75 cents for a postcard.
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Gloucester Is For (Fish) Lovers Postcard At Alexandra’s Bread
Tag: Art
Alexandra’s Bread Oilcloth Bags
Alexandra’s Bread Oilcloth Bags, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Twin Lights Soda Logo T Shirts Exclusive At Alexandra’s Bread
If you were born in Gloucester you remember Twin Lights Soda. You remember those heavy glass soda bottles and you remember the crates that they used to put the heavy glass bottles into. You remember the different cool flavors like birch beer, and cream soda.
Well Alexandra’s Bread exclusively carries Twin Light T Shirts. She had them made up with permission from the bottler. For a little bit of nostalgia, cruise on down to Alexandra’s Bread, grab a cobble or six and check out all teh cool stuff on the walls for sale.
Click here for a story on Twin Lights Bottling from The Salem Evening News
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Alexandra’s Bread Oilcloth Bags
Yesterday I popped into Alexandra’s Bread to grab some cobbles for my girls. You should see Snoop Maddie Mad tear through a cobble, she loves em!
But they always have some funky cool stuff for sale and Alexandra changes up the product mix all the time.
Here are some bags made from oil cloth. There were also place mats, baby bibs and other items made from oil cloth.
Alexandra’s Bread Oilcloth Bags, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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GMG Q&A- Emile Doucette
Emile Doucette is one of the original Gloucester Guerillas. He displayed some of the work from Bait and Tackle ad agency at the second Block Party and also the first GGAP presentation at Cape Ann Community Cinema.
Emile, Chad Carlberg and the Bait and Tackle crew recently won an award for the short picture film Daughters of Dogtown which we showed at the first GGAP officially sanctioned event.
He is an amazing videographer and editor and we’re gonna blow the roof off this summer with some big time Guerilla style Art projects (stay tuned)!
How long have you lived in Gloucester?
Since I was 2.
What is your favorite season in Gloucester?
Spring.
Do you have any secret outdoor spots in Gloucester where you go to “get
away”?
The UMASS marine station at Hodgkins Cove.
What is your favorite pizza joint in Gloucester?
Leonardo’s.
What is your favorite sub shop in Gloucester?
Virgilio’s.
What place would you go for a romantic dinner in Gloucester?
Lat 43.
What is your favorite bar in Gloucester?
Pilot House.
What is your favorite breakfast joint in Gloucester?
George’s.
What is your favorite local event in Gloucester?
Lanesville 4th of July Parade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BfXgK5brhE)
In the summer do you prefer the beach or to be on a boat?
Boat.
Who is your favorite local artist?
John Sarkin.
Which is your favorite local beach?
Plum Cove.
Who has the best chowder in town?
Capt. Carlos.
Do you prefer haddock chowder or clam chowder?
Clam.
What were your thoughts on The Downtown Block Parties last year?
Awesome, but lets have more live music.
What is your favorite local band?
Mine. (http://www.myspace.com/backbeatband)
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Movie – “Greenheads”
GREENHEADS
Wed., Feb. 18 @ 7:15pm
Cape Ann Community Cinema
267 East Main Street
East Gloucester
978/282-1988
Sometime painter Sam Holdsworth painted a series of 38 oil panels which were an imaginative, sideways tribute to that local summertime menace, the Tabanus americanus — or Greenhead horse fly. This short film, produced and narrated by Holdsworth’s Musician Magazine co-founder, Gordon Baird, is a simultaneously amusing and haunting short film, portraying the carnivorous creatures as human-like and alien at the same time.
Mr. Baird will be on hand to present the film and conduct a Q&A after the show, which is presented at the special discount price of $5.00, proceeds from which will benefit the Matteo Russo Fund. A selection of Gloucester-related short subjects will precede the film.
