fishing vessel Greenport
à la Tugster, who spotted this beauty while hunting Sea Installer cruising not far from my waters…she shares the same name as the village near where I live.
The National WWII Museum
The National WWII Museum is a military history museum in New Orleans, LA.
Formerly the D-Day Museum, it opened on June 6, 2000, the 56th anniversary of D-Day, focusing on the ground, air and sea forces that went to Normandy.
The museum is located on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street.
Higgins boats were vital to amphibious operations and were designed, built, and tested in New Orleans by Higgins Industries.
An incredible resource of knowledgeable and passionate people: historians, authors, educators, staff, volunteers, work to record and safeguard stories and objects, analyze and teach about this period in history. I am impressed with everything this museum does.
There is no doubt: war is horrible horrible horrible. These machines brought pain grief joy happiness death life.
I saw footage of bomber doors open and food packets fall out over starving populations in the Netherlands. And i saw from the pilot’s view, footage flying over tulips en masse, spelling ‘Thank’ ‘You’.
still processing…more to come…
bent lancaster
The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It somehow started with this. I’m not sure how…
ships of greenport
thank you, Sally, art curator of Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport! these ship doodles are up on the second floor.
NOAAS Rainier (S 221)
NOAAS Rainier (S 221) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) survey vessel whose primary mission is to chart all aspects of the ocean and sea floor, primarily in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The ship is home-ported at the NOAA Marine Operations Center–Pacific in Newport, Oregon.
NOAAS Thomas Jefferson (S 222), NOAA hydrographic survey vessel formerly USNS Littlehales (T-AGS-52), one of three U.S. Navy survey ships, all named the USS Littlehales.
What I love about my job: hearing from someone on one of the ships I’ve drawn. And it is extra special when you find out they live in your town! ¿what? no waaaaay! I love that!
chemical pioneer & esso brussels
SEA WITCH / CHEMICAL PIONEER
Built: Bath Iron Works, ME
Launched: 1968
Length: 610 ft / 190 m
Beam: 76 ft / 23 m
Draft: 35 ft / 11 m
Crew: 40
ESSO BRUSSELS / Petrola XVII
Built: Kockum shipyard FH, Malmö, Sweden
Launched: 1959
Length: 699 ft 3 in / 213.12 m
Beam: 97 ft 3 in / 29.65 m
Height: 38 ft / 11.59 m
Propulsion: single screw
Speed: 17.25 knots
Crew: 52
Homeport: Antwerp, Belgium (1959-1973) ; Pieraeus, Greece (1973-1985)
On June 1, 1973, container ship Sea Witch experienced steering failure and collided with oil tanker Esso Brussels which resulted in a horrific fire in lower NYHarbor and great loss of life.
Fireboat Firefighter (built in Greenport!) responded, fighting the huge fire singlehandedly and rescuing 31 surviving crewmen.
Both ships were salvaged and rebuilt.
Tugster has recent photos of Chemical Pioneer in NYHarbor: during her final days, she made her last trip here.
In memory of all who perish, and gratitude to all who work at dangerous jobs, everywhere.
the east end seaport museum auction
The East End Seaport Museum Art Auction bidding ends tonight at 20h00, today the 16th of February, 2021.
A lovely little old railroad building outlined in blue halogen lights, the museum is a good aid to navigation if you are on the Shelter Island ferry in the dark. Beautiful fresnel lens collection and other maritime artifacts are preserved here, along with that certain little village-old time smell from the old wooden staircases and cabinets.
This blowspittle entry is a whaling ship collage, comes with lines sewn in. Thank you EESM! thank you, everyone for your support.
fishing lures’ dada poem
T’was a month before Xmas and the boat was hard up,
Trucks* made their deliveries, and came to pickup.
(*FedEx, UPS trucks)
Malls that once rang out with good cheer
Fast became forests complete with the deer.
Stockings were draped over the heaters with care,
A-waiting the fuel delivery that would soon be there.
The tree was so festive — with tinsel silver!
The lures cried, what are we, chopped liver?
So out came the minnows, chatter bait and bugs;
The angels and shepherds and spinners did hug.
