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sharplittleteeth) wrote2010-06-29 09:19 pm
sharplittleteeth) wrote2010-06-29 09:19 pm
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Les UX
Was just watching Greatest Cities Of The World With Griff Rhys Jones. Tonight's was on Paris.
It finished with a section on les UX. Who are are underground urban explorers that break into Paris's ancient monuments, and restore them.
Seriously. They broke into the Panthéon and spent a year restoring its 150 year old clock.
According to this article from the Times Online:
It's like the Cave Clan rewritten by Cory Doctorow.
Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX
It finished with a section on les UX. Who are are underground urban explorers that break into Paris's ancient monuments, and restore them.
Seriously. They broke into the Panthéon and spent a year restoring its 150 year old clock.
According to this article from the Times Online:
Mr Kunstmann said that les UX had 150 or so members divided into about ten branches. One group, which is all-female, specialises in “infiltration” – getting into museums after hours, finding a way through underground electric or gas networks and shutting down alarms. Another runs an internal message system and a coded, digital radio network accessible only to members.
A third group provides a database, a fourth organises subterranean shows and a fifth takes photographs of them. Mr Kunstmann refused to talk about the other groups.
It's like the Cave Clan rewritten by Cory Doctorow.
Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX