73 months ago | reply)
Is this in Wakayama City? A few of us are headed up to your parts to some shut down military base island that's now opened to the public one of these weekends...
mk family (73 months ago | reply)
きれいなつりばし！um, You have a high level of English!!! also Japanese!!! あと、ほかにも英語じゃなさそうな言葉...スペイン語かな？たくさんの言葉知ってるね！すごす ぎる！！！
curious_spider (73 months ago | reply)
Okay, we're going to have to bumrush the island and take it for our own. Think of the power! The knowledge! The endless possibility!
And no zombies!
YES!
You are my winner!
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Lixzart (73 months ago | reply)
wow que lugar eh me quede impactada buenisimo!
pierdolapaciencia (73 months ago | reply)
oh paquis, que bello, que poetico todo! me parti de la risa con la descripcion. que ideas que tenes, deberias escribir algo que te generara mayores ingresos... mmm... no se. sugerencias que pasan por esta cabecita loca.
y cuantos awards y comentarios ya tenes! te felicito!! esta deberia ir a explore, ciertamente.
muack.
oye, y cuando nos juntamos?
aurelio.asiain (73 months ago | reply)
better at second time.
your best shot so far.
aurelio.asiain (73 months ago | reply)
Ponla en un grupo que se lla a"Composition First". And let's see.
joseanprado (73 months ago | reply)
Beautiful shot!
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Ouf69 (72 months ago | reply)
Interesting perspective and complementary colours !
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MarianaPichu (72 months ago | reply)
Excelente, entre más la veo, más me gusta!! Yo creo que de todos los views q tienes, comola mitad son mios jaja
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Jesus Guzman-Moya (72 months ago | reply)
~This Photo is invited for~Beautiful Capture Group~
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Traveler Photos Point of View (invited photos only), and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Daniel Schwabe (72 months ago | reply)
Great composition, nice colors!
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Saralú (72 months ago | reply)
Que padre está ésta foto!!! Super original e interesante descripción.
Bressi Ph. (72 months ago | reply)
wonderful perspective! definitely a fave
EddyB (72 months ago | reply)
Stunning perspective and colours.
This is a really great Traveler Photo Point of View
xgray (72 months ago | reply)
excellent!
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Lord Cuauhtli (72 months ago | reply)
Me encanta esa perspectiva tan hermosa!!!! una fave!!
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Chiva Congelado (72 months ago | reply)
¿Cómo me pude haber saltado esta foto? ¡Excelente!
Uchujin (72 months ago | reply)
LOL.......great story, sounds completely true....i wouldnt put anything past the japanese government ;-0
Rather lovely photo too......great great colours.
Yohei Sekiguchi (72 months ago | reply)
haha, so hilarious. XD you seem to belong to a secret department of the japanese government.
by the way, this photo is great!
Alvaro Carreras (72 months ago | reply)
Nice composition.
Erin? (72 months ago | reply)
neat picture! great colors..... i really like the green water!
enetlin (71 months ago | reply)
我也想去这个地方，告诉我在哪？
STC4blues (71 months ago | reply)
Gojira giving a lecture on atomic energy and biotechnology:
Rodrigo_Soldon (69 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Wonderful photos for the world, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Nicola Corboy (69 months ago | reply)
Great image, perfect symmetry.
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game1980 (69 months ago | reply)
Great photo... and great description too... ha ha
nolando (68 months ago | reply)
lovely work
oliverios_10 (67 months ago | reply)
nice! where is it ?
Nicole Hastings Photography (66 months ago | reply)
I would buy that if it were a print!
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Kirpernicus (66 months ago | reply)
Great shot, interesting place. I like the bold red vs. the green. Nice sense of humor, too. : )
www.juanantoniomosquera.com (66 months ago | reply)
Maravillosa :)
Mari Sosa (66 months ago | reply)
beautiful pic!