Open House: the great sex experiment

 Okay, disclaimer, if you are looking for Temptation Island or cheap nudity, just skip both this little review as well as the series.

 

Open House is an experiment in which an intimacy coach, dr Lori Beth, explores with couples if the open lifestyle is something for them.

 

In this first season, numbering 6 episodes, we get to meet a dozen couples who are looking towards opening up their relationships.  Some to spice it up, some because they are curious, and some for all the wrong reasons like getting over affairs.

 

During the season, I saw some really intresting couples in situations any older couple can relate to: life is to busy, kids, and the spark is just dimmed due to not having enough time and try to add some additional spice to it all.  For some, the experiment, in which a couple usually spends one or two nights at the resort, proved to be a blessing, while others realised they need to work on their relation more then on their libido.

 

And then their are of course the typical young couples, in which one partner gets a stack of rules, only to see their other half that imposed them breaking those themselves at the first go.  That relation even ended there and then on the resort... but not in a drama way like "reality shows" tend to do.  On average, the IQ of the participants is higher then "Wannabe Insta Famous" and "Fit Boy" dropped in the candy shop.

 

Though the sixth episode, with the guy that used to be a stripper was hilarious, as was Al, a funny car sales man dropped in there.  Those two where the stars of the season (and they behaved, it was just their manner of approaching things that made it super enjoyable).

 

But yeah, if this is a sort of thing that picks your intrest, it is worth a watch as it will open up that line of conversation in the living room as well... 

Live, Love, LARP

 Live, Love, LARP is a documentary made in 2017, in association with the Mystic Realms organisation and free to watch available on YouTube.

 

And this actually gave a good insight into the hobby, without stygmatising the participants as socially awkward people and the likes as often happens.

 

The documentary is split in various segments, of how the people live ordinary lives, and in their hobby live out extraordinary fantasies of adventure, questing but most importantly cameraderie.  It follows the journey of both regular participants and newer players, but also about the storytellers and how they craft the tales and settings for everyone to participate in.  Wether it is as a hero or a lowly NPC (the rat people where fantastic), and how to tailor for both young and old.

 

This documentary as such also takes a look at the immense creativity the people showcase, and the skills they learned to make their costumes and props to go on their adventures.  Sewing, leatherworking, all that sort of skills that come in handy in regular life, but also social skills, working along with others, and being able to put the stress of every day's ratrace to the side for some good old relaxation!

 

A very intresting documentary for certain, and worth the 1hr20 it runs to have a watch! 

 

 

Grant

 Every wargamer has his "military idols", generals and leaders they in someway look up unto, and they try to emulate their "fighting spirit" in their games, even fantasy or sci-fi ones.

 

 

Call it influencers before that became a hype...

 

Now, for me personally, ever since I took an intrest in military history over 3 decades ago, that have always been the Duke of Wellington, B. L. Montgomery and Ulysses S. Grant, the supreme commander of the Union forces in the ACW.

 

So when strolling some streaming documentaries, I came across this 3 episode mini-series (every episode running for about 1hr25) about Grant, and duly sat down to watch it in one go. The series follows the rise of the most unlikeliest stories in the American history, of how a simple, failed in life, son of a tanner becomes even president.

 

After being an underachieving student of West Point, and quartermaster in the Mexican-American War, he starts drinking at his stationing at Fort Humboldt, missing his wife and children, and leading to his resignation.  But when the Civil War breaks out, he is recruited into a local regiment, and proves his mettle at the Battle of Belmont.  He starts rising the ranks, and after capturing Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, leads the Union to victory at Shiloh.

 

At Vicksburg, he truly shows his tactical skills by crossing the Mississippi and when he later combines three armies into a single force at Chattanooga, Lincoln knows he finally has his man to combat Robert E. Lee, the genius general of the Confederate forces.  Grant is brought to the Eastern theatre, promoting him to the rank of Lieutenant General, the previous man to hold that was... George Washington.  Grant takes the battle to the South, with the bloody Wilderness Campaign, and pushes into the southern states as a result.  

 

While he suffers setbacks at Cold Harbor and the Battle of the Crater, his great plan starts to roll in motion.  Pinning Lee in Petersburg to strangle Richmond, his friend Sherman starts his march through the South, gutting it from the inside out, to take Atlanta.  Lee realises his army is spend, signing his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.  But when Lincoln is assassinated and his successor Johnson makes a mess of things, Grant is elected president.  During his two terms he tries to enact the Reconstruction, only partially succeeding.  

