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 tick
 
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 21 on 4/1/2009 12:26 AM >
|  | | | In the long term, I can see the UE community becoming a lot like the caving community: Locations are kept VERY secret (for their own protection), there's a worldwide network of small local exploration groups, and new explorers have to slowly gain the trust of their local explorers while being introduced to bigger, better (and more sensitive) locations.
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Intrinsic
     
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 22 on 4/1/2009 12:37 AM >
|  | | | Posted by tick
In the long term, I can see the UE community becoming a lot like the caving community: Locations are kept VERY secret (for their own protection), there's a worldwide network of small local exploration groups, and new explorers have to slowly gain the trust of their local explorers while being introduced to bigger, better (and more sensitive) locations.
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The problem is, that if someone from the UE community can (find/knows about/discovers) a location, then it's likely that a graffiti artist or prospective vandal also knows about them.
Example: I recently discovered an old garage that had been locked up for the longest time, went downstairs to find someone had spraypainted his name from 16 years ago.
It's going to get out one way or another, for better or for worse. The only way to preserve them is to use a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.
[last edit 4/1/2009 12:38 AM by Intrinsic - edited 1 times]
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Seventh Stage
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 23 on 4/1/2009 12:49 AM >
| | | | I think that like a lot of social trends that grow up in the background, urban exploration will become mainstream terms and they will be seen as the hip thing to use in popular stuff. I see it as a smaller version of what happened with technology and 'hackers' during the nineties, where a momentum started and tons of people went with it.
This will lead to things like outcast characters in Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer films being misunderstood urban explorers whose skills come in handy for whatever weird scenario they find themselves in. Correspondents will be on CNN with the title 'Urban Explorer' beneath them and they will explain exactly what it is. VH1 and Fox will have urban exploring reality shows.
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Tupsumato
Location: Finland
Gender: Male
How close can you go?
| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 24 on 4/1/2009 8:34 AM >
| | | | One thing I can think of is that because of environmental awareness etc. less (~no) large buildings such as factories, power plants, hospitals etc. will end up abandoned or "forgotten" for decades. They will be demolished and their building materials recycled soon after they have been "abandoned". Since the number of "old buildings" surviving from the "golden age of urban exploration" also diminishes over time, the future of exploring abandoned buildings looks pretty... boring.
Because of social networking sites etc. information will spread faster than before. When someone finds a new place and posts it somewhere, information about location, entry etc. will soon leak and spread, and in no time there will be vandalism and other unwanted stuff. Even if the one who claims s/he found the location first doesn't brag about it in public, the inevitable won't be delayed much, because abandoned buildings and exploring them as a hobby gains more popularity. If it's somewhere to be found, in a way or other someone will find it and post it. The only locations that will remain in secret are those that require special skills or/and b&e to gain entry. If possible, places will be locked up by explorers themselves.
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\/adder
 
