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Comments about undergroundThere are 82 comments about "underground"
Paul Davies: I completed a 4 year apprenticeship in electronic engineering between
1973 and 1977 at Aquila. Just the fact that I gained my 'deeds' stood me
in good stead when it came to getting work later. Aquila was...... Mitch Spector: Yep, it's indeed very much GONE. Made one final pass by this morning (November 5th) to check things out and it's not what I saw, but what I didn't see that caught my attention! It's...... Edward LAMB: I am very familiar with this tunnel having personally "discovered" the place way back in 1969...
The following, if you please, is an excerpt from my own story :
I had, one day, roaming through Riverside Drive...... Paul Revere: I'm sure you can never receive enough accolades for your photography. Great work. Personally, I've roamed those tunnels repeatedly for the past year. As someone remarked you can't hear the train untill it's prcaticly upon...... Telemill: I can just imagine what the archaeologists are going to say when they discover this art vast years from now. How the most cultured of the beings of our time lived underground . . ....... ROB WALLS: i think irlam is great, i have lived and died here in this sunny suburb. But the sadest thing i have ever watched with no power over is the demise of the fish population of...... EvilGentleman: A few suggestions in order to reduce damage in future disturbances:
1 - Do **not** leave portable metal street signs with plate metal bases lying around on the streets when large events are taking place. Most...... joey: does the san jose light rail system go underground at all?... Zack: I had the good fortune to be in your city the first week of march and had the time of my life! I went to that space place,I went to a ultimate fight,I went...... Peter: did you read the above thread? it was soho zat, then soho underground, and now its called the {scrapyard}... its still very small, but well-stocked, and they have cheap caps.... underground Kulture: jacob whooooa u gotta be kiddin me. cope2 and JA are not the same person. go read up on ur history before u say somethin like that... UK JA OK: We heard JA 3000 miles away! I got myself over to New York recently and I saw a couple of JA throw ups in the Underground tunnels there.
His shit never gets old!
JA is gettin his...... Alan Taylor: Andrew, Sheila, Cyril et al,
Platts Brook was a popular play area and it went underground through vertical iron bars and waterfalled about 10 feet under Liverpool Road opposite Ferry Road.
The part that was from where...... Sheila Hilton: My children talked about playing on "the Jezzies". I didn't realise at first that they were talking about the jerry works. It was always the jerry works; never the jezzies when we were younger. We...... wow crew 92': shit i was RIVAL an original member of the WOW crew and there were some tight writers back then
yeah they were few and far between but still UP and we bombed the fucking city...... trapped: The are several secret levels under DIA which is basicly a underground base and prison camp for who, for us citizens. The new world order has over 800 prison camps all over the us and...... EvilGentleman: The art/vandalism debate will go on forever, because both sides are correct.
Many graffiti pieces are unquestionably artistic masterpieces. I have seen many pieces that are absolutely mind-boggling, provoke intelligent thought and debate, and are just...... Dick: The neighborhood during the early 40's was fabulous. PS 241 on President Street was new. In the schoolyard, softball center & right field were along the fence to the BMT trench. A home run hit...... a: MY RESULTS:
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RE: [Civic Sign Inquiry]
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:31:21 -0500
From: "Sleeth, Chris"
CC: "Contactus"
Hi A,
Can you please let me know where this new installation took place? We have been removing signs from many of the trees...... Penelope: I live in Hutchinson and think its a great place! Our 6A high school football team is going to win state again this year, which makes it a 4-peat! Yeah Baby! Go Salthawks!
We also have...... Anonoymous: I will try to be succinct with my words. The symbols, ideology, artwork, whatever you prefer to call it serves one grand purpose, and this purpose, I will reveal in the conclusion of this...... misty: I like the pics they are awsome.I agree you should get some of the morgue,I love anything that involves paranormal or haunted this would be a cool place to go.How
ever here in salem oregon where...... Big Momma: The new underground salt museum is allready in trouble. Not making any money. This town needs some serious help. Whats the answer?... Yeah I live in Hutch, so what.: Quoted earlier: I challenge any Hutch resident to name me TEN particular, redeeming, specific traits about the town that make it "special".
I can't name ten traits about ANY town that make it special, but to...... La: I happen to love Hutchinson.It may not be the prettiest, but the photos you show are from the very worst building in town. Yes we have attractions, a world renowned space museum, the underground salt...... VVW: I live on the Aquila Housing developement, which used to be MOD Aquila. Your articles are exellent and very interesting. I believe my house is situated on the site of the X-ray block. I have...... 2less2: it's to bad that you guys haven't taken the time to see the actual truths as they relate Las Vegas and all you've managed to find fault with.
first, one of the biggest reasons the...... Mark in Manitou: i live in manitou and had no idea this castle existed. we drove up today and i was floored. i've seen some things im my life, but nothing like this. i climbed...... Hutch=LOW INCOME: The person that posted the "special" things about Hutchinson. Let me ask you a question. DO ANY OF THESE THINGS BRING EMPLOYMENT ON A LARGE SCALE BASIS THAT PAYS OVER MINIMUM WAGE??? NO!!! AND ALSO...... BelRoC: Good post..
