Monday, April 18th 2005

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jeeff: i have a hell of a time opening up the old ansi files i made when i was 16 and really into BBSing. technology marches along and a lot gets left in the dust.

in response to Two Hundred Years From Now

jeeff: marc, not sure, i never counted. shibuya's probably the place for it though. i too liked the ferris wheel parking garages. too bad they're all covered, it would be cooler if some were open-air. peter, i'll post an approximation of it. same photos. the...

in response to tokyo tunnels (under the skin)

fuzzytank: when i was there this summer the people in the i hate bush store were very nice to us, even tho we were 'merican. It was hard to tell what the big building (3rd-5th photos) was supposed to be... at first it looked off limits but they let you in an...

in response to Squatter\'s Haven on OranienburgerstraBe

elaine: did you ever read the victorian underworld by donald thomas? iss very good. loads on london working and underclass culture, reads like a how to in parts, its like a rough guide to the rookeries

in response to The Pearly Kings and Queens

elaine: Re: Driving... and Parking. Maybe part of the mojo for me is driving old wrecks, because people are often kind even at night, or maybe my own good will radiates out, but I really pushed my luck once when parking in a space too small for my car and in...

in response to Hack the City

moerex: A perfect distillation of the secret language of urban driving. Reminds me of the year I spent living in Manilla as a kid, where my father learned what he later came to call (once we moved back to The States) "Filipino Driving Tactics." I'll always remember the way my school...

in response to Hack the City

Peter: thanks to so much grodie-to-the-max-ness, i just gave up on meat. now i eat free-range tofu! :)

in response to I Know:

elaine: Re: I Know: I get halal chicken now, it's cheap and they've got their little faces and feets on, and you can see they havn't been pecking at each other and they ahvn't got the big blistery shit going on on the feet like the rank intensively farmed ones do

in response to I Know:

Peter: jaeger and i dont get along well *gag*

in response to Jaeger 1998

elaine: Less than funnily enough, just post 9/11 I was teaching just next to Canary Wharf in Docklands which was thought to be the natural UK target, and I was extremely concerned about my students who were properly scared, 17 year old, ironically mainly Muslim babies. I doubted our fire...

in response to Two Hundred Years From Now

Marc: damn they figure out so much cool shit about humanity by sticking a million freaks together to poop in each other's drinking water!! the 2nd largest chicken producer in the states, Tyson, kills something like 20 million chickens a week.. they live in these huge super warehouses. as chain reaction...

in response to I Know:

elaine: Re: Dallas Graffiti Like What! double entendre! how sophisticated, dahlink! - it is actually

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

Marc: great tokyo pics jeeff- doomo.. what's the most layers of throughway uve counted in a stack? i visited in 2000 and counted 7 near shibuya.. i wish i had some pics of the ferris-wheel-elevator-car-parking garages, oh, oh, how i wish..

in response to tokyo tunnels (under the skin)

sick of all the shit : is no-one thinking about the families of the victims murdered by both Repulicans and loyalists? It is them who has lost a loved one. So what the fuck are those who haven't gurning about really all we have to worry about is a bit of name calling maybe the...

in response to Shankill Road: Belfast

Marc: heh well some of us have our own cell towers, 'fanx'.

in response to Two Hundred Years From Now

Marc: peter, hopefully i will post some pics of guanajuato soon- it's the cradle of mexican independence, a very italian looking town, many hills and mines and mummies, and most of the car streets are underground (where they belong)- definitely quicker to walk anywhere. something about hill/mountain cities makes me feel...

in response to Hack the City

Marc: forwth can also be a reference to Fort Worth, dallas's parasitic citytwin

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

sick of all the shit : Re: Shankhill Road does rebel 32 ever give over or get over himself? The only reason for killing the catholics was because the IRA was killing the protestant people in ulster they were bombing and blowing up all round them.The Uda etc was set up in defence of the people....

in response to Shankill Road: Belfast

Peter: ...but what happens when the cell towers go down?

in response to Two Hundred Years From Now

jeeff: that's really wild.

in response to The Pearly Kings and Queens

Marc: Media obsolesence is a huge problem actually- i know everything's sorted on the net now, but imagine the reel to reel tapes and 8 inch floppy disks and even the 5.25 and the 3.25?! from different formats-- CDs start to decay around the 8-10 year mark.. librarians think about this...

in response to Two Hundred Years From Now

XAOS: Re: Dallas Graffiti Like What! I like this stuff. There's always more than meets the eye.

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

elaine: I was trying to post this as the crash happened just after someone posted a really lovely gas worx page, of a defunct US site, are they all decommissioned there now, what's the story? Ours are in use because they are not natural gas, they are from refineries. Scotland got...

in response to canalside gasworks

elaine: Re: Dallas Graffiti Like What! what is weird is Ihave just this minute started reading Ian Sinclair, on Marc's recommendation, and he opens with just this discussion, even to the point of saying "The grander aerosol paintings known as 'pieces', are altogether too flash, baroque, an art in decline."...

