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Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Blue hits again, Harry, Jeff, Blair, feature article by Mike Kupietz
The Red Day, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Vacation PhotosPseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front

For a little while I used to run the Billboard Liberation Front‘s website (INB4: no, don’t even bother asking. I have no idea how to reach them anymore. The Old…
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Blue hits again, Harry, Jeff, Blair, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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When They Pry It from My Hip, Ironic FingersExploration & Explosions, a Nevada Desert Hipster Road Trip

NOTE: Some of the activities documented in this photo album, like a lot of what goes on in the Black Rock Desert during the off season (when seven different government…
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The Red Day, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Life On Mars?The Red Day

2020, already a strange year due to the pandemic, had its strangest day, for the San Francisco area, on September 9. The Bay Area experienced a kind of weather that…
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Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
27 Photos from Burning Man 1997, feature art by Mike Kupietz
UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Beneath the Bay AreaBattery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration

somewhere beneath the Bay Area, Aug 6 2004 Last July, my late* trubbamaking companion was trying to find a shortcut down to the beach when he noticed a hole in…
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27 Photos from Burning Man 1997, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Good Day at Black Rock27 Photos from Burning Man 1997

Introduction, 2023: Back when I first got to San Francisco in the mid-90s, full of youthful idealism, the first thing I did was seek out the San Francisco Cacophony Society…
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UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Beneath BerkeleyUC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration

Back around 2005-2006, as social media took off, I was a member of an urban exploration chat group, memory fails but it was probably something on Tribe or Friendster. Mentioning…
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A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal, feature art by Mike Kupietz
UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole, feature art by Mike Kupietz
A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Back To The GardenA Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal

In August 2018 my mom and I decided to take a road trip from my sister’s home in an un-named southern city, where I was crashing for a few months,…
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UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Subterranean SerendipityUC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole

9/30/2005 I was wandering the trails through the woods by UC Santa Cruz, taking some pictures of trees and stuff and trying to shake off a cold, when fate brought…
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