THIS LIST IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY< FROM MARCH 29th DO NOT EDIT < DOES NOT UPDATE
THE BATTLE FOR MAU MAU ISLAND 2016
please put your name next to your suggestions so we know who made them, thanks.
EVENT DATES:
March 25 26 fri, Sat, build and launch prototype dock. set anchor
March 29 wed, start crowdfunding campaign.
May 7 Sat, physical fundraiser ? Nowhere magazine space? pioneerworks?
May 10 11 12 Tue Wed Thu, Build second set of two docks
May 16 launch facebook event mau mau date no location
June 29th, close crowdfunding campaign , have lots of money
June 2 3 4 Thur Fri Sat, build final set of three docks and launch
June 12 Sunday, final finishing touches workday blitz on atoll
June 16 Thursday. small event “un-christening” of the atoll, celebration of completion and beta test and enthusiasm generator for mau mau island. Get good photos.
July 22 23 24 Fri, Sat ,Sun. THE BATTLE FOR MAU MAU ISLAND
NAME/THEME:
in the past we have given each event a name like “the one hundred boats of battle atoll” and “return to mau mau island” “mau mau island is cancelled” etc.
the gate of AGARTHA
NARRATIVE:
MANPELT 33: (the so called “lost pelt”, “discovered” or introduced, 237th rotation) 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 cosy 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.
It rests at a 90% angle, held to face of the water precipice, the brink of the counterpole at the far edge of the earth. The Black Atoll, AGARTHA, repository of THE COMPLEXITY, the last bastion in the sea of banality.
NOTE: To most he is an inconsiquential “boogie man” and despite his very brief apperence in the book of purpose (only 580 lines) Gias Cagemaker is vilified to satanic proportions by extreamists who are known to live spartain lives of impracticle and boarderline dangerouse 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. This moment is THE COMPLEXITY
Mammon god of currencies perpetuates systems of greater concentration of wealth. The success of these systems create a situation where too much potential energy is withheld in static accounts and in the hands of too few. The complexity thrives in grotesque abundance. Agents of the complexity detest mammon for his hoardings.
A more holistic view may be that THE NOTHING and THE COMPLEXITY should be viewed as two sides of the same force, growing and feeding off of one another as neither can exist autonomously and are made greater by comparison to one another, that imbalance is the true enemy. As creatures that thrive in the presence of things more so than in the absence of them, we lean to favor the complexity.
the universe is complexifying in an exponential trajectory toward the moment of absolute complexity. The 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. The complexity is the undeniable driving tendency of the universe. The “nothing” or “bourgeois assholism” is the enemy of the complexity, a force that harbours a tendency to homogenize and commodify everything, to make all the same. AGARTHA is the repository of complexity, A seed bank of all known forms and information, the last bastion in the sea of banality.
ATOLL:
ATOLL DESIGN:
DISPLACEMENT:
one 4 by 2 by 1 dock float displaces 499 pounds. times 10 4,992 pounds
one 4 by 2 by 16’’ dock float displaces 648 pounds. times 10 6,489 pounds
pt lumber: one 2 by 12” by 12 weighs 52.6 pounds 4.2 lbs per foot
linear dock 190 ft of wood 798 lbs
dock float 30lbs times 10 300
dock 24.4 feet 292.8 in
decking: 22 14 foot 5/4 decking boards 26 lbs per board 585 lbs per linear dock
200 lbs hardware
linear dock weight 1,583 plus 300 floats lbs approx
12” depth floats 3,409 surplus displacement , 22 people
16” depth floats 4,906 surplus displacement , 32 people
168 square feet divided by 4, 42 people
DOCKS FOR SALE CRAIGSLIST
https://cnj.craigslist.org/bpo/5206316507.html 3 docks 8'X27' 1500 each sold
https://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/boa/5245154324.html 6 docks 20by5 500 each
https://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/grd/5233309923.html FOOD GRADE IBC TOTES. 275-GALLON TANK. - $160 (YONKERS)
ATOLL LOGISTICS AND ANCHORING:
tieing to existing wreck or submerged object
existing moorings
building anchor
driving piling
tieng to existing piling
steel rails for launching, ways -mike
ATOLL BUILD CREW:
Orien
porter
ATOLL STORAGE:
on land with charles friend upstate lake -charles?
north shore long island at heavy machinery yard -charles?
at marina 59 in water -orien
marina at 84th st in the water -orien
vacant lot in rockaway in edgemere?
599 beach 45th st
Midget Squadron Yacht Club $560 per year for large boats (718) 251-9823
barbara from marina 59 house on the water
ATOLL FUNDING:
BUDGET:
lumber 2 by 12 by 12 $23.27 aprox $480 per section
hardware $200
dock floats 2’by4’ by 16” $118 times $1,534 per sec 72 $8,496
connecting hardware
cleats 7 $105
steel plates 4 by 8 sheet ¼ inch $200 1,200
cnc plasma cutting -contact ryan via mike o’toole 250 per sheet $1,500
dtm paint $25 per section
5/4 pt 14’ decking 45 pieces per linear dock $400 per section
joist hangers 46 per linear dock 17 per angle dock 63 $200
anchoring hardware
heavy line 6 lengths at 30’
large swivel $25
large shackle
large chain for anchor blocks
large chain 2,250
large mooring ball float
anchor. engine blocks 70 each 300lbs, engine rebuilders.
threshold walkway bridge
scaffold
truss
storage
transportation
diving
scouting
launch system $500 I-beams, trolly steel 250, castors,
$3,394 Approx per dock section
APPROX TOTAL FOR DOCKS $20,364
2,250 anchoring system
ASSEMBLED ATOLL SPECS
approx diameter 84 ft tip to tip
11,298 lbs
cost $20,364
FUNDRAISING:
ART SALON CROWDFUNDING
MERCHANDISE:
$15 LEVEL
temporary tattoo http://24hourwristbands.com/shop/custom-tattoos/3-x-4-custom-tattoos
400 at 67 cents each $268 ?
