Mark Byrnes

All Things Buffalo

Mark completed his B.A. in Environmental Design at SUNY Buffalo in 2009. He has been blogging since 2005 about issues surrounding urban development in the Buffalo area while also sharing his thoughts and experiences from his travels around the Western Hemisphere. Mark has also taken an interest in print design and corporate identity and applies his ideas and observations in these fields from time to time on this blog.

Only In Buffalo..(Throwback news)


Ive been waiting on this story about buffalo + and one china man for way too long…

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) – A Chinese performance artist appeared in city court Monday for wading naked into the rapids above Niagara Falls as part of a stunt that went wrong.

He Yun Chang, 38, of Beijing, was charged with disorderly conduct and exposing himself in public, both violations, after being arrested by Niagara Park Police on Saturday afternoon. He was ordered to return to court Nov. 4.

Police said the man stripped off his clothes and waded to within 40 to 50 metres of the brink of the falls. He tried anchoring himself with a rope to an unknown object, intending to stay in the water for 24 hours, but the knot came loose and so he began making his way back to shore.

A tourist, concerned the man was attempting suicide, called park police, who took him out of the water.

Two University of Buffalo students who were filming the stunt also were charged with disorderly conduct.

Chang, who on Friday sat naked in a Plexiglas box full of wet concrete in front of a Buffalo art gallery as part of another stunt, is in the United States for a University at Buffalo exhibit called The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art.

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Why wasnt this shit top story on the local news? This man has potential to become a underground hero in B-Lo.

well that’s it, expect more down low news on the nittty gritty buffalo shit.

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