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Urban Decay: The Hot Box

I passed by this strange abandoned old villa over the weekend that was full of random quotes (that barely made any sense) spray painted all over the walls. Here are some I managed to make out:

– Nothing is real unless you think it is… way cup
– Everything starts with a puff
– When I smoke dyin’ to live… penis
– House is made of brick and stone a tree house is made of weed
– All the other kids with the pumped mess you’d better run better run faster than my bullet

Pretty weird funny stuff.

51 replies on “Urban Decay: The Hot Box”

i think for – (Nothing is real unless you think it isโ€ฆ way cup prob) dude was tryin to say wakeup instead of way cup haha

And here I am thinking this was going to be a makeup post of the brand Urban Decay…

Damn…

Fail..

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Mostly they are talking weed slang.

Hot box=enclosed area where smoke can’t escape
Trees=weed
Puff=to smoke

– All the other kids with the pumped mess youโ€™d better run better run faster than my bullet

Are the (butchered) lyrics of Foster The People – Pumped up kicks

lol you’re right, this is what it’s supposed to say:

“All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, You better run, better run, outrun my gun”

Whoever did this was so stoned. ๐Ÿ˜€ Hilarious. I wonder why they don’t demolish these buildings. Don’t get me wrong, I love the pictures. I just find it funny that these buildings exist.

They still have owners. Oftentimes there will be an inheritance dispute so the old house is there until it’s settled, or sometimes they want to keep the land as an investment. It’s cheaper to let the house stay up than it is to demolish it.

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I have a better place in mind. The Ahmadi co-op is going to be demolished soon so as of now it is this HUGE desolate structure filled with wreckage and it seems like it is right out of a video game.

I guess most probably it’s over there. There are lots of old villas broken over there.

Why am I humming the song “Puff the magic dragon” while reading this post? I can’t stop!

This house is so pretty! Especially the retro fireplace! How can anyone have the heart to abandon such a lovely place? If it was my house -or my grandfather’s or whatever- I would have restored it, gave it a modern look with a retro touch, and turned it into an exclusive book/cafe area where people can sit around, read lovely books, drink amazing coffee, and hold

i love the pictures! they r so real! and the place looks amazing! i wonder how it looked like before it was abandoned

While the pictures are cool, the whole trip to abandoned buildings can become traumatic. I still remember some years back I used to live in Salmiya and we had an abandoned building next to ours, one morning the place was full of police vans, ambulances and what not…no one had a clue what was going on…finally it turned out that they had found a dead body inside the abandoned house…so just a word of caution, if at all you are going, don’t go alone…..

instead of building tree-houses, these youths were probably squatting abandoned houses for makeshift forts (:

These are some really great shots, but you should just take the one with names off. They’re just a bunch of kids; we don’t need to get them in trouble.

Dude, that must have been a crack house like a lot time ago man ! don’t be surprise if it was :p

For once finally I see griffiiti in Kuwait that is in English…For once you don’t see “GT For Life: or “Shanab Le3yooonik” or any of that bull crap ! ๐Ÿ˜€

Love the last staircase shot Mark.

Meanwhile elsewhere, ” Dude, check this out , some bro posted pics of our joint man. Awesomeeeeeee”

yes the images have been taken through post but passing you each photos individual settings would be too time consuming for me and really not help you. You can’t use the same camera settings in any situation, they worked for mine because of the location, time of day and what i was shooting.

if you take the same settings and use them at 12pm instead of say 5pm, the shots would come out over exposed.

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