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 .Kyle
  
Location: Guelph/Burlington, Ontario
Gender: Male
 |  | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 1 on 4/6/2011 1:51 AM >
|  | | | Good write up and shots as usual, but I must disagree; that graffiti is pretty meh.
Tralalalalalalala |
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msgsudz
  
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
Msgsudz has an overactive bowel and shits like a Clydesdale.
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<Reply # 2 on 4/6/2011 2:01 AM >
| | | | completely disagree about the graff. nice shots.
"She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!" - Zapp Brannigan
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olive
 
Location: hamilton
Gender: Female
good plan, poorly executed.
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<Reply # 3 on 4/6/2011 2:12 AM >
| | | | Please post at least a few photos and perhaps some words in your posts instead of using uer as a shameless plug to your own website/blog. Thanks.
Sorry, what was that you were saying about forever alone? |
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bandi
   
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
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<Reply # 4 on 4/6/2011 2:22 AM >
| | | | Also, please seek employment. You have far too much time on your hands.
hi i like cars |
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 5 on 4/6/2011 3:04 AM >
| | | | you sure are a friendly bunch. I didn't put the graf there, I just appreciated it with one simple sentence. I will heed that advice and add more substance to my posts though, thanks for that positive feedback 
and bandi, yeah, I've got all the time I need.
free as a flying bird.
still smiling, on to the next spot.
http://myabandonmentissues.blogspot.ca/ |
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Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood
Gender: Male
| | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 6 on 4/6/2011 3:09 AM >
| | | | You know for someone who has the same camera and lens as you, your photos look so much better than mine.
Nice photos... been meaning to hit this place up next time I'm headed south.
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.Kyle
Location: Guelph/Burlington, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 7 on 4/6/2011 3:38 AM >
| | | | Posted by msgsudz
completely disagree about the graff. nice shots.
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The Bacon one is alright, Kane not so much.
Tralalalalalalala |
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 8 on 4/6/2011 11:30 AM >
| | | | Posted by Intrinsic
You know for someone who has the same camera and lens as you, your photos look so much better than mine.
Nice photos... been meaning to hit this place up next time I'm headed south.
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cheers
let me know when you are heading south.
http://myabandonmentissues.blogspot.ca/ |
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BeerBunny
Location: Your basement, Ontario
Gender: Female
I think it looks safe
| | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 9 on 4/6/2011 11:34 AM >
| | | | I've always wanted to hit this place as well. Next time people are in teh area - let me know.
Jerm - I do agree with others, I'd love to see you post photos on here to look at. Your photos are very nice.
I'm typing this with my middle fingers.
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 10 on 4/6/2011 12:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by BeerBunny
I've always wanted to hit this place as well. Next time people are in teh area - let me know.
Jerm - I do agree with others, I'd love to see you post photos on here to look at. Your photos are very nice.
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cheers, i edited the post. i'll add more pics to future posts as well.
http://myabandonmentissues.blogspot.ca/ |
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Speed
Location: Philly area
Gender: Male
Retired Explorer
| | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 11 on 4/6/2011 2:16 PM >
| | | | nice Tupac reference
nice pictures
dont sweat the hater, Tupac didnt!
R.I.P. NickSan | R.I.P. Don Corleyone |
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Vic
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
| | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 12 on 4/6/2011 3:54 PM >
| | | | Jerm,
Nice pics and writeup. That's a great location, and the variety of industrial space, tunnels, greenhouses, and fields makes it that much more interesting. Plus the variations in micro-climate as you noted.
I have to agree with other people about the graffiti though. I usually don't mind graf in abandonments, and in some places I think it really adds to it. But the thing with this place is that it was an incredibly cool spot where you could watch nature slowly reclaim the man-made, without too much intervention. When things start getting tagged, smashed, vandalized, and art-i-fied, then it loses that bit of awesomeness.
I guess it's inevitable, really. If it's not the graf (which I think would look OK in other contexts), someone else is going to go around smashing things up anyway. If this place was located closer to civilization, it would be totally different now...
Need to go back..... hopefully soon.
And yeah, bring on the tunnel pics.
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 13 on 4/6/2011 3:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by s.l.o.t.h
... and now he's dead, just sayin.
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we die, that is just what we do with our lives.
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Posted by grotciv
Jerm,
Nice pics and writeup. That's a great location, and the variety of industrial space, tunnels, greenhouses, and fields makes it that much more interesting. Plus the variations in micro-climate as you noted.
I have to agree with other people about the graffiti though. I usually don't mind graf in abandonments, and in some places I think it really adds to it. But the thing with this place is that it was an incredibly cool spot where you could watch nature slowly reclaim the man-made, without too much intervention. When things start getting tagged, smashed, vandalized, and art-i-fied, then it loses that bit of awesomeness.
I guess it's inevitable, really. If it's not the graf (which I think would look OK in other contexts), someone else is going to go around smashing things up anyway. If this place was located closer to civilization, it would be totally different now...
Need to go back..... hopefully soon.
And yeah, bring on the tunnel pics.
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i understand the perspective most of you have about the preservation of these places, i get it, and i respect it.
i myself however have always been more fascinated with the transformation of public space and abandonment buildings alike. The vandalism, graf, hobo remnants and whatever else happens in these places is just as much a part of the history of these places than the purposes they may have served previously. And this difference in the way we appreciate these places only allows for a broader perspective on the story that we all tell as a whole. This place seems to have remained virtually untouched for 14 years, that's remarkable, in Vancouver buildings are tagged and torn down within months.
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IIVQ
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| | |  | | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 14 on 4/6/2011 7:45 PM >
| | | | Really nice, I like the poetic writeup!
Edit: The converse can be said for some of the replies. BOO!
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 15 on 4/6/2011 8:05 PM >
| | | | thanks to those of you with productive or constructive replies.
[last edit 4/6/2011 9:55 PM by Darkwolf - edited 1 times]
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 16 on 4/6/2011 8:18 PM >
| | | | tree of fail has arrived?
Posted by jerm IX
This place seems to have remained virtually untouched for 14 years, that's remarkable, in Vancouver buildings are tagged and torn down within months.
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As much as some people would like to blame UER for places going to shit, if something is a little out of the way, people just don't go. Also, there isn't anything that could be burned to the ground here.
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"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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Darkwolf
 