Poppers and plotters, swimmers and frogs
Wassailed the crêche before the yule log.
And a good time was had by all inanimate objects.
…blah blah blah here.
Friends in Light
Acrylic on panel, 24 x 48 inches
These are BIG ships, and 90 million barrels is a lot of crude oil to be held at sea. It was not just at Singapore, but also outside the ports of Rotterdam and Iran. The International Energy Agency (IEA) guesses that there are not enough offloading facilities. Oil refineries are not lucrative businesses. I watch ships because what happens with ships affects our land: soil, air and water. The pipelines are not so far away. Nuclear plants are not very far away. We are a closed system, we here on the Mothership.
today, July 18, thursday, no swim
Hello beautiful swimmers!
Due to the all the rain, today’s free public swim will be cancelled–even if the full, bright sun comes out. A lot has washed into the bay, and it is advisable to wait two full tide cycles to flush the bay out so we can swim again in just nice plastic bits-fertilizer-pesticide-chemicals soup without the street run off as well.
Swimmers: you are looking wonderful! Thank you for the joy! Christina
favorite recipe for asian carp
- using a cleaned asian carp, dredge both sides of a not-wet fish with a mixture of flour, salt, pepper, paprika,
- heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat,
- fry smashed garlic, ginger, scallions, a touch of soy sauce, (optional: a bit of black bean sauce) and let sizzle in the heating oil,
- place floured fish into sizzling oil and let one side cook,
- turn fish over, add a splash of white wine or sherry and a squeeze of lemon. Cook the other side. Then:
- throw away the fish and eat the skillet.
southold indian museum
Across the road from the Custer Observatory is the Southold Indian Museum. It was a dreary, cold rainy day…perfect day to draw old artifacts in a room where time stops still and ancestors quietly stand and watch.
winter night sky
I have always wanted learn the constellations, but the classroom was never available in NYC. But here, on the North Fork, on any clear night, it is open.
Draco, Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, Cepheus, Cygnus, Lacerta, Cassiopeia, Lynx, Camelopardalis, Perseus, Gemini.
This 10×10 painted board will be on sale at the South Street Gallery’s 10×10 art sale which benefits the North Fork Environmental Council.
PREVIEW: Friday, December 1, 2017 noon-9pm; SALE BEGINS: Saturday, December 2, 2017, 6pm.
I am using a Kindergarten art technique: toothbrush splatter art. My most formative years.
The Sullivans (DDG 68)
Now at Staten Island pier (305 Front Street, Stapleton,) USS SULLIVANS (DDG-68) is open to the public for tours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 9-12, alongside USS Hue City (CG 66.)
It was at the Battle of Guadalcanal on November 13, 1942 that 687 souls were lost when their ship, the USS Juneau (CL-52) was sunk. Five of the men were the Sullivan brothers for which this ship is named.
Not directly related, but worth noting: this documentary.
USS THE SULLIVANS (DDG 68)
Built: Bath Iron Works, ME
Commissioned at Staten Island, NY, 19 April 1997
Length: 505 ft / 154 m
Beam: 66 ft / 20 m
Draft: 31 ft / 9.4 m
Homeport: Mayport, FL
BuoyantSea!
New: BuoyantSea swim. Thank you, Rya, for the beautiful website! I love it!
Classes begin Monday, 31 July at Fifth Street Beach in Greenport, NY. This schedule will be good until 30 September (or unless something changes.)
See you on the beach…and in the water!
plein air at Soundview, Greenport, NY
Every Wednesday from 16h to 19h, Amy Worth of the South Street Gallery in Greenport holds a plein air painting class at the Soundview. Yesterday was the first time I joined them, and we were lucky to have guest artist Duane Keiser demonstrating and critiquing.
Duane began a small oil painting; it was wonderful to see the view bloom and unfold on his small linen on wood canvas. The sky changed, the shadows over the water, sand and trees changed, and Duane’s painting was a record of the hour he painted. The last to appear under his brush were the few bathers in the water. It was a lovely painting. And then, it was out turn…
But, it was terribly muggy and hot. Some of us went into the water first and had to paint in salty damp swimwear (very worth it!) Some watched the demo and then packed up and left. And some sat in the sun and painted, roasting nicely. My oil sticks melted.