 

After his terms, he travels the world, and while losing all his money, he writes his memoirs together with Mark Twain, securing the financial security for his family before succumbing to throat cancer three days after having finished the final page. 

A fine documentary series, which also looks into the aftermath of the war and what he accomplished then.  Though history often sees him as "The Butcher", a drunk and a corrupt president, these are things often coming forth from misconception and misinformation spread at the time to destable his name.  

A good series, and definitly worth the watch!

Tattoo Age seasons 1 and 2

 One of the things you do during calm night shifts, is looking on YouTube for some intresting docuseries.

 

 

And I stumbled upon Tattoo Age, made by Vice, a channel no longer on Belgian television providers.

 

Tattoo Age follows some of the great names in the american tattoo business.  Mike Rubendall, Dan Santoro, Valerie Vargas, Grime, the japanese tattoo duo Taki & Horitomo (which was the search hit that made me discover the series),... they all pass telling their stories.

 

It looks into how the industry changed over the years, what brought them to following a career in the business, as well of course showing some of their awesome pieces on screen.  But it also has a look at what influenced them, like Grime's episode looking at the Californian weed boom, or how Horimoto came to the States due to tattooing being a sensitive matter in his native Japan.

 

 

I only realised after a few nights of binging though that there are actually 2 seasons and I was watching them through each other.  First I picked those about styles that intrest me mostly, then watched the rest.  But this is a very intresting series to follow if you like tattoo's and the art it is all about.  Every episode runs between 30 to 45 minutes, but mind that some on the Vice YouTube channel are split in a few parts, so some puzzling might be required to get the correct watching order.  Because, well, YouTube algorythm's...

 

Definitly good and informative entertainment!

Secret Ink in South Korea

 One of the recent documentaries I watched during the night shift, Secret Ink talks about the stigma on tattoos in South Korea.

 

Produced by the BBC, it follows Anh Lina, a tattoo artist, and her experiences doing her work.

 

 

Being called names online, and not of the kind sort, to having hundreds of dick pics send to her, she is seen as both a pariah as a forbidden sex symbol.  They are seen as being unfit for being a mother, social rejects, sluts and more just because they produce body-art, and this led to the creation of the 4B movement.  

In South Korea, only licensed medical professionals can practice tattooing legally, as the government has classified it as a medical procedure, and thus creating a robust underground industry.  They suffer discrimination and harassement as they don't have any form of legal protection, seeing they are in essence doing criminal acts.  

And yet, slowly, things are starting to change a little for the better, with medical practioners even agreeing at times that tattoos can be done by artists instead of doctors, as they only need a short course about sterilization and such.  In the meantime, many talented artists have moved abroad, but just as many keep doing the thing they love at home.

 

A truly intresting documentary (it can be found on YouTube btw) and it might even look unbelievable to our western society where the artform is getting more and more common...

Spuiten & Slikken: Jurre in de Porno documentary

 A series of 6 episodes produced by BNN Vara, one of the dutch public channels, it follows the creation of an ethical responsible porn movie.

 

 

From the stories of the good sides of the business to the darker sides within the porn industry of the The Netherlands, the team goes about making a movie that ticks all the boxes of what is right to do.

 

And you might be amazed what simple things are considered luxurious for some of the performers taking part.   It starts out with Jurre going out to observe how a movie is made in the studio of Kim Holland, the most famous producer of the Netherlands, where he learns from the actors that even getting something to eat and drink during a scene is pretty special.  To that end he also decides to get an "intimacy coach" for his own production, someone that guards the wellbeing and borders of the actors.

 

Because as we learn from Trixx, his second visit, these are often taken very liberally by directors, if not plainly ignored.  The pressure often going with it that they did all the production effort "specially for you" makes it that performers at times don't dare to say no, especially if they are just starting out in the business.  The same issues come up when he tries to find a location, honestly stating what kind of movie they are making, and he ends up by a twist of fate with the permission to actually record the movie in the office of the BNN Vara director.  

 

 

With the actors cast, they set out to make a movie (it can be watched on the BNN Vara Spuiten & Slikken website) consisting of two scenes, which are then edited together in an artistic way compared to the raw gonzo that is often cobbled together, the result being pleasant to watch yet somehow feeling "more natural".

