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Worth pointing out Grimes and this fella were emulating/riding the coattails of the Miss Rockaway Armada who’d been doing their thing for a few years at that po

• adwn 3y ago
  > [0] https://archive.is/oaUF1 https://archive.is/oaUF1 - NyTimes story How many "Select all squares with..." captchas do I have to solve to access the site? I closed the tab on the fourth iteration.
  • sterlind 3y ago
    archive.is is messed up like that for me too, lately. I have no clue how to work around it, but it seems to be tied to my device rather than IP.
    • g_sch 3y ago
      I also stopped being able to read articles on archive.is about a week ago because of this captcha loop. It seems to be related to my device and browser - my Firefox gets hit with the captcha loop, but Chrome on the same machine loads the article fine, and DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser also loads the page on my phone.
• neilk 3y ago
  Yes, the idea of floating a “junk” raft is undoubtedly bitten from a much more interesting artist, Swoon, who had done it the previous year. Here’s a video about the artist from around that time, including one of the raft projects. https://youtu.be/h9rTmTFMYH0 https://youtu.be/h9rTmTFMYH0 I happened to see one of these rafts being constructed. They may look like junk on the top, but that is just Swoon’s art style, a 3d collage of different materials. The raft platforms themselves were prototyped and tested. I am not a boating person so I don’t know how safe they really wore, but they were far more solid than you would expect from their outward appearance. The whole thing was still a mad adventure though, one of my favorite art projects of the decade.