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Location: Sydney
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<Reply # 60 on 9/9/2009 12:06 AM >
|  | | | Posted by snap228So yeah. Now I just do it for the thrill and the artistic interest. And the history. It always amazes me to see what people have left behind. It makes you wonder what was going through their head when they were leaving, and where they are now, etc. It's funny, because it becomes almost an obsession. I can't NOT UE. I spend all my time at work looking at potential locations, and mapping out day-trips I could take. I don't think I could stop if I wanted to. 
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This.
Pretty much exactly the same as snap228. I love my photography & love exploring the history of a building and the way urban exploration gives you a snapshot of a location/society just before it was abandoned.
http://www.flickr....os/disinteresting/ |
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Loki
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 61 on 9/9/2009 3:36 AM >
| | | | If I didn't explore I don't know what I'd do with my life, but it would probably involve hookers and blow.
Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank |
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ZachariahDaMan
Location: Detroit
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 62 on 9/9/2009 8:24 PM >
| | | | I urbex for 3 reasons.
1. Photography
2. Thrill/adventure- finding a way in, getting in and out without being seen.
3. History- I am a studying Historic Preservations so I love being in historic buildings.
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MidnightGenius
Location: Rock Hill SC
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 63 on 9/18/2009 12:59 AM >
| | | | I do it for my love of abandoned places, and even though I love photography, when I photograph an abandoned structure it's purely so I can go back and look at it.
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\/adder
  
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
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<Reply # 64 on 9/18/2009 1:09 AM >
| | | | I UE just so people ask me why I UE.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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snap228
Location: New Paltz, NY
Gender: Female
"A man who holds the cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way."
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<Reply # 66 on 9/18/2009 1:57 AM >
| | | | Posted by Kemper
Because I'm disobedient.
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Haha I think this one kinda sums it up for all of us...
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makman
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
I live alone with a criminal
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<Reply # 67 on 9/18/2009 3:54 AM >
| | | | Posted by Kemper
Because I'm disobedient.
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I found an interesting lesson in that recently. I took a group of about 6 friends to the Rochester Subway (the most entry-level location in the area), and found about 40 people already there. Turns out is was a group from the University of Rochester. Anyway, several of my friends commented that it felt less like exploring and more like just going to a tourist destination. I think that's a strong part of it- it wouldn't be nearly as fun if it was sanctioned, approved, and acknowledged by society.
Be careful, not safe.
"Urbex- so much fun that it should be illegal." |
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Loki
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 68 on 9/18/2009 4:38 AM >
| | | | Posted by macman5151
I think that's a strong part of it- it wouldn't be nearly as fun if it was sanctioned, approved, and acknowledged by society.
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The rational mature adult part of me wants to disagree and say exploring isn't about breaking the law but about seeing places most people don't even know exist, but really, I think everyone of us enjoys the pleasure (guilty or otherwise) or doing something we're not supposed to.
Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank | Wank |
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abandoned-echoes
Location: Creemore, Ontario
Gender: Female
sky might be fallin' but remember you can fly high...
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<Reply # 69 on 9/23/2009 5:55 AM >
| | | | 1) Photography. I like that my photos of locations don't just show someone how it looks, but the way that I envision the memory of it in my mind. For me, it's a reflection of the mood of the actual exploration.
2) I love the way 'regular' people react when they hear about our crazy adventures, or see the photographs. They are in awe, because they had no idea such places existed. We can show them a whole new world.
3) I love the silence of rotting old farmhouses. When it's just you and the sound of the wind howling through the broken windows...
[last edit 9/23/2009 5:55 AM by abandoned-echoes - edited 1 times]
"Nothing is static, everything is appalling, everything is falling apart."
http://www.abandoned-echoes.com |
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urbexkeith
Gender: Male
S & W B
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<Reply # 70 on 9/26/2009 3:32 AM >
| | | | 1. history
2.photography
3.a geek hungry for adventure
4. to see somthing not as many people have seen since it closed or have never seen in the case of drains
5. i have adhd, when i get wound up i can literally run up a 9ft wall
6. its urbex? i go to a private school all the kids at my school are rich bastards except me i am lower middle class, it freaks out the kids at my school that i would go in a dark damp bug infested drain.
