Live from the Bermuda Triangle: Sailor Profiles

Confirmed Crew Members:
Frankie Martin www.frankiefeverforever.com
Frankie Martin is an artist and sailor living in Brooklyn, NY. Primarily working in video and painting, Frankie is represented by CANADA, a contemporary gallery in NYC, NY. (www.canadanewyork.com) Frankie works in themes of popular culture as it relates to the personal, self improvement, happiness and nature. Frankie has an international following of fans, to which her website is dedicated. Frankie has experience sailing keelboats.

Patrick Doyle has sailed keelboats and raced dinghies for most of his life.  He has sailed from Maine to Florida, spending alot of time on Lake Michigan and the Chesapeake Bay in particular.  He is currently a student of architecture at the Cooper Union and is in his third summer teaching for the Offshore Sailing School on 26 foot keelboats in New York City.

Peter Field is a carpenter in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of the novella Discovery Of Meat and releases records under the name Ken Horsehair. He is a designer of small-scale urban poultry houses, his most recent innovation: the sunlight-actuated chicken/duck door. Field is skilled at making anything out of anything, like MacGuyver and Jesus. He was a child actor from 1991 until 1996 and is university-educated. Field led canoe trips around Penobscot Bay in Maine for two summers and has taken one ocean sailing voyage on a 30' sailboat around the British Virgin Islands. Field has sailed small boats (420's and Sunfishes) in lakes and bays all his life. His favorite names of the parts of the boat are windlass, poopdeck and below. His true boating skill is in a canoe, where he is unrivaled.

Potential Crew Members:

Sarah Price www.sarahprice.net
Sarah Price is an award-winning filmmaker whose films include the feature documentaries Summercamp! (Argot Pictures/Sundance Channel 2008), The Yes Men (United Artists/MGM 2004), Caesar’s Park (Sundance Channel 2003) and American Movie (Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Sundance Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics 1999). Additional directing work includes a music video for Warner Bros. recording artist Har Mar Superstar (MTV2), and artist David Robbins’TV variety show, The Ice Cream Social (the MOMA-Paris 2004). Other notable credits include co-editor of Chris Smith's American Job (Sundance Film Festival 1996), sound on Michael Moore's The Big One (Miramax 1997), and segment producer for IFC's Split Screen. In 2002 she documented the re-opening of schools in Afghanistan with UNICEF and is in post-production on this project. Sarah grew up moving around the globe, attending high school in Germany and Kenya, and has traveled extensively throughout the world. She received her BA in Film from U.of Iowa, and her MFA from U. of Wisconsin (Milwaukee). In the adventure realm, Sarah is a certified SCUBA diver, light-wind skipper, and completed her first tandem skydiving jump. She is currently seeking her fixed-wing pilots’ license.

Erika Somogyi www.throughthetrees.net
Erika Somogyi is an artist living in NY. Primarily working in  watercolor and oil painting, one aspect of her work is the portrayal of man’s relationship to his environment and how each affects the other.  Inspired by traveling she has been to Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii.  Last summer Somogyi spent a month hiking and camping on the west coast of the US.   Although her focus is on painting she has collaborated on performances with Frankie’s “FREAKOUT”, “The Psychic Friends Network”. and with Evan Greenfield’s “Fancy Feast”.

Bec Stupak www.honeygunlabs.com

Bec Stupak is an artist and sailor living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Stupak got her start as a "VJ" at raves and dance parties scratching and superimposing video imagery like a DJ. In 1999, she founded Honeygun Labs, an experimental video project that has created branding, animation and graphics for major companies like Bacardi, MTV2, and Red Bull, as well as music videos and live visuals for artists like Derrick May, Ultra Nate, and Delia & Gavin. In 2004 she appeared in Art Star, a documentary/reality show broadcast on the art network Gallery HD. tupak traveled to Iceland in July 2006 as a part of a cultural exchange organized by SIM, the country's premiere institution for artistic cultural exchange. Her primary art mediums are video and performance. She is a member of assume vivid astro focus (AVAF) and has shown independently with Deitch Projects in New York. Her passion for sailing began when she was very young, and led her to win many a regatta starting at the tender age of 12.

Jacques Servin www.theyesmen.org
Jacques Servin lives in New York. His work (as 1/2 of the Yes Men) focuses a great deal on global warming, and therefore he is particularly interested in projects that address the issue in creative new ways. Jacques has sailed (solo and on crews) in 4 of the world's oceans, though never in the Caribbean and he does love adventure.