Alita Edgar was found at a very young age clutching a pinwheel underneath the Log Flume at the South Carolina State Fair. Since then she has worked for the Coney Island Sideshow and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, and is now an independent accessories designer (Charm School Design: www.charmschooldesign.etsy.com). She holds a M.S. in Urban Planning from Pratt Institute, with a special interest in shrinking cities and the fate of New Orleans. She also lends her various talents in editing, costume- designing, press-releasing and accomplicing to worthy arts institutions such as the Flux Factory, Nonsense NYC, the Madagascar Institute, Ars Subterranea, and Dark Passage.
Alita Edgar
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Porter Fox is a writer living in Brooklyn. He teaches and writes fiction and nonfiction for periodicals like The New York Times Magazine and The Believer. His stories are about people doing stuff. He is currently writing a book about sailing the first boat his father built 5,000 miles up the Maine coast. You can read the stories here:
man a bad man
Tod Seelie is a photographer, artist and founding member of the Miss Rockaway Armada. He has traveled and photographed in fifteen countries on five different continents. His work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, The NY Times, New York Magazine, Spin, Men’s Journal, Marie Claire, Jane, Vice, i-D, Paper, XXL, Art Forum, Art In America, Flash Art, Parade Magazine, Adbusters, Death + Taxes, and Hamburger Eyes among others. Tod has exhibited work in solo and group shows in New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Cleveland, Miami and at Mass MoCA. His work has also appeared in various photography books, such as The Vice Photo Book, Street World, Backyard Shakedown, Hijacked, and Various Photographs curated by Tim Barber.
Tony Bones was born in Dallas Texas in 1983. He spent his early childhood drawing on just about everything he could get his hands on, decorating his toys and applying secret images to the bottoms of tables and chairs. As time wore on he began taking his artistic inclinations out dodrawing on just about everything he could get his hands on, decorating his toys and applying secret images to the bottoms of tables and chairs. As time wore on he began taking his artistic inclinations out doors, working in the streets with various mediums including spray paint, wheat paste, wood, house paint and a wide variety of inks and toxic chemicals, affixing his simple imagery to public surfaces. After spending the better part of a decade adorning city streets all across America and avoiding authorities he has began showing his works in more traditional environments that allow for more complex works and larger scale installations He currently lives and works in Texas.
Orien Mcneill is a native of the manhattan island and studied industrial design at the Pratt institute. He is an organizer of the ocean of blood project, designer, fabricator, and south asian enthusiast.
Kara Blossom is a Jill of most trades.(Ex:Last project she was a carpenter- accountant-engeneer-choir girl.) She is a Fire Ant. Her strong points are keeping morale up and energy high. She is a team player who has assisted and helped complete many an impossible task. In fact that is her one of her specialties. Though she considers herself a craftsperson now, her art work has been featured in such magazines as Dwell(2006) and Paper(2005). She has been actively working on reducing the amount of material objects she makes and replacing them with things that serve a physical function, especially ones that facilitate an experience. When she makes art it usually gets notice
Katelan V. Foisy is a visual artist who specializes in collage and acrylic mixed media paintings. Katelan studied illustration at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY and started her career in the communication arts shortly after graduating in 2001. Her fine art pieces have been displayed at The Worcester Art Museum, Ohio History Museum, Mae West Fest, MODA, Museum of Contemporary Art DC, as well as the A&D gallery in London. Katelan's ruminative mixed media collages often evoke a gamut of emotion through the rich layers and textural combinations. She is known to use herself as well as her friends in her pieces manipulating faces and bodies to create new characters. This process eventually lead her to create the "They Be We" photography project. Her illustration clients have included, The Grammy Awards, Out magazine, The Progressive and many others. Her collaged portraits and mixed-media paintings have graced the pages of Scholastic Books and the walls of Young & Rubicam. Ensemble Studio Theater and Alvin Ailey even had her work grace their stage. She is the art director and one of the creators of Constellation Magazine as well as co-owner of Knickerbocker Circus, an independent publishing company. In her spare time she reads tarot, practices reiki and poses for pictures. She currently resides in NYC.
www.katelanfoisy.com
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Zachary Tucker was born and raised in New York CIty. In high school he was a member of the art collective WEARECHANGEAGENT, working with artists such as Swoon, MOSCO, Orien McNeill, Charlie Pratt, Mode Raw, and Child. After receiving a Bachelors degree in music from SUNY Purchase he went on to pursue a career as an electronic musician/DJ. As Half of the duo TEAMSHADETEk, he has released multiple records on labels such as Warp Records, Tigerbeat6, and Soundink and has toured Europe as well as the United States. After living and working in Berlin as a DJ, his passion for motorcycles lead him home to New York where he currently lives and works as a mechanic, engineer, and maker of things.
Laura McMillian was born on a beach in the part of Florida that should be Alabama. As a young child she was introduced to the joys of sewing and fashion design by her mother who taught her how to sew and had an extensive collection of nylon track suits. As a college student Laura assembled a group of artists known as the Rural Fashionistas to produce large-scale fashion shows which garnered Laura her first gallery show at Bare Hands Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama. Soon after, Laura moved to New York. There she was educated in fashion sketching and patternmaking at Parson's School of Design, worked as a fashion assistant at Love Brigade where she ascertained the finer points of clothing manufacturing, and learned knitting design and machine knitting working with Lars Andersson Knits and training at F.I.T. Laura is currently working in New York as a freelance costume designer and is presently obsessed with constructing latex clothing, fabricating drag queen wigs, and making everything else out of cardboard. Her work can be seen on television commercials and in the far recesses of underground parties.
A Lower East Side squatter gone mad!
Lending his hand and shop for boats, the Don't Sink Project
Past fun: Designing police proof lock down on the ground or in a 35-foot tower to save the squats and community gardens and random political events, or just building a tidal wave proof house in NY and shipping it to a small mangrove island in Belize, it's all the same.
Mike O'Toole is an engineer and designer. He builds what he designs and works with metal, plastic and wood through mechanisms to structures. He'll be working to make sure things float and go mostly forward.
Zev david Deans
is a artist living and working in new york city. art wrangler, socialite, pretty boy, artstar
Elizabeth Bentley is a Brooklyn artist from the hills of North Carolina. Inspired by toxic environments, she imagines a future where radioactive substances contain magical properties. She is a member of the two woman artist team ChunKlundt. They are currently working on a performance based event that will attempt to orchestrate the return of the Ancient Ones out of hiding.
Angie Kang
likes: getting dirty, feeding & fucking, celebration, wonder, reveling, surprises, trinkets, monsters, beasts, creatures, homemaking, worldmaking, cats, the world in color, war paint, savagery, body odor, bruises, messy mouths, dirty knees, black eyes, bones, the natural history museum, carts & wagons, garage sales, trains, ferris wheels, bridges, railroad tracks, circus tents, waterways, yellow flowers, pies, jasmine, fig trees, rosalie al, porch swings, red moons, old hardware, obsolete industry, green on concrete, big machines & small machines, small metal bits, ladies & gentlemen, bad teeth, gapped teeth, moustaches, rings of dirt, laundromats, diners, rust, bleach, holes, seed pods, outer space bodies, thunder & lightning, animal spirits, creakyness, jingles & jangles, snails, boom dog, ferality, jam, string, pots & pans, trucks that ride like roller coasters, ephemerality, sunshowers, pyrotechnics, upwards & outwards, chaos, and exclamation points !
insists: "if there is a paradise, surely it is here!"