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Movie – “Visible Silence”
VISIBLE SILENCE: MARSDEN HARTLEY, PAINTER AND POET
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH @ 7:15PM
***DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE***
THE CAPE ANN COMMUNITY CINEMA
(AT GLOUCESTER STAGE)
267 EAST MAIN STREET * EAST GLOUCESTER * 978/282-1988
This is the first documentary ever made about world-renowned painter Marsden Hartley. It was written, directed, and narrated by Michael Maglaras of 217 Films, who will be on hand to introduce the film and answer questions following the screening.
“Visible Silence” features 43 Hartley paintings and sketches as well as many photographs of Hartley — from early youth to his final years as “Maine’s Painter.” Drawing heavily from his poetical works, this documentary, a deeply personal statement by Maglaras, captures the essence of Hartley — long considered one of the fathers of American Modernism.
Hartley spent his life traveling the world in search of remote and forbidding landscapes. A critical period for Hartley was his stay in Gloucester in the 1930’s, where he painted his “Dogtown” series.
“The two periods in Hartley’s creative life, first in 1920 and then again in 1931 when he went to Gloucester and to Cape Ann to paint, left us some of the most wonderful and exciting work of Hartley’s career,” said Maglaras. “Hartley fell in love with the area around Gloucester, known as Dogtown, and from his humble boarding house at #1 Eastern Point Road, reported to friends that ‘… a sense of eeriness pervades all the place; the white ghosts of those huge boulders stand like sentinels guarding nothing but space.’”
An entire section of this film is devoted to an important early painting, “Carnival of Autumn,” which is in the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Also featured is the late painting “Summer, Sea, Window, Red Curtain” from the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Mass.
In 2008, a Hartley painting sold for $6.31 million, setting an auction record at Christie’s for an American Modernist work, overtaking a record previously held by a work of Georgia O’Keeffe.
Check out Gail McCarthy’s great article from last Thursday’s GD Times.
Director Michael Maglaras will be on-hand to present the film and conduct a Q&A after the show, and will be joined by Mary Beth Bainbridge of the Peabody-Essex Museum.
- “Dogtown” (1931) by Marsden Hartley, oil on canvas, h: 18 x w: 24 in / h: 45.7 x w: 61 cm
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Art Haven Lobster Buoy Slide Show
Click The Picture To View The Art Haven Lobster Buoy Slide Show
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Art Haven Lobster Bouys Up For Auction
What a great event, what a great idea, what a great community.
You think they have things like this in plaineville USA? Don’t bother answering that because I’ll answer it for you- NO THEY FREAKING DON’T! Thank god every single day when you can be a part of a community this special that comes together for each other in the most creative of ways.
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Brendan Harlem Art At The Art Haven Art Show
Not only was the event at Cruiseport a buoy auction but it was also an art show. Here is a beautiful peice by Brendan Harlem. There’s some serious talent brewing over at Art Haven.
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Janice Lufkin Shea Won Georgie Hansen’s Lobster Buoy With an $85 Bid
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Art Haven Lobster Buoy Auction- Live At Cruiseport Video
You are not going to believe how much some of these buoys sold for.
Watch the video by clicking the picture below to see how much.
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Senator Tarr Auctions Off Georgie Hansen’s Buoy
Forgive the terrible picture quality. I did a horrible job shooting the pictures as I was distracted all night trying to figure out how I was going to steal away the lobster buoy with the lobster on it (more on that later).
But this was the scene with each child holding up their hand painted buoy and Senator Tarr auctioning them off. I don’t know how he held his voice up for that long but he did a remarkable job. Georgie is the daughter of good eggs Dave and Erika Hansen. Erika was sitting in front of Janice Lufkin Shea and I and facing the stage. When the bidding started she had no idea that she was bidding against Janice and I who were standing right behind her while she was facing the stage. The bidding quickly escalated and when all was said and done Janice won out with an $85 bid.
The whole night was a huge success and I have to believe that they didn’t anticipate how many people showed up and actively bid. When there is a great cause our community steps up and this was certainly a great cause.
