{"id":4190,"date":"2013-10-06T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2013-10-05T12:52:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T10:52:33","slug":"junk-boats-river-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=4190","title":{"rendered":"Junk Boats, River Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These photos are from an excellent photo essay my mother sent me months ago. It&#8217;s too good to have been sitting in my unpublished posts que for too long. This project touches so many of my interests these days, street performance, building forts, sailing, traveling the world, river pirates. It&#8217;s magic!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swimmingcities3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4218\" title=\"swimmingcities3\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swimmingcities3-620x413.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swimmingcities3-620x413.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swimmingcities3-440x293.jpeg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swimmingcities3.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swoon.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4219\" title=\"swoon\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swoon-440x293.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swoon-440x293.jpeg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swoon-620x413.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/swoon.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wired featured the same photos with more information on the main artist, who calls herself Swoon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/rawfile\/2013\/07\/hobo-steampunk-boats-house-river-running-art-collective\/\">It&#8217;s worth a look.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/todseelie.com\/\">Tod Seelie<\/a>, a friend of Swoon\u2019s, has been on all the trips so far as a crew member and brought his camera to document the creativity and chaos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI can only really speak for me,\u201d Seelie says, \u201cAnd really it\u2019s a combination of things, but I\u2019d say the main point [of the trips] is inspiration. It\u2019s the inspiration we feel and the inspiration other people feel when they come across us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They built this ships out of New York City trash and in 2009 sailed them, uninvited, from Slovenia to Venice for the\u00a0Venice Biennale. Really, my timing is just right. By the time you read this I&#8217;ll be sailing down from Slovenia on the A4\u00a0<em>autostrada, <\/em>blasting past Venice to Florence for another seven months of school at Helikos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photos are from an excellent photo essay my mother sent me months ago. It&#8217;s too good to have been sitting in my unpublished posts que for too long. This project touches so many of my interests these days, street performance, building forts, sailing, traveling the world, river pirates. It&#8217;s magic! Wired featured the same&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}