Atlantic Tunnel

Bob in the pre-excavated crawl space back in 1981.

Bob today. On the other side of the concrete wall he busted through 30 years ago.

Just finished what had to be one of the best weekends in a long while. What more romantic way to spend Valentine's Day than under the streets of Brooklyn, in the once-lost-then-found (indiana jones-style) Atlantic Ave Tunnel?!

From BHRA website: The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel is officially the world's oldest subway tunnel. This tunnel was built in 1844, under a City of Brooklyn Street... Bob Diamond(in b&w above) rediscovered the long forgotten Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in 1980.

This is honestly one of the best experiences we've had in the city. The tour is lead by Bob Diamond, who tirelessly hunted for and re-discovered the tunnel back when he was 19. He fills in all the historic information gaps with amazing tales of brawling Manhattan vs. Brooklyn cops, east river pirates, and the on-going effort to find the resources to excavate the remainder of the tunnel beyond the filled-in stone wall (above) where they believe lies a buried but fully intact wood burning steam locomotive.

After crawling back out of the tunnel, we headed over to Stan's for the best beignets and fried oyster po-boys.

Stitch Wall

Just finished up a couple of deadlines and spending way too much time in the studio, but the work has been super exciting, we've been getting some new press (our buds at softlab are loading up the press section as we speak)and there is more to come soon.

Check out these wall proposals. These are 2 options of a set of 4 that probably aren't going to get built, but we've been talking with the great Regin Schwaen, who just fabric cast a 110' X 8' concrete wall for his cloud house in Fargo, ND and who was excited enough about our design, that we just about convinced him to fly out to collaborate. Most of my experience in precision casting comes from the time I spent with Regin casting ferro-cement dormers for Villa-S (b&w photo by Regin.) and I'd love to work with him again.

I'm starting to think we might put this particular design up on ebay. What do you think? Anybody out there want to buy a wall? Sarah - i know you guys already have a box, Jenni? Pia? Grace? Love to get your feedback.