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Rask
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Date Joined Apr 2002
Total Posts : 4503 |  Posted 2004-11-23 1:45 AM (GMT -6) |   | | All in all, it was a good article.
You can download it by clicking here. (11.7MB WMV)
For our guests from other UE sites, feel free to download this video and share it on your own site, as well.
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Rask
Best left to his own devices.
Date Joined Apr 2002
Total Posts : 4503 | Posted 2004-12-05 11:46 PM (GMT -6) | | | From this week's FFWD Magazine (Can someone get a scan of the article?):
Courtney Thompson said...
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City secrets
Site has online urban exploration |
| For some, urban exploration means leaving the comfort of their U-shaped suburb for a 20-minute drive into the bustling world of downtown. For others, it is a call to duty. To infiltrate the forbidden, the dark, the stinky; to document a tunnel that has rarely been seen by the hundreds of people who travel above it every day.
jinxmagazine.com is just the online dossier for the latter group – a stylish bunch (most members plan their journeys in dark suits) dedicated to documenting the underbelly of The Big Apple. Their most successful tract, Invisible Frontier, is a book devoted to, "the tunnels, ruins and hidden rooftops of New York". At monthly meetings, the group debates the psychopathology of the covert tourist, with additional discussion on architecture, urban planning and urban decay. To get a taste for this little-known world, peruse the excellent selection of photos documenting the group’s various adventures. Chronicled on the site is its raid on a sugar factory, and the fate of urban exploration, given increased post-9/11 security, is examined.
If you’re looking to break into urban exploration, try infiltration.org. The site is a guide to networking through forums covering basic explorer ethics and how-tos. There’s a fascinating timeline of the history of urban exploration in addition to a dictionary of terms used by those in-the-know. In the journal index section you’ll find a grand index of adventures, including a visit to a Masonic temple, the Knox Church in Toronto and a close call at an abandoned grain elevator.
It’s a risky hobby that is not for the faint of heart. Yet, in a city like Calgary where development means out-with-the-old, you may want a peek at its hidden sights before it’s in-with-the-new. | |
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Rask
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Rask
Best left to his own devices.
Date Joined Apr 2002
Total Posts : 4503 | Posted 2005-05-01 9:56 PM (GMT -6) | | | Urban Exploration hits the (online) news again. I suspect that UE is a story that will always pop up on a regular basis, particularily when there's not much other news to be had. It's interesting, but otherwise harmless. Also, I think everyone is at least a little curious as to what's behind any "employees only" door or any "no trespassing" sign.
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Rask
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Date Joined Apr 2002
Total Posts : 4503 | Posted 2005-07-23 11:48 AM (GMT -6) | | | There are reasone I like to explore in a group of at least three people:
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Rask
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Rask
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Date Joined Apr 2002
Total Posts : 4503 | Posted 2005-09-15 11:15 AM (GMT -6) | | Here's a new one: Some Urban Explorers were arrested on suspicion of "terrorism". It goes to show that people doing anything out of the ordinary are to be automatically feared.
Pioneer Press said...
Urban explorers arrested near sewer
Curious tour city's nooks, crannies BY MARA H. GOTTFRIED Pioneer Press St. Paul police officers nabbed three men professing to be "urban explorers" after they crawled out of a storm sewer near St. Paul City Hall. Police were called about people removing a manhole cover at Kellogg Boulevard and St. Peter Street and entering a sewer system at about 11:45 p.m. Monday, said Officer Pete Crum, department spokesman. When three men came out, officers arrested them. They told police they were urban explorers, Crum said. Urban exploration involves "exploring the hidden, secret and forgotten nooks and crannies of society," which could include caves, old tunnels and abandoned buildings, said Mike Gilday, a local urban explorer. "More so than a hobby or activity, it's a mind-set, a curiosity or desire to explore the artificial frontiers of civilization." Officers arrested John G. Fellman, 22, of Maplewood; Nathan D. Harkness, 22, of Arden Hills; and Luke A. Towle, 21, of Wausau, Wis., on suspicion of terroristic threats, burglary and possession of burglary tools. They were being held in the Ramsey County jail Wednesday night. The Ramsey County attorney's office declined to charge the men, but the city attorney's office hadn't yet reviewed the case. The city still could charge the men with misdemeanor or gross misdemeanors. St. Paul police have arrested urban explorers within the past two years at the former Schmidt brewery on West Seventh Street and a cave on the West Side bluffs.As many as 80 people actively participate in urban exploring locally, but there are an untold number of "armchair" explorers, Gilday said. "While most authorities would doubtless prefer that none of us do what we do, I imagine most would admit, albeit grudgingly, that the irresponsible five percent of the community" causes 85 percent to 95 percent of the trouble, Gilday said. Mara H. Gottfried covers St. Paul public safety. She can be reached at mgottfried@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5262.
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Rask
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Date Joined Apr 2002
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Rask
Best left to his own devices.
Date Joined Apr 2002
Total Posts : 4503 | Posted 2007-02-26 12:46 PM (GMT -6) | | | Article from the Swindon Advertiser X-posted from Usufructer, for posterity:
Swindon Advertiser said...
What a totally pointless hobby (no byline)
THEY call themselves urban explorers. Actually they're trespassers, a bunch of hare-brained pests with a limited mental age and unlimited arrogance.
They weasel their way into boarded-up and derelict buildings such as the old Locarno, the Mechanics' Institute, the college in Regent Circus; in fact, it seems, almost any old ruin they have no business to be in.
Dressed up in black clothes, they do it mostly at night. Then they post pictures and reports on a website named after a science fiction horror movie, just to prove they were there.
It seems they even prowled around the Fleming Way police station building while it was being demolished And now safety experts from Swindon Council, Wiltshire police and other worthy public bodies are getting worked up in case these morons endanger their own life and limb negotiating bricks, planks, heights and tottering along walls and rafters.
"If they injure themselves it could be hours or even days before help arrives," said police spokesman Graham Chivers.
Well, hard luck! Why should paramedics, members of the fire service, police officers or other hard-pressed rescue workers have to put themselves at risk to haul nuisances in black balaclavas who are suffering from concussion or broken bones out of dangerous, fenced-off buildings which they have deliberately chosen to invade?
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They indulge in this totally useless activity at their own risk.
They don't merit the portentous warning given last week by council spokeswoman Liz Richmond: "People should be discouraged from engaging in the acts that are portrayed on this website... if a building is fenced off it is usually for a reason."
Precisely! Anybody who has to seek kicks by burrowing into dank, dangerous old buildings, taking snapshots of his mates and then writing a turgid account of the excursion needs to be pitied.
What is the point of it? The activity benefits nobody and they and the people who apparently have nothing better to do than visit their silly website should get a life.
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Rask
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