Category: Video

video- watercolors by MARILYN SWIFT at North Shore Arts Association

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Check out Marilyn’s Website here–

NEW ENGLAND PAINTINGS:
watercolors by MARILYN SWIFT and oils by BRUCE TURNER

Meet the artists at the Opening Reception
Saturday, September 24th from 2-4pm
North Shore Arts Association
11 Pirates Lane
Gloucester, MA 01930

Water and oil mix well in this exhibition at the North Shore Arts Association, September 19 through October 2nd. Marilyn Swift will join up with former Rockport gallery partner Bruce Turner for a show in the Gordon Grant Room. Marilyn will exhibit recent plein air watercolors of coastal New England and Bruce will show new oils. More information available at NSAA 978-283-1857 or www.nsarts.org.

Video- Discover Don Boye’s Island Art and Hobby at 117 Main St Gloucester

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I finally linked up with Don to talk about newly opened Island Art and Hobby in the heart of beautiful downtown Gloucester.

You can like Island Art and Hobby on Facebook Here

Lobster Gear Repurposed for Oyster Farming From Bill O’Connor and Cat Cove Tide Pool Touch Tank Webcam

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Hey Joey,

Augmenting the lobster catch: Oyster aquaculture in modified lobster traps

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I stumbled upon this in at the Cat Cove Marine Lab website and thought you might find it interesting.  Apparently the oysters did pretty poorly on the North Shore due to water temp, but my little foray into oyster harvesting was quite different, and completely by accident.

A few years back, we had a party at the house and I bought a bushel of Blue Point oysters that were supposedly being farmed off of Martha’s Vineyard.  I prepared half the bushel for the party and the other half I left in the mesh bag, which I hung off our mooring to keep them alive long enough to eat them.  Well I eventually forgot them out there and the mooring ball disappeared that winter, so we dropped a new mooring in its place the following Spring.

A couple of years later I was snorkeling out in the cove beyond the mean low tide mark and came across the lost mooring ball suspended underwater on a column of oysters! Apparently there was enough in the mesh bag to reproduce and they just grew down the mooring chain.  They literally reproduced themselves out of the bag somehow.  The weight of the oysters pulled the ball under the surface eventually.  I would see the oyster column occasionally when servicing our moorings over the years,  and it eventually just fell over underwater. I still see oysters out in the cove though!   

Anyway, I thought you might find this study informative.

Thanks,~Bill www.northshorekid.com

You can also check out their live streaming tide pool touch tank webcam by clicking on the pic below-

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Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream: Live On Screen & Stage (Gloucester, MA * 10/1/11)

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

This is a date-specific trailer for “Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream: Live On Screen & Stage,” making its North Shore premiere on Saturday, October 1st at 7:00pm at The Cape Ann Community Cinema at 21 Main Street in Gloucester, MA.

This special show marks the Cinema’s 3rd birthday, and tickets are available athttp://www.CapeAnnCinema.wordpress.com/advance-tickets

Video- Final Day Screen Building

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A few modifications explained by Ed Collard.  hope to see y’all tonight at Lat 43!

The Video Presentations Lineup For Our Debut of The Big Screen At Lat 43 Saturday Night also- Sista Felicia’s Hot Cocoa and Schnapps and Bobby Ryan’s Folly Cove Rum and Hot Mulled Cider

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This Just In- We Will be Live Broadcasting From The Event With A Newly Installed WebCam In The Lat 43 Parking Lot Which Will Be Transformed Into An Outdoor Café Movie Theater- “Joey Paradiso”, lol

Lat 43 will be serving Sista Felicia’s Special Hot Cocoa and Peppermint Schnapps (also served without the booze for the little ones) and we will be proudly serving The fantastic Ryan and woods Folly Cove Rum with hot mulled Cider to keep y’all warm through the night.

This in addition to the cheap cheap handfood from Lat 43  will make it THE PLACE TO BE TOMORROW NIGHT once you peruse downtown!

Clam Chowder $4

Chicken Wings $4

Pizza $4

Pulled Pork Sliders  $4

Sushi $8

Popcorn  $2

Tim Blakely from www.GloucesterBytes.com is doing the install.  You can watch beginning Saturday around noon the transformation of the space (look for the webcam link here)

There will be an award ceremony of The Gloucester Daily Times Top 25 Gridiron Greats emceed by Matt Burke, and backed up by a photo slideshow of the Gridiron greats as well as the 2011 Gloucester High School Football player portraits by David Cox.