7. i dont have acsess to the wilderness,even if i did i wouldnt explore them as much as a building.
8. to get the women, even though.....nevrmind.
With the bashy bashy
http://www.flickr....elics_photography/ |
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makman
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
I live alone with a criminal
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<Reply # 71 on 9/26/2009 8:28 AM >
| | | | Posted by urbexkeith
8. to get the women
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"In this country, you gotta get the urbex first. Then when you get the urbex, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Be careful, not safe.
"Urbex- so much fun that it should be illegal." |
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MutantMandias
 
Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
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<Reply # 72 on 9/26/2009 2:37 PM >
| | | | Posted by ExplorerLoki
The rational mature adult part of me wants to disagree and say exploring isn't about breaking the law but about seeing places most people don't even know exist, but really, I think everyone of us enjoys the pleasure (guilty or otherwise) or doing something we're not supposed to.
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I get what you all are saying, but that really hasn't ever motivated me. Nowadays it's more a matter of habit, and has been all mixed with photography and camaraderie, but I remember back when I was but a wee lad, standing on the property line or at the rotted open window, filled with the anxious expectation of what would happen if I crossed that line....
It wasn't specifically because I was about to break a law or do something that I wasn't supposed to, it was more subtle than that. It was because I was about to cross over a line that most people just wouldn't, for whatever reason. It's not in any way wrong to go into an abandoned place, as long as you are careful and responsible, but so many people live their lives closed off from the possibilities that surround them. It is liberating to cross that line and step out of the simple framework that society wants you to construct around yourself, which is designed to keep everyone in line and mindlessly consuming.
So, for me, it's not precisely because I'm not supposed to do it. It's more-so because it isn't done... I want to see what's in there, and see what it's like where society is so afraid to go.
mutantMandias may cause dizziness, sexual nightmares, and sleep crime. ++++ mutantMandias has to return some videotapes ++++ Do not taunt mutantMandias
mutantMandias is something more than human, more than a computer. mutantMandias is a murderously intelligent, sensually self-programmed, non-being |
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abandoned-echoes
Location: Creemore, Ontario
Gender: Female
sky might be fallin' but remember you can fly high...
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<Reply # 73 on 9/28/2009 5:24 AM >
| | | | Posted by MutantMandias
I get what you all are saying, but that really hasn't ever motivated me. Nowadays it's more a matter of habit, and has been all mixed with photography and camaraderie, but I remember back when I was but a wee lad, standing on the property line or at the rotted open window, filled with the anxious expectation of what would happen if I crossed that line....
It wasn't specifically because I was about to break a law or do something that I wasn't supposed to, it was more subtle than that. It was because I was about to cross over a line that most people just wouldn't, for whatever reason. It's not in any way wrong to go into an abandoned place, as long as you are careful and responsible, but so many people live their lives closed off from the possibilities that surround them. It is liberating to cross that line and step out of the simple framework that society wants you to construct around yourself, which is designed to keep everyone in line and mindlessly consuming.
So, for me, it's not precisely because I'm not supposed to do it. It's more-so because it isn't done... I want to see what's in there, and see what it's like where society is so afraid to go.
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well put sir.
"Nothing is static, everything is appalling, everything is falling apart."
http://www.abandoned-echoes.com |
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hilite
Gender: Male
don't destroy my sweater....
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<Reply # 74 on 10/1/2009 6:00 PM >
| | | | I don't UE-I'm doing participatory action research on HOODLUMS AND GANGSTA'S who visit abandoned buildings, drains and other places.
And when you finally disappear, We'll just say you were never here. |
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