Our friends at Gizmodo featured the WIllis Avenue Bridge on their Japanese site! Anyone willing to translate for us?
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Verge Art Booklyn & More!
I am not only a juror for "Tomorrow Stars: The Art Brooklyn Open Call Exhibition." but I will also have work displayed in the Brooklyn Art Now: 2011 Survey Exhibition curated by Loren Munk and James Kalm. That show is located at 111 Front Street, Second Floor, Suites 200, 204 & 222 The three day art fair opens March 3rd and is sure to be amazing weekend!
PUBLIC HOURS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 3 - 5 March, Noon to 10 pm
Sunday, 6 March, Noon to 6 pm
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Thursday, 3 March, 2011, 10:00 pm to 4 am
ALSO! My work was recently featured in Hoboken City Guide, and Core 77 - It's always nice to see people talking about the work!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Next Stop Atlantic - Press
Today we packed up the Next Stop Atlantic show at Calumet Photographic. The show has got the internet talking about the work and the feedback has been great!
Take a look:
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Next Stop Altantic Show at Calumet - Closing February 19th
The Next Stop Atlantic show at Calumet Photographic is coming down Saturday, the 19th.
22 west 22nd st, 2nd floor. Mon-Friday 8:30 - 5:30, Sat 9-5:30
GO SEE IT!
A giant thanks to Calumet Photographic, Front Room Gallery and everyone who came out to see the work for already making the show such a success!
New and Exciting Press on the Recently Released Willis Ave. Bridge video!
Since the Wall Street Journal posted the time lapse video of the Willis Avenue Bridge others have been reposting, blogging and talking about it. Take a look at what Gizmoto, Jalopnik and Wired.com had to say!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A bridge delivered, on the Wall St Journal
Monday, January 31, 2011
Next Stop Atlantic opens at CALUMET February 3rd
YIPPEE! Please stop by for my latest solo show, Next Stop Atlantic opening at Calumet 22 w 22nd
2nd floor, in New York on February 3rd.
Reception is from 6-9 , see you there!
2nd floor, in New York on February 3rd.
Reception is from 6-9 , see you there!
Friday, January 7, 2011
My first Grant!
I am very excited to announce that i have been awarded a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs! This grant is to support my upcoming project on the USS Saratoga titled Breaking Sara. This is the first grant that i have been awarded and I am grateful for the support of this project.
Sara- Rhode Island, 2010
There are seven traditionally-powered aircraft carriers from the United States Navy that are to be sunk, preserved, or recycled for their materials. The first one is the USS Saratoga, which is to be scrapped in Brownsville, Texas. Construction on CV-60, affectionately called Sara, took place over the span of three years beginning in 1952. She was deployed to the eastern Mediterranean during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, where her medical facility was used to treat survivors of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. Years later, she served the US Navy during the Vietnam war, participated in Operation Desert Storm and launched Navy Seals during Operation Desert Shield. Sara was decommissioned in August of 1994.
Recycling the Saratoga will take over six months beginning with towing the boat from where it is currently docked in Newport, Rhode Island to the Brownsville Ship Channel in Texas. The Port of Brownsville is an ideal location for ship recycling for many reasons. A man-made ship channel that was cut in from the Gulf of Mexico in 1934, it is located 17 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, and is just three miles from the Mexican border. No other ports outside of Brownsville – such as facilities in Virginia, Baltimore or Alabama – have received more ship disposal contracts in recent years from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD). The Port is strategically located to provide scrap material to numerous mills in Northern Mexico and the southern United States and is serviced by all major modes of transportation.
Obsolete ships and especially old marine vessels are full of toxic substances. These toxic elements often absorb the greater part of a Western World ship recycler’s costs. Whereas toxic substances amount to no more than a few hundred ounces in a car, a ship has to be stripped of thousands of pounds of asbestos; a similar volume of foul bilge water and oil from the holds or keel under the machine room as well as a large range of other noxious raw materials. When a ship is hauled up an incline or slipway for dismantling, it is possible for fluids in the bottom which could not be pumped out to escape. For breakers in Asia, this is generally not a problem: most of these residues simply disappear into the ocean. All eight slipways at the four yards in Brownsville have an ‘oil boom’ at the entrance side, a 10 to 12 foot rubber hose floating the whole width of the slipway, and a skirt hanging some 2 feet deep in the water. The oil removed from the ship prior to or during the dismantling process is pumped into huge tanks and these are always surrounded by walls to prevent oil from streaming out.
From there the many re-usable items - such as anchors, chains, masts, winches, generators and portholes - are removed for sale as second-hand materials. Machinery is then pulled out of the ship to keep the hull high afloat and then the vessel is dismantled from bow to stern. The hull is gradually cut from the deck or superstructure to the bottom; the pieces that are brought ashore are cut even smaller into mill furnace-size chunks of scrap which are usually transported by river barge to US steel mills, or in some cases by truck to Mexico. I will be photographing these intense moments of breaking Sara as she is pulled apart into little pieces.
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