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It’s that time of year again! And the fine folks from Swimming Cities<\/a> – who won “Best in Show” at last year’s World Maker Faire<\/a> – are so close to their goal, raising money for their Ocean of Blood project. They’ve just last week packed a 40′ shipping container with their hand-welded pontoon boats – “sculptural watercraft” – and sent it en route to Farrukhabad in India. That’s paid for. Now they just need to raise money for themselves<\/em> – so they can actually get there, receive the container, and float their boat down the Ganges River! There are so many wonderful people involved with this project – and so many artists who have donated work for their silent auction – which opens this Saturday and runs for 1 week at Gallery 151<\/a> on the Bowery. I’ll be at the opening – and I made this piece, “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t” (below), specifically for this auction. It’s a light-based motion-sensor dummy camera, covered in flock camo, wall-mounted, with a giant red blinking light! It’s “dummy art”.<\/p>\n FEATURING 100 SELECTED WORKS BY ARTISTS including:<\/p>\n SWOON, DUKE RILEY, TOM BEALE, IMINENT DISASTER, DICKCHICKEN, BEN WOLF, MONICA CANILAO, ORIEN MCNEILL, BEN MORTIMER, ZACK TUCKER, ANGIE KANG, MARIN TOCKMAN, MAYRA CIMET, TOD SEELIE, DOYLE S HUGE, NICK NORMAL, MARTINA MRONGOVIUS, LOPI LAROE, ROBIN FROHART, GREG HENDERSON, ALEX DYKE, ISAAC ADEN, ANDREW PONEROS PORK, ZEV DAVID DEANS, IRIS STVN LASN, CATHERINE YAEGER, ELIZABETH BENTLEY, HANNAH MISHIN, POLINA SOLOVEICHIK, MALCOLM MCNEILL, GIACOMO FORTUNATO, LESLIE STEM, CHARLIE PRATT, CLAIR HUNTINGTON, KATE SULLIVAN, BUCKY COX, CONRAD CARLSON, BOB MASSE, KATE FOISY, TONY BONES, NOAH SPARKS, AND MORE<\/strong><\/p>\n FEBRUARY 19th-26th<\/p>\n Opening:<\/strong> Feb. 19th 7pm-1am w\/DJ Stache suggested donation $10 at the door*<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s that time of year again! And the fine folks from Swimming Cities – who won “Best in Show” at last year’s World Maker Faire – are so close to their goal, raising money for their Ocean of Blood project. They’ve just last week packed a 40′ shipping container with their hand-welded pontoon boats – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[334,646],"series":[],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-auction","tag-swimming-cities"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5453998041_216b26f9ec_b.jpg?fit=1024%2C765&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-1Nr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Swimming Cities Annual Silent Art Auction<\/h2>\n
\nClosing:<\/strong> Feb. 26th 7pm-1am w\/DJ JORO BORO
\nOPEN BAR sponsored by Original Sin & Brooklyn Brewery<\/p>\n*one-time donation. show us your bidder id card from the opening event for entry to closing event<\/h3>\n
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