Comments on: No Promise of Safety

By: Steven Vance

Steven Vance — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:59:30 +0000

I love, love, love the Aqua photo. Three guys just chillin’ on the wavy balcony, no big deal. I can’t even ride the Giant Drop at Six Flags Great America. I love photography: A way to live through others.

By: ts46064

ts46064 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:22:19 +0000

Most urban exploring sites and organizations stress that its important to not graffiti and to take nothing but photos.

By: 5chw4r7z

5chw4r7z — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:17:50 +0000

I know some guys in Cincinnati who do this, but they leave places exactly how they find them.

http://www.queencitydisco.com/

By: The Urbanophile

The Urbanophile — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:12:17 +0000

Thanks, ed – I’ll have to check out Carson’s soon. Aaron.

By: west town ed

west town ed — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:04:25 +0000

After studying the Chicago photo, you have to be right. The sitters (oooh, pucker, pucker, brave souls!) are sitting on the west side of a building with curves and a north perspective, somewhere south of the river — Aqua, most certainly.

Unrelated and irrelevant to your discussion but I had a dental appointment at my dentist’s office in the Garland Building at Wabash and Washington and arrived early enough so I had a few minutes to walk down State Street to check out the restoration of what was Carson-Pirie-Scott department store now the Sullivan Center. They are still working on the inside but have removed most of the visual barriers that have been in place for the last couple of years to reveal Sullivan’s decorative surrounds on the facade and the results are nothing less than magnificent. Did it ever look this good? As Michelin would say, worth a trip.

By: The Urbanophile

The Urbanophile — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:57:12 +0000

Matt, I’ve never heard of the Kohrman Report, alas. Sounds really cool though.

By: Matt (Minneapolis)

Matt (Minneapolis) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:55:26 +0000

Thanks for posting this. Does anyone know what happened to the Kohrman Report blog? It similarly contained many excellent photos of mostly abandoned buildings, and had a restoration/preservation/adaptive re-use concern flavor — no evidence of engagement in “vandalism and graffiti”!

When done with consideration, surely something like this can have a constructive role in drawing attention to treasures in danger of being forgotten.

By: Curt

Curt — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:24:38 +0000

I penned a similar “welcome back to the web” post last month. I check his site daily. His taste for Indy is inspiring from a photographer’s point of view. In that respect Im drawn in even more. Good post

By: joe shoemaker

joe shoemaker — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:04:17 +0000

these photos make my sphincter pucker. the guy has some serious cajones.

By: Jathnael Taylor

Jathnael Taylor — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:37:19 +0000

I do have to agree with you, the photos are beautiful.