I personally think that you can tell a lot about what happened before a place was abandoned by the state it's in, but that's just me. Now I'm just gonna spam the rest of this post with pictures. :3
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
It's Not Illegal If You Don't Get Caught:
Urban exploring, a summary. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, urban exploring is when you go into an abandoned building (paper mill, hospital, house, ect) and take pictures. You don't mess with anything and you don't take anything back with you. And if you pick something up to read it, you put it back down where it was. You just find a way in, document what you can see in pictures, and then get the hell out of dodge and avoid cars and normal people who may or may not report you to the police.
I personally think that you can tell a lot about what happened before a place was abandoned by the state it's in, but that's just me. Now I'm just gonna spam the rest of this post with pictures. :3
I personally think that you can tell a lot about what happened before a place was abandoned by the state it's in, but that's just me. Now I'm just gonna spam the rest of this post with pictures. :3
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Didn't you explore this place last year?
ReplyDeleteYeah I did. I was actually planning on going back yesterday but it was too hot. And I'm expecting a call about a job today or tomorrow so I need to stay in the house. Haha
DeleteLe gasp! Tori don't you know it's illegal to read someone elses mail?
ReplyDeleteXD
Please see: title. Haha. And it's not like it has government secrets. -shrug-
DeleteDidn't know that "Urban Exploring" was a thing in other countries. No honestly, since I live in a rather small town and have no friends online who are interested in this kind of stuff, I never knew it was a hobby people actually had.
ReplyDeleteHell, I didn't even know it was a hobby, I thought I was just weird by having this strange fascination with the destroyed and abandoned.
It's that tingly feeling you get, when you walk into a building that once used to be populated (As I said, I'm weird, here on blogs and in real-life XD.
Too bad stupid looking tags are drawn all over those abandoned buildings, I understand if it was actual graffiti art on the walls, but when you see nothing but stupid faces, dicks, and stupid stuff like "Julia + Misha = Love" on the walls, it tends to piss me off.
And here I go babbling.
Yeah a friend of mine got me into it a few years back and it's kind of an obsession now. I see some abandoned place and I'm like "I need to go in there." Haha.
DeleteAnd I hate it when people tag places with dumb stuff. I mean I love street art, but dicks arent street art. Speaking of which there isn't any street art or graffiti around where I live.... Sigh. Welcome to hicksville I suppose...
And babbling is my favourite pastime.
In my town we have a graffiti art wall! Any place in my town that is often tagged, we call it a "graffiti row", regardless of whether it's legal or not. It's pretty cool, you could write to your mayor about getting one or something, maybe for charity.
DeleteAlso in my country we have an anonymous street artist only known as "Banksy", you can look up his art online and he has his own website. His work is very political (think Enter Shikari political) but still good, for example this.
In the woods near where I live, someone chips "Mark" into various parts of the sandstone quarry (there are abandoned parts and functioning parts.) And someone always leaves their beer bottles and crisp packets and rubbish right in the woods. I reckon it's "Mark". Whoever Mark is, I fucking hate him and want him to stop leaving his shit around.
Holy mother of fuck I love Banksy. Haha. Back at my old school in my photography/digital media (Like Photoshop and Flash) class, we got to watch the documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop and that just threw me into my obsession with street art.
DeleteAnd I would try to get something like that to happen but no one up here does that kind of thing, I'm willing to bet. -.-
And I think this Mark person needs a high five. In the face. With a bus.
I love Banksy too!
DeleteI can give a little more context for Banksy's art. The likes of Banksy and Enter Shikari are popular among British youth, because there is a lot of discontent, we are distrusted and dismissed, silenced and slandered, we get blamed for crime and moral decay by the very people that constructed our system.
If not for their relevance, I probably wouldn't like Enter Shikari, but their anger and hope, how the rock is heavy and mechanised like our society, it really rings true. There's also this song by Plan B, which is very popular in Britain right now, and I think it has a lot to do with the lyrics.
You might know about the carnage of the 2011 riots, should probably have tipped them off that we feel undermined, unwelcome and unhappy. Guess it didn't.
A friend of my father's said, regarding the riots, "There is no excuse for civil disobedience" a few seconds after talking about a fight he won in the pub. So yeah, hypocrisy comes into it as well. Maybe I should've called him out on it...
Sorry, this turned into a babble and a rant and something of an essay. :D
i'll check out those links when i get on my laptop. I'm about to hop in my pool cause its hot as balls. -.-
Deleteand i think i have heard about the riots but my memory is a bit lacking all around, sigh. and wow what a hypocrite.
and it's fine. as i've said before: babble is welcome :3
Enter Shikari's style of music isn't really my preferred style but hot damn it's about to be because those two songs were amazing. :3 and the song by Plan B isn't my genre either but the lyrics are really great.
DeleteI think everyone in the world is getting fed up with their government to be honest. Haha.
/OCC
ReplyDeleteThere's a place in my country (well, it's Wales actually, but not far) called Talgarth, it has an abandoned mental asylum. I want to go there so badly but I'm too young to drive. I wonder if I could get my sister to take me.
-Amber (person behind Sanna and Talmai XD)
Wait, "OCC"? Mean "OOC".
Delete-Amber
*the place is IN Wales, but I live in England, is what I meant. Bloody hell I'm out of it this morning.
Delete-Amber
There's a whole slew of hospitals and mental asylums that I want to visit but A) I can't drive yet either and B) The residual energy from those places - the sadness and suffering and pain - it can really get to me. But I still want to go, am I nuts or what?
DeleteAnd it's the morning, what do you expect? Haha