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:
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.
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.
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.
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!"
Mayra Cimet loves teaching, gardening, languages, cooking and healing with food, mathematical thinking, playing with power tools and taking photos. She was born in Mexico City but has lived in Brasil and France growing up. She is finishing a double degree program at The New School completing a BFA in Fine Arts and a BA in Social Environmental Politics. She has a fascination with artivism, and is constantly mulling over how art can help propel the world towards a more compassionate future. She has promoted, managed and participated in political and environmental art projects like the WaterPod Project and the Silhouette festival in Paris and is currently working for the Shape of Change project and a member of the GreenBusTour.
benjamin mortimer learned to weld from a badass biker redneck dying of a bad heart around the time he started hanging out with the Black Label bicycle club. when they decided to start their annual halloween event Bike Kill, he helped make 30 freak bikes in 30 days breaking nearly every law of intelligent fabrication. that attracted Madagascar Institute with whom he traveled the world building unsafe rides in impossible conditions for overly trusting festival audiences. that in turn attracted Swoon's raft project! most memorable for his inappropriate clothing, bad hair, and smelly armpits, ben spends almost all of his time avoiding work and taking photographs.
Marin Tockman is an independent filmmaker and curator working in documentary production. Most recently, she has completed a 12 part series for the Travel Channel overseeing all the historical content for the series "Mysteries at the Museum". As a Co-Producer and Associate Producer, her documentary production credits include work featured on PBS, NBC, MNBC, and various cable networks. She has also worked on a several acclaimed independent feature documentaries that have premiered at film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, and in independent cinemas including Film Forum, IFC, and MOMA. Marin was the curator for the Biking Rules PSA Festival for the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives that premiered at BAMCinématek, a documentary judge for the Brooklyn International Film Festival, and also was the Program Director for the Billyburg Short Film Festival that ran for 5 years. Marin's short film screened internationally with the Bicycle Film Festival in 2009 and at a variety of bicycle related film screenings, and her experiemental Super 8 work has also screened at independent cinemas including the Coolidge Corner in Boston, MA and the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Marin is currently working on her own independent film shot entirely on Super 8 film entitled “Vespers” featuring landscape montages from all over the world woven with personal portrait stories. Her full resume can be found on IMDB here -
Josh Young--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.
CharLy B likes dinosaurs, spaceships, aliens, and pizza. Rocky & Bullwinkle is his favorite cartoon. Reading is neat. Math is FUN. CharLy likes bugs and raccoons too. Oh yeah, and puzzles are super fun.