Monthly Archives: August 2015

Gowanus Swimming Hole

August 6, 2015 – 10:28 pm

Several weeks before my departure to Thailand Jocko Weyland told me about his project to provide the Gowanus Canal with pools by filling dumpsters with water. The idea was radical in both concept and location. The cost was minimal thanks to contributions to Macro-seas from a construction company with a surplus of dumpsters. Jocko showed […]

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Danny Tinneny RIP

August 6, 2015 – 3:55 pm

Danny Tinneny owned a lot along the Gowanus Canal, which the 64 year-old gave to the extreme real estate developer Macro Sea rent-free for their Dumpster Pools and Glassphemy projects. “To tell you the truth, when they first came here, I thought they were nuts,” he said of Jocko Weyland and his partners. And they […]

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Gowanus Dumpster Pool

August 5, 2015 – 4:15 pm

In the summer of 2009 Macro Sea filled two dumpsters with water and opened the Gowanus Canal swimming hole. Jocko Weyland, one the the minds behind the pools, invited me to the opening and I planned on leaping off a nearby roof into the water. Jocko didn’t think this was a good idea. “It’s not […]

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DANNY’S LOT BY Jocko Weyland – Book Opening – Tonight

August 5, 2015 – 3:25 pm

This evening from 6-8 the infamous Jocko Weyland, curator of Tucson’s ICM, will have an opening for his photo homage to his old friend, Danny, at Dashwood Books – 33 Bond Street – Between Lafayette and the Bowery. I’ll be there with Dakota from Weird Womb.

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The Good Russian Boris

August 4, 2015 – 3:54 pm

On August 18, 1991 Boris Yeltsin and his backers was under siege at the Moscow parliament. The old commies were staging an armed coup to oust Gobarchov’s successor. He drank a bottle of vodka and confronted the rebel soliders in tanks. They listened to his passionate plea from Rodina and did not fire on the […]

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