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 IIVQ
       
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
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<Reply # 80 on 5/14/2009 8:56 PM >
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The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman:
http://www.worldwi...om/about_book.html
This book won't help you with your ninja skills or inform you about any secret locations, but it is an AMAZING look at infrastructure decay.
It posits a world where humanity has just disappeared, and then documents various locales over time until there is just nothing left...
Fascinating if you are interested in the beauty of decay.
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That book is GREAT
Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn?
Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! |
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Capt Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 81 on 5/15/2009 4:22 AM >
| | | | Posted by willskith
I know nothing about either of them except for the fact that they both are to be respected as our superiors and taken very seriously.
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Are you serious? I've got nothing against Mike D and I don't know Lord Rick to say if I like him or not.... but 'our superiors' seriously?!?!
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willskith
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 82 on 5/15/2009 1:26 PM >
| | | | Very serious! Mike D was king of the Danvers back in the day. And thats the only asylum that was EVER important. We should all keep living in the past, just like him, and everybody should stroke his cock.
[last edit 5/15/2009 1:27 PM by willskith - edited 1 times]
grit your teeth in the face of fear. self repression is the true sign of a coward, toss your inhibitions to the wind. |
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BJenkins
Location: Australia
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 83 on 5/25/2009 4:43 AM >
| | | | My copy of Access All Areas arrived on Thursday, so I've been giving it a good crack over the weekend.
Great read
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uLiveAndYouBurn
Location: Beyond
Anarchocommunist
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 84 on 5/29/2009 5:02 PM >
| | | | Posted by CopySix
Into the Twin Cities underworld of muck, yuck, rats and wonder
http://www.twincities.com/ci_12159750
Urban underground explorer Greg Brick says his new book, "Subterranean Twin Cities," is an armchair tour of the tunnels, caves, sewers and underground waterways of St. Paul and Minneapolis, not a guidebook for anyone who would try to follow in his sludgy footsteps.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Greg Brick will be signing his book "Subterranean Twin Cities":
April 23 at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Minneapolis.
April 30 at Common Good Books, 165 Western Ave. N., St. Paul.
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Don't give him your money.
http://www.actions...an-Twin-Cities.htm
"Aint nothin' to it but to do it"
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Cochiseg
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
Scary rabbit, isn't it?
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 85 on 5/29/2009 8:55 PM >
| | | | just read Access all areas in the last weeks. It was a really good read (much of the stuff out there is common sense, but hell, mostly all you need is written in there) I'd give that book anytime to someone who seems interested to do that hobby
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z0th
Location: /dev/urandom
Gender: Male
On the bleeding edge of cocking things up.
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<Reply # 86 on 5/31/2009 4:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by IIVQ
I vote for Einstürzende Neubauten 
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since you mentioned it, picked this up from the Tympanic Audio (or possibly Cyclic Law, i dont remember) table at last years Kenetik Festival in Montreal. Geska Records is now defunct AFAIK. i think i may have grabbed one of the few remaining copies. ive often wondered if Kendall was aware of this project or not.
Various Artists - The Other Side
Geska Records
2006
Funprox.com wrote:
Geska Records announces the release of their latest compilation: The Other Side. Inspired by the environmental photography’s of Kendall Anderson, they have gathered 12 artists from Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec city.
“Each song on this compilation addresses the power of certain landscape features to evoke memories, emotions, and anthropomorphic physicality. Some of the works suggest the potential for experience, while others even encourage physical interaction. The Other Side questions the nature of experience and examines our perception of our Canadian heritage.
Inspired by our music, we bring forward the special equilibrium we have created with our environment.”
Tracklisting :
(01) Displacer / autumn chill
(02) Liar’s Rosebush / is it winter where you are?
(03) S:Cage / gone
(04) L’Ombre / Twenty-one.five
(05) PerfectionPlastic / No Input
(06) LCEDP / Canada Maltage co
(07) Prospero / Protection and Precaution
(08) Iszoloscope / Seasonal Identity Crisis Disco
(09) Scottfro / Darkness Where There Should Be Light
(10) Squale / L’effondrement / produced by Squale (aka Sagana 
(11) Urusai / val d’or (janvier)
(12) Famine / konstantine raudive
> Suspension Track - for her light - by LommeLoir (featuring STENDECK) |
i would also probably add...
Winterkalte
Ad.ver.sary
Orphx
Mlada Fronta/NKVD
Architect
Sonar
gallery | deviantart | flickr |
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cr400
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 87 on 5/31/2009 7:37 PM >
| | | | Next to all of your lists, mine will be short and boring. Two books that have taught me many important lessons.
1. U.S. Army survival manual.
2. Boy scout training manual.
Many important tips in these for when shit hits the fan, while exploring, camping, trouble on the road, earth quake, fire.
I remember years ago, a number of people, including a CHP officer died on the road while trying to escape a forest fire. A 6" peice of string and a 3" stick will lift open a manhole cover, that trick might have saved some or all of them?
Get full of culture, but also get full of good solid knowledge to save You, your loved ones, friends and even strangers, if the need ever arises!!
You can see a million miles tonite, but you can't get very far.
Honorary member of UER lifetime acheivement award winning, 2Xplorations and Guide Services, Texas. |
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Calhovin
Location: Netherlands
Gender: Male
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 88 on 6/1/2009 11:38 PM >
| | | | all posters, thanks for still keeping the thread alive!