$25 LEVEL
printed sippy cup. https://www.4imprint.com/search/cup/product/105869-16/Spirit-Tumbler-16-oz
$4.17 each 48 units 199
printed waterproof cell phone case https://www.4imprint.com/search/waterproof%20phone/product/116527/Waterproof-Case-Phone
$4.99 per unit min 48 $240
$35 LEVEL
printed Panties https://www.spreadshirt.com/women-s-hip-hugger-underwear-C59D2/product/1009973558
17 units $175 $10.25 each PROFIT less than $420
Discobike pendants
Printed Wife beater http://www.branders.com/ $634 plus 35 shipping 100 units
100 underwater handjob w/ eyecontact
200 thai yoga massage heather mo’witz
200 fire massage, stacy dawn
500 junk boat in water for event
1000 private boat to sleep on at event
1000
CONTRIBUTORS FOR ARTWORK:
nico
orien
EVENTS
event at abc sanctuary -Aaron lackman
Shop space bens friend?
Burns house vox
Market hotel
noware studios -porter?
silent auction 151 gallery -matt namer
house of yes
pioneer works -porter
barge -porter -legality?
tender trap -ed zipco
la luz -Andriana Santiago
pioneer works
unbranded $5000 to rent 1268 flushing 550 people run bar, sound ok, not legal
299 vandervort 5000 bar g staffing 1500 sound and projection, legal
chicken hut, chicken of the sea, lightningbolt
paperbox, mary
staten island ferry -mike
carwash -mike
barge -jaque
PARTY PROMOTERS:
FREE
mau mau captains
flux
juliette
sari
nonsence
porter
timeout
electric current
conrad
facebook ads ask shay
will etundi, holistically
silent barn
ed zipco
PERCETAGE PAY
ERIC NYC RAVERS 200 PEOPLE $500
FUNDRAISING EVENT NOTES:
challenge teams to teams to contribute to events theatrically
GRANTS
blackrock grant: profile theoceanofblood pass: burnerherzog
Thank you for applying to the Burning Man Global Art Grants program. We received your completed proposal on 1/31/2016 8:49 PM and it has been assigned ID number APP-142.
We expect to finish reviewing proposals and notify applicants around March 31, 2015 at 4:00 PM.
awesome foundation/ also for new jersey urban waterway camping trip
puffin foundation
franklin furnace, theatrical.
SPONSORSHIPS
hendricks gin
PBR events
bacardi
sailor jerry
kraken
captain morgan
Genevieve: Made in the United States by Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco. A throwback to the earliest forms of gin.
campari
schofferhofer grapefruit beer
501 c3 UMBRELLA or LLC:
Edgemere Yacht Club
fractured atlas
ART SALON:
Hey there ******** hope the weather is treating you well, It’s getting summer out there!! And that means The Battle for Mau Mau Island is coming. I’m contacting you because you're funny and an artist and you love this event, so I invite you to contribute a piece of artwork to our upcoming art salon. It’s an online fundraiser hosting art, sculpture and esoteric services like, (I’ll drive you around Maspeth in my car and tell you all about Medici family, in period costume) etc. We are offering a commission to cover materials and expenses. This year’s MAU MAU to going to be the best one yet and we are funding some fun shit. I would love to see what your making. Its very easy, all you have to do is send an image of your thing or idea and I put it up!
Thank you so much, see you on the water
http://www.thebattleformaumauisland.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
EVENT LOCATIONS:
JAMAICA BAY
marina 59
edgemere
mau mau island
motts basin
OTHER LOCATIONS
riverhead long island
coney island inlet
pelham bay
BOAT CLUBS AND SMALL MARINAS IN ROCKAWAY:
Miramar Yacht Club
Howard Beach Motor Boat Club
Varuna Boat Club
Sebago Canoe Club Inc
Anabas Boat Clubs Inc
Sheepshead Bay Yacht Club
rockaway Point Yacht Club
Midget Squadron Yacht Club
BRIDGING RELATIONSHIPS WITH BEACH COMMUNITIES AND MARINAS
LEGALITY
is congregating on the water legal
legal parameters for dropping moorings
legal parameters for using existing moorings
legal parameters for tying to a submerged object or wreck
legality of owning moving and using a dock
registering a dock?
PARTNERING WITH OTHER EVENTS OR INSTITUTIONS
socrates sculpture park
south st seaport
seaworthy
newtown water alliance?
proteus gowanus?
build it green -justin DECKING
gowanus water conservancy?
ephemerisle
jamaica bay conservancy
rockaway artist alliance
sabago canoe club north jamaica bay contact cory foot via-ryan jahn tianas friend from canoe trip
MAU MAU EVENT FORMAT:
friday through sunday two nights camping with events on saturday, bands evening
camping space available to rent
diy boat building
gladiatorial combat
loose narrative with some small supporting theatrics
free bar
food for sale
Using a block party permit for day of event for beach 45th st. and hough place
GLADIATORIAL COMBAT
pugil fighting
advanced pugil fighting for people that are serious about it
boat regatta
human swim race
boat jousting
best diy boat
worst diy boat
best gang theme
best dressed
CAMPING
atoll will have a deck wide enough to accommodate five foot tents to be rented
camping on a beach or campsite nearby
BATHROOMS?
what the fuck do we do about turds?
