Finally, Someone Invents Street Canoes

Parfyme Deluxe has built a pair of Street Canoes--one extremely big and a baby--out of garbage they rescued from underneath the Queensboro Bridge. Stills are projected of their voyage through the city, pulling themselves forward with hookers grabbing onto stationary street signs poles and

pushers for asphalt and cars. Parfyme (pronounced Parfum and a deliberate misspelling of it) is a three member team from Copenhagen, active since 2000. They have launched their raggedy vehicles and habitats throughout Europe, in Denmark, Poland, England, Germany, France and Finland (visit Parfyme.dk). Here, they join forces with New York's own Deluxe to become Parfyme Deluxe (as in, figuratively, with lettuce, tomatoes and fries). The four first worked together in Paris in Radioproject earlier this year.