Classy broad that Janice is she gave the buoy that she had just won back to Erika.
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Art Haven Lobster Buoys Up For Auction
Don’t anyone even think about getting into a bidding war with me at tomorrow nights lobster buoy auction to benefit Art Haven at Cruiseport. I have my eye on that lobster buoy and I don’t want things to get ugly so just stay the hell away from bidding on the lobster one.
Are we clear?
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Art Haven Lobster Bouy Auction And $5 Meal Video
Tomorrow Night At Cruiseport! For $5 Measly Bucks You Get To Eat food From many of the great restaurants around town. How can they feed you for $5 you ask? Cruiseport graciously donated the space and the restaurants donated the grub! Hey we got some generous business owners around here that like to support good causes, what can we say?
So take advantage damnit! Get down to Cruiseport tomorrow night and help make the Arts thrive in Gloucester, especially arts for our children!
Click the picture below to get the scoop in the Video shot at Art Haven.
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Brenda Malloy Painting At Passports
Brenda Malloy is a huge positive voice in our community and an all around good egg. Here is one of her pieces at Passports. It rocks!
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Vote For Mark And Ernie
Just got an email from Mark Teiwes. Ernie Morin and Mark are both entered in The 2008 Boston Art Awards.
Mark Entered his Faces Of The Working Waterfront which was shot here in Gloucester and still on display at the Dock. Ernie has “Sight Lines” entered. Give them your votes if you dig the work. They both have my votes that’s for sure.
This from Greg Cook-
“Below is the ballot for the 2008 Boston Art Awards, a contest organized by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research to honor the best art made in New England (excepting Connecticut) and exhibits organized here in 2008. And you are invited to vote. You!
The ballot is long. Crazy long. More than 60 people contributed some 190 nominations for the 2008 Boston Art Awards. Yes! The process was designed to be open to all, democratic and broadly representative of our community. The resulting ballot – which includes nearly all the nominations – is somewhat messy, despite my best sincere efforts to give it clarity. Ah, democracy!
(http://gregcookland.com/journal/2009/01/2008-boston-art-awards-ballot.html)
Winners will be chosen by (1) local active art journalists and (2) anyone else who wants to vote – and will be announced in terms of these two separate categories of voters.
How to vote:
Voting is open to all. So feel free to pass along this message. Voting will be by e-mail. Vote for just one nominee in each category. Be clear. List each category and then your vote in each category. I suggest copying the ballot into an e-mail, and deleting all but the stuff you’re voting for. It’s okay to vote for yourself – everyone’s doing it. You don’t have to vote in every category. Of course, you may only vote for stuff you have seen. And you may only submit one completed ballot. Anyone breaking these rules will be banished. Email your votes to bostonartawards@gmail.com. Put “Vote” in the subject line.
The deadline for the receipt of votes is 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Late votes will be ignored.
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research will tally the votes. Nominees with the most votes in each category will win. The 2008 Boston Art Awards Ball is being planned by the kind folks at Big Red & Shiny (thank you) – details will be announced shortly, but it’s looking like it will be in Boston on Feb. 2, and free and open to all. Mark your calendars, because I hope to see you there. Winners will be announced by early February. Stay tuned.
Please contact me with any questions, suggestions, complaints, corrections, dire warnings. And please vote.
Greg Cook
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
http://www.gregcookland.com/journal
Dorchester, Massachusetts.”
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Snoop Mad Paints
This is the first time that Snopp Maddie Mad has used the easel to paint. She didn’t do half bad, but that’s to be expected. She’s gifted. The doctor said she’s 1000000th percentile for artistic ability. Honestly.
Snoop Mad Paints, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Urchins In a Vase
Another addition to our previously empty book cases.
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Bob And Dave’s Figure Head- Jesus or Obi Wan Kanobi?
I’m not sure if this one is Jesus or Obi Wan Kanobi.
Bob And Dave’s, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 