whatever happened to quantum-x?
 

did Simon leave the industry? it's ages since he posted any of his photographic adventures

http://sleepycity.net/best

A cool cat indeed...

http://img.math-fail.com/images-old/quantum3.jpg

http://rickardandersson.com/wp-conte...ers-lolcat.jpg

http://www.quiterly.com/wp-content/u...ou-Awesome.jpg

Q-X come home...or at least report in and post some awesome photos. :stoned

:smilie_we

ADG

He still lives, last I heard he'd sold all his worldly possessions and taken up a residence in an abandoned sewer branch below Paris. I'll let him know you're thinking of him.

ha no he didn't. what's he doing?

I don't know, the guy could be right.

i used to live one street away from him in paris. sadly we never met but he would often invite me to see the catacombs of paris which are underground graves....


true story... so it sounds unreal, but could be true.

He got stuck in the C U B E.

i would say he is in jail for all the trips he made and documented :winkwink: let his ass have a peace :2 cents:

Last I heard he was in the catacombs under Paris as well.


His pics were AMMMMMAZING

He probably needs a refresher in French history.

Great guy and one of the most amazing photographers I have seen. Last I heard Paris as well but that was some time ago. :2 cents:

Is Simon the guy who posted photos of the brooklyn bridge (climbing up it to get the photo) and similar?

no idea but i did enjoy his pics.

Yuppers that was him.

Now that was one hell of a guy, wherever he is now.

He was truly certified as Top Notch in my book.

Loved his photos, hope he's ok where ever he is.

He crashed a golf cart with me on it. I ate gravel hard. I'm still pissed, non driving aussie fuck.

lol jk

now... i just wish i had met the guy!!!! i was living down the street from him... 2 minute walk!!!!
fuck.. he invited me on one of his photo adventures.... but i was out getting wasted on wine....... (paris life ;)

damn i miss paris, what a great city.

looks alive few months ago some shoots

http://sleepycity.net/troublemakers/quantum-x

:thumbsup

He's okay; judging by his last update, he is in or around Paris

Still alive.
Some of you might have seen some pyramid climb photos around on the net over the last few days (gawker etc).

Original source was:
http://travel.ninjito.com/2013-02-19-Egypt/SLR

The moneyshot being:
http://travel.ninjito.com/images/201...qx-cairo-9.jpg

Been busy in mainstream - if you're ever curious to see wha's going on, you can always check out my site: http://ninjito.com/

Wow! Is that the number one experience so far for you? Gawker says it was a group of Russians, true or a cover story?

Have any video?

Nice to hear from you Simon, glad you're doing well and doing what you love :thumbsup

saw those photos on various sites, however reporting that were made by some russian people.

Hey, great to hear from you too.
One of the guys I went down with, Moses, has been wanting to climb the pyramid for a few years now. We almost did it a year or so ago, but there was an intersecting story of a girl, another girl, a trip to turkey and an abandoned soviet museum on a hill.

So, finally, we headed down, scoped it out and did it. It was great - two friends, centuries of history, and a bit of adrenaline.

We know the russian guys - they contacted us after, and then headed down a few weeks later. I guess they hit the press with their photos :)

Best experience ever? Hard to say, tough call. Certainly a great experience. I'd have to dig through my site to work out what was what :D

This certainly stands out as something neat of late :)
http://ninjito.com/images/_2013-01-19/qx-pano-1.jpg

Oh btw, my friend Moses wrote what is really a fantastic book about life, exploring and girls. I've got a few photos in there, and the pyramid story too. If you've got a few $ to spare, I can highly recommend it as a read :)

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Cities-...=hidden+cities

this is really awesome :thumbsup

Can I get the high-resolution of this? You had offered them in the past. I would like to do a print and frame it. I would be more than happy to send you a framed copy as well. Truly sick.

Simon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~hugssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssss~

So good to 'see' you!

Holy crap, you part of that crew who climbed the Pyramids? I just saw that today and was wondering if it was you. The pics have a bit of your style to them, but the Russian part made me think otherwise.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh was this you?

i was all 'waittt aaa minutteee' lol

Awesome!

I still have some of your pics from years ago on my computer somewhere...

Just bought the book.

I have been exploring for 30+ years, just not with the cameras. I missed out on all of that, but I still have the memories and the point and shoot pics.

Recently I bought my first DSLR and have been starting to take pics with it.

Your photos are amazing and you inspired me to go and get the camera and document life with more than just my point and shoots.

You guys make photography look so effortless. Many people don't really understand how detailed photography really is until they try it with a pro camera.

I'm just now getting the hang of some of the trickier shooting situations. I also completely botch many others. Photography is humbling.

Keep exploring man. You have one hell of a life story so far.

:thumbsup

Hah. How many of these do you have?

http://ninjito.com/images/2010-01-09/qx-freight-2a.jpg

Thankfully I've never gotten one of those. The Brasilian police once detained me though. That trip was, however, more oriented towards drunken foolery than organized exploration.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

What about Raja, have you ever had the pleasure of being flipped over in a golf cart with Raj?

Good to see you again Simon and great pics!

The Russians' photographs are nothing like yours. Where are you living these days?

You guys have all been trained in climbing?

Awesome. :thumbsup:thumbsup

Oh shit I saw those the other day and TBFH I actually thought of you are your pictures. Funny stuff it was you that did it, the article I saw said it was "Russians".

I'm in the process of redoing a small class B camper van, adding solar the whole 9 yards so I can boondock and I intend to travel the country for the next year or so. (selling all my shit and just hitting the road) If you end up back in the states at some point would be cool to hook up as I'm gonna be doing some of my own urban/nature exploring.

Saw that photo everywhere you are one mad fucker hats off to you.:pimp

If I didn't have a leg disability I would LOVE to do this. That would be awesome!

I love your photography and was kinda intrigued to find out what that saucer shaped building was all about which you took photos off

The Buzludzha monument ? or to give the building its official name, the ?House-Monument of the Bulgarian Communist Party? ? was envisaged as a symbolic meeting place for the communist regime. Resembling something straight out of a 1950s sci-fi flick, the colossal concrete saucer perches at an altitude of 1441 metres above sea level ? on one of the most inhospitable peaks of the Balkan Mountains.
Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2013...OwL2yYBDcjE.99

Here it is in its former glory

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pN.../s900/aa10.jpg

Is your friend Moses Gates? THe dude that got up on the chrysler building?

Glad to see you are doing well. :thumbsup

Great to see your fantastic shots again Simon:thumbsup:thumbsup

Awesome as always S! Marc noticed you right away on Gawker :)

Have you ever visited Chernobyl? After I saw your site I thought you'd really make some amazing photos there :)

Great pics as always Simon.

You went down with Moses into Egypt land?

That didn't end so well before :)

so the russian shots made it to cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/travel...html?hpt=hp_c3

Simon's are far better :thumbsup

Hey Selena.. great to know you're well too :)

Sly hires of the snow shot is here: http://ninjito.com/qx-pano-1.png

Won't leave it up forever, let me know when you've grabbed it ( ~ 119MB )

That was the silliest ticket ever. Jumped a freight train in australia, and got seen a few hours into the trip. the drivers and the cop didn't care, but news filtered through to the head of the rail company, and went in the newspapers, the TV, everything.

Fantastic experience though.. I'd wanted to hop that train for 10 years :)

Yeah, Moses is a good friend of mine. He's the guy (along w/ his friend) who got up on the eagles. I headed over there last year too:

http://ninjito.com/images/_2012-05-02-NYC/qx-cb-1.jpg

amazing spot, that!

The irony was not lost on us ;)