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UER Forum > UE Main > What's the story behind your profile pic? (Viewed 45663 times)
randomesquephoto 


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< Reply # 120 on 3/20/2020 9:47 AM >
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I once camped in the coal tower between battle creek and Kzoo. I was traveling by bike to south haven racing a friend who was starting 12.7 miles closer than I was. but they weren't doing it til morning and I wanted an excuse to camp in the coal tower so I did. I cooked ramen over a camp fire (yeah I know shitty meal) I set out in the morning and beat them by a long shot.


Your username reminds me of Mercury rev.




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Camping in a coal tower.

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< Reply # 121 on 3/20/2020 10:02 AM >
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Your username reminds me of Mercury rev.


I don't know who that is. who are they? My name is referring to the Mercury vapor lamp which is a common gas discharge light source in security and street lights. it emits a bluish-green to whitish light. reason I did that is because along with urban exploration another one of my hobbies involves vintage and interesting lighting technology. Another reason I like the name is just because it sounds cool in my opinion.

Here is an example below. It is a vintage Medium Pressure Mercury Vapor lamp from the early 50's it is a collage image showing different phases of warm up and close ups of the cathodes. in the bottom leftmost and middle images you can see the mercury vapor condensing on the glass. the reason there is a clear spot next to the cathode is because as the lamp warms up more and more of the mercury is vaporized into the arc stream until it hits full brightness. I am an administrator on another forum called "Lighting Gallery" which is a forum dedicated to these sort of things.
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Scary rabbit, isn't it?

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< Reply # 122 on 3/20/2020 12:04 PM >
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I dont really remember, but I think its a rabbit???




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< Reply # 123 on 3/22/2020 12:50 AM >
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Mine isn’t all that fascinating because I haven’t actually explored it yet but I have high hopes of exploring it one day, maybe when the weather is nicer... taking this picture was like so exciting for me, I have heard about it but to finally see it in person, at night, it was just the shadow of something I haven’t conquered yet and to me that’s exciting!




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Kinda sorta not sure.

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< Reply # 124 on 3/22/2020 1:15 AM >
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A friend photoshopped it as a joke and now I just use it at times




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I'm here to make wavy eyebrows and climb on stuff

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< Reply # 125 on 3/23/2020 6:12 PM >
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Mine was a selfie taken in the now renovated into luxury apartments Butler Brothers Building in Downtown Dallas. Not a very interesting photo, but seeing as how there's practically nothing left of the original building and i'm too lazy to change it, so it stays.




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< Reply # 126 on 3/23/2020 8:23 PM >
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I don't know who that is. who are they? My name is referring to the Mercury vapor lamp which is a common gas discharge light source in security and street lights. it emits a bluish-green to whitish light. reason I did that is because along with urban exploration another one of my hobbies involves vintage and interesting lighting technology. Another reason I like the name is just because it sounds cool in my opinion.

Here is an example below. It is a vintage Medium Pressure Mercury Vapor lamp from the early 50's it is a collage image showing different phases of warm up and close ups of the cathodes. in the bottom leftmost and middle images you can see the mercury vapor condensing on the glass. the reason there is a clear spot next to the cathode is because as the lamp warms up more and more of the mercury is vaporized into the arc stream until it hits full brightness. I am an administrator on another forum called "Lighting Gallery" which is a forum dedicated to these sort of things.
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https://www.lighting-gallery.net


Mercury Rev is a band, one of the members of that band produced just about all of The Flaming Lips albums.

Flaming Lips are much more enjoyable to listen to. But Mercury Rev is one of the only other bands that kind of comes slightly close to being similar if you are into that stuff.




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With Night, Freedom

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< Reply # 127 on 4/18/2020 4:09 PM >
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Mine was intended to be a dumb placeholder, but I kind of ended up liking it. I don't really like photos of myself, so I usually don't end up in photos of my explores so I don't have a particularly cool dp.

I might change it eventually.


It is no longer a placeholder. Rip heck snek 2017-2020.

The current one is a tunnel I was in a bit back. I've been rather liking the photos people have of them in various locations, so I thought it'd be cool to have one too.




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< Reply # 128 on 6/13/2020 7:31 PM >
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My Great Grandfather's dairy farm where I played as a child. No longer in the family. Kinda run down now and tucked away in hills of upper Vermont.




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< Reply # 129 on 8/14/2020 12:18 AM >
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I have intense internal anger issues and a giant asian hornet is known to be one of the angriest hornets in the world which can fight until it overheats and passes out or dies.




I'm a lone explorer because I hate people.
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My pic comes from my first hospital explore at the now demolished (😔) Chatham Hospital...found it on a random Google satellite search, and spent a long, hot day 'splorin it.
When I saw the old TV in one of the rooms, I decided to shoot a half-assed selfie.




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< Reply # 131 on 8/24/2020 12:47 PM >
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My first big, and with legal permission(!!), explore had many bathrooms and there's just something about taking a selfie in a busted mirror that I liked the idea of. So here we are with a highly compressed version of it c:




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Retro_Chick 


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Serial Trespasser

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< Reply # 132 on 12/18/2020 4:57 AM >
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Mirror selfie in a house in an abandoned subdivision in Denver called Stonehouse Farms taken on January 2, 2011. Subdivision is now razed.




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< Reply # 133 on 12/18/2020 8:32 AM >
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I bought a PASGT helmet from a surplus store and jammed it as far down on my head as possible, smashed a pair of goggles on top of my nose and bada bing bada boom- the dumbest looking image I could make.

As Shirley McLaine said in The Apartment: "I like it that way, makes me look the way I feel".




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< Reply # 134 on 12/18/2020 6:41 PM >
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TBH, trying to impress a girl.

Must've worked, been off and on for over a decade.





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it's a picture UER user Boulderdashcci took of me in 2013 inside a state hospital in Massachusetts I was a security guard at.



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Gloom is gloomy just like some abandoned places, but I love gloomy




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< Reply # 137 on 4/30/2021 6:57 AM >
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It's me. Wearing my fursuit.

During Halloween down in Santa Cruz and I got excited there was a pay phone because they are rare af now.

Yup




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