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 25 on 4/1/2009 8:30 PM >
| | | | ^ this.
And like I said previously. Explorers will move away from abandoned buildings and will either give up on the hobby or the more experienced will go towards Infiltration of Active Sites... or onto even more riskier things; if they haven't already.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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Oryx
Location: Who knows
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| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 26 on 4/1/2009 9:37 PM >
| | | | I don't think much of anything will happen. If anything, it will probably just die. It will become the latest fad with people (as if it already isn't), then it will lose all it's charm within a year or so. The interest will collapse along with the buildings. Nothing lasts forever.
SO! Instead of worrying about the future, let's all get out there and enjoy it while it lasts because it probably won't much longer.
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Waypoint15
Location: Terlingua
Gender: Male
| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 27 on 4/2/2009 3:44 PM >
| | | | Posted by blacklines
i dont believe in ue--its all a made up hobby to enable gear junkies to have dick comparing contests--anyone who tells me otherwise clearly needs a bigger flashlight.
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I have to agree with you blackline. As a Photography Professor, I see the "Gear" thing all the time, and it's not just a guy issue, chicks are equally as bad. With this being said, I believe that "true" explorers will be here for ever, the NEW becomes the OLD. We are a throw away society. Goes along with the BIG DICK theory, build a NEW and Bigger one which becomes the "new" abandonment that someone will explore.
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DjMalign
Location: Fort Collins, CO
Gender: Male
Sexy, sexy, sexy
| | | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 28 on 4/2/2009 4:12 PM >
| | | | Its going underground: as the population grows, so will the infrastructure. /thread
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Cochiseg
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
Scary rabbit, isn't it?
| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 29 on 4/5/2009 2:38 PM >
| | | | As time passes, there will always be new abandoned buildings. Some old buildings that are in use now might get abandoned later, new ones might get abandoned sooner than we thinks, and there will always be buildings getting demolished (because we need to build new ones). Of course, the majority of old buildings get destroyed some day, but its a never ending cycle, we destroy a building, we abandon another.
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Dr. Sneeze
Location: CHICAGO
Gender: Male
Sorry Officer, we were just looking for our favorite tennis ball we lost.
| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 30 on 4/5/2009 4:09 PM >
| | | | Giant amusement parks that are made up of abandoned buildings, where you pay admission and ride around on a track in a small cart taking pictures- similar to Pokemon snapshot...
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junkyard
Location: LaCrosse, WI
Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| | | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 31 on 4/8/2009 2:43 PM >
| | | | I really can't see it in the future since it has always been in the past. But if I had to say, it would be in your mom's pants. Because her shirt just gets saggier with age.
I drink gasoline for breakfeast and beer for dinner!
Any problem can be licked with a case of beer and a few sticks of dynamite.
Strategic Beer Command ruling the desert since 1995 http://www.strategic-beer-command.com |
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Chris Hansen
I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC. Why dont you have a seat over there?
| | | | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 32 on 4/8/2009 8:54 PM >
| | | | Year 1:
It becomes more and more popular to people who would have said that it is a waste of time. the only reason for theis popularity? it is getting more and more portrayed in movies, books, tv shows and the news. it will be the "coolest new thing to sweep the nation"
Year 5:
This sites and others like it are shut down due to the people who are not really serious about the hobby. the only way to get access to the new u.e. sites is to get granted permission from the people who run it and that will be hard for the 1 out of 10 people who will actually contribute. more and more graffiti will plauge the once beautiful abandonedments. more laws restricting trespassing.
Year 10:
The fad is over. most of the pousers left as soon as they have "seen it all" or stop because they got caught one time. good sites begin to emerge again and the urbex comunity can re-flower safely and since most "u.e. crime" has gone down we can safely go where no one would dare to once again.
but i could be wrong...
My name is Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator. Why don't you have a seat over there? |
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dirt
Location: Oakland, CA
Gender: Male
Je suis très aimable et très caustique.
| |  | | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 33 on 4/9/2009 2:35 AM >
| | | | The entire population of earth lives on the moon, leaving a mostly abandoned planet. Rich people will pay to come back every so often to document the decay.
He seemed to move among very delicate objects, on ground mined with goodness knows what precious explosives. ~ Jean Cocteau |
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spirit730
Location: ON
Gender: Female
| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 34 on 4/9/2009 2:57 AM >
| | | | Posted by dirt
The entire population of earth lives on the moon, leaving a mostly abandoned planet. Rich people will pay to come back every so often to document the decay.
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I don't think it will take a whole TEN years for that! I saw a movie once, that was set in 1999, and they had like flying cars and robots and stuff.
[last edit 4/9/2009 3:25 AM by spirit730 - edited 1 times]
You and me will all go down in history, with a sad Statue of Liberty, and a generation that didn't agree.
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msgsudz
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
Msgsudz has an overactive bowel and shits like a Clydesdale.
| | | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 35 on 4/9/2009 3:18 AM >
| | | | Posted by PhotoSeeker
Some excellent points have been raised that essentially skirt what I personally believe.
Many of the places we explore hold our interest because of the old architecture, etc. I don't think we're nearly as interested in "contemporary" abandonments. Anything from our own lifetime.
Perhaps newer abandonments will appeal more to younger generations of explorers than they do to us, and it is this that will perpetuate the hobby.
I know, personally, once the old (relative to my own advanced age) abandonments are destroyed, I won't likely have much interest in checking out empty WalMarts etc.
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this.
"She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!" - Zapp Brannigan
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desmet
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
| | | | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 36 on 4/9/2009 3:41 AM >
| | | | It's not gaining popularity. It was there for a minute, then it stopped.
Face it...not that many people are interested in hanging around abandoned buildings. True, the ones who are often have a power to annoy that is equal to 100 normals, but still.
I think this hobby is also relevant now because of the time period we live in. We're the right amount of time from the birth of modern society and the industrial revolution that the life cycle of a lot of these places is just up.
Im not so convinced, with the decline of manufacturing and the rise of America as a nation of middle class office slaves, that 100 years from now there will be as much interesting stuff to explore. Never know though.
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Duffy
Location: Northeast
Gender: Male
Time for your radioactive oatmeal! Nom Nom Nom
| | | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 37 on 4/9/2009 6:07 AM >
| | | | Posted by dirt
The entire population of earth lives on the moon, leaving a mostly abandoned planet. Rich people will pay to come back every so often to document the decay.
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We can only hope
We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. ~ T.S Eliot |
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jdykes0887
Location: B'town, MS
Gender: Male
| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 38 on 4/9/2009 4:36 PM >
| | | | Posted by Seventh Stage
I think that like a lot of social trends that grow up in the background, urban exploration will become mainstream terms and they will be seen as the hip thing to use in popular stuff. I see it as a smaller version of what happened with technology and 'hackers' during the nineties, where a momentum started and tons of people went with it.
This will lead to things like outcast characters in Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer films being misunderstood urban explorers whose skills come in handy for whatever weird scenario they find themselves in. Correspondents will be on CNN with the title 'Urban Explorer' beneath them and they will explain exactly what it is. VH1 and Fox will have urban exploring reality shows.
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Both of these sound like really good assumptions on what will happen, i especially like the parts on another post saying there will be guys on CNN with urban explorer under their name being interviewed.
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Where do you see Urban Explorarion in 1/5/10 years?
<Reply # 39 on 4/9/2009 8:12 PM >
| | | | A little perspective: most of the arguably bad things that people are saying will happen to urban exploration have already occurred over the past six years. The barrage of media attention and flood of new people has already taken place. I came into this during what was probably the initial wave of media attention. Most of you (whether you want to admit it or not) are likely here because of subsequent waves, regardless of how long you say you've been doing this.
Pretty much every major (and minor) media outlet has covered urban exploration to some extent and I doubt they're going to be doing it again unless something exceptional happens. They've all run their curiosity pieces. Documentaries and mini-series have already been made.
Seems as though the grim future that a lot of you are talking about is an awful lot like the past.
Besides, the future will always be full of different places to explore. If you only see urban exploration as something that involves the ruins of buildings built during a certain era then you're basically creating your own dead ends. For those interested in a broader range of structures (both old and new), the opportunities for exploration are endless.
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