 

But I do have some questions about the series.  For one, they don't go on the topic of the SOA paperwork and testings, something I know is rather important and an absolute requirement before filming.  If they don't go through this procedure, get away as fast and far as you can, no matter the payrate.

 

But, never the less it was a nice little series, and it did have some insights that raised my eyebrows from time to time...

Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On

 The follow-up series from Hot Girls Wanted (which I still have to see btw), this series is now streaming on Netflix.

And I must say, it went more dramatically as the episodes progressed.

While the first episode is about how women want to make adult content for women, to break the industires taboo of abuse, the second one is about a Tinder addicted C-grade celebrity (he was in Big Brother once) that used women's feelings as a fast food throw-away good.

It then gets up a notch, as it follows someone that gives advice to novice actrices into the industry, and how one of them derails on a life of partying and drugs so they cut the ties (though the actress is still active today).  Episode four sees through the eyes of a budding producer and the work that goes with it, this was actually a pretty intresting and "human side" episode, perhaps even the most honest one of the series.

 

The next episode follows a friendship between a camgirl and one of her best viewers, but as she goes over to visit him it does end in the expected heartbreak.

My one issue with the 5th episode is that her boyfriend is "just a photographer" in the industry and painted the picture of the innocent bloke, but he is an actor that worked for more extremer labels like Kink and the likes.

The last episode however goes far beyond the previous ones, as in a hunt for more likes on social media, a young girl films the rape of her friend, without calling the police or trying to stop it.  This leads to a huge media fall-out, and even though the truth was more nuanced, she has been burned on the online stake.

These where intresting mini-documentaries, and worth the watch.

Money Shot: The Pornhub Story

 Announced as a sensational investigation documentary into that one site nobody knows but pops up in your browser as soon as you type the letter P, what you get is what feels like a corporate video.

A dull one to boot as well...

The thing is, there are two red lines through this documentary.  On the one hand, how both adult stars and amateurs alike make now gazillions of dollars by uploading content to digital platforms... and the fact that since Donald Trump signed the FOSTA / SESTA law, Pornhub, and it's parent company MindGeek, cannot be held responsible for the content that is uploaded.

First of all, the money thing is very relative, because not everyone makes the millions as the adult stars that are brought to the fore like Siri Dahl.  Secondly, when they come to the tale of an exploitation from a young girl when her ex uploaded a nude video of her, it gets painfull.  Even more painfull if you google Serena Fleites and the parts of the story that aren't shown in this "promotional documentary".

The rest of the documentary follows the regular pattern of these days: interviews, snippets of social media articles, and comments on those without really going in any deeper on given subject.  It also follows the rise of MindGeek / Pornhub, and the fallout for the executives when some christian organisations out to ban porn alltogether from the internet come into the mix, including the burning down of a mansion from one of the CEO's.

It also follows how an article written by Pulitzer price winning journalist Nicholas Kristoff set the ball in motion on how Mastercard and Visa withdrew from the platform, and the panic it brought as OnlyFans also declared (for a whole week before coming back on it) that they would ban adult content of the site.  But the incomes of the site come from banner adds, so it missed the ball and hit mostly the content creators instead of the platform.

All in all, it was a documentary that said a lot without actually saying anything, and I can imagine it got watched so much and talked about so much due to the subject, and not the content.  Like it tricked me into watching this, and it won`t be remembered for long...

Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Was

A Netflix original documentary, it follows the inception, and fall, of the Fyre festival.

What was supposed to be the biggest exclusive party ever, resolved into laws that put "influencers" on a tight leash in the States.

The documentary follows the walk of Billy McFarland, a scammer and con artist who wanted to create the most exclusive beach party ever, and had put influencers, aka vloggers and bloggers, before his public relations machine to sell tickets.

But the festival failed to materialize, and it was soon revealed it was all one big scam.  Now, the irony of the documentary is that I had sympathy for Billy up to a certain point.  It is presented as that he was just an overambitious entrepreneur who had taken on more then he could handle... but then in the last half hour this all melts as snow in the sun, as he creates new scams to pay the debts of his previous ones...

An intresting documentary for sure, and worth checking out on Netflix.

