http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/a-travel-blog-for-the-hipster-set/

Porter has been working hard on this new literary travel mag. Just got posted on NYT!

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10 Tactics Film

New Media Activism Screening March 16th Around the globe, activists have surmounted huge hurdles with small budgets. Hear their stories, learn their techniques, and transform your cause. Join us March 16th to see the film 10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action. The film explores how rights advocates use digital technology to create positive change. I am screening this film in partnership with Witness at the fantastic Brooklyn Creative League. We will break into small group discussion with other activists after this 60 minute film. More info: theCoup.org/10-tactics Share on Facebook

Tickets Tickets are just $4. They will sell out soon. Please contact me if they do and you are still interested in coming. Tickets »

Free Toolkits Tactical Tech, the makers of this film, have a series of impossibly beautiful & incredibly informative tool-kits. I have a few copies to distribute. If interested, email me about your new media activism — your success or struggles, future plans or past experience.

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Join us at the Brooklyn Creative League, just 1 stop from the Atlantic/Pacific subway station.
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Nowhere travel stories

(nowheremag.com)

This weekend some rad folks threw a clandestine box truck party at a secret location. Everyone made really cool environments in their box trucks. Laura and Robyn made a campfire box truck and I presented some of the stories that Todd Chandler and I collected and edited with audio selects from the inimitable Annea Lockwood.

Check out her sound map of the Hudson River: http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd2081.html

You can hear some more of the stories we recorded while floating with the Miss Rockaway Armada in 2006 and 2007 down the Mississippi River here: http://thebirdinmyheart.com/2009/01/storyboat/

Here’s a video of Miss Rosa Sparks’ story at the event. Very dark!

here are some pics from an awesome boat adventure on newtown creek in the last snowstorm. it was so fun! http://www.flickr.com/photos/antlered/sets/72157623061394287/

Entering New York Harbor originally uploaded by antlered.

Sunday’s awesome journey across the ocean from Long Island and up into Newtown Creek.

As the 53rd Venice Biennale enters its last days and the world’s art community reflects, Anonymous Gallery, curator Spy Emerson and the artist SWOON provide a glimpse of what critic Jerry Saltz called “…The most moving moment I had at the Biennale…”

“Pankabestia: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima,” is a retrospective of artist Swoon’s “Swimming Cities of Serenissima,” her recent invasion of the Venice Biennale. Traveling from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy, Swoon and 30+ artists braved the waters of the Adriatic Sea and navigated a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels. The exhibition opens on November 20, 2009 and includes artwork, objects, and a series of performances based on the “Swimming Cities” invasion.

The environment/experience will include large-scale wall drawings, original Swimming Cities boat installations, portions of the ships, found objects acquired from sea, performances from the original members of the journey, beautiful photographic documentation from artist Todd Seelie, and art from Spy Emerson, Monica Canilao and many others.

Seelie, whose portraiture (www.todseelie.com/serenissimaportraits/ )will be featured in “Pankabestia,” documented the journey from Slovenia to Italy. His documentation of the journey can be found at www.todseelie.com/serenissima.

Money raised with this campaign will go to the production of the exhibition, theater performances and the series of peripheral events in New York and Miami that will coincide with “Pankabestia.”

The following prints will be offered as a part of this campaign:

Swoon:
Switchback Sisters - www.justseeds.org/blog/images/switchbacksisters.jpg

Tod Seelie:
Print 1 - www.todseelie.com/serenissima/content/_MG_9011_large.html
Print 2 - http://todseelie.com/serenissima/content/_MG_0517_large.html
Print 3 - www.todseelie.com/serenissima/content/_MG_8038_large.html

For a full calendar of Pankabestia events and performances, and availability of tickets, please visit www.anonymousgallery.com from November 1, 2009 on.

Curator Spy Emerson’s thoughts on the experience:

“Pankabestia”- what the Italian villagers called us when we floated into town on our junk rafts. It translates to “punk beasts”, and by all accounts we were - magical, grubby, unruly creatures carrying out an enchanted mythical scene, looking like bits of broken dreams, drifting.

The townspeople were apprehensive along the rural canals to Venice. They locked their doors and windows when we stopped in town, and they watched. The beauty of the rafts was captivating, the poetic pilings and forced perspectives, stairs spiraling upward, and tiny pagodas with corrugated reflections. The brave came to look… then the curious, and before long all people were welcoming us with gifts and food. In a remote fishing village, a woman told me in broken English, we kissed a breath of life into her old home, and we will not soon be forgotten.

The Swimming Cities of Serenissima was Living Art, designed by SWOON, and executed by 30 individual artists known for their abilities to make unreal things happen. Constructed was a reality without right angles, standard rules did not apply there. Alice, Maria, and Old Hickory were the protagonists of our story, and our traveling homes. Living on the rafts, the crew became a visual part of the large moving sculptures, and participants in the mad drama flourishing in turbulence, primal urges, euphoria and fear.

In retrospect, I see that we were punk beasts. We raided dumpsters, slept on the ground, shat in the woods, and laughed in the rain. We let loose our social restraints to be free to create and experience something profound,
to drag our fingertips along the underside of bridges, and jump the fences of the Venice Biennale.”

spy emerson
curator

Press for Swimming cities of Serenissima:

Art In America
www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/the-market/2009-06-03/swoons-swimming-cities-crashes-the-venice-biennale/
Art in America

“…The most moving moment I had at the Biennale, however, came in the last minutes of my last day at the show. Just before closing time, as guards herded stragglers toward the entrance from the far end of the Arsenal where I was, three marvelous-looking vessels cobbled together from urban detritus motored past Mike Boucher’s wonderful sunken suburban house, and into the small lagoon. A band played a haunting song, a woman sang, a girl swung on a swing. The boats are the work of the artist Swoon. I’m told that Swoon wasn’t even invited to the show. She and her gypsy friends simply entered of their own accord and did what they wanted to do. Like the best work here, Swoon’s work doesn’t come out of academic critique; it comes from necessity and vision. These are the perfect tools for making things as old as time new again — including an art world turned dangerously into itself.”

JERRY SALTZ New York Magazine

New York Magazine
www.nymag.com/arts/art/features/57181/

this guy had the same fluffy kitty costume!

more halloween pics from the last masquerade here.

kitty in action

Here’s her Dick Cheney birdshot salad:

This band Buke and Gass is completely amazing. AMAZING. They played at Salon Adelphi this Saturday and totally tore the roof off. Today I have tweeted them and made multiple facebook status updates about them Then I bought their CD. You know when you just totally fall in love with a band? It’s like that. AND! We discovered only after the band arrived that Porter and the drummer/’gass’ player went to high school together. Here’s an interview with them in a mag called “elitish” where they talk about their crazy homemade instruments.

Some pics of the salon here.