Category: Beautiful Industry

View From Captain Joe’s 7:38AM 11/9/08

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Sometimes I take it for granted.  I guess it’s easy to do when you look at the same thing day after day after day after day for months on end and after many years.

Feel free to stop down and say hey and check out the harbor.  Don’t be afraid, we like visitors and we like people to see what it is we do down here.  I heard a recurring theme of people wanting public access on the waterfront.  I’m not sure if they are already aware but the Gloucester waterfront is pretty damn accessible if you ask me.  I’ve never heard of anyone throwing someone out of their place unless they were making a general ass of themselves and putting themselves in harms way.  Just make sure the place is open and we’re around.

View From Captain Joe’s 7:38AM 11/9/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Another Round From The Gloucester Photo Shoot With Cintia Dicker

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Here is another couple pages from the spread shot in Gloucester, the one on the right is on the stack of traps next to the tin building at the bottom of our driveway.

Glamour UK Photoshoot

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Here is another pic from The Glamour UK photoshoot from the past summer which ended up in the pages of the recent edition of the magazine.

British Glamour Photoshoot, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Another Page From Glamour UK’s Gloucester Spread

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This is the current issue of Glamour UK. The one that has the photo shoot with Victoria Secret Model Cintia Dicker that was shot down our dock and at various other Gloucester locations.
Here is a picture taken with Cintia Dicker, Victoria’s Secret Model aboard one of the Cape Seafoods Mid-Water Trawlers.  The crew from Glamour UK were taking a break in their trailer in the lot here at Captain Joe’s and I was heading over in the big truck to pick up bait so I told David Burton, the photographer that they ought to hop in because they could probably get some decent shots over on the State Fish Pier.
Here’s a pic of Cintia who literally just hopped right up on the huge chains and started posing from the magazine-

And here is the scene from that day July 9, 2008-

Fish Heads- Pollock

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Back when we handled fish this time of year we would be steaking pollock heads til sometimes 10:00PM at night.  Arms ready to fall off from swinging those heavy cleavers.  Vats and vatrs and vats full of pollock heads like these.

Fish Heads, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Community Art Project At The Green House-A Note From Emily Sinagra

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Community Art Project At The Green House, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Hi Joey:
It was great to run into you at Alexandra’s. Thanks for taking pictures of the art installation project at Intershell which was made possible through a PWA Grant from SeARTS. The purpose of the project was to enable people of all ages to engage in artistic collaboration. The inspiration and literary link for the project was a story by Captain R. Barry Fisher called “The Wharf Rat’s Tale”. About four boys growing up in Gloucester during the Depression. In the story, the boys were given a couple of old Dories and had to salvage bits and pieces to make one of them seaworthy. It is a coming of age story- the boys overcome obstacles and become real “Dorymen” and sail off into the future. It made me start wondering, What do we want to salvage from our past to take us into our future? What is the ‘coming of age’ story for kid’s today? Where are we going as a community? No better way to explore these questions than through art. The event began at 10:00 and lasted all day–there were parents and small children as well as teen agers. All making their mark. Some people came just to observe. So it was an interactive artistic, performance piece. I had a copy of the story on the wall and used pieces of the text as creative prompts. People could do anything they wanted to do. There was was no agenda other than the context of the building and it’s location at 54 Commercial street. I am hoping to display these panels in a more public place soon. Also, to develop other collaborative artistic events, using theater and art, to be performed in non-traditional venues. I think it is especially important that kids have a chance to contribute and demonstrate their vision. It is also important to recognize the support of businesses like Ben’s Paint who donated all the paint and supplies and Intershell who donated the use of the building. THANK YOU!

Emily Sinagra

Community Art Project At The Green House

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Here is the location on Monte Rome’s Intershell Property that hosted the seARTS community art project during the Partner with an Artist installations.  (the same seARTS project that brought Mark Teiwes’ At The Brink project to Captain Joe’s)

It looks pretty drab right?   Just wait til you see what is inside!  A vibrant collection of paint and ideas which will be displayed on these pages.

Community Art Project At The Green House, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

The Cape Ann YMCA Teen Leaders and Art Haven collaborated to produce the October 11th community art project at the green house at 54 Commercial Street to transform the interior and exterior of the building. Ben’s Paint Store  generously donated supplies to help the artists. Monte Rome, owner of InterShell is thrilled to have the space used for a community learning and experiential event and hopes to attract more in the future.

Thanks To Emily Sinagra, one of the team that brought this project to life for letting me in to photograph yesterday.

Community Art Project At The Green House, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Isabel Natti Herring Plant Print

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Isabel Natti’s Herring Factory Print is incredible on many different levels.  One is that it is visually gorgeous, but what the casual observer may not understand is how much detail and how accurate the entire scene is to how we actually did things back in the day.  Isabel worked for Wally Maggot, a guy who rented a pier that no longer exists on our property. They did the same type of whiting, squid and herring packing that my Grandfather Captain Joe, and Father and Uncle’s company did.

Isabel Natti Herring Plant Print, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

If you look at the photo up in the top right corner she tells the entire story starting with the two pair trawlers catching the herring.
Next in the middle, the boats are offloading at the dock where the herring get weighed and go up a conveyor into the pen room.  From the pen room they would travel down on conveyors down the packing lines where they would get packed into 45 pound cases.  Then they would get covered, weighed and then placed on big freezer racks.  Next along you can see the person making up the boxes on the same box stapling machine that we used where you would press down with your foot on the pedal and it would swing the arm to staple the corners of the cardboard boxes.  Lastly they get loaded on the truck to head off to the freezer.
I can’t believe she captured the entire scene in one frame. It is all there- the story of many many people’s day on Gloucester Harbor.  I can see it all and it will live on through her work even though the piers have long fallen into the ocean.
Part II of our interview will be posted at 9:00AM
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Beautiful Industry- Block

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Blocks come in all sizes.  This one happens to be a big one but they come way bigger.

If you look on it’s side there’s a grease fitting.  Without regular greasing the salt water eats these things up.  A little grease goes a long way in extending the lifetime of mechanical equipment on fishing boats (or your vehicle for that matter)

Beautiful Industry- Block, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Beautiful Industry- Wire Truck Wheel

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Beautiful Industry- Wire Truck Wheel, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Beautiful Industry- Marine Railways Boom Truck

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Beautiful Industry- Marine Railways Boom Truck, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Beautiful Industry- Marine Railways Wheel 4:40AM 10/14/08

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Beautiful Industry- Marine Railways Wheel, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Beautiful Industry- Marine Railways Boom Truck

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Beautiful Industry- Marine Railways Boom Truck, originally uploaded by captjoe06.