We’re back! After a much deserved vacation, we’ve come back to you. And hopefully, you to us.
While we were on vacation, we got this great tip about One Take New York, a spin-off of Blogotheque. We were instantly fascinated by The Quavers performance on the Gowanus Canal. We lived within a stone’s throw of the canal until last September and have crossed it’s iridescent, littered waters more times than we can count. The canal makes the news now and then. The newspapers cheered when life was found surviving in its waters in 1999. We all watched horrified in 2007 as Sludgie (a. k. a. Murky), a baby Minke whale, died from all the pollution in the Gowanus after being lost there for two days. The story even made the national news.
So when we saw The Quavers in their canoe paddling up the canal past the scrap metal recycling center (see the photo above) we were equally fascinated. Would they capsize? Did they have any idea of the danger they were in? What if the water got in their eyes or mouthes? Would the pollution dissolve them instantly? In end, all we got was a pretty cool video of a band tempting fate.
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