Got me several of the books suggested here, and have read two of them sofar while on holiday the last two weeks.
First of all, 'Outside lies magic' by Stilgoe. I can appreciate the message in the book, and I really was into the book for the first few chapters. Unfortunately, that ended quite fast. During my time at the university, I have taken some classes on spatial development and well, that means that when you have an explorers mindset already, this book is not opening your eyes... It actually reminded me of some books I had to read for the classes. Please note the 'had to read'! Too bad that a book that started so strong ended so boringly.
The second book was... oh crap, it was about a kayaking trip round Lake Baikal in the former USSR. Quite a nice book, and in a way exploring as well, but this is nit what I meant. I am mixing hobbies here (as well as drinks)  .
Oh well, I have nearly finished 'Invisible frontier' now, and I must say I like it. I don't take to much to the way the individual stories are written, a bit to much 'military style operations' for my likings, but the stuff is proper urbex (including stories of failures and not-so-exciting trips). Nice book.
Please keep the suggestions coming, I keep reading them books!
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 89 on 11/18/2009 5:11 PM >
| | | | Forgotten Columbus, by the guy who runs www.forgottenoh.com
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright |
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35mmVAman
Location: Charlottesville and Richmond VA.
Gender: Male
They call me Iron Isoceles
| | | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 90 on 11/18/2009 7:22 PM >
| | | | Posted by cr400
Next to all of your lists, mine will be short and boring. Two books that have taught me many important lessons.
1. U.S. Army survival manual.
2. Boy scout training manual.
Many important tips in these for when shit hits the fan, while exploring, camping, trouble on the road, earth quake, fire.
I remember years ago, a number of people, including a CHP officer died on the road while trying to escape a forest fire. A 6" peice of string and a 3" stick will lift open a manhole cover, that trick might have saved some or all of them?
Get full of culture, but also get full of good solid knowledge to save You, your loved ones, friends and even strangers, if the need ever arises!!
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Probably the best field manual/most interesting publication the Army ever wrote
The fleet to date: "Betty" 72 Pentax (Miss her everyday), "Sneaky Pete" 85 Pentax, "Thor" 76 Konica TC
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 91 on 11/19/2009 1:42 AM >
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This one's pretty good, but you have to be open to the idea that urban exploration can involve more than trespassing and abandoned buildings.
http://www.amazon....phia/dp/081354355X
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NV
Supreme Noble Donor
Location: City of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, Mayor
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 93 on 11/21/2009 10:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by micro
This one's pretty good, but you have to be open to the idea that urban exploration can involve more than trespassing and abandoned buildings.
http://www.amazon....phia/dp/081354355X
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Similar, both in topic and the whole "be open to the idea that urban exploration can involve more than trespassing and abandoned buildings" idea:
The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of a City
"In The Meadowlands, Sullivan does his Thoreauvian bean-counting in one of America's most infamous dumping grounds, the huge tract of marshy land just outside New York City that has withstood any and all attempts to subdue it with agriculture, industry, development, and an ever-shifting deluge of flotsam and jetsam. He may just be the first person in a century to willingly explore this fascinating but abused piece of real estate...By foot he tramps through the muck, and by canoe he navigates polluted rivers and marshes, noting the variegated species of trash and industrial cast-offs..."
http://www.amazon....=1258841232&sr=1-1
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musket boy
Location: Maui
Gender: Male
It smells like your grandpa and your feet stick to the floor
| | | | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 94 on 1/25/2010 5:17 PM >
| | | | I'm sitting at Barnes and Noble using their free wifi and this book is directly across from me
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phrenzee
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 95 on 1/25/2010 10:45 PM >
| | | | For fiction, Creepers by David Morrell was a fun read.
Google Books link:
http://books.googl...onepage&q=&f=false
"On a chilly October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into an abandoned hotel nearby. Built during the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure, which foreshadowed the beauties of Art Deco architecture, is now a decrepit, boarded up edifice marked for demolition.
The five are "creepers", the slang term for urban explorers - city archaeologists of sorts who go into abandoned buildings to uncover their secrets. And, on this evening they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them - anonymously, as this is highly illegal activity - for a New York Times piece.
Balenger, the sandy-haired, broad-shouldered reporter with a decided air of mystery about him, isn't looking for just a story, however. And, soon after the group sets forth into the rat-infested tunnel leading to the building, it is clear that he will get even more than he bargained for. Danger, terror and death are awaiting the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil."
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Core
Location: MI
Gender: Male
Warning: Some side effects may occur
| | | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 97 on 1/27/2010 9:18 PM >
| | | | Kind of skipped the entire thread, but I must say "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" the collected works. Having a towel with you at all times is the best advice ever.
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Richard Davies
Location: stockport
Gender: Male
The Trickster On The Roof
| | Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 98 on 1/28/2010 7:49 PM >
|  | | | The 2 books by John Harris about country house snooping, No Voice From The Hall & Echoing Voices are a good read.
You're Standing On My Neck |
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pip lol
Location: Vestavia Hills ,Alabama
Gender: Male
good and plenty
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<Reply # 99 on 2/3/2010 1:03 AM >
| | | | Well a lot of of H.P. Lovecraft's short stories have UE qualities.
These are some good ones right off hand, and there are many more
"The Tomb"
"The Alchemist"
"The Lurking Fear"
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