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Noble Donor
Location: Austin, tx
Gender: Male
Picture of my cat
 |  |  | UE: Article in Fortune Mag
< on 9/22/2003 5:19 PM >
|  | | | Fortune Mag,
It’s in the July 7, 2003 on page 151. The title is High Jinx, by Grainger David. “Exploring off-limits places is illegal and dangerous, but that doesn’t stop these guys.”
Just thought I would share.
Space for rent |
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Avatar-X
    
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| |  | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 1 on 9/22/2003 5:36 PM >
|  | | | scan scan scan!
huskies - such fluff. |
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Mochi
Location: West Jordan, Utah
Gender: Male
Stare deep into a kitty's nose.
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 2 on 9/22/2003 5:43 PM >
| | | | Shite. I'll have to check this out after school today at B&N.
I smells bad mojo ahead.
>_< Mochi, precognitive.
JESUS SAVES!!!
(And then he redeems his tickets for free prizes!) |
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Noah Vale
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
| | | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 3 on 9/22/2003 5:53 PM >
| | | | Great. WTF is a mag like fortune covering UE for? Next thing ya know we'll be seeing UE outfitters who take rich corporate execs into the NYC subways.
Hope they find the 3rd rail.
"Dallas is a magnificent and wide open city, and I'm deeply envious of any urban explorers who have the good fortune to live there." -Ninj. |
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Noah Vale
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
| | | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 4 on 9/22/2003 5:56 PM >
| | | | here ya go Av.
Edit: Fuck. Nevermind. The link only shows like the 1st 20 words then you need to be a subscriber to see the rest.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/personalfortune/articles/0,15114,460630,00.html
[last edit 9/22/2003 8:58 PM by Avatar-X - edited 2 times]
"Dallas is a magnificent and wide open city, and I'm deeply envious of any urban explorers who have the good fortune to live there." -Ninj. |
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Mochi
Location: West Jordan, Utah
Gender: Male
Stare deep into a kitty's nose.
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 5 on 9/22/2003 6:09 PM >
| | | | I certainly hope I don't make an extra trip to B&N today all to "no avail". (Ha ha. Name puns.)
>_< Mochi, animated tattoo machine.
JESUS SAVES!!!
(And then he redeems his tickets for free prizes!) |
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CMH
Gender: Male
| | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 6 on 9/23/2003 12:19 AM >
| | | | You are hearby banned from speaking for
[ ]12 Hours
[X]24 Hours
[ ]48 Hours
for the offense of corny punning.
;D
"It's funnier that way." |
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Mochi
Location: West Jordan, Utah
Gender: Male
Stare deep into a kitty's nose.
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 7 on 9/23/2003 4:15 AM >
| | | | Eh. I cast Dodge Linguiban.
(jabbers away)
>_< Mochi, jabberjaw.
JESUS SAVES!!!
(And then he redeems his tickets for free prizes!) |
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ProductOfDetroit
Location: Detroit/Troy
Gender: Male
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 8 on 9/25/2003 4:14 AM >
| | | | I clicked on the link and then clicked on continue, and it worked for me......if it doesn't for anyone else,this is what it said:
High Jinx
Exploring off-limits places is illegal and dangerous, but that doesn't stop these guys.
FORTUNE
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
By Grainger David
L.B. Deyo and David "Lefty" Leibowitz are two mostly normal guys in New York City. They're neither young nor old (they're 32), with normal jobs (web development), facing normal realities (Deyo just took the LSAT). They do not, however, have normal ambitions.
In the name of their magazine, Jinx, they want to go down a dark tunnel leading to the deepest point in Manhattan. And they want to go to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. And they'd like to do both wearing suits, ties, and shades, preferably accompanied by women in cocktail dresses.
Deyo and Leibowitz are "urban explorers." Jinx first came out in 1996, but they got started much earlier: At 16, they were busted on the roof of Grand Central Station in broad daylight.
They've avoided capture in the "dozens, maybe over 100" adventures since. They've scaled the canopies of most of the major bridges that connect to Manhattan, rummaged through abandoned subway stations, and tromped through underground passageways such as the Croton Aqueduct. Later this month Three Rivers Press will publish their book, Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York. Though most of those adventures took place in early 2001, Deyo and Leibowitz are still active, even in these security-conscious times: They last scaled the Manhattan Bridge just six months ago.
"At the top, you poke your head through this manhole," says Leibowitz, who wears his sunglasses over black plastic eyeglasses. "The view is overwhelming"—he pauses—"but tunnels offer more opportunities for discovery."
Deyo, meanwhile, tends to wax philosophical. "Adventure, exploration, risk taking," he says. "All organisms must have these qualities to survive and thrive. But society is built to escape these needs. It is our collective tendency to retreat. We believe it is important to challenge that response."
