Add it to
hummus and
hating corporations. New York SWPLs are now
swimming in dumpsters. Apparently, it's very profound.
To be surrounded by this landscape and to be in the water is a very incongrous experience. It makes you wonder, as so many things in New York do, what’s behind every wall that you can’t see past.
She's an "artist". A clearly homosexual musician follows:
Ya know it's funny, I was just in Switzerland in May and urban swimming is very developed there... People were swimming all along it right in the heart of the city.
Here's Christian Lander on "
studying abroad" (note the parallels): "When I used to live in [insert country], I would always ride the train to school. The people I’d see were inspiring." Here's the ultimate goal:
Macro-Sea itself is using the project as a template for a larger idea: turning eyesore strip malls into artsy community destinations, with Dumpster pools and other indie attractions.
Finally, they're asked about the secrecy. Like indie rock bands none of their friends know, that's a huge part of the appeal. And I'm sure the
New York Times isn't fawning over such garbage, right?
And the only thing cooler than that, as a few enterprising developers recently discovered, is a secret pool party in a pool made out of a Dumpster on the banks of the Gowanus Canal in industrial Brooklyn.
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a pool made out of a Dumpster on the banks of the Gowanus Canal in industrial Brooklyn
Or they could just jump into the Gowanus, which would provide the (overflowing) Dumpster experience without the rental fee.
Peter
"they have erected what they call a lo-fi urban country club: three connected pools housed in Dumpsters; a boccie court; some lounge chairs, grills and cabanas. "
This actually sounds like a lot of fun, but very white trash. Where is the game of toilet seat horseshoes? Once again, hipsters have taken something they would otherwise be embarrassed to partake in and made it cool by being ironic or deconstructing something.
Swimming is the wrong word for this activity. You couldn't take one stroke in that thing. It's just a poor man's excuse to get stupid women to take off their clothes in an private setting.
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