Keep real graffiti alive!!
Keep it underground.................. highwalker: been there a few times last year - 'twas fun while it lasted, the best part was slipping past the (now apparently dismantled) steel gates and fences, and getting into that huge building on the...... CO-TX: Ok you want some real dirt on denver look: at South Table mountains (west denver) NREL complex it is officaly of solar research station but really a tunnel door (south west corrner of the facility...... Andy: The last photo is of the Seoul Station train platforms, which is the main train station. The subway at this station is underground so that's where all the people are. Nevertheless you're right, it was...... Peter: cay: firstly, i think its humorously ironic that you qualify "not scaremongering" by saying "god knows {nyc} is scary enough". thats a dated, inaccurate and stereotypical statement that i dont appreciate much, as a {new...... EvilGentleman: Yikes, the Underground City? That is a website unto itself.... Jamie: How very 'french'. I like the idea of an underground city though. Photos would be nice ;-)... Peter: [[http://english.montrealplus.ca/portal/profile.do?profileID=527389]]
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surfing those links, i came across the "underground city"... whats the story on that? sounds cool...
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_city_%28Montreal%29]]... curious: Just wondering but isnt that icicle hanging from a cable?
This wouldn't be the cable added in recent years throughout the bloor line that enables communication throughout the system, would it? Not possible with normal radios...... .nanotech.: [[img:18457]]
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* The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy.
* There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,...... Anthony: I live near Denver International Airport and have been there many, many times and have seeked out and found everything mentioned here and then some. I first heard about the DIA conspiracies a few...... The Optick One: Ja is a god of graffiti. All hands down. He is in the elite of Graff legends/underground legends. Ja is known to ppl everywhere, in every city block of Now Why Cee. Regardless of who...... barb: i love hstate. i went there for my first time yesterday. at night too. it was really cool. my friends and i went in to the main building and went through the underground tunnels, the...... little ukraine: This building dates to the Civil War, does it not? Or is that the other Brooklyn Armory? Also, I believe this is the one you see from the LIRR train just before it...... Lee: I am interested in whether Scott Lake had an augmentation well and whether the sinkholes may have been caused by pumping water from underground aquifers to keep the lake levels up.... sal seville: this isnt graffiti......people try and write graffiti ...but there not graffiti writters........graffiti writters hit trains ...not churches and peoples houses....graffiti was ment to be underground...toys must try........ Chris Erb: It didn't work out so well, I would finish work at 3 am and then have to get up at 8am to go to school 3 days a week. All my free time was...... H.S.: I had my bike stolen last night from in front of my posh building - the one night that I leave it locked up outside instead of bringing it to the underground garage like I...... LWAMC: im the lead guitarist for RUBIDIUM, and have gigged with sodium for years and i gotta admit, if you havent caught an {i love sodium} show, youre missing out on the hardest hardk0re metal lincolnshire...... jamie: also: did you know that wiltshire has a secret underground city. it's underneath corsham. aparently.. and it's not secret.
**[[http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/underground_city/]]**... elaine: i don't think so. they don't even flock, and they are not all that big. plus, cats don't live underground, though it is true they don't like rain. but a blackbird doing his raindance is...... Get out of your car, buddy: Nice! Everytime I'm in Houston, I am amazed at the number of carparks (and the size of some of them). Let's call this progress, even if it is being replaced with luxury housing. ...... vz: i don't know, i'm thinking maybe they should look like this http://www.metro.ru/stations/arbatsko-pokrovskaya/arbatskaya/
(or this http://www.metro.ru/stations/koltsevaya/kievskaya/ or this http://www.metro.ru/stations/arbatsko-pokrovskaya/kievskaya/ ... )
when the capital is also the largest city, and the national leader has a fascination with underground...... EvilGentleman: Yes, sine, it is most unfortunate that global warming is destroying this fragile ecosystem at an alarming rate. I have heard that the rate of global warming is over 6 times faster in the polar...... elaine: the other thing that i don't like about the pigeon is the way that they have a penchant for looking like they suffer. the damn things live in underground stations, for gods sake! feathers all...... Lawrence: In London too, they use clear bags on the underground. Also, any other potiential places bombs can be planted have security seals, much like cds or computer cases which once opened, break the seal....... elaine: not all, jeeff, but quite a few. hardly anything in london is completely uniform due to it being old and big.
