Posts Tagged by urban exploration
2011 Open Call for Entries on Urban Explorations
| September 29, 2011 | Posted by Laura under Urban and Rural Exploration |
The notion of urban exploration usually entails this sense of off-limits, abandoned, forgotten and neglected places. However, these places, as Josh Clark writes, were once “created with people in mind; they’re constructed to serve some function that benefits us. But [once] abandoned, these sites cease to have any sort of purpose. By gazing upon these structures as art or historical monuments, urban explorers give them a new purpose.” Hence, our call invites you to leave your “normal” world, venture and wonder through less usual paths. Please share with us your stories of encountering, examining, infiltrating, appropriating the normally unseen or off-limits parts of the urban areas around you. Imagine and image for us what you encounter and what there was once to be seen.
via 2011 Open call for entries on URBAN EXPLORATIONS « Diversity in Place Film Project Initiative.
Treasure Hunt in the Library (New York)
| April 16, 2011 | Posted by Laura under Uncategorized |
NY Public Library to hold overnight treasure hunt – Yahoo! News.
NEW YORK – The majestic main branch of the New York Public Library is seeking 500 people to spend the night there on a scavenger hunt designed to tap into their inner creativity and potential as they explore its miles of rare treasures.
The hunt, called “Find the Future: The Game,” was created for the library’s centennial celebration by Jane McGonigal, renowned for designing games that tackle real-world problems.
“We realized that if we could bring players face to face with these treasures, these world-changing objects from the past, they would be able to tap into their own world-changing potential,” said McGonigal, the author of the best-seller “Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.”
Would-be scavengers at the midtown Manhattan library can register on a website going online Friday. Each needs to complete a written challenge, or quest, for the chance to play the game, which starts on May 20 at 8 p.m. and ends the next day at 6 a.m.
“We want people to engage with their imaginations, their creativity,” said Caro Llewellyn, the producer of the library’s centennial celebration.
The goal of the game is for people to write stories about the kind of future they want to see and the kind of world they envision, she said.
It’s an opportunity, McGonigal added, for people to “leave their own legacy.”
Haunted or Not?
| March 19, 2011 | Posted by Laura under Uncategorized |
This was posted on Facebook as a Halloween thing, something meant to be spooky, creepy, etc. I never see the old houses that way. To me they look sad, lost, a little mysterious and a stepping stone to our history, our identity. I feel bad for the houses when people think they are haunted or creepy. It’s like someone seeing your Grandmother and thinking she is ugly. I guess I do give the houses feelings, even though they are not living things, exactly. People name boats, give them a personality why don’t more houses and cars get names too? What would you name this house, in the picture above? What would you name your own home, whether it’s a house or part of a building that you live in?
Derelict London, UK
| January 18, 2011 | Posted by Laura under Urban and Rural Exploration |
Derelict London
London’s Lost Rivers
Derelict Europe
Sites by Paul Talling, an urban explorer in the UK and Europe. His photos have been turned into books, available on Amazon and maybe a bookstore near you.
Stories from Explorers
| December 3, 2010 | Posted by Laura under Urban and Rural Exploration |
I was invited to a new group on Flickr, Stories from Abandonment. This group is for urban and rural explorers who post a story about their adventures along with the photo. I always enjoy hearing some of the background story, anything from trouble with bees to how they found the location and what condition it is in compared to other times they have been to the same place. There are always some stories to tell.
Welcome to Stories From Abandonment, this group is about the journey and adventure of abandonment photography. Please include a short story with your photo detailing something interesting that happened along the way – like how you found the place, trouble you had, memories, information about the place you might have found or so on. There are plenty of other groups that just have photos of abandonment – this one is to stop and make you think and reminisce about why you like to do this.
