We have no real fun here in the crossroads of Opportunity. It takes a guy named Duke Riley to show you how to do it. A tatoo and performance artist who uses both media to make his point, whatever that may be. He describes it this way:
My work addresses the prospect of residual but forgotten unclaimed frontiers on the edge and inside overdeveloped urban areas, and their unsuspected autonomy. I am interested in the struggle of marginal peoples to sustain independent spaces within all-encompassing societies, the tension between individual and collective behavior, the conflict with institutional power. I pursue an alternative view of hidden borderlands and their inhabitants through drawing, printmaking, mosaic, sculpture, performative interventions and video structured as complex multimedia installations.
In the most recent case, a well, living and breathing re-enactment of the 
surprise attack of the USS (United States Submarine)Turtle in NY Harbor in winter of 1776-1777. Well, most renactments are pretty lame. Duke pretty much nailed this one, substituting the QE2 for Lord Howe's flagship. Including not damaging it at all. A Defeatist moment from American History, and no one got hurt.
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