Build_A_Fire
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To be fair amongst all the carnage, that polish guy has managed to take some awesome pics. I particlarly like the guy trying his hardest to balance a pizza box on top or a 5ft high pile of rubbish haha 
A night out in Cardiff: the amazing street photos of Maciej Dakowicz
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Build_A_Fire
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We've already merged several threads on this guys photos: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174794
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
Some of the Cardiff photos (the ones with vomit, people urinating, i.e. the "worst" ones) were on the Daily Telegraph's website yesterday as a slideshow with a load of morally outraged (and sometimes incorrect) captions and with faces blanked out. Uncredited except for a link to a Hungarian website. "Shocking photographs of drunken behaviour in Cardiff". The intro also mentions people having sex in the street, which does not seem to be true...
The Telegraph had found them on Hungarian website, which had posted them without any mention of Maciej, and The Telegraph reposted them on telegraph.co.uk with just a link to the Hungarian website. Great journalism!
Maciej rang them up and they put a credit on the pictures. The URL is giving a 404 error now, so I guess they have been taken down...
Screengrab
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maciejdakowicz/3421394950/sizes/o/
The Telegraph had found them on Hungarian website, which had posted them without any mention of Maciej, and The Telegraph reposted them on telegraph.co.uk with just a link to the Hungarian website. Great journalism!
Maciej rang them up and they put a credit on the pictures. The URL is giving a 404 error now, so I guess they have been taken down...
Screengrab
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maciejdakowicz/3421394950/sizes/o/
check out the scandalous behaviour of the Telegraph with regards Maciej's Cardiff photos. 
Ooops just noticed PR, above, has already mentioned this.
Ooops just noticed PR, above, has already mentioned this.
often missed....but then as someone who bothered to put some effort into creating rather than bleating about how it is their right to use it I know I knows.
Rereading the blurb in the Flkr link jus goes to show how shit Flikr is in getting shit "done"...someone tell him to "bother" harder please.
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
Rereading the blurb in the Flkr link jus goes to show how shit Flikr is in getting shit "done"...someone tell him to "bother" harder please.
If you look at the link again, it now seems to be sorted out -- the photos have been taken down; he has been compensated in dosh and seems happy with the result. Maybe an office trainee at the Telegraph is now getting their bottie smacked.
as has been said in the Thread on Flikr...nah...that is not how it works.
But I imagine a contract of no further public discussion has been agreed on...so that's that then...till the next time.
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
And again:
http://www.kontraband.co.uk/pics/16927/A-Night-Out-In-Cardiff-Wales/?gpage=9#show
which is currently on the front page of digg. No permission, no accreditation...
http://www.kontraband.co.uk/pics/16927/A-Night-Out-In-Cardiff-Wales/?gpage=9#show
which is currently on the front page of digg. No permission, no accreditation...
That boy gets everywhere.
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
There was a double page spread of the Cardiff pictures in the Daily Sport a couple of weeks ago! They just nicked em off the Interweb.
"Cardiff Nights Are Great Nights" - Gin Lane photojournalism content
Apologies if this has been posted before but I saw a link on Popbitch to this photo gallery: http://attuworld.com/just-attu/cardiff-nights-are-great-nights.html (Not prawn, no nudity, but not exactly leave-open-on-the-screen-in-the-office material).
It's been ages since I was in Cardiff, and I didn't go out late in the centre of town when I was there, but if this is representative it's a fearsome sight! (Not a criticism of Cardiff at all - I am sure there are nice corners where you can avoid the neds).
Apologies if this has been posted before but I saw a link on Popbitch to this photo gallery: http://attuworld.com/just-attu/cardiff-nights-are-great-nights.html (Not prawn, no nudity, but not exactly leave-open-on-the-screen-in-the-office material).
It's been ages since I was in Cardiff, and I didn't go out late in the centre of town when I was there, but if this is representative it's a fearsome sight! (Not a criticism of Cardiff at all - I am sure there are nice corners where you can avoid the neds).
cesare
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I apologise wholeheartedly - I searched for "cardiff nights" which I thought was the title but this thread didn't come up.Loads more than once
In that case, can I be less diplomatic and say that the photos made me want to get an ASBO taken out against me that banned me from ever going to Cardiff City Centre, just in case I lost my mind and was tempted?
editor
hiraethified
I've had some great nights out in Cardiff. It's nowhere as grim as those photos might suggest, although it accurately documents some of the scenes you might see late at night.
I'm guessing that some would have been taken after a big game at the Millennium where people (both locals and visitors) tend to get a bit over-excited if the result has gone their way.
I wouldn't say these were unusual scenes after 1am on a Friday or Saturday night in Cardiff. They're all taken on St Mary St and around Caroline St. You can avoid it if you want to, but I don't see a problem myself.
Yes it's flamboyant, yes it's very pissed, and yes it's not very staid and middle class. But I've never felt threatened in Cardiff city centre at night. Most of the fighting is tribal (between different valleys villages, etc), and so won't involve you if you don't want it too. Nothing wrong with a bit of public flirtation (or heavy petting, for that matter) at this time of night.
The thing that gets on my tits is the litter, but it's all gone the next day, and people know that it'll get cleared up.
I love Cardiff on a weekend night. I'm passed clubbing every weekend, but I often take visiting foreigners out to experience the madness of St Mary St.
Yes it's flamboyant, yes it's very pissed, and yes it's not very staid and middle class. But I've never felt threatened in Cardiff city centre at night. Most of the fighting is tribal (between different valleys villages, etc), and so won't involve you if you don't want it too. Nothing wrong with a bit of public flirtation (or heavy petting, for that matter) at this time of night.
The thing that gets on my tits is the litter, but it's all gone the next day, and people know that it'll get cleared up.
I love Cardiff on a weekend night. I'm passed clubbing every weekend, but I often take visiting foreigners out to experience the madness of St Mary St.
Aah, you've rumbled me - I wouldn't go down there because someone might jostle me and make me drop my Wedgewood.
Thing is Maciej has done hundreds of photos of Cardiff but the Telegraph, Sunday Sport, Jonathan Morgan, Kontraband etc cherry picked the 'bad' ones in their exposes of binge drinking in Cardiff. So it's a skewed perception. The fact that they also added misleading captions and/or have their own political agendas makes their sanctimony even more hypocritical.
Paul Russell
Psychogeographer
This is one of my favourites:
The pictures are from match days when 70 - 100,000 people flood the city centre. On those particular days there aren't enough bins but these little van things come around every hour and clean it all up. The next morning the rubbish is gone.