Then at 8PM we have Sam Hartson’s Opus ‘This Is Fiesta”

EJ’s Movie Faces of Gloucester Commercial Fishermen, Slides From Her Finast Kind Calendar

St Joseph’s Novena Short Video

Friday Saturday and Sunday Live From the Greasy Pole Video featuring video form Craig Kimberley, Adam Bolonsky and your boy Joey

Albino Lobster,Blue Lobster, Triple Pincher Claw Lobster and One Inch Lobster Videos

Womens Seine Boat Video and Men’s Seine Boat Video from Sunday

Manny Simoes “The Crowning” Video from Gloucester’s Portuguese Community

Joey C’s Gloucester At Dawn Movie Set To Chilling Music

Down The Fish Hold Of The Sanfilippo’s Captain Domenic Video

Monkey Balls Movie

Lobstering 16 Times Fast Video

Video- Captain Caroline Smith Aboard Schooner Harvey Gamage As It Is Hauled Out At Roses Marine, Gloucester MA

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From The Ocean’s Classroom Website

Captain Caroline Smith

Caroline sailed on her first tall ship, Alexandria, while in college at William and Mary and since graduating has spent sea time aboard Tole Mour, Pride of Baltimore II, Victory Chimes, Black Pearl and Corwith Cramer.  Caroline became a full time captain with Ocean Classroom in 2005 after spending two years building the schooner Virginia.  Caroline grew up in a fishing village on the Chesapeake Bay and when not sailing lives in Virignia.

Video- Dolphins Swimming off Cape Ann

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Pat Emanuele Submits-

Tuesday afternoon as I was leaving Rockport Harbor to head back to the Annisquam River I noticed some chop off in the distance. Assuming it was fish jumping I drove over only to find a large pod of at least one hundred dolphins swimming between Rockport Harbor and the break water.

Dolphins Swimming In Rockport Harbor Photo From Pat Emanuele

Video- GMG PHOTO GEAR REVIEW- MAFROTTO MODOPOCKET

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The Manfrotto Modopocket is the best bang for your photography improvement buck at only $16.50

Video- 2011 September GMG Old Cuban Cigar and Folly Cove Rum Sail Aboard The Thomas E Lannon

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Filmed With My Cheapo $79 Kodak Playsport Zx3 and using the Kayalu nClamp.

Some points about taking video-

The more steady you can hold your camera, the more pleasing the resulting video will be.  One way to accomplish this is holding your camera very steady.  You need to be very conscious of framing your shot properly and keeping the camera steady.  the much easier way is to use a tripod, or mount.  Using a mount or tripod there is no camera shake and your results will look immeasurably better than if you try to hand hold the camera.

Obviously carrying a huge tripod around can be cumbersome and you all know my feelings on being able to keep your camera gear on you to be able to capture the shots as they happen.  So many times a tripod is not going to be the answer.

The manfrotto modopocket which screws right into the universal camera mount and folds flush with the bottom of my camera is my number one camera accessory that I feel can help any photographer achieve much better results, especially with poor light (with good light photography is a snap, you just point and shoot and you don’t have to worry about camera shake because the time the lens will be open is so much shorter).

But for this application I used the kayalu nClamp with the toughbar extension.  Literally I screwed the Kodak Playsport Zx3 onto the Toughbar and clamped it onto a bolt that was attached to the mast, framed the shot and pressed record.  In this way I could sit back and enjoy the company on the boat and we got a nice video capturing the scene.

 

Here is the Proposed Layout For Our GMG/ Lat 43 Outdoor Celebrate Gloucester II Bash To Renew Newell Stadium September 17- Final Block Party Night!

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Click on The Plan To see It Full Sized-

LAT 43 Entrance

You can see where our 25 foot screen will be located as well as the serving areas and outdoor café tables.

We have some big time surprises that we are working on!  Stay Tuned!

From the initial testing to measure dimensions of the projection-

testing projection size for screen building measurements

building the screen-

Day 1
Day 2

The Menu-

All very affordable pick up food.

Clam Chowder $4

Chicken Wings $4

Pizza $4

Pulled Pork Sliders  $4

Sushi $8

Popcorn  $2

And To Top It All Off- 10% of all food and beverage sales goes to GFAA to help rebuild Newell Stadium.

