Spot Cool Stuff first visited Koh Panyee on a trip to Thailand a few years after the story of the YouTube video below takes place. “Koh” in Thai means “island.” But Koh Panyee is an island more in name than reality. The place is more accurately described as a floating village, built around steep karst mounds and upon bits of rock that stick out from the sea. To walk around the inhabited areas of Panyee—the inhabited areas being virtually the only parts of the “island” one can walk around—is like exploring a scene from Waterworld come to life (minus Kevin Costner).
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If you like to be under the sea—or at least like your movie plots to take place there—you’ve got several dozens of submarine-oriented flicks to choose from. There’s something compelling about the submarine genre of movies: the close quarters, the life-and-death nature of it, the mystery of what’s out there in the dark and vast ocean depths.
Here’s a rundown of our personal favorite ten submarine movies:
(They seem to vary from the consensus list, so please be kind)
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Look at yourself in a recent photo, compare it to a photo of yourself from four-and-a-half years ago and you will probably see a difference. But how did you get from then to now? How have the look of your hair style, your eyes, your jawbone, your ears, lips and skin changed day-to-day during that time?
For at least one woman that is not a theoretical question. She took a photo of herself every day for more than four years (and counting!) and compiled her collection in this compelling YouTube video.
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