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Posts Tagged ‘Raygun Gothic Rocketship’

In West Oakland, artists build lifesize submarine merging nostalgia and futurism

By Casey Capachi | November 28, 2011 | 8

Deep in West Oakland, a collective of artists called Five Ton Crane (5TC) is hard at work tuning up their submarine Nautilus. Although it doesn’t go underwater, there seems to be little else this lifesize submarine can’t do—it even defends its perimeters with a water spear gun and bumps tunes from its built-in iPad technology.

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