After two short visits to London some time back (more about the trips here & here) and an English wedding last summer, we’ll be crossing the channel once again the last week(end) of September. Our Eurostar tickets (to my disappointment no helicopter to give us a lift this time round) and B&B are booked, now the [...]
Categories: DIY,Events,Everyday life,OutoftheBlog.com,Travel,Urbex
Spent past weekend in the Ardennes, a bank holiday in a sunny autumn setting with great/longtime friends. Chalet Suisse life mainly existed of good food, drinks & little sleep. It usually also involves maps, guides, walking … and sometimes people who rather wear their trousers in their sock. It also means not being allowed in [...]
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The Ghostvillage Project was created over 3 days on the west coast of Scotland. 6 artists (Timid, Remi/Rough, System, Stormie Mills, Juice 126, Derm) were given free reign to paint in an abandoned 1970s village. Working together on huge collaborative walls and individually in hidden nooks and crannies all over the site the artists realised [...]
Categories: Art,Codes,DIY,Documentary,Events,Exhibit,Gathering,Graffiti,OutoftheBlog.com,Rebellion,Skills,Street art,Travel,Urbex
Tagged: 1970s, abandoned village, artists, Derm, ghostvillage project, Graffiti, Juice 126, Remi Rough, Remi/Rough, Scotland, Stormie Mills, street artists, System, the ghostvillage project, Timid
Crack the surface is the first in a series of short documentaries focusing on the culture of Urban Exploring.
Categories: Codes,DIY,Documentary,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Rebellion,Skills,Travel,Urbex
Tagged: architecture, buildings, crack the surface, explore, leave nothing but footprints, london, metro, old buildings, Paris, series, subway, subways, take nothing, tube, tunnel, tunnels, urban exploration, urban exploring, urbex
Will be heading to Rotterdam for a weekend in July. All suggestions on where to eat, sleep & places to visit are more than welcome. I am also always delighted to discover new stores, … Bring it on Dutchies. Onio, Ox-Alien, Rotterdam
Categories: Art,DIY,Events,Everyday life,Graffiti,Heroes,OutoftheBlog.com,Travel,Urbex
The City of Angels has got a lot to offer (or so is said as I have not experienced this firsthand yet) and like each city, its a place where people with different backgrounds, cultures, interests, and lifestyles live next to each other. I Am Los Angeles gives us a great series of portraits and stories told [...]
Categories: Art,Branding,Codes,Connectivity,DIY,Documentary,Everyday life,Gathering,Heroes,Looks,Movies,OutoftheBlog.com,Photography,Rebellion,Skills,Street art,Street culture,Tattoo,Travel,Urbex,Youth culture
Tagged: BMX, Echo Park, El Clasico Tattoo, Fallen Fruit, fixed gear, fixed gear bike, fixed gear bikes, fixed gears, fruit trees, I am Los Angeles, Joris Debeij, LA, Los Angeles, mapping, portraits, public, Salvador Preciado, Sean Martin
Urban exploration is the act of going places you’re not supposed to go. It acts as an umbrella phrase for other terms like infiltration, draining, buildering and other actions which take place in an urban setting. Often the act of urban exploration is illegal, as trespassing is usually necessary. However, the majority of urban explorers [...]
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Tagged: Andrew Wonder, buildering, draining, historian, illegal, infiltration, leave nothing but footprints, Photography, Steve Duncan, Take nothing but pictures, trespassing, UnderCity, urban exploration, urban setting, urbanexploration, urbanexploration.be, urbex, vandalog, wikipedia
Detroit, once the fourth-largest metropolis in America, is often called the Death of the American Dream nowadays. Today, the young people of the Motor City are making it their own DIY paradise where rules are second to passion and creativity. They are creating the new Detroit on their own terms, against real adversity. Palladium & [...]
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Tagged: detroit, Documentary, jackass, johnny knoxville, motown, pladium, remote, urban exploration, urbex
