swimming cities

SWOON has created these "junk rafts"- crafted from construction site cast-offs and recycled scraps. their manifesto is “bits of land broken off and headed to sea.” they're a part of a project called swimming cities. this is their third installment, one on the hudson, and one on the mississippi. this time their headed off to the adriatic sea, where their going from slovenia to venice.

From Chicago With Love...

There is an incredible amount of active industry in Chicago, unlike any other major city we have been to. It is intermixed into the various neighborhoods, such that, a Trader Joes and CB2 abuts the trash heap you see below, for example.





Trying to find our way home, one drunken night when we had first moved here, we stumbled into a steel factory that was actually pouring bright hot iron ore. It was memorizing to watch, and surprisingly, no one kicked us out... in fact, one worker explained the process to us (at 3a.m.)





That same drunken night, Rebecca tried to climb a fence and explore the area depicted below, convinced doable, a good idea, and had water access... wrong!