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 No.99

I live right by a place with no name, where a bunch of people are basically living in sheds. There is part of it/near it that I have named the "Trash Maze". You walk into the woods a ways, following small foot worn trails, and you start seeing trash everywhere. Stuff like busted kids' toys, broken vacuum cleaners, the further you go in you start seeing evidence of small campfires, and useless things purposely strung up in the branches of trees. One tree has a bunch of coathangers all on one limb, an a mirror, and a bunch of cooking utensils, and a busted oven on the ground below it. You keep walking and you see CDs and bags hung up in trees and there is a spot with an open suitcase, with clothes pouring out of it and strewn all over the place, like someone stole it and then ransacked it for fun. there's a half-busted umbrella perched on a little chair surrounded by batteries and broken CD players, all kinds of stuff, all separated out by little footpaths. every group of trees/bushes is its own little scene of artfully arranged garbage that you cant see from far away, you can only see it if you get into the bushes. basically it looks like a bunch of goblins tried to build a village out of broken stuff they stole.

pic is from around that area, but i took that pic years ago before i had found the actual trash maze, which i've yet to get pics of. I may have taken some video though, I'll check my files later.

question for board owner: would you like to cross link with >>>/poverty/ to bring us both traffic?

 No.100

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Cool, I've sought out homeless people living on the fringes and taken photos of some of these areas, and talked with a few of them who are willing. I find it all pretty fascinating, and like exploring how they live and relate to society at large. Thinking of making a short documentary.

Cross-link, how?

Let me get some photos and text together and maybe I'll make a thread on your board.

Pic related: a tent encampment on the river, across the street from half million dollar condos and a tourist boat in the background.

 No.101

Keep the photos coming, by the way. I'd love to see/hear more of that trash maze.

 No.102

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Unfortunately I can't find the videos I took of it. But I will definitely bring a camera along with me whenever I go out there next.

Abandoned buildings interest me, but I am definitely more interested in squatting and homeless living, living in the woods, boondocking, etc. I'd be interested in your experiences with the fringe.

On that note here is another picture taken years ago, on a beach. I walked quite a ways from where people would be hanging out (it was a little used beach anyway) and found a very well constructed driftwood hut. It had a rock pathway leading up to it and rocks all along the wall facing the ocean, to protect against the cold wind. inside of it there was this stump with a face carved in it. there was also a rose tied to the wall with barbed wire, and some evidence of a fire. I kept walking for another half an hour and found another hut in an even more remote location. The roof wasn't as good but the rock wall and pathway were better looking.

For months after this I would look at these occasionally and once from a distance saw a guy going in and out of the first one with a fishing pole.

>Thinking of making a short documentary.


I'd watch that. Sounds cool.

cross link, as in link my board anywhere semi-prominent here. a sticky thread or in the announcement. i'll put the link to your board in my sticky if you do that. If you dont want to that's fine, and youre welcome to link to your board in a reply to my sticky or create its own thread if you want, regardless, i dont mind if people advertise on my board.

 No.103

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>>102

What really got me interested was hanging out with some squatters. I was originally exploring the old silo in a thread I posted on here, and saw a phone # written on a wall. I called it and talked to someone about the place. They had lived there for a year or two, and told me about their new residence, an relatively large abandoned wilderness propety in the heart of the city owned by some foreign guy.

So I met up with this stranger, and broke bread in her squatter yurt with some other people who lived in that area. They were all very colorful, and we all shared stories about ourselves. I'm actually planning to go there tomorrow night because she recently installed a stove in the yurt to brave it through the winter, and is celebrating with a party.

People who live on the fringes are almost completely undocumented, but it's fascinating to me how they live. I realize I may sound like a shitty oldschool anthropologist in a bad way, but I really just want to humanize these people by sharing their stories and their way of life. It's all so varied and interesting how they reject society for whatever reason, and live in the spirit of our nomadic ancestors.

I'll try to gather up some photos and insight on how my new friends live, and make a thread about it.

Pic related.

 No.108

>>103
>saw a phone # written on a wall. I called it and talked to someone about the place.

Awesome, I'll have to keep a look out for ways to contact people

 No.825

>>103

That looks like it has a fairly nice construction honestly




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