Pit Lick

Primer: http://saomsdangledthreads.blogspot.com/2012/03/pit-lick-primer.html

Pit Lick - Primer

There is a girl in Italy. Presumably she is some sort of student, with a incomplete grasp of English but rather fluent in Internetinese. She seems to have discovered and become something of a fan of the Nudity Dares of her own volition, and has even gone so far as to issue one.

She had started her own internet-based endeavor in deviance: Leccarsi L'ascella (Armpit Lickers.) This meme/fad consists of people licking, attempting to, or appearing to lick an armpit; the act photographed, and the photo posted to the Internet. So as a sort of cross-cultural international meme-propagation quid pro quo, some of us in the USA have adopted this cause.


Examples...

Urskin

Urskin - Primer

Sometimes a dangled thread can be a discarded giant plush toy, the advice of a professional puppet-maker, and provocation of a guerilla (well... dolphin) performance artist.

UCS

Urban Spelunk: The Freedom Tunnel (Episode 2)

The Freedom Tunnel is the popular name for the 2½-mile train tunnel under Riverside Park on Manhattan's West border. In the 1970s and 80s the tracks were disused and the tunnel became home to countless displaced and destitute people. Eventually entire elaborate shanty towns developed, some availed of electricity and running water siphoned off the tunnel's infrastructure. In the early 90s the inhabitants were removed by the city with the advent of the new HUD Section 8 programs, and the habitats (mostly) cleared out. Due to its hidden location, restricted access, and extraordinary lighting, the tunnel had become a veritable gallery of large-scale and elaborate graffiti art. Though the tunnel is in use again by Amtrak trains to and from Penn Station, installations continue to be added to this day.

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Urban Spelunk: Boat Graveyard (Episode 1)

The Witte Marine Scrap Yard, also know as the Arthur Kill Boat Yard, or colloquially the Staten Island Boat Graveyard is a region of the channel between Staten Island and New Jersey harboring the scuttled and deteriorating remains of hundreds of marine vessels from the early 1900s to the present. Destined for repurpose, salvage, or destruction, the ships sit marooned in the mud of the harbor until they are bought and refurbished, dismantled for parts and scrap, or deteriorate and sink.

One fine August morning a band of amateur urban spelunkers gathered together some makeshift floatation devices and swam out to (a part of) the site to explore.

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