Swimming Cities Ocean of Blood

07/16/2025

If you've made it here, congratulations and welcome to the "Orien Fan Cult" of those who … kae burke needs your support for Celebrate Orien : Memorial Support

06/13/2025

Please sign up here if you’d like to receive updates and information for McNeill’s memorial events, coming up August 16th.

Saturday, August 16th in NYC Full day and route plans to follow as planning proceeds. Main memorial will take place in Brooklyn at the House of Yes 2 Wyckoff Avenue

08/20/2016

If anyone feels like taking a road trip to gut some houses, I will happily connect you and find you a place to stay.

They came in bateaux, canoes, crawfish skiffs and dual-engine fishing craft, launching off the sides of roads, where highways dipped into several feet of murky water. Many set off from

11/25/2014

Get on the boat! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/138285656/constance-hockaday-presents-always-get-on-the-boat/posts/1061020

Donate $200 to the project and you get a poster of Duke Riley's work that is signed and numbered!!! LIMITED EDITIONS of ONLY 20!!!This is an incredible offer. I am so grateful to him. Help us move these posters... they are priced to sell!!Plus your money helps fund Duke Riley and artists like him to…

06/24/2014

At Nowhere Studios (1582 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn) this Thursday, June 26, 8pm! Christopher Payne joins the New York Obscura Society to discuss photographing America's architectural ruins, forgotten institutions and disappearing industries along with his latest book, North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City. http://www.atlasobscura.com/events/obscura-society-nyc-the-vanishing-the-abandoned-and-the-obsolete

Definitive guidebook and friendly tour-guide to the world's most wondrous places. Travel tips, articles, strange facts and unique events.

05/15/2014

Do you work from home in Brooklyn? Get a spot at Nowhere Studios!

11/13/2013

Big thanks to Gowanus Ballroom for lending their space all of these years. Best art space in Brooklyn! Gowanus Ballroom

11/03/2013

New book out by an Oceans of Blood crew member:

Share this if you love winter... 5 statistics about disappearing snow:
- The Northern Hemisphere has lost 1 million square miles of spring snow cover in the last 45 years.
- The Alps have lost half of their glacial ice since the late 1800s.
- The rate of winter warming in the U.S. has tripled since 1970.
- Half of the 103 ski resorts in the U.S. Northeast will likely close in the next 30 years due to rising temperatures.
- Two-thirds of the ski resorts in the Alps will likely close in 50-70 years due to warm winters.
- 1 billion people around the world depend on snowmelt for their water supply. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/127394593/deep-the-story-of-skiing-and-the-future-of-snow

Help publish a book about the culture of skiing, the miracle of snow and how climate change could wipe out both in 75 years.

06/24/2013

While on the the Ganges I never felt more about how much life has to offer and how quickly things can be swept away. Let's give thanks and a moment of honor to Mother Ganga and all the beautiful souls so tragically lost recently: http://world.time.com/2013/06/22/thousands-dead-as-monsoon-rains-cause-flash-floods-and-landslides-in-india/?iid=gs-article-morephototime

Early monsoon rains turned into flash floods and landslides in India, sending homes tumbling to the Ganges River and killing over 1,000 people so far. Officials are also reporting "thousands missing or stranded," says The New York Times, adding that "the toll was expected to rise.

02/05/2013

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Next Saturday, we're going on a booze cruise for heartbreak and infinite love-- MY HEART WILL GO ON A BOAT, a Titanic-themed Valentine's Disaster. Do want to do a bowsprit photo booth, make a giant iceberg and ram in to your ex's new girlfriend, frozen water bobbing for apples, cold and pruney burlesque, draw people like one of your french girls? Then we. want. you. SWM seeks decorative elements, concessions, scams, performances, installations, aerial performers, magicians, live painters, giant puppets, etc. Budget available for especially awesome stuff. Interested parties should fill out
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11/03/2012

Game Plan for the Weekend LETS GO ROCKAWAY! If you can't make it all the way out there, try Serett Metalworks/Gowanus Ballroom at SMith n 9th St (you remember OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY, THE GREAT OUTDOORS)

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