The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

Okay, cry with me.  This documentary (part of the Secret History line of documentaries) premiered the last sunday of september 2018 on "our" Discovery channel.

It was originally aired in... 2014!!!!

It handles about one of the biggest manmade structures and engineering feats mankind ever made: the Great Wall of China, which was build over a period of 2400 years and various dynasties, a period "broken up" by Mongol rule (and it originally failed to keep them out as intended).
Now, the biggest revelation perhaps is that there is no Great Wall.  It are actually 16 different walls linked together as it turned out, then unified into one connecting structure over time.

Another intresting piece was the way the mortar kept the wall together as good as it does, over all those 1000s of years.  It's not like legend says by the bones of deceased workers grinded into it... but by your every day kitchen ingredient, sticky rice.
But perhaps for me the most awesome part was the signalling method of flags and even bonfire chains (hello, beacons of Gondor) to warn about invading barbarians.

It was a nice documentary, and a good sunday night watching... if only they would give more of these things instead of yet another buy and sell junk programme...

Ow, and you CAN'T see it from outer space...

Atlantis Found

In this 2016 documentary from History channel, dr Martin Pepper is "waging all his money" that he found the location of Atlantis.

With the help of modern technology and Plato's writing "hidden clues", he travels to Santorini to prove his theories.

Plot

Using the ancient dialogues of Plato (well, he "forgets" details, like the elephants) he is convinced that Santorini, a volcano caldera that would have been above water before it erupted, is the location of the mythical city.  That once a thriving trade port was located there, and when the volcano erupted it suddenly disappeared.  Okay, that meant instant vaporisation and the remains tumbling to the seabed, but it is based on a story after all.

Of course, there is also the fact that Plato placed the city about 8000 years before this eruption, but never the less, the theory is looking valid when you get the reasoning behind his thinking.  The deep clif walls, the ancient ruins located on the island, and the general location of the island itself.  But it seams the process is reversed from how normally these searches are undertaken.  He tries to "match" as much as possible to the existing island instead of trying to find and island by following the clues.

What I liked about it

* It was nicely brought and a good production

What I didn't like about it

* unfortunatly, it didn't bring anything new at all in theories and evidences, feeling just like a show of one man that just really wants his idea to be true...

I should have taken that bet...

BBC Documentary: Sex in Strange Places

No, this isn`t an erotic show, no you won`t see to much nudity if you watch that series... so if that is what you are looking for, look somewhere else.

Sex in Strange Places is an investigative series, in where Stacey Dooley travels to Turkey, Russia and Brazil to meet young people who are trading on their looks and sexuality for a living. 

Turkey:
Though the subject of sex is largely taboo here, surprisingly, on paper Turkey is the most liberal of the countries Stacey visits in this three part investigative series. Prostitution is legal and there are even state-run brothels. Stacey meets sex workers who regard themselves as tutors to the uninitiated men of a sexually repressed society, preparing them for marriage. But even here Stacey discovers an overwhelming sense of terror pervades as she meets women who fear for their lives just for being seen talking to her. In a world where state registered prostitutes have ‘sex worker’ marked on their ID cards and will never be allowed to join the army, police or civil service, Stacey meets a brothel Madame and discovers that for many girls there’s no way out. 

Brazil:
Around a million transgender people live in Brazil, but as many of them face deep-seated prejudice they struggle to find a job and resort to making a living selling sex. Those who Stacey meets talk openly to her about the discrimination and dangers they face. Setting out at night just with the intention to make enough money to sustain them, but with the very real fear they may not make it home. Life is no less of a challenge for the other women who work in the Brazilian sex industry. Stacey discovers just what they face on a regular basis when she meets some, hearing how the industry is run by an armed militia and the girls may have sex with up to thirty men a night.

Russia: 
In the third episode of this series, Stacey travels to Russia to brave the cold and icy streets of St Petersburg. A city filled with golden palaces and luxury lifestyles, Stacey explores the two very different sides of sex work in the city and asks the question: what does modern day sex look like in Russia? Since the decline of the Russian currency, sex work has risen exponentially, with the estimated number of sex workers in Russia estimated to be 3 million. Stacey meets 24-year-old Avlora, one of the many VIP Sex Workers in St Petersburg. Born in the same year as the fall of communism, Avlora’s new profession means that she’s flown to different continents for luxury holidays, private jets and designer brands. All while charging the equivalent of £700 a night, nearly twice what the average Russian will earn in a month.