DUMPSTER
BLOCK PARTY PERMIT:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/cecm/html/office/office.shtml
login oring7
pass Conchbasin7$
block parties may insist on mandatory recycling?
million fucking dollar insurance policy
STAFF:
stage director
announcer
lifeguard
emt
cleanup1
cleanup 2
pugil fighting czar
boat jousting czar
food czar
potluck bar czar
bar stuard
boat launching assist czar
block pary order and cleanup czar
designated jet ski driver 1
designated jet ski driver 2
ferryman 1
ferryman 2
canoe club captain
PROMOTION
nonsense ny to announce invitation for gangs
chicken john tipsy list
jeff stark
COLLATERAL EVENTS:
- captains club cocktail soiree “Town hall” q and a captains meeting
-mau mau island hudson river ice boating event
-un-christening the atoll june 16 thursday , skill sharing event, colab rockaway artist alliance. partner with mfta for reuse of materials for
TERMS:
activating the waterfront through visual intervention and performance
challenges perceptions of urban space
RECRUITING NEW CORE TEAM MEMBERS
any suggestions?
NEW GANGS….NEW PEOPLE, INSTITUTIONS AND ARTIST GROUPS FOR PARTICIPATION
personal friends
water and boat organisations
the staff of a bar or restaurant you like
out of town people and groups
NEW GANGS:
Patri friedman of “Ephemerisle” seasteading institute
chicken john
rockaway artist alliance
the tamaqua bar
artisan's asylum somerville boston, jimmy p. rogers, notice board -nick normal
Tom otterness has a boat on gowanus
hudson river ice boaters
tom otterness
gowanus dredgers
Dan Olson at the Sebago Canoe Club contact ryan jahn
BANDS ENTERTAINMENT:
“battela” all girl drum corps band contact
Matt dallow
wild yacks
morgan o’kane
THEATRICAL ELEMENT:
Any thoughts on a theatrical element that has to do with the themes and narrative of MAU MAU ISLAND?
CRAZY SPECTACLE:
I was thinking how everyone always bitches about burning man being so much better in the beginning because you could do really crazy shit and how we are still at that stage with MAU MAU. what crazy spectacle or activity could we do?
water jet pack combat, Muzzled sharks, dosed attack drones -Doc
exploding oxy acetylene remote control sharks
BAR:
any suggestions?
mike o'toole’s platform boat outfitted as bar?
secret swim under the dock to bar between the floats -Nico
an open potluck style bar where every team has to bring something to deposit with bar manager
SCHOLARSHIPS:
free tickets or discounted tickets for those that
FOOD:
goodies
offer a restaurant the concession for a fee, they make some money or cover costs while promoting their restaurant to a target demographic.
food boat profit center paul food czar provided food.
DECO:
floating fire pits
drumming gauntlet for threshold
tower walkway across atoll opening
deco for threshold of atoll
LIST OF BOATS THAT CAN BE RENTED OR BORROWED TO OFFER TO BOATLESS GROUPS:
marinas with junk boats that can be plugged and rented for the weekend
LIST OF BOATS:
please ad your boat or boat name and boats of people you know that i have forgotten or boat names i don't know, thanks
99 problems but a fish ain’t one -orien
sinky canoe -orien
large sail boat , the vacelanda -tory
pigeon small sail boat -tory
christina -sean rice
medium sail boat, -czack (name)
speed boat -porter
canoe -porter
large sail boat -sean rice
large sail boat, alma -pork andrew
large sail boat -ducati dave
medium sailboat -duke riley
platform boat -mike otoole
platform boat -matt build it green
zodiak -matt build it green
encumbrance raft - bruce
tin boat skiff with motor -Bruce
zodiak -schamonchi
large cabin cruiser -Vox
cigarette boat scarab -Vox
small sail boat -vec
small sail boat, chaos -brian jordan
small sail boat Laramax -mary frisby
all watermelon hull boat with waving arm inflatable tube man sale -sara fox
aluminium 19 ft runnabout -Josh young
COLLATERAL EVENTS:
-mau mau island hudson river ice boating event
-un-christening the atoll june 16 thursday
GENERAL TO DO LIST AND MISC NOTES
make dock budget
create interactive mau mau gangs gallery page
build mau mau island website
collect all photos and videos
make promo teaser video for 2016
ask if chicken john would send an invitation to his camp tipsy list
create high quality diy boat building resource kit and forum
CREW ROLES:
Roll czar: ORIEN
Roll title: Milliner
Roll description:
Roll description event day:
crew: nico
assistants:
Roll czar: PORTER
Roll title:
Roll description:
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
Roll czar: CZACK
Roll title:
Roll description:
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
Roll czar: MIKE O”TOOLE
Roll title: Head engineer
Roll description: To design and coordinate build of junction hardware for docks, anchor system and ball joint crossbar for atoll opening.
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
Roll czar: ???