Challenging collective societal tendencies is a long-term job. Their first and less ambitious dream is that people will stop confusing them with tour guides. Later they hope to venture abroad, maybe to Mexico City. Do they really want to risk getting caught by the Mexican police? "Urban exploration is not for everyone," says Deyo. "It is extremely dangerous and against the law, and reckless and frivolous. But to those who will not be deterred, we say to them, 'The city is waiting. Go to it.' "
http://www.flickr.com/photos/product34/ |
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Ben
Noble Donor
Location: Mojave Desert
Gender: Male
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 9 on 9/25/2003 4:23 AM >
| | | | Why is L.B. taking the LSAT at 32?
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kowalski
| | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 10 on 9/25/2003 4:33 AM >
| | | | Wow. That was about the most stilted and pedestrian article about urbex I've ever seen. It reads like the writer wrote down a bunch of bullet points while interviewing them (or perhaps just while reading Three Rivers Press' promo material?) and then just arranged the bullets in a certain order and converted them to (barely) proper sentences.
[last edit 9/24/2003 11:35 PM by kowalski - edited 1 times]
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RobbieKnobbie
Location: Philadelphia PA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 11 on 9/25/2003 4:38 AM >
| | | | Does it seem as though Deyo and Leibowitz have elected themselves 'spokesmen for all UEers?'
Is anyone else the least bit uncomfortable with this idea?
You're shitting me... that's IT? |
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Mr. X
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
| | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 12 on 9/25/2003 4:48 AM >
|  | | | Posted by RobbieKnobbie
Does it seem as though Deyo and Leibowitz have elected themselves 'spokesmen for all UEers?'
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Not at all.
They're not the first to interview with reporters or appear in the media.
Certified Trunk Spelunker |
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Mochi
Location: West Jordan, Utah
Gender: Male
Stare deep into a kitty's nose.
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 13 on 9/25/2003 4:52 AM >
| | | | I read this TOTAL AND COMPLETE BULLSHITE firsthand the other day, and I am shocked an appalled at it and our new "representatives". Reps my shiny metallic ricey ass. Bah. I'm too pissed off now to type anymore. Peace out, boardies.
>_< Mochi, royally fucked.
EDIT: Okay, I take that back... I'm not mad at the explorers at all. I'm mad at the interviewer. Gr. Snarl. Snarf.
[last edit 9/24/2003 11:53 PM by Mochi - edited 1 times]
JESUS SAVES!!!
(And then he redeems his tickets for free prizes!) |
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Capone
Location: London, Ontario
Gender: Male
UEL
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 14 on 9/25/2003 5:05 AM >
| | | | Bah, somebody really needs to post a scan of this or something....
EDIT: I'm a dumbass... didn't see Phat97Caddie's post before I posted this.
[last edit 9/25/2003 4:02 PM by Capone - edited 1 times]
So there I was, in this creepy old hallway... |
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punkboy_jerm
Location: Montreal
Gender: Male
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 15 on 9/25/2003 5:25 AM >
|  | | | apart from this line:
"Exploring off-limits places is illegal and dangerous, but that doesn't stop these guys."
the article seems alright...whats wrong with it?
Portfolio and blog:
http://www.ibrokeup.net
http://www.escapeisathand.com |
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ReAct
Location: Northern Jersey... For now.
Gender: Male
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 16 on 9/25/2003 8:07 AM >
| | | | I'm with Punkboy on this one. I can think of a couple of dozen ways that publication could've been orders-of-magnitude more damaging.
For a number of reasons I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to go around saying that people climb the Manhattan Bridge for sport, but what's done is done.
The article wasn't exactly the literary masterpiece of the year, it's impact is almost certainly negligible.
-ReAct
"'13.2V...' Thirteen volts. It's thirteen volts? Jesus, I could practically be made of salt water and this wouldn't hurt me."
"That says '13.2kV.'"
"Ohhhh... Thirteen-thousand volts... I suppose that's a little different...." |
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Ninjalicious
Gone, but always with us
Location: Toronto
| | | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 17 on 9/25/2003 4:23 PM >
| | | | I don't think Lefty and L.B. tried to portray themselves as spokespersons for anyone but themselves.
I agree with Kowalski that it was an inelegantly constructed article... the author didn't seem to have any desire to see anything beyond the surface quirkiness.
Ninj
http://www.infiltration.org
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Samurai
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: UE: Article in Fortune Mag
<Reply # 18 on 9/26/2003 5:38 AM >
|  | | | i have to agree wholeheartedly with Kowalski that the article was about as pedestrian as strolling through a crosswalk... This is just something to go with an eye-catching picture as you thumb through ads...
this reads more like instructions for toilet paper than an actual interview or article with any merit.
BUT, this may be a good thing.
Samurai
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