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

Mad Jane: Re: Squatter's Haven on OranienburgerstraBe fantastic

in response to Squatter\'s Haven on OranienburgerstraBe

elaine: Re: I Know:yuk. See, wapping, being on the river, and downriver, there's a reason they say it's bad feng shui. In fact there's a whole sewage/cholera victorian story of how they discovered where germs really came from tale therein, however, though the germs are not IN the 'miasma' it...

in response to I Know:

elaine: Re: Sinclair ref. thanks for that, I just got my mitts on it, and read the first bit sitting in London Fields - a double whammy, not just because here I am reading about where I am because you told me to from mexico, but I had just put up...

in response to Hack the City

kilfennanDavy: Also note that some of the pics above are also seen very small in the loyalist painting here: http://www.citynoise.org/article/45

in response to Urban Street Propoganda

kilfennanDavy: I believe that the "nothing has changed" mural is gone. Why are you guys scared of a painting on a wall? These paintings are in an inner city area. Just like any place in the world, if you do not like the look of an area then do not go...

in response to Urban Street Propoganda

elaine: Re: Mirrored Ooooooh! wiggly! and what about the rusty looking one? liking that theyre all different and a bit scruffy in the perfect thing, wouldn't be nearly so good if they were the same and it was all nice

in response to Mirrored

kobe: so quaint so pretty

in response to small town gothic

Peter: wow... what a phenomenon! i recall seeing people in those sort of buttoned outfits on tv or something, but never knew the story. thanks for sharing this bit of london lore. its nice to read about obscure history!

in response to The Pearly Kings and Queens

jeeff: there were a fair number of neckface tags all around western tokyo.

in response to Neckface does Harajuku

Peter: i think it got lost in the great database crash of last week. and unfortunately, google doesnt have it cached :( maybe jeeff would post it again? ;)

in response to tokyo tunnels (under the skin)

Peter: totally. looks like the puffy clouds are mocking the cylinder's demise, too.

in response to canalside gasworks

jeeff: after looks surreal, like clapboard desert dunes.

in response to canalside gasworks

gwailo: what happened to the tokyo waterways article?

in response to tokyo tunnels (under the skin)

jeeff: i like to hear about several places all summed up together. it adds a dimension. interesting approach.

in response to Hack the City

Peter: often, i tend to think that as opposed to how nice hte neighborhood/housing is, the best way to gauge teh quality of an apartment in nyc is: 1. does it have good water pressure? 2. is it near any stinky river-linked storm drains? i used to live in a place where sewer gasses...

in response to I Know:

Peter: make the name a mandatory field- yes! do not allow a comment post without name field being filled in... sorta like you cant post a blank "though" on swinney, heh. also: i think the statement "The soul of a city isn't rooted in its steel core, but its steel core keeps...

in response to Strong Shoulders

Peter: wow, this entry reminds me of the old gasworks that were here in brooklyn... they would inflate with surplus natural gas all summer, when gas was cheap, and then deflate all winter during times of peak use. small gas works like these dotted america at one time- i recall the...

in response to canalside gasworks

hasslehoff: for some reason the theme tune from "Cheers" is now lodged firmly in my head.

in response to Postcard From Suburbia

Peter: hey ben, thanks for posting. id love to hear more from you or see some photos next time- that would be great! it looks like some folks have given you some very thoughtful responses to your queries, so i won't add to that pile, but i will say that this "urban...

in response to Postcard From Suburbia

Peter: nice. often, things are just better down south. though i gotta admit, i love the totally boundless free-for-all that is the metro-nyc graffiti game. its like, if you cant show any retraint, you might as well go all out.

in response to southern

Peter: gotta love the ever requisite airplane-wing photo :) i should do a series on those, as i think weve taken quite a number of em too.

in response to Texas 5am

Peter: this is a great entry, marc. thanks for showing up on this site... im fascinated by much of what you wrote, and indeed, couldnt have put it any better in regards to hacking-via-transportation... ive often thought of speedy travel in similar terms while cycling. every day i could shave a few...

in response to Hack the City

hasslehoff: Oh i see. In that case i agree wholeheartedly. Mindless tagging is a blight on the urban landscape and provides nothing more than anti-street-art fodder for anal daily mail types.

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

Peter: wow, jamie... thats some food for thought. im imaginging future archaeologists will wield the ability to write drivers/software to access "ancient data" much like today's archaeologists wield trowels, brushes and shovels to access ancient artifacts. im also imaginging the endless storage devices- like giant android-like arrays of raid drives- that...

in response to Two Hundred Years From Now

elaine: Re: I Know: you wanna smell the drains in summer in Wapping (E1)

in response to I Know:

julie andrews: I think the young man says that these chaps are only interested in covering acerage. The difference between these chaps and real grafittios that if you tell the 'bombers' to do a real work of art they wouldn't know how because the cans they use have large unsophisticated nozzles. They...

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

elaine: cool doody!

in response to Street Parkour

elaine: apparrently them little USB keys are as robust as black boxes on aeroplanes, even if you hit them with hammers data can still be got off them same as a proper HD so even if one was in a housefire or anything. bit more sturdy than a floppy or a...

in response to Two Hundred Years From Now

Kelsey Grammar: ohmygod. i am outraged and appalled at such blantant misuse of tori and kelsey.

in response to hope: enniskillen

billy: uda

in response to hope: enniskillen

hasslehoff: i understood none of this. anyone care to elarobate?

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

jeeff: i love it.

in response to brooklyn --> still life with virgin mary + fawn

Delta_!: Re: Dallas Graffiti Like What! all of these guys are all about bombing. the differnece from bombers and people who do productions is that if you tell people like those er kids to do a nice piece they wont know how to do it cuz the only cap they know...

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

Delta_!: all of

in response to Dallas Graffiti Like What!

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