Roll title: Thespian cat herding czar STAGE MANAGER
Roll description: To make sure all events during mau mau happen on time and to coordinate performers
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
Roll czar:
Roll title: Buoyancy infrastructure fruition facilitator
Roll description: coordinate materials and man power to build and launch docks
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
EXTENDED POTENTIAL CREW LIST
George ingalls
nicolina
tod d'amor
arron lackman
duke riley
mary frisby
craig MK
mike o'toole
porter fox
tory
mortimer
czack
shalin
dan glass
charles walters
chassy cleland
bruce beese
shane
ed zipco
perry
tyler gamelan
oliver
iris
lindsay arden
jonathan yaney
winkle
martina
matt dallow
sean rice
andrew ratcliff
derby
george grahem
greg hendersen
nick taylor
jesse roadkill
drew entropy
tom porter
kat Relish
ryan jahn 704 724 8772
ryanwilliamjahn@gmail.com
Text on atoll from website removed
contribute salon page:specifically the construction of the "Agartha Atoll"
Agartha is floating island community space. She will be composed of six large floating docks configured in a heptagonal open atoll formation. This atoll will provide a necessary centralizing architecture for the event as a dock, amphitheater, promenade and camping area for the next five years. More about "Agartha" (link)
specifically the construction of the "Agartha Atoll"
Agartha Atoll is floating island community space. She will be composed of six large floating docks configured in a heptagonal open atoll formation. This atoll will provide a necessary centralizing architecture for the event as a dock, amphitheater, promenade and camping area for the next five years.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY FOR::::GRANTS:
BASIC THEMES:
utilizing public spaces, specifically waterways
learning about boats , water and boat safety through experience, trial and error
diy boat building
team building
community building
outlet for showcasing art groups from around the country
the AGARTHA Atoll as a community events space
mandatory participation, there are no spectators at mau mau island
gladiatorial combat, pseudo athletic challenges
leave no trace
overnight camping
loose theatrical narrative and written narrative
Warrior Sea Tribes of MAU MAU Island!! This is a very important message. We are announcing an open call for art work and esoteric services for the MAU MAU annual art salon fundraiser. You are the MAU MAU community, help make the event possible, please share this, repost this let people know
To contribute artwork or service: http://www.thebattleformaumauisland.com/contribute-art-salon.html
To view the salon: http://www.thebattleformaumauisland.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
There will be a physical closing event in New York, yet to be announced
BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT MAU MAU:
2011. MAU MAU started as an offshoot of “The Swimming Cities Of The Ocean Of Blood” art boat adventure project down the Ganges River. It was started by the crew of that project loosely based on a moped gang event in Virginia called Aquabattle.
The first year we held the event near Gerritsen beach just south of “MAU MAU Island” a colloquial name for “White Island” A man made island near Floyd Bennett field. The island is a bird sanctuary and natural preserve. we used an old wooden chris craft cabin cruiser at anchor as the center of the floatilla. The event was free with free drinks created as a kind of thank you gesture to all the people who had helped us fundraise over the previous 2 years. We challenged all the art collectives, groups and team leading individuals we knew to form costumed gangs like in “the Warriors” and build improvised boats. The event was surprisingly well received and attended.
2012. The second Battle for mau mau island (THE 100 BOATS OF BATTLE ATOLL) was by far the most well conceived , well attended and successful incarnation of the event. At the time my girlfriend Angie Kang and I were building and running “the boatel” at marina 59 in far rockaway. for this event we rented the entire boatel fleet of 18 boats and a few other marina customer boats and arranged them into an atoll formation. This was highly successful because it created an ambitious spectacle, and an inclusive environment for the event to take place in. The boats were anchored in a ring with an opening to allow for improvised boats to enter and leave. the atoll provided an amphitheater for people to view the mayhem in the middle and a safe space for people to swim with protection from motor boats , wind , waves ect.
2013, 2014, 2015, (mau mau island is cancelled) (return to mau mau island) (the maritime academy for ultimate marine arts unlimited). In subsequent years the event has been popular and fun but has been lacking in the scale and centralizing architecture of the atoll.
2016. (AGARTHA) The 2012 atoll was great for all the aforementioned reasons but it had many serious drawbacks and opportunities for improvement through design. our plan is to build a piece of centralizing architecture, an atoll shaped dock base structure. six 24 foot linear docks connected by angled dock sections that will form an open seven sided polygon. this dock will be anchored at its center allowing it to rotate on center, self regulating its orientation in response to changing weight and drag from boats and people moving a-symmetrically around it as well as tide and wind. This is safer , more efficient and saves tremendous time dealing with loads of different anchors set in different directions. The 2012 atoll was extremely hard to traverse around, this new central dock structure allows people to circumambulate easily while providing a stable safe observation area around the events in the center. Most importantly it allows for people’s non improvised boats to come and go throughout the 48 hour event as they please without being tied in a web of lines, other boats and anchors as they can now tie to the outside of the atoll. The atoll keeps “real” boats and improvised boats separated and keeps participants safe from motors. The atoll also creates an iconic shape and graphic identity for the mau mau event. The atoll will be constructed entirely of pressure treated lumber, marine grade hardware and durable dock floats to insure safety and to allow us to use it for five years or more.
This years event will also be extended into a two night, camping event, the generous 7 foot width of the dock allows for tent camping around the atoll without compromising the walking path. This keeps the camping aspect inclusive on the atoll centralizing the whole event and allows people to be better rested and prepared.
BLACKROCK GRANT
they choose 15 out of 300
$6,000
TERMS:
activating the waterfront through visual intervention and performance
challenges perceptions of urban space
active resource
annual event
new event space in ny when they are
additional purpose
pilot program starting something
NOTES:
brian mcgarry waterways lawyer.
write about rockaway for Kat
THE BATTLE FOR MAU MAU ISLAND 2016
please put your name next to your suggestions so we know who made them, thanks.
