Month: April 2012

Gloucester Harborwalk Construction Update- Between Fisherman’s Wharf and Lat 43

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

These photos taken yesterday are from streetside looking toward the harbor between Lat43 and Fisherman’s Wharf.  Below you see photos from 1980 Harbor looking toward these two buildings provided by FOB Frank Ciolino.

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Thwall o the left in the top picture is depicted in this photo FOB Frank Ciolino

Fisherman’s Wharf 1980-

Time To Gear Up For Work Season

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Just Placed My Annual Order For Work Gear at Sierra Trading Post

You can get $10 off your first order if you use this referral link  which means you can literally get a pair of those Carhartt industrial work pants for $7.52 and they normally cost me $42.  Boom, No Brainer!!!

Top Of The List- Marino Wool Socks  Warm Soft and Moisture Wicking.  I’ll never wear cotton socks again as long as I live.

SmartWool Multi-Sport Solid Socks – Merino Wool, Below the Ankle (For Men and Women)

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$4.65 Saved: 67% Normally Priced $13.95

Keen Bellingham Socks – 3-Pack, Midweight, Crew (For Men and Women) $19.47 Normally Priced $47.95

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and of course work pants- Carhartt Washed Twill Work Pants (For Men) $17.52 Normally Priced $42.00

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and that was my spring order Smile

Gloucester Webcam of The Day- The Vista Motel

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Check Out The Vista Motel Website Here

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This Webcam and more can be found at www.gloucesterwebcam.com

This www.gloucesterwebcam.com local webcam portal project was an idea I had last year to have as many webcams streaming from local businesses or organizations as possible which highlight the incredible vistas that we as people that live and work here get to enjoy each and every day.

The idea was to have the organization install the webcam, have them embed the webcam feed on their own websites as well and have a link to each business website on the Gloucester webcam portal website to showcase their business as well.

Tim Blakeley from Gloucester Bytes provided the initial installation at ridiculously cheap cost because he believed in the project.

Community Stuff

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

 

CameraBasicsEducationSpring2012

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In early June the planet Venus will be visible in the daytime as it crosses in front of the sun.  Unless medical science invents some way to extend human life well beyond 100 years, the June 5-6, 2012 transit of Venus will likely be the last one anyone alive today will ever see; the next Venus transit won’t take place until December 2117 — 105 years from now.
This month’s GAAC guest speaker, Robert Naeye, Editor in Chief of Sky & Telescope magazine, will highlight the rare geometric alignments that must take place for transits of Venus to occur, and why they occur so infrequently. Also included will be an historical overview of Venus transits, which scientists used to discover Venus’s atmosphere and measure the distance between Earth and the Sun. Mr Naeye, who watched the entire 2004 Venus transit from the tomb of Cyrus the Great (founder of the Persian Empire) in Iran, will describe how to view the transit safely, and what you can expect to see when Venus crosses the disk of the Sun.

GAAC will meet at 8:00 on Friday, April 13 at St Paul Lutheran Church in Lanesville. The public is welcome; there is no cost.

Schooner Adventure Spirng Lecture

April 19th – Don Cheney, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University “The Growing Problem with Seaweed Blooms and Their Newly Discovered Potential Harmful Effects”

May 17th – Thomas French, Ph.D., Asst. Director, Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, Westborough, MA, “Protecting Biodiversity on Northeast Massachusetts”

Jurek Schreiner’s photo exhibit ‘The Splendor of Asia’ is up at Cape Ann Coffees for the months of April and May. This is the opening for the show. Jurek will be present, offering additional explanations to the photographs. Spread the word!

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Not So New Gallery Wall At The House Over/Under Update

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

For those of you who participated in the Poll Back on the 2nd of April as to whether the wall of frames someone I may or may not be related to through marriage tastefully attached to our hallway wall would be filled with pictures within two months time, I have an update-

Photo dated April 9th 6:55PM

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Photo dated April 2, 2012 below

Easy Money.

These were the results back on April 2nd

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Tea Party Ships to leave Gloucester soon Photos Kathy Chapman

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Master shipwright Leon Poindexter, prepares the Tea Party Ships to leave Gloucester later this month, for their new berth in Boston at the Boston Tea Party Museum. http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/

Photos ©Kathy Chapman 2012

http://www.kathychapman.com

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Great Bookstore in Rockport in New Location

Posted on by S.D. Kelly

Have you checked out Rockport’s newest old bookstore? Bullseye Books just moved from Bearskin Neck to a new location on Main Street, near Brother’s Brew Coffee Shop, Shalin Liu Performance Center, and Toad Hall Bookstore — you can get your caffeine, literary and cultural fix all in one spot downtown!

The bookstore has a great vibe, with plenty of flea market finds rounding out the great selection of used books. And the owners are entrepreneurs in more than one way, as they are also the purveyors of the soon-to-be-famous “Flyboy Scarf”, developed by owner Richard Clemens and manufactured right in Rockport, Mass. Check out the website for the scarf HERE and in real life at their Rockport bookstore.

 

 

Gloucester At Dawn- Captain Joe and Sons 5:10AM 3/31/12

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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This one looks really nice full screen. The detail in the background is stuff the human eye doesnt see at ths time of the morning but is only captured with the long exposure taken at three different focal lengths and then combined so everything is in relative focus.

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Essex Shipbuilding Museum on Chronicle Tonight

Posted on by God's Morning
Here’s some interesting news for the blog.
Monday night on WCVB
–Len

“Chronicle” HD, WCVB’s flagship program, well be re-airing a “tweaked-up” version of a story they did last year on the Essex Shipbuilding Museum. It will air on Monday, April 9th at 7:30 P.M, Channel 5.

Here’s a link to Chronicle’s web site to catch it again if you miss it:

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/chronicle/index.html

Video Edit App for iPhoneographers

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

Following in Father Green’s footsteps, I am sharing my experience with the Video Edit app for the iPhone. The purpose for installing Video Edit is to be able to instantly upload and blog videos for GMG readers.

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Rendering and compressing are very, very fast in this  application; it is designed for ease of use and for speed. There are are no editing transitions, audio overlays, or other extra features included in this app, however that is not necessary when you want to capture, edit, and share in the fastest time possible.

Open Video Edit, click on the plus sign in the lower right corner, chose a clip from your camera roll, and click Choose in the lower right hand corner. Wait while the application compresses the video clip; a one minute clip took about 20 seconds to compress. You can add up to twenty clips and rearrange the clips in any order by dragging the clips in the timeline with your fingertip. Next type in the title, click Done. Click the check mark in the upper right corner, which brings you to the Render To page. You can render to iPhone, Email, Facebook, or YouTube. The 2 minute and 9 second video took less than ten seconds to render to my iPhone and twelve minutes approximately to render to youtube. Done-BOOM! That is as far as I can go on my own–next step is to ask Joey how to live blog it!

Filmed on Plum Street, Gloucester. Liltingly fragrant and a hummingbird attractant, Prunus cerasifera ‘Thundercloud’ is the most widely planted purple-leaf street tree in the U.S.