April 30, 2013
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Urbex
I'm certain that I already mentioned how much I love TED. It's filled with amazing stories and tons of inspirational people. Usually, I'm searching for videos that feature screenwriters, directors, and cartoonist. Photography is a welcomed change.
Miru Kim is a brave woman. I mean, there's always concern with urban exploration because, well... I watch too many horror movies. Heck, even in real life, there are things that go bump in the night. There's crazy people, crackheads and other potentially dangerous things. I'm a fairly large individual and you wouldn't catch me entering those areas alone. I require a group of people to trip or push into danger, just in case shit gets real. Hahah...
I always thought there was a strange sense of beauty to urban exploration. It was something I couldn't really put into words, but Miru explained it perfectly. It all starts to make sense if you see your city as a living organism. She's rummaging through the guts of places left behind. She is the archaeologist of private property... Why not? To me, she's saying hello to a lonely stranger. Her presence resuscitates those caverns, tunnels, and so on. She's pumping something fresh through the veins.
Miru's definitely working her way up to being my favorite photographer.
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Amazing. I love to discover things in my city as well, at night.
Usually I am alone, which is scary because I am a girl. And where I live there are a lot of sexual predators according to Megans Law.I discovered a small waterfall by the river with a friend.Abandoned warehouses, train yards, so many alive and dead possums.Crazy bums, pimps and prostitues.
You can say I grew up in the urban areas.Which I am grateful for because I guess you can say I am "street smart"
Not all homeless people are bad people who do drugs.
Many of them are schizophrenic and have been abandoned by families.
If you leave them alone they leave you alone.
People who do drugs are very scary though.Because drugs changes the chemistry in their brain and they are psychotic.
Sorry for my long comment.
@perfectformality - The first rule of my blog: Never apologize for long comments; I welcome it.
Homeless people are scary and the main reason is that only a thin line separates us. Living in this country, it only takes a few bad turns and bad circumstances to be on the street. They're the flip side of the coin, mentally and financially.
I never ran into a pimp before. Not sure why I think that's weird...
I've been wanting to go urban exploration, partly due to boredom. A change of scenery would be nice and I can't afford a cruise or plane ticket to where ever. The other reason is for a script I'm working on, but I won't bore you with the details. Nice times out of ten, the day I go exploring would be the day I run into a corpse some psycho dropped off. Better yet, I'll discover the corpse and a few seconds later, the police will show up and arrest me. That's how my luck goes.
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