Retail & Urban Exploration: Why Bother? (Discussion24) | Optopolis
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Why bother? We'll discuss this today! I have some personal influences that interested me, but there are other things that likely can apply to the entire retail community as well.- Support Optopolis by joining Patreon or YT! / theoptopolis / @optopolis
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Very informative video. That’s why documenting places are very important before anything can happen. Great video!
Cheers! Yep, precisely. I guess that's one of the smaller reasons I started doing this, too; nobody was doing this regularly in my area besides the occasional and inconsistent go-to-abandoned-factory-and-destroy-glass-that's-not-yours kind of people. Lol around a decade ago, I found myself wondering if any one in other parts of the US might find their way out to my area, or if I'd have to try to do something myself... I guess both ways came true though in a sense since I have been documenting stuff like crazy out here, and ERA literally came over to my city and filmed Frontier Mall.
For me, it’s two reasons why I do this. The first and major one, is because I genuinely just love exploring the places I do, and have a passion for seeing amazing architecture! My other reason is because I love preserving the history on everywhere I explore! Then people can look back on places they had memories on!
Yep, and both of those reasons certainly apply to me. I think in 2019, the going-out-and-exploring aspect would've been more applicable then than now, but it still applies in some respect since I still go out and do the research, take the photos, etc.; as of recently, it's that I've found it satisfying to go dig for an answer to questions that have pestered me for years, some for more than a decade.
You're Cheyenne's Marcel Proust. And your concern is much to be admired.
Very well said. I agree with the reasons you stated in your video. I think the biggest influences for me was hearing my parents talking about stores that they used to go to, and finding people's RUclips channels.
As I shared in the video, obviously, both of those reasons impacted me. I can't tell you how many times somebody I know would recollect about something I never saw because I wasn't around then... Kmart (the older locations before my time), Mini Mart (now Loaf N Jug), some of the hotels in my area, the fountain at my mall, etc. list goes on from there. I'm glad there are photos of much of this stuff out there, but took a good decade before I finally got to a point where I could find those photos and more.
And to your point, Kafka wrote: "The meaning of life is that it ends"
That's an interesting quote. Certainly, a completely different take from what I've heard prople define the meaning/point of life.
Well you're highlighting the transience of everything, which is something noone thinks of.... it's good for us to stop and reflect on that. It should inform our conduct.
Keep up the good work!
I love it! I've always sort of wondered what got you into retail and honestly I can relate to people telling me stories of the places that once were, especially because I havnt been in Cheyenne my hole life!
mmm... perhaps more so for you than for me then, at least in terms of Cheyenne, lol. Just curious, when did you come to this area?
@@Optopolis 2014 is when I got here
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keep up the good work my friend and be safe out there
Cheers, you be safe too! 👍
_"Blockbuster"?_ What the heck is _that?_
I'm assuming this is a joke lol. However, newer generations may not realize that Blockbuster was indeed a video rental store. Wish I'd have taken a photo of the Cheyenne one, but I don't believe I did--certainly haven't found a photo I took and don't recall taking a photo of the Cheyenne one. The one photo'd in the video was in Fort Collins on College, across the street from Trader Joes. In one of the photos, Famous Footwear could be seen in the background.
@@Optopolis : Lol, yeah, I was being cheeky. Y'know, I still have a massive CD collection, in a set of boxes somewhere, and I mp3-ified them all, which means I also have a massive mp3 collection. But who the heck uses mp3s anymore? Heh. This realm is changing *_so_* fast that it's a good thing, imho, that there are those documenting the changes.
@@supplanterjim Lol for real! These days, MP3 is just a file format pretty much. I'd bet the only people out there with MP3s are those that either have them left over or who are obsessed with old technology (not hating, I am too in many respects). Actually, come to think of it, I might still have my MP3 somewhere.