Found on Youtube

What a great idea!

An Artist uses Google Street View.

This short video featuring Kentucky Painter Bill Guffey is part of an interview recorded in August 2009 at the Gallery at 916. It very quickly covers the aspect of using Google Street View technology to travel the world virtually in search of artistic reference.
One of the main thoughts behind the process is to aid those artists with physical and mental disabilities which limit their ability to get outside and paint.
Recorded by WKYU PBS television station in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

NASA Launching 5 Rockets in 5 Minutes Early Friday:

 How to Watch the light show

From Space.com;

“NASA is once again hoping to launch five rockets in just over five minutes — a space barrage that promises to put on a spectacular midnight light show of luminescent vapor trails above the U.S. East Coast — but only if Mother Nature cooperates.

After a series of delays due to bad weather and a technical glitch, NASA is now aiming to launch the five-rocket barrage Friday (March 23) after weather concerns thwarted earlier attempts this week.

The sky display may puzzle and amaze some unsuspecting observers, so before you call your local news or police, here is why this is happening and when you may see it.”

CLICK HERE FOR MORE OF THIS STORY

nasa atrex mission five rockets:

Where else can you see photos of a “real” Gloucester fishing boat and interact with the crew of one? YOU CAN ALSO WIN A F/V Midnight Sun T-shirt. c’mon! let’s help them get to 200 likes so i can win it! 🙂 http://www.facebook.com/#!/lisatcorp

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from the F/V MIDNIGHT SUN; Like our page on Facebook and be entered to win a Midnight Sun T-Shirt when we reach 200 likes! when we make 200 page likes we are gonna raffle one of these awesome T-Shirts.

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From Glenn, Aka Swimdad. An Ex Gloucester Fisherman that defected to California;

This Burger Beats Joey’s Meat Anytime!

Have you ever looked in the mirror and said, who the Hell is that?!

Found this on Tina Greels Facebook page;

It’s Spring! Get the Gnomes out of Storage.

BUT,

DON’T “F” WITH OURS!

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Midnight Sun T-Shirt when we reach 200 likes!

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I’d love one! But we’re not allowed to take kickbacks. Hopefully they will sell me one.

Oh, Please!

Boiled dinner?!

REALLY?

A Potato, Cabbage, carrots and some kind of Mystery meat?

Throw it in some water and boil all the taste out of those ingredients?

What kind of Celebration meal is that?

THANK GOD I’M DESCENDED FROM SICILIANS!

YUCK! 

JUST MY OPINION.

Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

by Robert Krulwich

“Here’s the story: About 13 miles from this spindle of rock, there’s a bigger island, called Lord Howe Island.

On Lord Howe, there used to be an insect, famous for being big. It’s a stick insect, a critter that masquerades as a piece of wood, and the Lord Howe Island version was so large — as big as a human hand — that the Europeans labeled it a “tree lobster” because of its size and hard, lobsterlike exoskeleton. It was 12 centimeters long and the heaviest flightless stick insect in the world. Local fishermen used to put them on fishing hooks and use them as bait.” click here for the rest of the story

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The Captain at the Wheel By Peter A. Todd 04/23/2010

Capeannsalon.com

“Taking watch of harbor through days and nights With his hands firmly gripping at the wheel Our statue of yesteryear and today With his eyes fixed like hardened steel Many seasons and storms have passed him by Since the Captain was dedicated by our shore Through raging winds and sunlit skies The Captain has done his faithful chore The sands of time that has ebbed and flowed In circling our great statue of the sea Like the many stories of Fishermen of old Our Captain sets the spirit within us free The inscription etched below his feet So treasured to the Fishermen in many ways When the Sands of Time are stilled we’ll meet Those we have lost now raised by God From the oceans grave.”

Peter A. Todd

We are so lucky to have so many talented people on this small Island!

It Doesn’t and Didn’t SUCK!

I haven’t been to a Bruins game since 1996. My wife Cathy and I were invited to her sister Liz’s 40th birthday celebration yesterday at the Td Garden. Her Husband rented a premium box suite from his friend. I’m now officially spoiled. Unlimited food, beer, snacks, soft drinks and a private bathroom so you don’t have to deal with the Riff Raff. Not a bad Deal. $100 for two tickets. It would’ve cost more than that for one ticket in the stadium seats. Maybe us GMG Authors can get together next Bruins season and rent a box for the year.

From Nancy Gaines, The GDT.

“Preliminary plans for the Beauport Gloucester hotel at the former Birdseye site on Pavilion Beach call for a four-story structure, containing 102 mid-priced rooms, a restaurant, meeting center and parking under the building.

With the developers, Beauport Gloucester LLC, already having given “perpetual use” of the beach to the community, they now promise to create a public walkway from Commercial Street to the beach.

Another special local feature, said the hotel project’s managing director, Sheree DeLorenzo, will be retaining or rebuilding the Birdseye white tower, “because it’s a local landmark,” she said.

The plans will be brought before City Council Monday in the first in a series of public meetings by the city Planning Board and the council’s Planning and Development Subcommittee.

The project, financed by Jim Davis — the owner and founder of New Balance shoes, who has a home in Bay View — could cost $75 million, industry experts say.

The plan entails amending — but not dropping — the marine industrial zoning of Fort Square to accommodate a hotel that would be subject to stiff special permitting. The proposed rezoning — with a hotel overlay district — is the subject of Monday’s hearing, which is set for 7 p.m. in City Hall’s Kyrouz Auditorium.

“We listened to the community,” said DeLorenzo, who manages Cruiseport and the Seaport Grille and who will make a presentation to the council Monday.

“We heard that people wanted friends, family, visitors or business colleagues to be able to stay in the city, in a type of accommodation they were accustomed to,” she said. “We will make Birdseye a beautiful property.”

DeLorenzo said the project may well bring up to 100 new jobs to the city, with positions in all ranges of income. A trickle-down effect, she said, would also expand business for providers of local goods like fish, cakes, candies, beer and spirits, florists.”

For much more on this story, look to tomorrow’s print and online editions of the Gloucester Daily Times and gloucestertimes.com.

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Nancy Gaines is a regular Times correspondent and an editor of Boston and national publications.