The episodes where really confronting on how societies threat these people, yet how on the other hand those same people will gladly make use of them.  Perhaps the most shocking parts where the high ranking Russian official who plainly compared prostitution on the same level as murder, or the young turkish boys who demanded that the reporter had sex with them for money because she was "just a woman".  
 

History Channel: Marco Polo - Journey to the East

A documentary by History Channel, Marco Polo - Journey to the East is the tale as told by perhaps the first ghostwriter in history.

When Marco ends up in jail at age 44,  he tells his story to his cellmate, a writer of novels.  The book will later become published and known as Il Milione, or The Travels of Marco Polo.

The documentary follows the life of the young 17 year old Marco who together with his father and uncle travel to the empire of Kublai Khan.  Here he will enter the service of this most wisest of rulers for nearly 20 years, being granted the job of envoy to the farthest reaches of China and Kublai's Empire.
During these travels he will observe the local customs and report on them with his greatest asset: his memory.  Though there are sceptists who even doubt that Marco actually ever reached China, like he describes the final battle of the Mongol Empire against the Sung Dynasty, while arriving there 3 years after that battle.  But it has been decided in academic circles that, based on a lot of details of local customs from that time, descriptions of places and more or the like, he did get there.

It also looks into the fact that Marco is never put on the same levels like for example Christopher Columbus, who was actually inspired and motivated by Il Milione.  And how he lived out the remaining 30 odd years of his life once he had returned to Venice.

A nice little documentary, that gave some great insights in the life of the famous Venetian merchant who has become synonymous with travels and adventures in the modern days...

History Channel: The Mongol Empire Kublai Khan

I "discovered" Kublai through the marco Polo Netflix series, and took a serious intrest in the "Wise Khan" excellently portrayed by Benedict Wong.

Yes, I`m forming an army for them as such... but while scrolling through YouTube I came across this old History Channel documentary.

The documentary starts from the days of young Kublai, who while unremarkable on a military level, took a totally new approach to the Mongol way of ruling.  He provided for his subjects, no matter what their decendance, as he also worked towards improving trade and communication.
On the other hand, he was still a Mongol warlord, and one of the most ruthless and skilled there have been, rivalling perhaps even his grandfather Genghis.  This resulted him in overthrowing the last chinese dynasty of southern China, and as such becoming the first foreign Emperor of China.
Founding the Yuan dynasty, he ruled China as the chinese did, but still staying true in a way to the Mongol ways of life, and he kept craving new conquests.
Aided by his trusted advisors and his favorite wife Chabi, Kublai, set his eye on Japan, and found his final challenge in this target...

The documentary is in the "good old" style.  No mostly reenacting movies, but the old style of a narrator with images and artwork on the screen, intercut by professors telling about their fields of expertise.

A good documentary, showing the similarities, and the fantasies, of the Marco Polo series, which was closer to the reality then I at first, with limited knowledge of the subject, thought.

Very learnfull!

Historische Oorlogen 08: Amerikaanse oorlogen

So yesterday evening I sat down and watched this DVD I picked up last week for a measly euro.

Part of some collection of all sorts of historical characters and battles (I watched the Napoleon one as well a while ago), it contains 6 documentaries of around 45 minutes each from History Channel.

You know, that channel that when animals could still talk actually aired documentaries instead of Storage wars, Luggage wars and more of those set-up find and sell treasure humbug all day long...

The first DVD contains two documentaries on the AWI, being one of the winter camp of Valley Forge and how George Washington made an army from his mob.  The second one detail the "father of America" himself, from his humble beginnings to his presidential instatement.

The second DVD is one about 4 battles in the ACW, from the Civil War Battle series of History.  Containing Shiloh, Antietam (with a great focus on Meagher of the Irish Brigade), the Wheatfield on day 2 of Gettysburg and finaly Cold Harbor.

While the AWI documentaries are a bit "bland" if you are looking on actual battle information, the ACW Wheatfield one was for me the gem of the set.  Most tend to focus on the first moments of the battle, aka Bufford's heroic stand-off, or the very last, actually rather anti-climatic day with Pickett's doomed charge.

Not a bad buy at all for that money!

The Haul Report 116

Well, today would have been a blank episode for the first time in many months.