EVENT DATES:
March 25 26 fri, Sat, build and launch prototype dock. set anchor
March 29 wed, start crowdfunding campaign.
May 7 Sat, physical fundraiser ? Nowhere magazine space? pioneerworks?
May 10 11 12 Tue Wed Thu, Build second set of two docks
May 16 launch facebook event mau mau date no location
June 29th, close crowdfunding campaign , have lots of money
June 2 3 4 Thur Fri Sat, build final set of three docks and launch
June 12 Sunday, final finishing touches workday blitz on atoll
June 16 Thursday. small event “un-christening” of the atoll, celebration of completion and beta test and enthusiasm generator for mau mau island. Get good photos.
July 22 23 24 Fri, Sat ,Sun. THE BATTLE FOR MAU MAU ISLAND
NAME/THEME:
in the past we have given each event a name like “the one hundred boats of battle atoll” and “return to mau mau island” “mau mau island is cancelled” etc.
the gate of AGARTHA
NARRATIVE:
MANPELT 33: (the so called “lost pelt”, “discovered” or introduced, 237th rotation) 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 cosy 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.
It rests at a 90% angle, held to face of the water precipice, the brink of the counterpole at the far edge of the earth. The Black Atoll, AGARTHA, repository of THE COMPLEXITY, the last bastion in the sea of banality.
NOTE: To most he is an inconsiquential “boogie man” and despite his very brief apperence in the book of purpose (only 580 lines) Gias Cagemaker is vilified to satanic proportions by extreamists who are known to live spartain lives of impracticle and boarderline dangerouse 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. This moment is THE COMPLEXITY
Mammon god of currencies perpetuates systems of greater concentration of wealth. The success of these systems create a situation where too much potential energy is withheld in static accounts and in the hands of too few. The complexity thrives in grotesque abundance. Agents of the complexity detest mammon for his hoardings.
A more holistic view may be that THE NOTHING and THE COMPLEXITY should be viewed as two sides of the same force, growing and feeding off of one another as neither can exist autonomously and are made greater by comparison to one another, that imbalance is the true enemy. As creatures that thrive in the presence of things more so than in the absence of them, we lean to favor the complexity.
the universe is complexifying in an exponential trajectory toward the moment of absolute complexity. The 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. The complexity is the undeniable driving tendency of the universe. The “nothing” or “bourgeois assholism” is the enemy of the complexity, a force that harbours a tendency to homogenize and commodify everything, to make all the same. AGARTHA is the repository of complexity, A seed bank of all known forms and information, the last bastion in the sea of banality.
ATOLL:
ATOLL DESIGN:
DISPLACEMENT:
one 4 by 2 by 1 dock float displaces 499 pounds. times 10 4,992 pounds
one 4 by 2 by 16’’ dock float displaces 648 pounds. times 10 6,489 pounds
pt lumber: one 2 by 12” by 12 weighs 52.6 pounds 4.2 lbs per foot
linear dock 190 ft of wood 798 lbs
dock float 30lbs times 10 300
dock 24.4 feet 292.8 in
decking: 22 14 foot 5/4 decking boards 26 lbs per board 585 lbs per linear dock
200 lbs hardware
linear dock weight 1,583 plus 300 floats lbs approx
12” depth floats 3,409 surplus displacement , 22 people
16” depth floats 4,906 surplus displacement , 32 people
168 square feet divided by 4, 42 people
DOCKS FOR SALE CRAIGSLIST
https://cnj.craigslist.org/bpo/5206316507.html 3 docks 8'X27' 1500 each sold
https://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/boa/5245154324.html 6 docks 20by5 500 each
https://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/grd/5233309923.html FOOD GRADE IBC TOTES. 275-GALLON TANK. - $160 (YONKERS)
ATOLL LOGISTICS AND ANCHORING:
tieing to existing wreck or submerged object
existing moorings
building anchor
driving piling
tieng to existing piling
steel rails for launching, ways -mike
ATOLL BUILD CREW:
Orien
porter
ATOLL STORAGE:
on land with charles friend upstate lake -charles?
north shore long island at heavy machinery yard -charles?
at marina 59 in water -orien
marina at 84th st in the water -orien
vacant lot in rockaway in edgemere?
599 beach 45th st
Midget Squadron Yacht Club $560 per year for large boats (718) 251-9823
barbara from marina 59 house on the water
ATOLL FUNDING:
BUDGET:
lumber 2 by 12 by 12 $23.27 aprox $480 per section
hardware $200
dock floats 2’by4’ by 16” $118 times $1,534 per sec 72 $8,496
connecting hardware
cleats 7 $105
steel plates 4 by 8 sheet ¼ inch $200 1,200
cnc plasma cutting -contact ryan via mike o’toole 250 per sheet $1,500
dtm paint $25 per section
5/4 pt 14’ decking 45 pieces per linear dock $400 per section
joist hangers 46 per linear dock 17 per angle dock 63 $200
anchoring hardware
heavy line 6 lengths at 30’
large swivel $25
large shackle
large chain for anchor blocks
large chain 2,250
large mooring ball float
anchor. engine blocks 70 each 300lbs, engine rebuilders.
threshold walkway bridge
scaffold
truss
storage
transportation
diving
scouting
launch system $500 I-beams, trolly steel 250, castors,
$3,394 Approx per dock section
APPROX TOTAL FOR DOCKS $20,364
2,250 anchoring system
ASSEMBLED ATOLL SPECS
approx diameter 84 ft tip to tip
11,298 lbs
cost $20,364
FUNDRAISING:
ART SALON CROWDFUNDING
MERCHANDISE:
$15 LEVEL
temporary tattoo http://24hourwristbands.com/shop/custom-tattoos/3-x-4-custom-tattoos
400 at 67 cents each $268 ?
