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| 1 2 | UER Forum > UE Main > Favorite/Best/Most Influential Urbex People (Viewed 5980 times) |
superphoenix
Location: New York City Gender: Male Total Likes: 172 likes
There's a madness to my methods
| | | Favorite/Best/Most Influential Urbex People < on 4/24/2020 10:24 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've compiled a favorite 10-ish list of the people/groups who I think have put out some of the most impressive work in urbex in the last couple of decades, some of whom are active on this site, some of whom I have met personally (or met close friends of). This list is in no particular order. *Some information may be dated/inaccurate, everything here is fake, urbex is not real according to Max Power (legal defense C, 1.543). 1 & 2. dsankt & the London Consolidation Crew Consistently explored some of the hardest stuff to crack, from the drains behind Niagara Falls to The London Shard to lots of transit tunnels in between. And Bradley G. wrote a pretty neat book expounding on the history and philosophy of urbex. 3. Ninj Where this site was born from, to an extent. A copy of Access All Areas is facing me from my bookshelf. A pioneer who explicated the idea of infiltration. Enough said. 4. Steve D. A year before the peak of my exploring "career," Undercity came out and opened up a diverse new world of NYC exploration. I would have stuck to abandoned buildings, rooftops, and alleyways if this movie didn't open my mind to what else is out there. Who else can claim to have a photo of them making out with someone on top of the Brooklyn Bridge during sunrise like Steve does? 4. LTV Squad The OG New York City explorer(s), one of the first to consistently log NYC tunnel excursions. To paraphrase a quote, "We know about places that even NYC transit workers don't!" 5. Shiey Lithuanian dude who hits Cold War relics and infiltrates live factories and offices all over Eastern Europe, and has the GoPro footage to prove it. Catch him napping in his hammock along a smokestack while complaining that he only had 3 hours of sleep. 6. Ilia B. He has ridden freight trains all the way across Russia (from east to west). One of my favorite scenes is his cat and mouse escape from Texas rail cops by hanging on the side of a moving double-stack train. Check out his Chernobyl series to watch a human get tantalizingly close to the reactor. 7. WTC Base Jumpers I don't know a lot about these guys, and I'm sure they'd like it that way. They were able to get into one of the most high-profile locations in the world, BASE jump off the top, and elude capture for several months. Legendary. However, if they weren't caught, who knows if we'd ever see the video or even know who they are. 8. Dmitry G. One of the creators of the Insiders Project. Came to this site years ago asking for funding for a video series and nobody knew who he was/what is was about. Ended up creating a series exploring Ukraine along freight trains, massive rusty cutter machines, the Kiev subway, tunnels under an active factory, and the space shuttles in Baikonur. If you have a VPN, give it a watch on Youtube - the cinematography is A1. 9. uLiveanduBurn A more frequent UER contributor. Always impressed by the sheer variety of locations he and friends seem to reach, whether it's a mega-yacht or a place that involve rappelling.
Who are some of your favorite explorers?
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| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1850 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: Favorite/Best/Most Influential Urbex People < Reply # 1 on 4/24/2020 10:53 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Nice list but it's missing some important names. The Midwest community has a lot of big names who have been around a long time and have been very influential on urbex culture too, notably the Action Squad. Though Max Action himself has long since retired from urbex, several other members of the original group are still highly active in the community and are influential figures in the MSP community as a whole- which itself is a very influential community on the global urbex scene due to its size and ties with explorers all over the world. I personally have met explorers from Canada, England, and Australia through the MSP community. Other notable international names; - Diggers of the Underground Planet: One of the first urbex groups in Russia before they were coopted by the Russian government after leading soldiers through underground tunnels to resolve a hostage crisis. - Australian Cave Clan: The largest and most well organized urbex community in the world, with a rich history and members who've traveled the globe for urbex. - Chernobyl Stalkers: urban explorers who've monetized their hobby by becoming guides for illegal tours. As much as the concept of "selling out" is reviled in the wider urbex community their ability to capture the imagination of the general public ought to be acknowledged when considering the general rise of the urbex subculture. - Philibert Aspairt: the first cataphile of Paris who got lost and died in the Catacombs in 1793 while searching for a liquor stash - Nexus: the mysterious cartographer responsible for releasing a map of the Paris Catacombs every year- a map which can only be obtained from a cataphile who already has a copy. - San Francisco Suicide Club: a mixture of pranksters, vigilant infiltrators, and urban explorers who operated out of San Francisco in the 70s. Infiltration has a really good timeline of the early history of urbex up until 2005. While most of the people listed there are either dead or retired, a few are still active around the world and hitting spots most of us can only dream of- they're just good at keeping it offline. http://www.infiltr...tory-timeline.html Also Bradley Garret's book is not looked upon fondly. On top of a lot of pretentious sociopolitical stuff the release of his book ruined the lives of almost everybody involved. He got most of the people in his book arrested and the LCC was forcibly disbanded by a judge. He's generally regarded as someone who sold out the LCC for acclaim.
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| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
| Speed
Location: Philly area Gender: Male Total Likes: 592 likes
Retired Explorer
| | | Re: Favorite/Best/Most Influential Urbex People < Reply # 6 on 4/24/2020 2:28 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by superphoenix ...
| Whole heartedly agree with your 1,3,5 and 10. (you listed 4 twice so assuming the second 4(LTV) is #5) Especially dsankt* and uLive. * Undisputed king of urbex IMO. My additions would be... Goddog Motts NickSan (RIP) Flurbex Shane Cave Clan Action Squad. I'm forgetting a few I'm sure.
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| R.I.P. NickSan | R.I.P. Don Corleyone |
| mookster
Location: Oxford, UK Gender: Male Total Likes: 2377 likes
| | | Re: Favorite/Best/Most Influential Urbex People < Reply # 7 on 4/24/2020 2:43 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by superphoenix
1 & 2. dsankt & the London Consolidation Crew Consistently explored some of the hardest stuff to crack, from the drains behind Niagara Falls to The London Shard to lots of transit tunnels in between. And Bradley G. wrote a pretty neat book expounding on the history and philosophy of urbex.
| Going to have to disagree with you on this one, excluding dsankt who is legendary in every circle. Bradley L Garrett and the LCC in the UK are mostly considered laughing stocks (in the case of Bradley) or just outright criminals which is basically what they resorted to becoming in the pursuit of what they were doing. They were the ones behind the derailing of the Mail Rail train in the underground postal shuttle system which caused a huge drama and various court cases and fallout as well as tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage to the infrastructure. Later after that one of the LCC members, who I used to actually explore with a couple of times when me and him were younger, came onto one of the forums and basically outright admitted the amount of B&E they were doing and tried to defend their actions, which didn't go down well at all and lead to the whole thing falling apart. Away from that, I have recently started watching shiey's stuff on Youtube, which is rare for me as I usually hate watching exploring videos, but he hasn't fallen into the clickbait moronic stuff like so many do, and he does some legitimately awesome stuff without feeling the need to dress it up as something it isn't.
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| urbX360
Total Likes: 70 likes
| | | Re: Favorite/Best/Most Influential Urbex People < Reply # 8 on 4/24/2020 4:49 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I like Bright Sun Films for some reasons. - Their explainations of why it's abandoned are documented. - We don't often see the guy behind the camera, that means it's more about the place and the exploration than the guy. - The quality and image is kinda cool. I don't like them because - Sometime they burn places and entrances. On your list, I really like shiey for its train surfing videos and for how he reacts chill when he's caught. I don't like him because he burn some cool places...
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