Duane went around and commented. My rocks that were silhouetted in the view seemed dark brown, but he pointed out that they were not: they had sun and movement, and he suggested color to bring in the vibration. Mine is more an illustration than a painting. He used oil, and said to paint the big blocks of color first, “Once people start to draw people and umbrellas and houses, the painting stops and the drawing begins.” So, I tried to put down blocks of color, and will keep on trying.
If you are a rock, I can do your portrait, in an interpretative way. Sorry, I cannot do people, yet.
it was fifty years ago today…
Today, 50 years ago, on June 1st, in 1967, the Beatles released this album in the US:
Listen to it now, streaming on WPKN (Purple Knights Network) of Bridgeport, CT off the original 1967 album. It is one of the 75,000 vinyl records in their collection:
Go to archives , click on Peter Bochan – All Mixed Up for a great show of expertly cut sounds of songs (rare versions) and the Beatles’ talking.
The many DJ’s various shows are kept online for a couple of weeks in the archives.
WPKN is an incredible resource, truly non-profit and renegade, with excellent music reflecting the different DJ’s and their expertise and tastes. The one consistent thread is that the DJ’s are extremely knowledgeable in their field. This is a real labor of love and passion. All genres. I have expanded my mind and ears on this site.
Music. It does not get more intense. And the collection is nowhere as good as here.
Enjoy exploring…while fixing the hole where the rain gets and stops my mind from wandering…
a vintage machine
I am in awe, wow! The International Sewing Machine Collector Society is an incredible resource for old sewing machines, and has scanned and put online many old manuals.
Here is the link to the beautifully illustrated and written Singer Sewing Skills Reference Book. Scrolling through, I am dumbfounded by the fascinating attachments that were cleverly engineered to create hems, various edges, complex stitches, bindings, piping, tucks, darts, ruffles, seams, braids, shirrs. Perhaps it is not lamentable to have some of the fashion styles go away, however, the minds who designed such beautiful machines and brilliant attachments that have lasted decades, the factories which made these machines–are these lost forever, never to return?
For amusement: how to open the domed lid (“the doomed lid”). It is amazing what helpful things good people put online to advise and guide others. It was this post that taught me how to open Richard Hudson’s 1948 antique sewing machine cover. The machine seems to run beautifully, the artfully crafted steel attachments are intact.
With the help of the International Sewing Machine Collector Society, there is a good chance Mr. Hudson can sew his sails for schooner Issuma. She will look smart leaving Jersey City to Toronto under sail with perfectly ruffled leeches and a smock tucked fisherman.
“Crime of the Ancient Mariner” by Brian Lance
Just published! “Crime of the Ancient Mariner” by ELECTRIC LITERATURE’s weekly ‘literary oddments’ magazine, OKEY-PANKY.
I have always loved Gustave Doré’s moving etchings, and was very happy when Brian Lance asked me to illustrate his psychedelic, angst & drug-laden, navy man’s lament in his weaving of Coleridge’s poem with a U.S. Navy psych evaluation.
stargazy pie
Stargazy pie has a great name and history.
Enjoy this essay entitled Forgotten Fish by Mary Sue Milliken. Menhaden pie, anyone?
I will be making this recipe, courtesy of Saveur magazine. If you do, too, let us know how it comes out!
Get up, get dressed, go out in this rig to catch the fishies for the pie…
from Food of England (1954), by Dorothy Hartley, social historian, illustrator and author.
Merry Christmas, happy rejoicing-event of your choice!
the “Boke”
Hoboken Terminal, NJ.
My boss took me there on a survey job one snowy day, several years ago. The ferry slips were not ready yet, and were still being painted. One could see the grandness of the architecture. Billowy sheets of plastic were hung over the openings, and we had to drive in and out of the curtains to do the surveys, like stagehands hopping on and off the grand stage. It was so silent, snow falling into the river, no one there to see any of the beauty that day but us.
Thank you, JD, for the push to finish this drawing. Thx, Frankie for the ‘Boke’ tip!
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