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 mortimer
   
Location: teronno
 |  |  | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 40 on 4/24/2009 1:56 PM >
|  | | | Wow indeed. Almost seems like it's worth a return trip now. Almost.
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bandi
     
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| |  | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 41 on 4/24/2009 2:06 PM >
| | | | I was there last weekend, didn't see any security, no one bothered me.
BUT, I did see this handy warning sign:
[last edit 4/24/2009 2:06 PM by bandi - edited 1 times]
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bourbonbaby
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 42 on 4/24/2009 2:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by bandi
I was there last weekend, didn't see any security, no one bothered me.
BUT, I did see this handy warning sign:
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me too. unsafe goung and DANGER BEES!!!!
exploration failure + English awesomeness.
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z0th
Location: /dev/urandom
Gender: Male
On the bleeding edge of cocking things up.
| | | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 43 on 4/24/2009 2:26 PM >
| | | | Posted by bourbonbaby
me too. unsafe goung and DANGER BEES!!!!
exploration failure + English awesomeness.
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im not too worried -- no dogs + bees. though i have heard that "gound" is indeed unsafe... er... yea.
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cereal83
Location: BC
Gender: Male
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 44 on 4/24/2009 2:36 PM >
| | | | If there was no security on the weekend, I think there will be now. The jacket said Toronto Security with the Toronto symbol on the jacket. As soon as we got there, my stupid friend beeped his alarm and right from there he started watching us out his trailer, then we noticed he was behind us so we walked around the hole place and when we got to the end, we starred at the ground for like 5 minutes while he was watching us. I also think they have motion detectors in place. He kept walking up to poles with a keycard and swipping it and the light would stop beeping.
I dunno. I was there like 12 hours ago and thats how it was!
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 45 on 4/24/2009 3:39 PM >
| | | | Posted by cereal83
I also think they have motion detectors in place. He kept walking up to poles with a keycard and swipping it and the light would stop beeping.
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Those are usually to make sure security guys are doing their rounds and not sleeping in a van somewhere, nothing to do with motion detectors. If they don't swipe their cards regularly, the boss gets notified that the guard isn't doing his/her job.
Security means that work is (finally) actually underway, I suppose. Guards usually appear once all the expensive equipment is moved in.
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 46 on 4/24/2009 7:30 PM >
| | | | ...and the sign there said it was guarded by Intelligarde, not Toronto Security.
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cereal83
Location: BC
Gender: Male
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 47 on 4/24/2009 7:32 PM >
| | | | I dunno about who was guarding it. That's just what it said on the back of the jacket unless I read it wrong.
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 48 on 4/25/2009 3:19 AM >
| | | | What on earth are you guys talking about? Is security a problem now? Before it was the holes.
You can't have it both ways ;)
[last edit 4/25/2009 3:20 AM by Air - edited 1 times]
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inviolate_light
Location: toronto
Gender: Male
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 49 on 4/26/2009 6:40 AM >
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Did anybody hear about workers unearthing some old kilns during excavation outside the brickworks?
http://www.nowtoro...cfm?content=169018
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accessgranted
Location: GTA
Gender: Male
my voice just echoes off these walls
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 50 on 4/26/2009 8:02 PM >
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Nope, but that is really interesting, the funny thing is that from the sounds of the article the most that will come of this find is a pathetic attempt at documenting the find and then trashing what remains.
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 51 on 4/26/2009 8:12 PM >
| | | | Posted by accessgranted
the most that will come of this find is a pathetic attempt at documenting the find and then trashing what remains.
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Sounds a lot like urban exploration to me.
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accessgranted
Location: GTA
Gender: Male
my voice just echoes off these walls
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 52 on 4/26/2009 8:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by micro
Sounds a lot like urban exploration to me.
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Alright I understand what you are saying, there are a lot of people who really have no ethics when it comes to exploring abandoned buildings that just go there to trash the place or use as a place to get drunk etc. But there is also the other type of explorer who actually tries to make artistically meaningful images to create a strong body of work to document an abandonment. Those are usually the same people who don't go around breaking things and causing trouble meanwhile giving a bad name to urban exploration.
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 53 on 4/26/2009 9:22 PM >
| | | | I know, I was just making a bad joke.
I was thinking about DVB and how many people have been through the place over the years and how little information or insight about the place has come out of it. Countless people have passed through the place and thousands of photos have been taken (currently 5,161 on Flickr), but nothing new ever seems to come to light. Even with all this "documentation" we still only ever receive the same recycled tidbits of information about its past use and its historical importance.
I know that research isn't everyone's thing, but if you're going to throw stones at the archeologists and historians, you should probably make sure you're doing something more than simply taking "creative" pictures.
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accessgranted
Location: GTA
Gender: Male
my voice just echoes off these walls
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 54 on 4/26/2009 9:39 PM >
| | | | Alright, at first I wasn't sure whether or not you were serious...lol
I have read the article wrong I didn't realize that the area at truly been transformed into an archaeological dig, I with archaeologists actually working on site. I thought that it was the construction workers that were digging up the remains not trained professionals. I have lots of respect for archaeologists and what they do and realize that they are definitely in that profession because they love what they do. I didn't intend this to be an attack on them.
Your right the Brickworks is one of the most overly photographed abandoned areas of the city but that doesn't mean that nothing new can be learned or that every photograph taken after a certain point in time is just an indirect copy of what someone else has already documented.
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TrixieSparrow
Location: Hamilton, ON
Gender: Female
I guess.
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 55 on 4/28/2009 9:55 AM >
| | | | Witek needs to post that door shot he took. I've seen enough brickworks pics to be mad sick of them, but one of his shots really really impressed me.
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 56 on 4/28/2009 12:50 PM >
| | | | Actually my second favourite photo I've ever taken was in the Brickworks... I wish I could find it.
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cereal83
Location: BC
Gender: Male
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 57 on 4/28/2009 1:08 PM >
| | | | You lost your favorite picture? crappy buzz!
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 58 on 4/28/2009 2:10 PM >
| | | | I do have it framed in my apartment.. lol
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accessgranted
Location: GTA
Gender: Male
my voice just echoes off these walls
| | Re: Is the Don Valley Brickworks done for good now?
<Reply # 59 on 4/29/2009 4:03 AM >
| | | | Posted by Dresden
Witek needs to post that door shot he took. I've seen enough brickworks pics to be mad sick of them, but one of his shots really really impressed me.
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Actually my profile pic was taken at the Brickworks.
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