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 Faint Light
 
Location: Caledon
Gender: Male
Look! A light in the trees!
 |  |  | Toronto Star Guide to new sites
< on 1/10/2009 1:40 PM >
|  | | | The Star did a slideshow of recent industrial abandonments in Toronto... sort of a UER tourism guide.
http://www.thestar...Large/photo/568310
Looking forward to seeing more of these sites. Consumer's Glass looks particularly interesting.
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rob.i.am
     
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 1 on 1/10/2009 3:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by Faint Light
The Star did a slideshow of recent industrial abandonments in Toronto... sort of a UER tourism guide.
http://www.thestar...Large/photo/568310
Looking forward to seeing more of these sites. Consumer's Glass looks particularly interesting.
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Interesting. I wonder if they had permission to go in to get those interior shots.
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vincec
Location: Here there and everywhere
The image of success
| | | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 2 on 1/10/2009 3:39 PM >
| | | | I saw the Cascades Recycling plant boarded in the early fall. The article is correct the cameras are still active and are plentiful. I've been wanting to go into the Consumers Glass plant for some time. I wonder if the furnaces are still there.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to loose
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micro
 
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 3 on 1/10/2009 4:36 PM >
| | | | Posted by vincec
I've been wanting to go into the Consumers Glass plant for some time. I wonder if the furnaces are still there.
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Only one way to find out. It's been closed since September. What's the hold-up?
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 4 on 1/10/2009 4:39 PM >
| | | | Posted by rob666
Interesting. I wonder if they had permission to go in to get those interior shots.
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It looks as though all the interior shots were just taken through windows. I don't imagine they needed any permission to do that.
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oCtAnE
Location: TORONTO, CANADA
Gender: Male
EXPLORER AT LARGE
| | | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 5 on 1/10/2009 11:05 PM >
| | | | Canac Kitchens is just around the corner from me. I shall have to pop by soon and take a look.
-O.
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Bryan
Location: hello
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 6 on 1/10/2009 11:25 PM >
| | | | The arrest/detaining rate of Toronto explorers is about to see massive exponential growth.
drive well sleep carefully
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 7 on 1/11/2009 12:27 AM >
| | | | Posted by Faint Light
The Star did a slideshow of recent industrial abandonments in Toronto... sort of a UER tourism guide.
http://www.thestar...Large/photo/568310
Looking forward to seeing more of these sites. Consumer's Glass looks particularly interesting.
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Its funny I got a txt message in regards to this from a fellow explorer this morning. We kind of joked about how long it would take for it to make its way here. Obviously.
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"The extraordinary beauty of things that fail." - Heinrich von Kleist |
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oCtAnE
Location: TORONTO, CANADA
Gender: Male
EXPLORER AT LARGE
| | | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 8 on 1/11/2009 3:28 AM >
| | | | Posted by Bryan
The arrest/detaining rate of Toronto explorers is about to see massive exponential growth.
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But only the people who for some reason get caught while exploring. Not cool.
-O.
FUELED BY OCTANE. |
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Lord
above and beyond
| | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 9 on 1/11/2009 6:41 PM >
| | | | Kraft? I know where that is. hmm I'll have to check that out. Too bad they didn't include entry details
Same thing with Canac. Security Issues might put a hold on that tho.. but there are a few empty building across the street I have been meaning to look at.
wow, The Star is doing all the hard work for me now.. sweet!
I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on |
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rob.i.am
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| | | My Toronto includes drainers
<Reply # 10 on 1/11/2009 6:57 PM >
| | | | Wow. I knew the Star went out of its way to be all lefty and inclusive and shit, but they've surpassed my expectations by printing an article for drainers today!
"...Toronto has nothing to compare to Paris's Sewer Museum (yes, there really is one), but the past decade has seen a growing appreciation of our sewers by the "urban exploration" community. While you may have stood on a manhole cover, these folks opened it and jumped in.
Toronto's own late Jeff Chapman (a.k.a. "Ninjalicious") published his first printed issue of Infiltration, "The zine about going places you're not supposed to go," in 1996. Though Toronto may not live in the imagination of people around the world, Chapman made this city's sewers famous for his global readers. His work lives on in Access all Areas, his book published just before his death to cancer in 2005, and at infiltration.org.
Similarly, Michael Cook, then a student in human geography at York University, started vanishingpoint.ca in 2003, a lush and wistful website that continues to explore drains and more in Toronto and beyond, exchanging bureaucratic sewer designations for romantically named journeys (the Wilson Heights Storm Trunk Sewer becomes "The Depths of Salvation"). These writers make Toronto's sewers seem as magical as Paris's, whether it's a late-Victorian brick tunnel in Trinty Bellwoods, or a mid-century concrete tunnel in North York.
Less clandestine is the recently released anthology by Coach House Books called HTO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets. The essays within parse through the layers of water under Toronto looking at wastewater sewers, storm sewers and, of course, the buried creeks – some notorious, others forgotten...."
full article here http://www.thestar...eas/article/568902
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 11 on 1/11/2009 7:25 PM >
| | | | Yeah, that's actually a pretty good article. I'm not just saying that because "Depths of Salvation" (one of the drains I named) made it to print either.
And if you're interested in this sort of stuff, HTO is well worth picking up.
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Lord
above and beyond
| | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 12 on 1/11/2009 8:24 PM >
| | | | Thats awesome.
whats Mr. Cooks username on here anyone know?
PM me if you dont want to disclose it publically
I know he's on here as I have vanishing point on my fav's already but I forget who it is. =/
ty
I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on |
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 13 on 1/11/2009 9:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by Lord
whats Mr. Cooks username on here anyone know?
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Kowalski.
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oCtAnE
Location: TORONTO, CANADA
Gender: Male
EXPLORER AT LARGE
| | | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 14 on 1/11/2009 11:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by Lord
Same thing with Canac. Security Issues might put a hold on that tho..
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Canac is mine! Don't make me hide there 24/7 with my nunchaku... :p
-O.
FUELED BY OCTANE. |
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Lord
above and beyond
| | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 15 on 1/12/2009 7:29 PM >
| | | | Posted by oCtAnE
Canac is mine! Don't make me hide there 24/7 with my nunchaku... :p
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on your mark get set.. lol
I don't want to walk there.. I don't have a pass this week and it isn't summer so the Bikes out of the question.. no worries about being there first.
coolness.. I sent off a big email linked from his site asking him but this works too..
theres one drain I want to know how to get into for this summer.
his site is awesome!
I will defeat that which was once untouchable only so that I may now move on |
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Rickie Dee
Location: Barrie
Gender: Male
i smash window panes and rave in waste drains
| |  | | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 16 on 1/14/2009 12:58 AM >
| | | | crazy how the toronto star would do something like this.
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 17 on 1/14/2009 1:05 AM >
| | | | You've clearly never picked up a newspaper before.
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Rickie Dee
Location: Barrie
Gender: Male
i smash window panes and rave in waste drains
| | | | Re: Toronto Star Guide to new sites
<Reply # 18 on 1/14/2009 1:16 AM >
| | | | haha, i dont read the mainstream news. but i guess times are changing, and the times call for change!
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