Mellow Moderator
Location: Florida... Again...
Gender: Male
I fix things!
| | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 17 on 4/6/2011 9:58 PM >
| | | | I just spent 20 minutes cleaning up this thread. Now behave yourselves.
*Best Post Ever* any meetups to go to the malt plant? I'll join and be the first one over, so you know I'm not a cop. Also I'll bring beer. *DO NOT MESSAGE ME WITH ISSUES. PLEASE USE CONTACT A MODERATOR* |
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bandi
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| | | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 18 on 4/10/2011 4:27 AM >
| | | | I thought you said you didn't do graffiti, just bad hipster poetry?
...in closing, you suck at graffiti, too.
hi i like cars |
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jerm IX
Location: Somewhere, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
If you can't find something nice to say...say it on UER.
| | | Re: the rose that grew from concrete
<Reply # 19 on 4/10/2011 5:07 AM >
| | | | Posted by bandi
I thought you said you didn't do graffiti, just bad hipster poetry?
...in closing, you suck at graffiti, too.
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i'm aware of that you lippy mechanic bastard, but in 2008, when one of Vancouver's most prolific graf artists and my dear friend open5 passed me a can and told me to bang, i banged. that's who i was then, i'm not gonna apologize to you for that, despite the fact that i have some regrets.
i have grown and moved on from that stage of my life. but since you need to pick on someone via your keyboard to feel better about yourself, i'll continue to be your scapegoat bandi.
i have not put any street art near ANY abandonments since learning of UER's rules.
i will continue to respect these places, in the way that true explorers do, because i want them to be shared between us all. although i am admittedly stubborn and antagonistic, i have changed my ways.
so respectfully (again) good sir, either get off my dick or...
next time i'm out Campbellford way, lets grab a beer.
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