No orders came in, though there is one I`m seriously feeling about ranting, no trips to hobby stores or conventions, no sales at the club...

But then I was walking around with Noshi in Antwerp and we went inside a store called Cash Converters just to have a look.

Inside there where literally masses of DVD boxes, and where priced a single euro.  I snatched up this one from one of the racks, and though the inner "clips" for the discs are damaged (I`ll exchange the box one of these days) there was no way I was letting this one slip by.  heck, it`s on the viewing menu somewhere this week, perhaps even tonight.

A double disc, it features battles from both the AWI (Valley Forge and a story about Wahington), and four from the ACW (Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg and Cold Harbor) each being around 45 minutes in playtime.

Just don`t mind the backtext, as not only do they get the years all wrong (Cold Harbor in 1854 instead of 1864), they even managed to switch the wars around for the index on the back...

The Divided Union

The Divided Union is a now 30 year old (it`s from 1987), 5 part documentary series about the American Civil War.

Back in the days it aired on Channel 4, but you can find it on YouTube as well these days.

While it is one of the many documentary series about this war, what, from the likes I`ve seen before on the campaign, is that it doesn`t really focus on the battles.  In fact, most battles get at best a 10 minute recounting in the series.  But instead, it focusses (like in episode 1) the political run up to the war, and (in episode 5) the situation for the african american 100 years after the war.

This makes it a bit different from many other series, as it has other experts as such that shed a light on  the conflict, as it doesn`t go into the battle tactics and generals as much, but in the fate of slave and civilian alike during the conflict.

It`s worth a watch, even though you probably won`t find it in HD images I fear...

Voyeur - a Netflix Original Documentary

One of the specially made by Netflix documentaries, Voyeur promised a look in a very special man's life.

Gay Talese, the legendary journalist and writer (Honor Thy Father for example, about the american maffia, was a masterpiece) follows a man who claims to have been the world`s biggest voyeur.

This man, Gerald Foos, had contacted him with the story that he had bought a motel back in 66 and for decennia had seen this as his laboratory, where he watched guests have arguments, sex and even a murder through a special observation post he had made in the roof.

But soon the viewer is getting points of doubt, and during the documentary, details turn out to be not quite right on how the story had been told to Talese.  With the climax that days before the book would come out, a large part of the story is debunked by another journalist, effectively killing the book for good...

But it is never the less a view in the mind of a very, very special man, and his strange behaviour.  Well made, it gives you even doubt in the end on who to feel sorry for the most: the Voyeur, or the Journalist, men both coming out heavily damaged in soul and reputation from this venture...

Just don`t go looking at this if you think you get a quick fix of nudity... there isn`t any.

History's Greatest Hoaxes

History's Greatest Hoaxes is a 6 part documentary handling just that, the greatest hoaxes pulled in history.

The series looks into how they came about, but most importantly how they could be maintained for a long time.

Looking into the revelations often made decades later, often after the passing away of the hoax creators, and how they took on a life of their own.  The series begins with the infamous alien autopsie video, and follows through with Loch Ness, the Hitler Diaries, Under Peat man, Pappilon and Orson Welles War of the World radio play.

It debunks a lot of myths surrounding them (like the millions of histerical people after War of the Worlds for example) and investigates on how they where step by step created and how they where influencing contemporary people.

Ow, and if you ever suspect a hoax... it seems London is the center of creating them...

Ancient Aliens season 1

"Triggered" by the book Chariots of the Gods by Eric Von Daniken, Ancient Aliens is a series on History, now over 10 seasons long, giving a voice to the ancient astronauts stretch of thinking.

This path of science investigates if aliens visited Earth thousands of years ago, and influenced our culture and society.

Yes, I`m a believer.  The series is made with the help of authors and scientists in all sorts of fields, who discuss the fact why the pyramids in Egypt, the holes of the Hobi, the Money Pit on Oak Island etc are all, or could be all, connected to each other.  And the strange fact that so many ancient structures line up perfectly with the constellation Orion.

It`s fascinating to see how certain old artifacts, like the "birds" from Colombia, or various ancient scriptures hint or suggest the arrival of men from the skies on flying machines.  And how it might effect the current day world should they return.  let alone the fact that modern construction wouldn`t even be able to recreate some of those monuments...

Oh, and it has the meme-king in it...