i like this post a lot, it's exciting to see someone else's take. the...... The Jury is out on Evil Gentleman: You sound like a pretty self-righteous guy. I very much like your idea about protecting women and children. I definitely like and support that. It's an honourable position to take, no doubt. But, this begs...... hahaha: hey art critic, it's easy to open the mouth, aight '!!??? those cbs kids in berlin are ill, maybe as you think, not the best graph artists, i think they to some sick shit too,...... Jamie: What an interesting little story. I'm from peterborough :-) I've heard there is talk of redevelopment of the station quarter of the city. New apartments and offices etc and a new station of course with...... anon (217.205.0.17): Full Listing here
SANTAS GHETTO OPENS IT DOORS FOR THE FOURTH YEAR
AND IS OPEN FROM TODAY UNTIL DECEMBER 24TH.
The ghetto is a street level free-for-all art gallery that brings
you some of the most feared names...... Pounder: i think graffiti isn't just underground, we've all just seen proof that it's not. Are you sayin that because they aren't seeking in and paint that studd on walls, that it makes them less of...... NET ONE 156 KRT: Words of the Prophets Take to the Rooftops
by Cathy Hong
SUBJECT — The Extreme Graffiti Hall of Murals
LOCATION — Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens
Les had no equipment but a backpack full of spray cans. (He...... Pounder: Crayon, I understand at what your getting at, completely. I however am a horrible writer and and even worse speller. So i can very well understand why you firgure, that a fifth grade educationg is...... Peter: Crayon: im afraid you might be making some overblown (and rather novice) assumptions about the average graffiti writer's motivation. for many- especially these "taggers" you speak of- it has nothing at all to do with...... jack: actually its the office people from the office building in the background and they are let out every afternoon and made to walk clockwise in order to help the flow of the underground water system...... Jamie: underground overground wombling free?... elaine: yeah, there was one lurking by the funnel in one of the recent underground steamship photos too (ambient fedex!)... nope..: real writers stay underground.. thats it. the fact is graff will never be legal. "people are just afraid of what they dont understand" ... Balloonhedz: yup..you usually smell it before you see it. Even after the exhaust has been run through the water filter. Theyre not supposed to run diesels underground. The LIRR used to have diesel hauled...... Paul G: Thanks! The bridge - pictured - is over Barton Creek, in Zilker Park. I think that the bats live under the bridges that cross Town Lake a/k/a the Colorado River a/k/a Lake Austin....... Moebius Rex: Not that anyone cares, but I just discovered that "I Got 5 On It" (see third-from-the-last pic, above) was a hit 1995 rap anthem by Da Luniz, a Yay Area hip-hop collective. The remix of...... StripesA4: yea im just a advid observer of the underground scene in NYc. NYc doesnt wanna be seen as a gang city even though it obviously is. theres over 57 gangs represented in major numbers in...... Chino: The roots. 1st New York and at the same time Chicago was rigth there ready for that good old cta track underground bombing alley roof top bombs.... Peter: babelfish tells me (in really fractured english):
manifest/listovka/zaveshchaniye/ob"yavleniye/anketa (necessary to emphasize)
Explaining everything and simultaneously questioning WHY! you this make vyaloradikal'naya anarkhoterroristicheskaya proyevreyskaya counterrevolutionary group, band, gang, party, force WHY! It calls to deny everything and to...... piranha erem: these photographs are the coolest things ive seen all day. it makes one dreamy, imaginging one's self in some daydream adventure in tokyo's immense underground. so urban, so similar to the west yet so different...... manda: kc - yeah, it was an accident. the weather undergrounders were building a bomb and the three doing it accidentally blew up themselves:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_underground... kc: I like progression to the smoky revelation...and the deconstruction/fracturing at the end. It reminds me of this brownstone in Greenwich Village that got blown up, by accident if I remember correctly, in the 1970s, I...... OG PESTONER DNA: Most of tha good graff is underground...in abandoned tunnels, in frieght yards, etc...any public graff is usually whitewalled with the quickness...even pieces where the owner of the property gave permission (buffed by the city without...... hasslehoff: I never saw this until now. I like the way the new 'recently viewed' sidebar throws up random stuff. Just when I think i've seen every article ever posted here, something new pops up like...... 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...... elaine: hmm, i think if i believed in heaven i could buy picture 1 being in heaven and 2 n 3 being hell.. somehow the light in reality and in pictures of strplights really does strip...... moebius rex:
you know, i've been meaning to mention that i've tracked down some info on the graf writer behind pic #3 (and pic #4 here). his name is Thesis, and according to what i've dug up......
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