I wrote pre­vi­ously about Stum­ble­Upon, right? I’m still lov­ing it.

The most inter­est­ing site I came across this week is Infil­tra­tion, which bills itself as a “zine about going places you’re not sup­posed to go”. They have all sorts of cat­e­gories — hos­pi­tals, churches, tran­sit tun­nels — but what inter­ests me is “Aban­doned Sites”. Peo­ple get into aban­doned areas — Buf­falo Cen­tral Ter­mi­nal in New York is fea­tured on the site, as is the Roswell Mis­sile Silo — take pho­tos, and write about the expe­ri­ence. Riv­et­ing stuff.

This appealed to me espe­cially as Ben, Dave and I were in the Fear Fac­tory Cyber­waste video that was shot in Feb­ru­ary at the old power sta­tion in Kwinana, Perth. We didn’t even realise that they didn’t have per­mis­sion to shoot there until they let us in through a hole in the fence a few hun­dred metres up the beach :) No, you can’t really make us out in the video, although if you go frame-by-frame there’s a cou­ple of arms or bits of hair that are prob­a­bly us — but it was an aswe­some loca­tion. I’d love to go there again and take some pho­tos myself.

The other great thing that I found on the site was a piece about the Paris Cat­a­combs. Now there’s a place I’ve been — although of course I went in the tourist area. That was fas­ci­nat­ing, but the account on Infil­tra­tion makes it sound even bet­ter. Don’t know if I’d be game to crawl around there myself, though.