Created 01/31/2012 - 1 year ago
A mysterious group is prowling the network of tunnels below Paris, secretly refurbishing the city's neglected treasures.
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www.wired.comIn France, an underground hacker-artist collective is performing stealthy acts of cultural preservation http://t.co/k4B9d1oo #longreads
.@Wired piece on the hacker-artist collective who broke into the Pantheon to fix the clock is pretty neat: http://t.co/d3Bm1zVD
Secretly restoring underground Paris... For @MandarteHoorn &others, via @GreatDismal http://t.co/658zK22I
RT @xuoan: UX, un groupe qui a entre autres restauré clandestinement l'horloge du Panthéon, a son article dans Wired : http://t.co/jiUuwghM
@PenelopePatrick :) when you get 10 mins: There's a secret group of Parisians who break into museums & restore stuff: http://t.co/aMC4ATqD
RT @grantland: great read: The New French Hacker-Artist Underground http://t.co/ggyLjrx8 (via @wired)
France's underground-resistance 2.0 - this time the enemy is a boredom of bureaucracy: http://t.co/J0AdBcUR
@JonathanFoyle Don't know if you've seen this, but I thought this story of guerilla restoration would appeal. http://t.co/jP2yukAp
Nuovi esperimenti urbani: attivisti francesi scendono nel sottosuolo di #Parigi e restaurano di nascosto beni culturali http://t.co/Oo7ElMiu
"Through meticulous infiltration (they've) carried out shocking acts of cultural preservation & repair" via@brainpicker http://t.co/Fbxblz7e
French "activist hacker" group UX "tends the black sheep: unloved, forgotten artifacts of French civilization." http://t.co/lkqfFwdA
A hidden group is going around secretly returning #Paris's hidden #history to life. The commitment and story is great http://t.co/QCYsUXwe
Fascinating article on the Urban eXperiment in Paris | The New French Hacker-Artist Underground http://t.co/IZJ3TDpz
Wouah “@cloudhead: the new french hacker-artist underground | http://t.co/serdFYG7 | damn inspiring!”
This is the stuff of sci-fi! RT @richardthewatts: In the tunnels beneath Paris, conservator hacker-artists are at work: http://t.co/7RVhoBRM
' The new French Hacker-Artist Underground' - Fascinating story on the rise of 'UX' - http://t.co/mClNOTTk
RT @GarethAveyard: There's a secret group of Parisian artists who break into museums and restore neglected artworks: http://t.co/SOxY7pJN
RT @lachbr: @jeltzz Here is a cool Parisian Underground Illicit Restoration and preservation group http://t.co/foA00mgv #frenchninjaturtles?
RT @jaymcgavren: "There is no law in France, it turns out, against the improvement of clocks." http://t.co/3Mzu1gHC
“@Colvinius “@swearyanthony http://t.co/Qw89y4hf a fantastic tale of guerilla clock repairers in Paris /@mpesce @colvinius””
RT @dunks: Great story in Paris: http://t.co/NJPrwvRm. Fantastic, let's use this concept here in #Squamish
“On the terrace outside they set up a vegetable garden.” (oh how I love this article) http://t.co/qShU9vG1
Urban eXperiment, hackers & artists under Paris - http://t.co/9WNCVT28 I dream of a ZigBee mesh network in there
Recommending read: The New French Hacker-Artist Underground (Long article, Instapaper it) http://t.co/VaJbBBKs
@theturinbrakes Speaking of underground tunnelling Parisians, did you see this story last week? http://t.co/t4bPgZZf
I forget who pointed me at this, but this is a wonderful story of some urban explorer/restorationists in Paris: http://t.co/Ecx8WOzO
UX, colectivo frances que se infiltra clandestinamente y restaura espacios de cientos de años http://t.co/Hdpm0tqo /via @wired