$25 LEVEL
printed sippy cup. https://www.4imprint.com/search/cup/product/105869-16/Spirit-Tumbler-16-oz
$4.17 each 48 units 199
printed waterproof cell phone case https://www.4imprint.com/search/waterproof%20phone/product/116527/Waterproof-Case-Phone
$4.99 per unit min 48 $240
$35 LEVEL
printed Panties https://www.spreadshirt.com/women-s-hip-hugger-underwear-C59D2/product/1009973558
17 units $175 $10.25 each PROFIT less than $420
Discobike pendants
Printed Wife beater http://www.branders.com/ $634 plus 35 shipping 100 units
100 underwater handjob w/ eyecontact
200 thai yoga massage heather mo’witz
200 fire massage, stacy dawn
500 junk boat in water for event
1000 private boat to sleep on at event
1000
CONTRIBUTORS FOR ARTWORK:
nico
orien
EVENTS
event at abc sanctuary -Aaron lackman
Shop space bens friend?
Burns house vox
Market hotel
noware studios -porter?
silent auction 151 gallery -matt namer
house of yes
pioneer works -porter
barge -porter -legality?
tender trap -ed zipco
la luz -Andriana Santiago
pioneer works
unbranded $5000 to rent 1268 flushing 550 people run bar, sound ok, not legal
299 vandervort 5000 bar g staffing 1500 sound and projection, legal
chicken hut, chicken of the sea, lightningbolt
paperbox, mary
staten island ferry -mike
carwash -mike
barge -jaque
PARTY PROMOTERS:
FREE
mau mau captains
flux
juliette
sari
nonsence
porter
timeout
electric current
conrad
facebook ads ask shay
will etundi, holistically
silent barn
ed zipco
PERCETAGE PAY
ERIC NYC RAVERS 200 PEOPLE $500
FUNDRAISING EVENT NOTES:
challenge teams to teams to contribute to events theatrically
GRANTS
blackrock grant: profile theoceanofblood pass: burnerherzog
Thank you for applying to the Burning Man Global Art Grants program. We received your completed proposal on 1/31/2016 8:49 PM and it has been assigned ID number APP-142.
We expect to finish reviewing proposals and notify applicants around March 31, 2015 at 4:00 PM.
awesome foundation/ also for new jersey urban waterway camping trip
puffin foundation
franklin furnace, theatrical.
SPONSORSHIPS
hendricks gin
PBR events
bacardi
sailor jerry
kraken
captain morgan
Genevieve: Made in the United States by Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco. A throwback to the earliest forms of gin.
campari
schofferhofer grapefruit beer
501 c3 UMBRELLA or LLC:
Edgemere Yacht Club
fractured atlas
ART SALON:
Hey there ******** hope the weather is treating you well, It’s getting summer out there!! And that means The Battle for Mau Mau Island is coming. I’m contacting you because you're funny and an artist and you love this event, so I invite you to contribute a piece of artwork to our upcoming art salon. It’s an online fundraiser hosting art, sculpture and esoteric services like, (I’ll drive you around Maspeth in my car and tell you all about Medici family, in period costume) etc. We are offering a commission to cover materials and expenses. This year’s MAU MAU to going to be the best one yet and we are funding some fun shit. I would love to see what your making. Its very easy, all you have to do is send an image of your thing or idea and I put it up!
Thank you so much, see you on the water
http://www.thebattleformaumauisland.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
EVENT LOCATIONS:
JAMAICA BAY
marina 59
edgemere
mau mau island
motts basin
OTHER LOCATIONS
riverhead long island
coney island inlet
pelham bay
BOAT CLUBS AND SMALL MARINAS IN ROCKAWAY:
Miramar Yacht Club
Howard Beach Motor Boat Club
Varuna Boat Club
Sebago Canoe Club Inc
Anabas Boat Clubs Inc
Sheepshead Bay Yacht Club
rockaway Point Yacht Club
Midget Squadron Yacht Club
BRIDGING RELATIONSHIPS WITH BEACH COMMUNITIES AND MARINAS
LEGALITY
is congregating on the water legal
legal parameters for dropping moorings
legal parameters for using existing moorings
legal parameters for tying to a submerged object or wreck
legality of owning moving and using a dock
registering a dock?
PARTNERING WITH OTHER EVENTS OR INSTITUTIONS
socrates sculpture park
south st seaport
seaworthy
newtown water alliance?
proteus gowanus?
build it green -justin DECKING
gowanus water conservancy?
ephemerisle
jamaica bay conservancy
rockaway artist alliance
sabago canoe club north jamaica bay contact cory foot via-ryan jahn tianas friend from canoe trip
MAU MAU EVENT FORMAT:
friday through sunday two nights camping with events on saturday, bands evening
camping space available to rent
diy boat building
gladiatorial combat
loose narrative with some small supporting theatrics
free bar
food for sale
Using a block party permit for day of event for beach 45th st. and hough place
GLADIATORIAL COMBAT
pugil fighting
advanced pugil fighting for people that are serious about it
boat regatta
human swim race
boat jousting
best diy boat
worst diy boat
best gang theme
best dressed
CAMPING
atoll will have a deck wide enough to accommodate five foot tents to be rented
camping on a beach or campsite nearby
BATHROOMS?
what the fuck do we do about turds?
