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Mon, 06/21/2010 - 20:02
I tried looking for one, but couldn't find a thread for just posting stuff you stumble across, and which doesn't need a topic of its own, so I thought I'd make one.
I give you this offering to start things off ;
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1199035/Buildering-event-climbin...
Tue, 06/22/2010 - 11:53
#1
This is great man. Good idea. I'll front page anything worthy (including the link you just provided). 
Wed, 06/23/2010 - 06:17
#3
The SciFi tv movie The Phantom has a superhero that uses the skill of parkour and buildering in his adventures. In the begining of the show he and a friend does a major parkour race against time.
Wed, 06/23/2010 - 15:26
#4
This is mainly for Englanders, not sure if there is a way to watch it outside of the UK:
http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rzt3z/Russell_Howards_Good_News...
Alain Robert was on Russel Howards Good News. Worth a few laughs... 
Thu, 06/24/2010 - 12:05
#5
Good find, Phil. I saw this on BBC when it first went out and was hoping that it would turn up on YouTube. Quite entertaining.
Sun, 06/27/2010 - 11:17
#6
Stephan, I nuked the recent posts & recent comments links, mainly because stuff was slipping through with these links. Now everything can be found in the "recent activity" link in the sidebar. New activity will be marked as such
Wed, 08/25/2010 - 08:37
#7
Cool.
Haven't seen this on the page, though it's quite old.
I thought it was pretty funny.
Thu, 08/26/2010 - 09:33
#8
Kitty Dvinsk.
Tue, 09/07/2010 - 05:46
#10
Not really sure what to make of this. Will see if I can find some better footage. (Contender for 'lamest comment made by a breakfast show presenter' award.)
Tue, 09/07/2010 - 05:53
#11
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/spiderdan-daniel-goodwin-climbs-sa...
"On his website, Goodwin writes that he felt personally responsible for deaths at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, because he might have been able to scale the burning towers and save some people before the building collapsed. But Goodwin was suffering from cancer at the time, and was too weak to help."
His website's taking a beating but persevere - http://skyscraperman.com/?p=347
The logic is lost on me a little. It takes him 3 hours to climb 58 storeys but reckons he could have saved people in the WTC which were over 100 storeys, both of which collapsed within an hour and a half of being struck...
Wed, 09/08/2010 - 13:17
#12
SpiderDan is a nut. Glad to see he's still active. Someone forwarded me a letter of his a few years back: http://www.buildering.net/letters/skyscraperdefenseact
His other website, http://skyscraperdefense.com/ is amazing.
There's a big dedication to him at the top of the CN tower, for climbing the windows of the tower twice in a day, apparently setting the "world record".
Sun, 09/19/2010 - 10:17
#13
Sun, 09/19/2010 - 11:34
#14
^^^^^^^^^^^
The day Parkour died.
How the fuck is it possible for a "band" like that to make such an elaborate music video?
Do people BUY their records?
Sun, 09/19/2010 - 14:51
#15
I don't even know who they are. A friend sent it to me
Mon, 09/20/2010 - 01:15
#16
I think at this stage it's useful to remember that music can be divided into two categories: 1, entertainment; 2, music. The song falls very much into the first category: designed for and marketed accordingly to a fanbase of teenage girls. And perhaps a handful of lost people who have never experienced 'real' music and don't realise that these four chords have been put in this order on many previous occasions, usually to much greater effect. Yes, it's depressingly void of any artistry but getting angry at it is only the same as getting angry at commercialism as a whole - if you object so strongly to this then to avoid being a hypocrite you must never buy ANYTHING ever again. (Despairing comments at how shit it all is are more than welcome, however, if simply to remind us that good things do exist, though sometimes obscured by the bad.)
Fortunately there's lots of good music out there made by people who are open to new experiences and sensations who are ready to push the bounds of human creativity. They don't have parkour in their videos because parkour has reached the lowest common denominator, rendering it irretrievable. I refer here, of course, to Madonna.
And, now for something completely different.
Sun, 11/14/2010 - 15:41
#17
Wed, 11/17/2010 - 14:28
#18
And perhaps a handful of lost people who have never experienced 'real'
music and don't realise that these four chords have been put in this
order on many previous occasions, usually to much greater effect.
Mon, 01/10/2011 - 04:38
#19
Morning all. Just been going through my website statistics and browsed through the list of sites that have been randomly linking to Kiell.com. I came across this:
http://fuckyeahrockclimbing.tumblr.com/archive
I've mixed feelings about sites that take other people's stuff and simply collate it as essentially it's breaching copyright. However, it's a great way for more people to see my work so can't complain too much.
Anyway. There's a couple of great buildering shots in there that are worth browsing, so take a look.
Tue, 01/11/2011 - 18:48
#20
Hmmm. Is he taking photos, and saving them on his own server without permission? Yeah, that's theft (not that I haven't done it once or twice...but I really do try and contact people first).
Or is he deep-linking the pics from other people's sites? If so...not so
big of a deal (although for-profit sites hate deep-linking because they
don't get ad revenue...hence most sites disable it).
Mon, 10/24/2011 - 04:36
#21
Man, I'm reviving dead threads left, right and centre, bitches.
http://www.rockclimbing.com/Articles/General/This_is_Buildering_-_Part_1...
I'm sure he means 'unkempt beards', not 'un-kept beards'.
Mon, 10/24/2011 - 04:41
#22
By the way, there's probably a very good chance that he stole the phrase 'This is buildering' from me. Bastard.
Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:11
#23
Too, many, commas. I should probably trademark "misinterpreting architecture". Every couple years or so someone claims it as their own.
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 01:13
#24
"This is buildering" part 2: http://www.rockclimbing.com/Articles/General/This_is_Buildering_-_Part_2...
"Climbers don’t get that rush as often that they are dependent upon and enjoy. The rush, that comes from getting scared and using the muscles of one’s body to the utmost extent. "
That's actually awful, awful writing.
Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:14
#25
Ya, I was a little sad to hear he's coming out with a book -- considering I've been thinking lately about making the "blogger-to-novelist" leap. I think I'll start with a print version of the UBC guidebook. That should be pretty difficult to fuck up. After that I'll see about getting more creative.
I'm glad you like it
BTW, I miss the sidebar menu with the newest forumposts, did you remove it, or is my profile acting up?