Some of the highlights-

Sam Hartson’s  “This Is Fiesta” Movie,all three winning walks from the 2011 Greasy Pole, Seine Boat Races, Blue Lobster Videos 2o feet wide, St Joseph’s Novena Video, Faces of The Greasy Pole, Back Shore After The Storm Video and some big time surprises we are working on!

Screening of REBIRTH at Cape Ann Cinema 9/11/11

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Good Morning Joey,
You are my connection to Cape Ann when I am on and off the “Island”!
I was at the Cape Ann Community Cinema last night and discovered a showing of Rebirth is scheduled 9/11/11.
The film was screened at Sundance 2011, the director follows 5 people effected by 9/11
over 9 +years, a story of love, loss, reconciliation, and promise.. It also is technically accurate in that the filmmaker has filmed the entire site post 9/11 to present in time-lasped fashion.

My husband and I had contributed to the credits in memory of someone close we lost at
Windows of the World in Tower 1.

It would be great if you could post this screening for the Cape Ann Community Cinema..
I meet Robert Newton , the artistic director of CACA and it seems he could use some help
Newly 3rd season Rockport Resident,
Lorraine Horn

Finally A Solution To Our Raccoon Problem!

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If you feel that we deserve your vote you can vote daily through the 9th at the badge below-

After battling and documenting raccoons tearing into our trash time and time again and trying a whole slew of different types of methods to avoid having to pick up garbage left behind strewn all over the walkway we discovered an organic way to deter the little bastards.

Red Pepper Flakes!

Since the Mrs has been sprinkling red pepper flakes all over the lid and top of the trash bags we have been without incident in over a month!  Thank god because I’m such a pussy I don’t even want to open the door to club them over the head with a baseball bat and this seems like  a whole lot easier method than going all Rambo on them.

Saw this guy in the back of a pick-up truck this morning after being caught in a trap.  The owner of the pick-up truck is doing the humane thing and bringing it to the woods where he will pour gasoline on it and let it on fire release it back to the wilderness.

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This was a post from a couple years ago-

3:45am Visitors

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Joey C

Boom!

I shot up out of bed like a rocket figuring that the maniac (Snoop Maddie Mad) finally figured out how to climb out of her crib and had landed with a thud.

The Mrs, startled said no, it didn’t sound like a small child hitting the floor and we would have heard her wailing.

Then silence and we hear shuffling outside…  GODDAMN RACCOONS!

We’ve been having a problem with them for about a month and last week started putting bungee cords over the lids of the trash cans.  Little bastards still got into the trash.

Video at 1PM

3:45am Visitors, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Click the picture below for a video of the brash raccoons

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The Next Thing You Can’t Miss- Celebrate Gloucester II AT LAT 43 OUTSIDE WITH OUR NEWLY CONSTRUCTED 25 FOOT WIDE SCREEN!!!!

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Have we disappointed you yet?  As one of the team who dreamed up and brought the first Block Parties, the Horrible Parade Float, The Old Cuban Cigar and Folly Cove Rum Cruises aboard The Thomas Lannon,The Man vs Food Challenges? Just to name a few, but seriously if we put our name on an event, we bring the thunder and this time will be NO EXCEPTION!

En Plein Air!!!!

With help from my man Ed Collard, we have constructed a gargantuan screen which we will be hoisting up onto the beams in front of Lat 43 and screening Greasy Pole Videos featuring all three winning walks from the 2011 Greasy Pole, Seine Boat Races, Blue Lobster Videos 2o feet wide, St Joseph’s Novena Video, Faces of The Greasy Pole, Back Shore After The Storm Video, Sam Hartson’s “This Is Fiesta Movie.

IMAGINE WATCHING VIDEO OF THE GREASY POLE TAKEN FROM ON TOP OF THE GREASY POLE PLATFORM- NEVER SAEEN BEFORE QUITE LIKE THIS!!!

THE SPILLS – THE VALOR – THE COURAGE OF THE GREASY POLE UP CLOSE AND ON A 25 FOOT WIDE SCREEN!!!

All this while McDonough and chef Jeff Cala serve up this killer menu outside-

All very affordable pick up food.

Clam Chowder $4

Chicken Wings $4

Pizza $4

Pulled Pork Sliders  $4

Sushi $8

Popcorn  $2

And To Top It All Off- 10% of all food and beverage sales goes to GFAA to help rebuild Newell Stadium.

Lat-GMG-GFAA Block Party Sept 2011 (1)

Some Screen Caps of The Movies We Will Be Playing-

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