DUMPSTER
BLOCK PARTY PERMIT:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/cecm/html/office/office.shtml
login oring7
pass Conchbasin7$
block parties may insist on mandatory recycling?
million fucking dollar insurance policy
STAFF:
stage director
announcer
lifeguard
emt
cleanup1
cleanup 2
pugil fighting czar
boat jousting czar
food czar
potluck bar czar
bar stuard
boat launching assist czar
block pary order and cleanup czar
designated jet ski driver 1
designated jet ski driver 2
ferryman 1
ferryman 2
canoe club captain
PROMOTION
nonsense ny to announce invitation for gangs
chicken john tipsy list
jeff stark
COLLATERAL EVENTS:
- captains club cocktail soiree “Town hall” q and a captains meeting
-mau mau island hudson river ice boating event
-un-christening the atoll june 16 thursday , skill sharing event, colab rockaway artist alliance. partner with mfta for reuse of materials for
TERMS:
activating the waterfront through visual intervention and performance
challenges perceptions of urban space
RECRUITING NEW CORE TEAM MEMBERS
any suggestions?
NEW GANGS….NEW PEOPLE, INSTITUTIONS AND ARTIST GROUPS FOR PARTICIPATION
personal friends
water and boat organisations
the staff of a bar or restaurant you like
out of town people and groups
NEW GANGS:
Patri friedman of “Ephemerisle” seasteading institute
chicken john
rockaway artist alliance
the tamaqua bar
artisan's asylum somerville boston, jimmy p. rogers, notice board -nick normal
Tom otterness has a boat on gowanus
hudson river ice boaters
tom otterness
gowanus dredgers
Dan Olson at the Sebago Canoe Club contact ryan jahn
BANDS ENTERTAINMENT:
“battela” all girl drum corps band contact
Matt dallow
wild yacks
morgan o’kane
THEATRICAL ELEMENT:
Any thoughts on a theatrical element that has to do with the themes and narrative of MAU MAU ISLAND?
CRAZY SPECTACLE:
I was thinking how everyone always bitches about burning man being so much better in the beginning because you could do really crazy shit and how we are still at that stage with MAU MAU. what crazy spectacle or activity could we do?
water jet pack combat, Muzzled sharks, dosed attack drones -Doc
exploding oxy acetylene remote control sharks
BAR:
any suggestions?
mike o'toole’s platform boat outfitted as bar?
secret swim under the dock to bar between the floats -Nico
an open potluck style bar where every team has to bring something to deposit with bar manager
SCHOLARSHIPS:
free tickets or discounted tickets for those that
FOOD:
goodies
offer a restaurant the concession for a fee, they make some money or cover costs while promoting their restaurant to a target demographic.
food boat profit center paul food czar provided food.
DECO:
floating fire pits
drumming gauntlet for threshold
tower walkway across atoll opening
deco for threshold of atoll
LIST OF BOATS THAT CAN BE RENTED OR BORROWED TO OFFER TO BOATLESS GROUPS:
marinas with junk boats that can be plugged and rented for the weekend
LIST OF BOATS:
please ad your boat or boat name and boats of people you know that i have forgotten or boat names i don't know, thanks
99 problems but a fish ain’t one -orien
sinky canoe -orien
large sail boat , the vacelanda -tory
pigeon small sail boat -tory
christina -sean rice
medium sail boat, -czack (name)
speed boat -porter
canoe -porter
large sail boat -sean rice
large sail boat, alma -pork andrew
large sail boat -ducati dave
medium sailboat -duke riley
platform boat -mike otoole
platform boat -matt build it green
zodiak -matt build it green
encumbrance raft - bruce
tin boat skiff with motor -Bruce
zodiak -schamonchi
large cabin cruiser -Vox
cigarette boat scarab -Vox
small sail boat -vec
small sail boat, chaos -brian jordan
small sail boat Laramax -mary frisby
all watermelon hull boat with waving arm inflatable tube man sale -sara fox
aluminium 19 ft runnabout -Josh young
COLLATERAL EVENTS:
-mau mau island hudson river ice boating event
-un-christening the atoll june 16 thursday
GENERAL TO DO LIST AND MISC NOTES
make dock budget
create interactive mau mau gangs gallery page
build mau mau island website
collect all photos and videos
make promo teaser video for 2016
ask if chicken john would send an invitation to his camp tipsy list
create high quality diy boat building resource kit and forum
CREW ROLES:
Roll czar: ORIEN
Roll title: Milliner
Roll description:
Roll description event day:
crew: nico
assistants:
Roll czar: PORTER
Roll title:
Roll description:
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
Roll czar: CZACK
Roll title:
Roll description:
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
Roll czar: MIKE O”TOOLE
Roll title: Head engineer
Roll description: To design and coordinate build of junction hardware for docks, anchor system and ball joint crossbar for atoll opening.
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
Roll czar: ???
