One Wednesday afternoon last fall I found samiusieńka – old wreckage of a wooden ship, surrounded by boys by the waters of the Kill Van Kull channel, almost 10 km from the coast of new York. This was not the case, but never knew that I was still waiting.
That day he woke me up with a SMS sent from another room. “Be at 14.30 in sung Harbor, Staten island. Wear waterproof boots”. The message was signed “IDA”. It was about I’m Going Benedetto, professionally engaged in “designing experiences” that I met two months earlier for some dinner. The same day she is one of the founders Sextantworks, the company organizing the event in an unusual, often illegal areas, and its partner, N. D. Austin was waiting for me in front of a tent, which hosted the annual conference of the Future of Storytelling.
we went Down it on the path leading through the bushes, we crossed the road and was on rachitycznym the platform on which she waited for a height of just over half a meter yachts. – At sunset, on the barge, we want to organize a little celebration, ‘ said Austin. – If you don’t mind, we’ll leave you with things and do we go to our hotel. 15 minutes later the phone rang. Hey, it turns out, we’d be gone half an hour – everything OK? – asked Austin. – In a large suitcase-it’s the whiskey. Yeah, you can cut some lemons?
Benedetto and Austin are the people who trust you with self training bar remains floating in the water of the ship by which ships are huge signs. The Duo arranges this kind of parties since 2012, but the turning point was 2013 – it was then that drew attention to themselves. This happened thanks to a Night Heron, an illegal bar on the institution of prohibition and the current in the interior of the empty tank to the water in an abandoned building manhattańskiego West Side. We had to make the stairs 14. floor, and then, with ropes and gear, pull a few meters, – says Austin. The cargo consisted of three old pianos that have been dismantled and adapted to the service bar and salon. The first guests were friends – not necessarily friends, just interesting people who like this design might like. Since then, the business, on the contrary, exploded. Night Heron attracted attention from the press, and Sextantworks was inundated with requests from individuals and companies offering payment of commissions. – Then we understand that this may be our busy work, says Benedetto.
Inspiration were the hosts of urban researchers and designers experience, such as the Suicide Club in San Francisco- secret society, whose members rise up to the bridges and inscenizują challenging games in the channels, the Cacophony Society, a group zagłuszaczy culture, which was established in 80-ies. in San Francisco and began working in the world of Burning Man, the annual festival held in the Nevada desert, and the Association Jacuzzi, the Swiss-based group extreme swimming, which wsławiła yourself zwieszeniem under the bridge hot bath, so that it was possible to swim several meters above the Alpine rozpadliskiem. I love how people do something crazy, says Austin. – Have some fantasy and make it happen.
Benedetto and Austin built his career on the rise where no one was invited. Look too uncommon. The woman has a red beam, large zielonoszare eyes and stretched auricle of the ear poprzekłuwane thick, green spirals its way ascend teenager stage punk (then, too, often bathed naked in the waters, on the water, so typical for the roofs of new York buildings). Austin is a dark-haired man, in appearance a bit like Charlie Chaplin, with a thick brush mustache, frequently wearing smokingową jacket with jeans. Both thirty years old. – N. D. likes to say that I am a Builder, and he is a virtuoso, says Benedetto. She does przetrząsaniem archives and is licensed paramedic. Austin, grew up in Alaska, directs ekspedycjami, manages the building of most places and plays an important role of a charismatic frontman.
Each project Sextantworks, regardless of whether it is implemented on an order or not, is assessed on the basis of the author’s system GLIT, which is an abbreviation of the words magnanimity (generosity), location (location), proximity (intimacy) and the scale of infidelity offences ” (transgression). Take, Night Heron. In this case, the location, the proximity and scale of the violations, more or less obvious. But it is the element of generosity made that illegal business became a hit in new York. The first group invited to the Night Heron guests entered for free, but can buy pocket watches for 80 dollars. they were a kind of entrance tickets for two people for the following appointment. Due to the large demand, the price very quickly rose to $ 300, and at the event they showed themselves even celebrities. For the entire project due to the sales of watches,” says Benedetto.
In 2013. the conference Future of Storytelling – the structure of jury included producer Brian Grazer, the curator of the Museum of Modern Art Paola Antonelli and Al Gore paid 10 thousand. dollars per party for VIP–persons residing in the High Line Hotel. The idea was to create a climate of a priest and the installation of confessionals. In 2013 and 2014. the organizers of the Black Prom, prepared on the initiative of the writer Alicia Keys, during which collected funds for the fight against AIDS, hired Sextantworks to develop custom experiences for major donors and changed the formula of the annual charity event. Subsidies increased by 76 percent. says Natalie Galazka, who helped in the organization of the ball.
last year, as Benedetto, and Austin received two orders from the very rich, singing, at least 100 thousand. dollars for the organization of extravagant weekend activities. – I can only say that on one of them, 18 people decided to make myself a tattoo, including I – said Benedetto.
She and Austin met in 2012. through a mutual friend. Originally, each of them believed that this second is a little weird. – It lasted a little before we filled for yourself belief, says Benedetto. At the time, I just created an Antidote Game – start–up opracowujący games for the Innocence Project, the organization of non-profit organizations acting in favor of changing the negative stereotypes, and also for the red cross and other humanitarian organizations. The profile of the company was in compliance with what used to do: after quitting his studies in Oberlin College, she went hitchhiking to Guatemala to photograph the former guerrillas, who sells coffee in accordance with the principles of fair business. Later, making at the same time a degree in history and design technology at Parsons School of Design, landed in Ethiopia as a Fulbright scholar, where she worked in the team of the festival, which is conducted by persons orphaned by AIDS.
Austin, who in poetry at Amherst College, worked as an installer and anonymously organized urban expedition as a fun Hiking on the Williamsburg Bridge.
In the end, they managed to bond together and began to travel. One night, driving through the Poconos, came to the abandoned boarding house for the newlyweds. – There were waterfalls, bath in the heart shaped and round beds, – says Benedetto. We thought: there is something to do. Invited seven couples who have only known a time of gathering: at seven in the morning at the gate of one of new York’s parks. There you sat in busika. We came to this quiet and opustoszałego places, there was total silence, – says an employee of JPMorgan, who wish to remain anonymous. – It was like ruin porn. We walked into the lobby, and suddenly started to play a brass band, she says. Experience – called Illegal Retreat for Couples – it was something so special that helped Sextantworks to Finance the next project, a photo safari in the abandoned new York sugar factory Domino, one of the symbols of the city.
Benedetto claims that they were caught only once, during the execution of the private instructions – the protection rose to the picnic spot, which indicate refused. They all went into raptures, he says, adding that no one was arrested. This can happen only when the event is private and dangerous.
After he promised to cut the lemons przetarłam glass on a broken beam, I have a makeshift bar. It was fragrant in the afternoon, and I was grateful for that moment of solitude in new York. Does not hurt me even a very scenic view of the industrial part of new Jersey. When I saw Benedict and Austin in a boat full of guests, I felt a slight disappointment.
the evening was a little reward for the lucky participants of the conference Future of Storytelling. Austin and Benedetto personally chose the group in which he was the cartoonist of “new Yorker” and a Manager with Procter & Gamble – a total of five people. Each of them received a mysterious, scribbled an invitation for “short trip”. Austin made Brazilian cocktails called ocaso, which in Portuguese means sunset. And the sunset. From a portable speaker, made of the elements of the megaphone and an old tin tubes rozlegała the music of Talking Heads. – Oh God, – said one of the guests. – Have not suffered me nothing exciting. Who the hell are these people?
Caroline winter
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