My View of Life on the Dock
This link was sent to me by Catherine Ryan. Click the picture for the full presentation
Catherine writes-
Hey Joey
There are more than 80 known titles of Gloucester imagery by Hopper. There is a dynamite range throughout our downtown: several by Flanagans/Our Lady, by the RR, by CAM , by Joan of Arc, throughout the Fort, and by Stacy BLVD
Sincerely,
Catherine
Wells Maritime Art recently acquired a large Ken Knowles painting, "East Gloucester from Rocky Neck," 24" x 30". It’s pretty sweet. Very few have seen it. I’ve attached an image.
Also, the e-commerce provider we use for Wells Maritime Art (Volusion) allows us to set up a "Social Store" on Facebook. If you’re logged in to FB, go to
www.facebook.com/WellsMaritimeArt
You can actually buy on FB! Pretty cool. We’re offering a 20% discount to those who "like" us.
Best,
Jon Cahill
www.wellsmaritime.com
The family has joined the Manchester Athletic Club.
So the workouts have begun and it’s nice to be back at the MAC after not working out for a good number of years. The Gymazing program where you can have you children looked after while you work out is AWESOME!
Here’s David Swanson talking about his experience there-
Beautiful dresses tonight at the Cruiseport Bridal show.
Photo © Kathy Chapman 2012
Check out the Cruiseport Gloucester Website here designed by my buddies Peter and Vicky VanNess
Kathy Chapman writes-
Valentine Cards printed from Isabel Natti’s linoleums are now featured at The Sarah Elizabeth Shop (open on weekends, by chance or appointment)….
They plan on carrying on the tradition of blockprinted fabric inspired by the work of the Folly Cove Designers. Artist Julia Garrison (of Lanesville) is working the historic Acorn Press.
5 Whistlestop Mall, Rockport
Website – http://www.sarah-elizabeth-shop.com/
For more info email Julia: garrisonjulia2@gmail.com
Photo: http://www.kathychapman.com
Rachelauren Somers forwards this photo spread from Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine–
UNDER THE C-CUP
Monday January 23, 2012
In response to the over-arching presence of porn-industry aesthetics and plastic surgery perfection in today’s culture of beauty, Laura Jacobs has created a collection of awesomely outlandish nautical-themed bras, exotic aquatic shrines to the power of breasts. Equal parts silly and sexy, these bras directly reflect the duality and often circus-like nature of society’s perceptions and treatment of female sexuality.
Blah blah blah blah blah, to see the other pictures of sea life undergarments at Juxtapoz click here
They call it “Erotica Under the Cup”.
I’ll tell you one thing, some broad whips off her top to expose a lobster/crab claw bra covering up her naughty bits and I’m heading for the hills.
It’s been forever since I’ve visited the energetic sprite that is Heather Atwood’s site but I did so yesterday. What did I find you ask?
Well she’s done a complete redesign and it looks great. Give H’s site a looksee, I think you’ll agree.
Check Out The Latest Brilliance From Sarah
Projects: A Guide to Winter Decorating Malaise.
HI,
Just received an email about you from Kim Smith.
Thank you for your love of Gloucester!
Hope you have a chance to look at my blog!
julia bishop
That Vase looks eerily similar to a lamp I photographed just last night at David Cox’ Main Street Art and Antiques-
Is that a certain type of style? Is it porcelain?
forwarded by Tim Blakely at www.gloucesterbytes.com
The Mansard Roof (1923). Watercolor on paper. Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Edward Hopper: “At Gloucester, when everybody else would be painting ships and the waterfront, I’d just go fish around looking at houses. It is a solid-looking town. The roofs are very bold, the cornices bolder. The dormers cast very positive shadows. The sea captain influence I guess — the boldness of ships.”
From Hopper’s Places (1998, Univ. of California Press), by Gail Levin: “Hopper painted The Mansard Roof in the Rocky Neck section of Gloucester, which even today is something of an artists’ colony. He described Rocky Neck as ‘the residential district where the old sea captains had their houses’ and later recalled that it had interested him ‘because of the variety of roofs and windows, the mansard roof, which has always interested me…’ He also noted that he had ‘sat out in the street… it was very windy’ and offered: ‘It’s one of my good watercolors of the early period.’ Actually, Hopper’s view was from the back of the house, down toward the water, which must have increased the effect of the wind he so vividly recollected. Today the house is well preserved but missing the yellow awnings that he caught fluttering in the strong breeze.”
From Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper (2007, Phaidon Press Ltd.), by Walter Wells: “To be sure, not all of Hopper’s houses yield symbolic narrative. William Boyd’s distinction between the oils and the more ‘straightforward’ watercolors needs recalling: Hopper’s watercolors of architectured structures tend simply to manifest his affection for that genre. Even so, his preference for certain anachronistic styles makes even those watercolors metaphors for a real or imagined past. Hopper’s attraction to mansard roofs, for example, while expressing itself in exquisite representational watercolors like Talbot’s House, Haskell’s House, or The Mansard Roof, also makes each an allusion to that bygone period in America — the 1870s, immediately before his birth — when French Second Empire style was the vogue in domestic architecture.”
NPR’s All Things Considered featured a segment related to The Mansard Roof (and a Museum of Fine Arts, Boston retrospective on Hopper) in July 2007. That segment can be listened to here.
Good morning Joey,
This is some what of a shameless plug, but may be of interest. I have done a renovation on a house in Gloucester as part of National Grid’s Deep Energy Retrofit program. The goal of the project was to use comprehensive and inclusive methods (ie insulation, efficient mechanicals, etc) to reduce the energy use of the house. National grid provided a large incentive (~$35,000) to make the project possible, and also provided technical support. Part of the program with nation grid require that we have open houses to showcase the work. There is an open house on 1/22 from 1-4pm. the address is 730R Washington St Gloucester
Here is a link with more info about National Grid’s program:
https://www.powerofaction.com/der/
Tobias Richon, Geoffrey H. Richon Company
19 Duncan Street, Gloucester, MA. 01930
click flyer below for larger version
The view of Gloucester’s Back Shore from The Atlantis Oceanfront Cafe
Click here for a list of dozens of Gloucester area webcams
Patty Knaggs has a great informative interview with Karen Ristuben about the East Gloucester Cultural District on her blog. Click the link below to check it out.
Yep, you got that right, Snoop Maddie Mad has a brandy new blog. Older Sister Bean started hers when she was four so now it’s Snoop Mad’s turn.
All photos on her blog taken by her unless otherwise noted and all titles and captions her words as well.
The humble beginnings from my little maniac.
Here’s the link www.snoopmaddiemad.wordpress.com
The LobStar.
Yup, we got one as a present this year. It’s awesome.
Designed by a friend of my brother’s.
Sorry, I can’t make it to the Rocky Neck plunge because Dot and I got VIP tix to the Pat’s tomorrow! w00t! w00t!
Have fun!
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Hi Joey,
I thought some of your readers might be interested in following the travels and adventures of my son, Corey Wrinn, a junior at Rockport High School, who is an exchange student in Potsdam, Germany. (Some might know him from RHS JV basketball and baseball.) He has been in Potsdam attending Leibniz-Gymnasium school (http://www.leibniz-gymnasium.de/de/home/index.html) since August and will return back to Cape Ann in June 2012. He’s put together a blog to chronicle his experience. His exchange program is run by the Rotary International Club, which has provided tremendous support for him and the other exchange students in that region. They also organize side trips, which has given Corey the opportunity to explore some of the neighboring countries.
As you can imagine, taking science, math and Spanish classes in German can be quite challenging, but he has picked up the language very well and is able to speak and understand much better these days. I’ve attached his photo. The link to his blog is: http://meineabenteuerindeutschland.blogspot.com.
Cape Ann SUP is manufacturing Stand Up Paddle Boards With LED Lights Built Into Them!!
This is home grown genius and is going to BLOW UP!
They get a manufacturing facility going and it’s gonna blow up mark my words!
From the website-
Check Out Cape Ann SUP Website Here For More Info
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Stand Up Paddling at night? Seriously??? Tyler tells me you would not believe how the fish are attracted to the lights under the board. It is absolutely wild.
Like you are walking on top of an aquarium like Jesus!
Breaking Waves On the Back Shore?
Is there sleet building up on Main Street?
Is The Footbridge at Good Harbor under water?
Want to check and make sure The Schooner Lannon and Schooner Adventure are tied up safely at their docks?
yeah, we got that!
You really ought to bookmark it, there are so many cool Gloucester Vistas to view!
Special thanks To Tim Blakeley from www.gloucesterbytes who has been installing the webcams at a reduced service rate because he believes in the project.
Rebecca writes-
Hey Joey
We’ve had some great sunsets here at GloucesterQuilter.
Thought we should share the love!
you can check out the Gloucester Quilter Blog Here-
Good Morning Gloucester 