Roll title: Thespian cat herding czar STAGE MANAGER
Roll description: To make sure all events during mau mau happen on time and to coordinate performers
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
Roll czar:
Roll title: Buoyancy infrastructure fruition facilitator
Roll description: coordinate materials and man power to build and launch docks
Roll description event day:
crew:
assistants:
EXTENDED POTENTIAL CREW LIST
George ingalls
nicolina
tod d'amor
arron lackman
duke riley
mary frisby
craig MK
mike o'toole
porter fox
tory
mortimer
czack
shalin
dan glass
charles walters
chassy cleland
bruce beese
shane
ed zipco
perry
tyler gamelan
oliver
iris
lindsay arden
jonathan yaney
winkle
martina
matt dallow
sean rice
andrew ratcliff
derby
george grahem
greg hendersen
nick taylor
jesse roadkill
drew entropy
tom porter
kat Relish
ryan jahn 704 724 8772
ryanwilliamjahn@gmail.com
Text on atoll from website removed
contribute salon page:specifically the construction of the "Agartha Atoll"
Agartha is floating island community space. She will be composed of six large floating docks configured in a heptagonal open atoll formation. This atoll will provide a necessary centralizing architecture for the event as a dock, amphitheater, promenade and camping area for the next five years. More about "Agartha" (link)
specifically the construction of the "Agartha Atoll"
Agartha Atoll is floating island community space. She will be composed of six large floating docks configured in a heptagonal open atoll formation. This atoll will provide a necessary centralizing architecture for the event as a dock, amphitheater, promenade and camping area for the next five years.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY FOR::::GRANTS:
BASIC THEMES:
utilizing public spaces, specifically waterways
learning about boats , water and boat safety through experience, trial and error
diy boat building
team building
community building
outlet for showcasing art groups from around the country
the AGARTHA Atoll as a community events space
mandatory participation, there are no spectators at mau mau island
gladiatorial combat, pseudo athletic challenges
leave no trace
overnight camping
loose theatrical narrative and written narrative
Warrior Sea Tribes of MAU MAU Island!! This is a very important message. We are announcing an open call for art work and esoteric services for the MAU MAU annual art salon fundraiser. You are the MAU MAU community, help make the event possible, please share this, repost this let people know
To contribute artwork or service: http://www.thebattleformaumauisland.com/contribute-art-salon.html
To view the salon: http://www.thebattleformaumauisland.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
There will be a physical closing event in New York, yet to be announced
BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT MAU MAU:
2011. MAU MAU started as an offshoot of “The Swimming Cities Of The Ocean Of Blood” art boat adventure project down the Ganges River. It was started by the crew of that project loosely based on a moped gang event in Virginia called Aquabattle.
The first year we held the event near Gerritsen beach just south of “MAU MAU Island” a colloquial name for “White Island” A man made island near Floyd Bennett field. The island is a bird sanctuary and natural preserve. we used an old wooden chris craft cabin cruiser at anchor as the center of the floatilla. The event was free with free drinks created as a kind of thank you gesture to all the people who had helped us fundraise over the previous 2 years. We challenged all the art collectives, groups and team leading individuals we knew to form costumed gangs like in “the Warriors” and build improvised boats. The event was surprisingly well received and attended.
2012. The second Battle for mau mau island (THE 100 BOATS OF BATTLE ATOLL) was by far the most well conceived , well attended and successful incarnation of the event. At the time my girlfriend Angie Kang and I were building and running “the boatel” at marina 59 in far rockaway. for this event we rented the entire boatel fleet of 18 boats and a few other marina customer boats and arranged them into an atoll formation. This was highly successful because it created an ambitious spectacle, and an inclusive environment for the event to take place in. The boats were anchored in a ring with an opening to allow for improvised boats to enter and leave. the atoll provided an amphitheater for people to view the mayhem in the middle and a safe space for people to swim with protection from motor boats , wind , waves ect.
2013, 2014, 2015, (mau mau island is cancelled) (return to mau mau island) (the maritime academy for ultimate marine arts unlimited). In subsequent years the event has been popular and fun but has been lacking in the scale and centralizing architecture of the atoll.
2016. (AGARTHA) The 2012 atoll was great for all the aforementioned reasons but it had many serious drawbacks and opportunities for improvement through design. our plan is to build a piece of centralizing architecture, an atoll shaped dock base structure. six 24 foot linear docks connected by angled dock sections that will form an open seven sided polygon. this dock will be anchored at its center allowing it to rotate on center, self regulating its orientation in response to changing weight and drag from boats and people moving a-symmetrically around it as well as tide and wind. This is safer , more efficient and saves tremendous time dealing with loads of different anchors set in different directions. The 2012 atoll was extremely hard to traverse around, this new central dock structure allows people to circumambulate easily while providing a stable safe observation area around the events in the center. Most importantly it allows for people’s non improvised boats to come and go throughout the 48 hour event as they please without being tied in a web of lines, other boats and anchors as they can now tie to the outside of the atoll. The atoll keeps “real” boats and improvised boats separated and keeps participants safe from motors. The atoll also creates an iconic shape and graphic identity for the mau mau event. The atoll will be constructed entirely of pressure treated lumber, marine grade hardware and durable dock floats to insure safety and to allow us to use it for five years or more.
This years event will also be extended into a two night, camping event, the generous 7 foot width of the dock allows for tent camping around the atoll without compromising the walking path. This keeps the camping aspect inclusive on the atoll centralizing the whole event and allows people to be better rested and prepared.
BLACKROCK GRANT
they choose 15 out of 300
$6,000
TERMS:
activating the waterfront through visual intervention and performance
challenges perceptions of urban space
active resource
annual event
new event space in ny when they are
additional purpose
pilot program starting something
NOTES:
brian mcgarry waterways lawyer.
write about rockaway for Kat