COMPETING gangs: beavers with cleavers, space pirates, the fulton mules, skulleaters, skullfuckers, lucifarians, grinding nemo, special k, sea witches n bitches, newtown greeks, Cygnus Buccinator 5 Swans No prisoners, playgue, alice in plunderland, octonauts, angieophile, Honest Earl's Crazy Pre-Used Flotation Emporium, rubber duckie gang, hydrarchy, seamonkey business.
The great majority of these photos are by Tod Seelie, polaroids by Nick McManus
2016 MAU MAU Cup holders, winners of "best in show" the "beavers with cleavers"
"THE FRONT PORCH OF BACKDECKISTAN" fundraiser event flyer
Press ARTICLES:
Gothamist: ORIANA LECKERT photos Tod Seelie
gothamist.com/2016/07/25/mau_mau_island_photos.php#photo-1
Bedford and Bowery: DANIEL MAURER Photos: Nick McManus
http://bedfordandbowery.com/2016/07/art-gangs-had-rifts-on-rafts-at-the-battle-for-mau-mau-island/
gothamist.com/2016/07/25/mau_mau_island_photos.php#photo-1
Bedford and Bowery: DANIEL MAURER Photos: Nick McManus
http://bedfordandbowery.com/2016/07/art-gangs-had-rifts-on-rafts-at-the-battle-for-mau-mau-island/
MYTHOLOGY: The black atoll agartha, repository of the complexity
MANPELT 33: (the so called “lost pelt”, “discovered” or introduced, 237th rotation) The Testament of Gaius Gagemaker.
“May you live in interesting times” This expression is most often misrepresented as a Chinese curse. To live in interesting times and contribute to them is no curse but rather the greatest blessing.
There is no proper word for it, it is not a function or purpose, or “destiny” or preordained as if conceived by some ludicrous god. It Is best described simply as a strong tendency. We don’t know if the universe is getting bigger or better, that doesn’t really matter. What is important is that it is getting more interesting, more complicated. What we refer to reverentially as THE COMPLEXITY. To refer to it merely as a tendency denies it its importance. The most profound and rewarding pursuit for a human lifetime is in service to THE COMPLEXITY. That is why I conceived GREENZONE, but that place is now an over ripe fruit, predictably decadent, self referential, static, terminal. There is more opportunity for service to the complexity here in REDZONE. If you are content to subsist as a barnacle, gleaning off the ambient energy, a buyer and seller of things, a facilitator of meaningless transactions, a peddler of hollow opinions, you are in no service to THE COMPLEXITY. Every new thought, every innovation is in its service; create, build, proliferate, manifest the complexity on this earth and pass from it knowing you have lived with purpose.
Beware though, THE NOTHING, A powerful and insidious force of homogenization, banal conformity, a trivial, bourgeois squandery of life and resource, a cozy nest of cowards that defies THE COMPLEXITY. Do not engage in it, despite its siren's song of security, it is perpetuated by oligarchy for oligarchies benefit and runs contrary to the potential of the universe. Oligarchy retards the complexity so it may wallow in the tepid waters of banality.
It rests at a 90º angle, held to face of the water precipice, the brink of the counterpole vortex at the far edge of the earth. The Black Atoll, AGARTHA, repository of THE COMPLEXITY, the last bastion in the sea of banality.
"BE THE COMPLEXITY" -GAIUS CAGEMAKER
NOTE: To most he is an inconsequential “boogie man”, despite his very brief appearance in the book of purpose (only 580 lines) Gaius Cagemaker is vilified to satanic proportions by extremists who are known to live Spartan lives of impractical and borderline dangerous simplicity. They maintain that service to the THE COMPLEXITY is a double edged sword, that the ultimate result of it is “the end of all things," a return to the primordial origin of the nothing. They describe a moment at which everything that can happen, will happen, simultaneously, when there is no longer any room for vibrations to vibrate in, all fillable voids are filled with form. Total vibration cancellation. The universe will become static and implode into a single point of unmeasurable finiteness.
“May you live in interesting times” This expression is most often misrepresented as a Chinese curse. To live in interesting times and contribute to them is no curse but rather the greatest blessing.
There is no proper word for it, it is not a function or purpose, or “destiny” or preordained as if conceived by some ludicrous god. It Is best described simply as a strong tendency. We don’t know if the universe is getting bigger or better, that doesn’t really matter. What is important is that it is getting more interesting, more complicated. What we refer to reverentially as THE COMPLEXITY. To refer to it merely as a tendency denies it its importance. The most profound and rewarding pursuit for a human lifetime is in service to THE COMPLEXITY. That is why I conceived GREENZONE, but that place is now an over ripe fruit, predictably decadent, self referential, static, terminal. There is more opportunity for service to the complexity here in REDZONE. If you are content to subsist as a barnacle, gleaning off the ambient energy, a buyer and seller of things, a facilitator of meaningless transactions, a peddler of hollow opinions, you are in no service to THE COMPLEXITY. Every new thought, every innovation is in its service; create, build, proliferate, manifest the complexity on this earth and pass from it knowing you have lived with purpose.
Beware though, THE NOTHING, A powerful and insidious force of homogenization, banal conformity, a trivial, bourgeois squandery of life and resource, a cozy nest of cowards that defies THE COMPLEXITY. Do not engage in it, despite its siren's song of security, it is perpetuated by oligarchy for oligarchies benefit and runs contrary to the potential of the universe. Oligarchy retards the complexity so it may wallow in the tepid waters of banality.
It rests at a 90º angle, held to face of the water precipice, the brink of the counterpole vortex at the far edge of the earth. The Black Atoll, AGARTHA, repository of THE COMPLEXITY, the last bastion in the sea of banality.
"BE THE COMPLEXITY" -GAIUS CAGEMAKER
NOTE: To most he is an inconsequential “boogie man”, despite his very brief appearance in the book of purpose (only 580 lines) Gaius Cagemaker is vilified to satanic proportions by extremists who are known to live Spartan lives of impractical and borderline dangerous simplicity. They maintain that service to the THE COMPLEXITY is a double edged sword, that the ultimate result of it is “the end of all things," a return to the primordial origin of the nothing. They describe a moment at which everything that can happen, will happen, simultaneously, when there is no longer any room for vibrations to vibrate in, all fillable voids are filled with form. Total vibration cancellation. The universe will become static and implode into a single point of unmeasurable finiteness.
ARTISTS INTERPRETATION, COUNTERPOLE VORTEX AS DEPICTED IN THE 1928 EXPLORERS CLUB ALMANAC