Sunday, 1 June 2008

Flat searching

After hearing that our landlords are going to up the rent at our place, Aaron and I went searching for a new flat. We looked at one on Kingsland Road nearby and it was tiny, mouse infested and expensive to boot. Yesterday we went looking in Balham, a place where we would be the bad neighbors, and haven't had too much luck. While walking around, I saw something extraordinary...It was the ugliest building on the road and the only building to my knowledge that I've ever shared a name with. This, of course, makes it the coolest place ever.

While we were in Balham we met up with a few people and Aaron got to kick a ball around for a little while before we ate.
(Aaron with no ball and no people.)
Somehow between flat searching, visiting friends and marking essays I've missed the story on the sighting of one of the estimated hundred uncontacted tribes in the world.
(Click for the rest of the pictures from the BBC website.)
This is such a tricky situation to deal with. It's impossible to make contact with the tribe without risking killing most of the people through infection. But now that they have been photographed, they can probably be found by other people and I can imagine people sneaking (as much as you can in a rainforest) in to get more photographs and videos. As much as my curiosity is killing me, they are probably better left alone. I just think there's a risk of turning them into a living museum piece.

1 comment:

Amon said...

The boy Petten's not been getting any service and definitely looks a bit isolated up there on his own.