A night out in Cardiff: the amazing street photos of Maciej Dakowicz

[Skin]

Looks like a good time was had by all!

 

[ddraig]

hehe some of them been posted before but new ones in there, ta
brilliant photographer

must've been an international day but it's not far off that every weekend, carnage best avoided imo!

no sick or piss in this slideshow

 

[_pH_]

quality

 

[brix]

I'm going to Cardiff next month. I'm scared now

 

[_pH_]

brains....i ain't got none

 

[editor]

All those photos are by the excellent Maciej Dakowicz and have been taken from here:
http://www.pbase.com/maciekda/cardiff_st_mary_street_zone

He's got a book out too:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/342113

They've been posted here several times already, incl:
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174794

*tags added

 

[softybabe]

oh dear! I don't think i've seen it that bad in Central...



*note to self....take beer goggles off next time i'm in Central

 

[editor]

*threads merged, title changed to provide a one-stop shop for all your Cardiff/Maciej Dakowicz related thrills and chat.

 

[ddraig]

I'm going to Cardiff next month. I'm scared now

don't be! just avoid that street

 

[pigtails]

I don't remember it being so bad when I use to venture out!
Although to be fair I was probably too bolloxed to notice

I'll stick to locals from now on I think!

 

[brix]

don't be! just avoid that street

I was joking. Well, half joking

Is that St Mary Street? I've just been reading up on Cardiff and St Mary Street sounds like my idea of hell.

 

[Orang Utan]

More pics of people having too much fun:
http://toddfisher.net/
Proving that the idiot who slagged off this country cos people get drunk is truly an idiot.

 

[ElectricKingdom]

More pics of people having too much fun:
http://toddfisher.net/
Proving that the idiot who slagged off this country cos people get drunk is truly an idiot.

Oh please fuck off.

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh please fuck off.

Shan't.

 

[ddraig]

I was joking. Well, half joking

Is that St Mary Street? I've just been reading up on Cardiff and St Mary Street sounds like my idea of hell.

yup thas the one. AVOID
they shut it down every weekend for the pissed hordes

 

[brix]

More pics of people having too much fun:
http://toddfisher.net/
Proving that the idiot who slagged off this country cos people get drunk is truly an idiot.

To be fair to the poster in question, there are town centres across the country that end up like the wild bloody west on a Friday and Saturday night. In a way that would never happen on the continent. I love the UK, have travelled quite a bit and not sure I could live anywhere else, but we don't always seem to be able to handle our booze that well. Some of the photos you posted reflect that.

 

[ddraig]

oh dear! I don't think i've seen it that bad in Central...



*note to self....take beer goggles off next time i'm in Central

that's cos we avoid it init!

 

[Orang Utan]

The pics on the Todd Fisher site are all taken in the US though

 

[ElectricKingdom]

To be fair to the poster in question, there are town centres across the country that end up like the wild bloody west on a Friday and Saturday night. In a way that would never happen on the continent. I love the UK, have travelled quite a bit and not sure I could live anywhere else, but we don't always seem to be able to handle our booze that well. Some of the photos you posted reflect that.

Thank you, Brix. Spot on.

 

[brix]

The pics on the Todd Fisher site are all taken in the US though

I'm talking about the Cardiff pics though.

And I'm not saying that sort of behaviour doesn't happen elsewhere. But there definitely is a differennt 'approach' to alcohol on the continent.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm talking about the Cardiff pics though.

And I'm not saying that sort of behaviour doesn't happen elsewhere. But there definitely is a differennt 'approach' to alcohol on the continent.

for sure, but it still doesn't warrant hating this country! It's an extreme reaction to hate a country just cos its people like getting drunk.

 

[brix]

for sure, but it still doesn't warrant hating this country! It's an extreme reaction to hate a country just cos its people like getting drunk.

Fair enough. Sometimes people say that without really meaning it though. It's a shorthand for expressing despair.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fair enough. Sometimes people say that without really meaning it though. It's a shorthand for expressing despair.

it raises my hackles and makes me think of people like Richard Littlejohn and Phil Collins.

 

[brix]

it raises my hackles and makes me think of people like Richard Littlejohn and Phil Collins.

Blimey. Nothing that makes you think of those two people can be a good thing

Carry on

 

[Paul Russell]

They are great photos -- he's got a great future ahead of him. He has quite a few pictures in a London exhibition this summer.

BTW, his Blurb book "Sixteen Countries" is very good but doesn't feature any Cardiff stuff -- it's more NatGeo style travel photography.

 

[disco_dave_2000]

Another fan here - totally recommend his book

 

[Build_A_Fire]

The Lovely St Mary's Street

St Mary's Street gets a fair bit of stick on here....and off here if you mix with normal people....here's a nice reminder why
http://ajanlo.kapu.hu/pics.php?d=cardiff

 

[teqniq]

Fuck, yeah that'll be one of the reasons why I don't anywhere near it on a Friday or Saturday night.

The guy in the pink dress and fishnets - 10/10 LOL

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

to be avoided at all costs..leave it to the valleys teens all down for a belly full of beer and a fight/shag ( sometimes both together!). some good places off st marys street though

 

[llantwit]

There's nothing wrong with St Mary Street if you like it load and raucous.
Time and a place, like.
I love those photos. We've had a thread with that Polish guy's stuff before. He did some great pics of the Glamorgan Staf Club before it died, too.