News & Blogs Floating Cities That Sail The Seas to Travel and Perform

[benjysirois]

Boat punks and squatters unite!

http://www.mtlblog.com/2013/10/floating-cities-that-sail-the-seas/

Floating Cities That Sail The Seas
The Fat 30 artists create Swimming Cities to travel and perform.

by Michael D'Alimonte · October 15, 2013 ·

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Pirate ships are out and insane floating cities made from recycled materials are in this sailing season. 30 artists from around the United States have combined their efforts to create ‘Swimming Cities,’ a travelling piece of land enabling the group to travel and perform for the world. Designed and organized by printmaker/installation artist SWOON, the urban islands were made in 2009, all out of salvaged materials. Take to the seas and take a look at the Swimming Cities and its populace in the images below. Anyone else get crazy Waterworld flashbacks?

Photo Cred – Tod Seelie

Source- Swimming Cities

 

[Bommi]

This is brilliant!

 

[Tick Dickler]

that looks so cool gonna try that first chance.

 

[Kim Chee]

I wanna be a sea gypsy!

 

[MEOW]

wow thats awesome!
imagine having a huge floating city. take it out to international waters and live there forever.
big floating platforms with dirt that you harvest crops from, all solar power panels. that'd be sick

 

[benjysirois]

wow thats awesome!
imagine having a huge floating city. take it out to international waters and live there forever.
big floating platforms with dirt that you harvest crops from, all solar power panels. that'd be sick

That's the dream!

 

[Dmac]

So Cool!

 

[iamwhatiam]

I wonder how much a barge would cost. would need to outfit it with machine guns and cannons to keep the bad pirates away. also, I wonder which crops would be salt tolerant enough to grow out on the ocean.....yay more stuff to research

 

[Matt Derrick]

so, yes, these guys are totally awesome, and i think everyone should do this.

but at the risk of being a wet blanket, the website that published this "article" (it's approximately 100 words) chose to do so almost 3 years after the last event put on by this group. they also use all of tod seelie's pictures, while giving credit, but probably not asking permission. websites like these just steal content from other sites and re-blog it for ad revenue.

sorry to be so bitter, it's just that those pictures have been around for a long time, but that's not the OP's fault. thanks for posting, i hope it inspires others to do something like this

 

[Odin]

Reminds me of the plastic bottle island.

(not to distract from OP)

Here is a vid on it huh...

 

[Dmac]

who doesn't want their own island?

 

[Matt Derrick]

Reminds me of the plastic bottle island.

(not to distract from OP)

Here is a vid on it huh...

yeah, that guy lives in cancun now from what ive heard. he gives tourists tours of his self-made island there.

 

[sketchytravis]

this is pretty sick. I wonder how well theyd fare in sea storms though

 

[Matt Derrick]

this is pretty sick. I wonder how well theyd fare in sea storms though

A sea storm would crush them. Its important to remember that these were floating river barges and never went out to the actual "sea".

Id really like to see more people doing this, so check out the website above and http://missrockaway.org, the website of their first project.

If other people were into it, maybe we could do an STP version

 

[Odin]

Half seriously... I can operate a dozer/excavator... I think I would skip the whole river barge and start collecting buoyant materials.... (water bottles exct... ) and go with building another island. Though on the west coast of mexico.
Gulf of california looks nice and you can traffic tourists from cabo san luca I bet.

 

[dprogram]

A sea storm would crush them. Its important to remember that these were floating river barges and never went out to the actual "sea".

Id really like to see more people doing this, so check out the website above and http://missrockaway.org, the website of their first project.

If other people were into it, maybe we could do an STP version

sounds amazing... I wonder how hard it is to just dock wherever and if there are certain requirements for operating a barge.

 

[Matt Derrick]

sounds amazing... I wonder how hard it is to just dock wherever and if there are certain requirements for operating a barge.

The way they did it I seriously doubt it. I doubt it would be all that difficult to find a place to sit for the night as well. Do some searching on the board and you'll find other posts about floating the Mississippi that are pretty informative.

 

[dprogram]

Oh man as if I need another adventure bug... =P

 

[Rob Nothing]

Never never land on the mississippi!



I'll bet they didn't sound half bad.