Artist sentenced for secret apartment in mall

lol this so awsome those guyz deserve a medal!!! (3

I must've passed that guy's "apartment" like 50 times

This would be a great idea for a movie.

lol someone was sad enough to steal their ps2.

"Mall Rats"

It was "clearly criminal."
Culture-less mall was probably built on an Indigenous homestead or farm...
Wonder what the guy's new projects are?

Perhaps a better idea would be to build secret apartments on the ginormous “estates” of the super wealthy, such as the CEO of Citibank and Capital One and Countrywide Mortgage.

I think that would be more of an artistic statement.

Can you imagine secretly living on the 7,000 acre estate of one of the masterminds of the greatest housing disaster in American history?

Or, rather, I would try to build an apartment inside the corporate headquarters of Chase Visa.

And wander around their server room with an ultra powerful magnet ;-)

(God forbid those sons-o-bitches don’t get their 30 percent interest!)

I wonder what ihatethemall has to say about all this.

Haha, oh Providence, this is not a surprise. Providence Place Mall could be a town in itself. I've spent days wandering the levels and I still don't know how to get around. The prov. police were strangely intrigued by the criminal ingenuity, what a surprise, ha.

Old news- this happened three years ago.

its pretty dope that he didnt have to do time for it, must of had a reasonable judge......

I saw this quite a while back and it's still funny today.

that is freakin awesome

@ yvesisaki
Yay! I was waiting for the official "this-is-not-news" verdict. I find it hilarious, because it's not categorized as news. In fact, it is categorized as "not news." So, you are officially pwned! Maybe it's not new to you, but it's new to many. And it's inspiring and awesome. So... enjoy.

This exact thing happened like 5 years ago. Or is the same story cuz if it is it's not news.

Great stuff!!! I need to do this at a NJ mall.... maybe Garden State! =P

Yeah. I wish they could have had a bit more time to develop it. What a wild concept! I wish I could have seen it, but I'm sure it was quickly disassembled. Like I said, it just fascinates me. It seems almost magical to me to create a little home in a parking garage... And nobody knows. I've read accounts in which shoppers claimed to have seen people going in and out of the apartment, but they just figured it was a workroom of some sort. Perfect.

This is awesome. Somebody should do a doc film on it. They should have done it of themselves. Give the kid a break. All is fair in art and war.

Yes! Too bad they got caught before they could fix it up a little.

Well. that's it, why is it private property?
I understand when there is a family home somewhere - that's private property - but this stuff is owned by commercial enterprise that it may service their interests - but also removes a large hunk of area from the use of people. Remember "people" are the only people that are here. Some private enterprise has properties, sometimes completely empty - and making perfectly useful area and facilities unavailable.

The idea is if every square foot is taken, what is left for you to stand?

Ben Franklin and friends had this idea that 160 acres was to be available for every person. Then slowly companies bought off and stole and murdered their way into ownership of the vast tracts of USA land. People get crammed into little "cities" and strung along skinny strips of coastal lands.

All the rest is owned by people who have been owning it since their grandfather's stole it - from YOU.
You own that land. It is wholly a matter of what is called "Land Use" - which seems to be what we seem to see at present - but, really, after a long and hard exposure of fact - we could simply vote into a different plan.

Meanwhile, you can be a slave - and work your whole life to pay someone so you have a place to sleep - while they go, snickering and giggling to the mall and shop - for silly things.

That has got to be the craziest things a person could do in a mall.

Artists , natural born survivors . Sweet place .

I guess part of what intrigues me is the thought of a cold, concrete, dirty parking garage. Then, you open the secret door and you're in a cozy little apartment. It sound surreal and a little bit hobbit-like to me.

Art project, social commentary, or both? Considering the sorry state of the economy and the housing situations some people are finding themselves in, it's no surprise that low to no cost living spaces are being carved out all over the place. Communes in abandoned buildings in Detroit, folks making homes for themselves in the sewers beneath casinos in Las Vegas, and entire underground infrastructures in Chicago and New York are a signs of the times. Naturally, creative people are going to develop creative ways of living, thriving, and surviving in spite of the odds being stacked against them.

Sure, it's technically criminal trespassing, but what are they going to use the space for otherwise, an extra large broom closet?

Nice. I love the fact that they got away with it for so long. Remind me not to hire that security firm.

I've worked at several large buildings in my life. I knew every inch, to me if you're too stupid to not check parts of your building for months at a time then it's YOUR FAULT and YOUR FAULT ALONE.

And if your company downsized because of the bad economy any person that would have known about this secret place then AGAIN it's YOUR FAULT.

"Don't Blame The Dildos!" -Bob Odenkirk

I will try this someday.

ROFL :D