“The Coast Guard and Sheriff’s Dept. came to inspect the Miss Rockaway Armada. We passed! With flying colors (more or less).”

Moonlight Test

Art Down the Mississippi. At Least, That’s the Plan. NY Times – Get a PW on Bugmenot
For more than a week, the “Miss Rockaway Armada” — a few dozen self-selected artists from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Seattle, San Francisco and beyond — has toiled here on the banks of the Mississippi River, assembling salvage wood and cadged Styrofoam into three interconnected rafts, each 20 feet long.Factor in a few tag-along rafts, and the ensemble piece has the vague shape of a giant fish. It is supposed to motor down the river with two Volkswagen Rabbit engines converted to biodiesel that are also capable of running on vegetable oil.

It has been a huge, oft-delayed undertaking. The crew was going to leave around Aug. 1, then later in the week, then Saturday for sure.

[Sunday came and went. After a successful test float Monday night, the crew decided all systems were go, according to A’yen Tran, an occasional spokeswoman, and their departure, she said, was imminent. But you never know.]

Bike powered ferris wheel.

One imagines a scene in which Mark Twain meets Ray Bradbury, the May Day parade and the Burning Man festival.

Flickr Miss Rockaway Flash Slideshow

Filed under: Tags: Bikes Art, Performance, Sculpture, Street Art, Video by gamma