Legs and Borders

This post is to celebrate the newspaper feature of my fellow sesyjni mordercy crew members in local newspaper, take a look if you have a spare second. Well done guys! Interview can be found here . visited with: Adm, Luks, Moc, Natalia and R2r in May last year. It was sort of a permission visit, where security guard was guiding us through one partially active building, adopted as a gym by a group of football hooligans. Then he gave us freedom to roam around the rest of the place. This is where we climbed the taller concrete building and managed to take few nice panoramas. Building itself bears a significant historical value but due to the actions of a current owner who prefers to sell anything of value to gain minor profit, rather than join the Heritage Trail ( Szlak Zabytków Techniki ) scheme (where the building could become a museum and perhaps recover), this listed building slowly crumbles. Brewery was founded in 1840 by the German colonist Lamprecht. In 1899 it got purc...

Niektórzy kolekcjonują motyle, inni zdzierają gardło na meczach piłkarskich lub pod ambasadami. My fotografujemy opuszczone budynki. Eksploracja miejska to spolszczona nazwa angielskiego terminu „urban exploration”. Większość zainteresowanych nazywa tę dziedzinę po prostu urbeksem. Zjawisko to obrosło przez ostatnie lata wieloma bardziej lub mniej uzasadnionymi kontrowersjami, tworzonymi głównie przez samych eksploratorów. Koniec końców urbeks to najczęściej zwiedzanie opuszczonych budynków – jest to kontynuacja i rozwinięcie dziecięcych eskapad. Eksploracja miejska dotyka całej tkanki miasta. Niekórzy popychają granice tej dziedziny w zaskakujące rejony, infiltrując np. metro warszawskie, wwiercając się do komend dowodzenia z czasów drugiej wojny światowej w katakumbach pod Paryżem czy wspinając na szczyt niewybudowanego jeszcze londyńskiego wieżowca Shard . Japońska wyspa Hashima, wykorzystana m.in. przy kręceniu przygód Jamesa Bonda w filmie Skyfall. W tym nietypowym ...

My second and last exploring stop during the stay in Japan. Online resources were giving me different perspectives on the way site is being protected. Some talking about cameras, motion sensors and angry security, trying to rip you off for damaging the premises, while others telling a story of a pretty easy and straight forward to do site. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst as they say, i assumed that the first scenario is the case and approached Dreamland quite cautiously. Did a few rounds around it, looking for mentioned devices and personas, had a brief brake after bumping into a Japanese clacking security device at one of the side roads, that scared the crap out of me (but trucks been using it, so i assumed it was placed to protect something else). Eventually i got inside with eyes and ears peeled to anything suspicious. Chosen the roller-coaster for the first stop, as it had good view range in case something was about to happen. Unfortunately it didn't, so no copy/p...

Most of the time when i'm having a conversation with other explorers this place is being mentioned (it might be me though, heh), and i was always thinking what if .. But first of all i wanted to visit Japan, because of many reasons, and Nagasaki was one of the places i was planning to see. Few-lines-typed-into-google later and i knew Hashima is only 15 kilometers of Nagasaki's shore! What's even better, since 2009 there was regular tours operating to the island, blimey! Thank you internet. History : In 1859 Thomas Glover came to Nagasaki as a representative of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. which imported Japanese green tea. Two years later, he established his own company, Glover Trading Co. He sold ships, guns and other goods to the Satsuma, Chosyu and Tosa clans. He wasn't just another merchant from Britain, he introduced western technology and style to Nagasaki i.e. imported first train called Iron Duke , it was the first steam locomotive to run in Japan. Glover...