My View of Life on the Dock
Henley Douglas Jr and Soul Force Five- pic from Ernest Morin
click this text to see more of Ernie’s latest Night Pictures series
Chickity Check It! Ernest Morin’s Latest Night Work, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. Here is Ernest Morin, incredible photographer and one of the original Gloucester Guerillas. Ernie showed his documentary slide show of the Fort at the first Block Party.
The camera in front of his grill is 100 percent customized. Each piece comes from a different camera. He put all of them together and what you see is what you get. He told me what all these different parts were but my memory fails me so I’ll just list all the different parts and models that make up this one of a kind piece of equipment.
rodenstock grandason, front mount speedgraphic, zeiss ideal, graflex roll film back, voistlander viewfinder,
You can check out some of Ernie’s fantastic work at dbaDocument, his website
From Ernest Morin
Henley and Soul Force Five – at the Rhumbline Tuesday nights –
some of the best live music you will experience – we are lucky to have
such world class players visiting and to be able to see it for free is
a real treat.
He played with the Heavy metal horns and the Boston Horns to name a
few famous bands…
and he is one of the coolest cats around…
So give him a shameless plug on good morning gloucester – would ya
E
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.”
I can’t even express how lucky I feel to have worked with our team on the first ever Downtown Block Party.
Work is a funny word though because not for a second did it feel that way. It was 100% positive energy.
Erika and Dave Hansen, Peter and Vickie Van Ness, Janice, Jackie Hardy, the Council, the performers, the Police, the liquor licensing board, Donna Ardizzoni paying for the banners, Steve Noble and Ringo Tarr for helping with the lights, Cathy Tarr for donating the Downtowngloucester.com domain name, Lee Bolton for providing technical assistance, Ernie Morin with his fantastic slide show.
AMAZING!
You wanna know who else deserves much credit?
The restaurant owners who did everything we asked of them to get the permitting done and make their seating outside cool and funky.
The YMCA Street Team for helping out keep the place clean.
The Folks at seARTS that jumped on board and moved their art exhibits on Center street to coincide with the Block Party. The stores that had cheese and grapes.
The list goes on and on and on, point being that it was all GLOUCESTER PEOPLE pitching in for their own great vibe and giving of and to each other.
It was positive energy put forth from positive people, it was destined to be great from the start.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for everyone that helped out and came down to rediscover how incredible downtown Gloucester with it’s cool coffee shops, incredible restaurants and unique retailers and art scene really is.
I feel like the luckiest guy on earth as I write this.
Erika, Dave, Peter, Vickie, Janice, and Jackie -the team with the positive vision and energy to carry it out, I don’t really know how it became that we all got together for this thing but I would assemble the same team 100 times out of 100 to do it all over again.
Team Can Do, we got ‘er done.
Watch as Ernie stands next to the image to get an idea of the size and scope of the images on the wall.
Watch as we finally discover that the slide show is going to work.
Ernie Morin, Lee Bolton and I perform set up for the first testings of our outdoor projection slide show.
At this point we have no clue if it will work. Questions abound.
Will it be dark enough?
Will the wall we plan to project onto be flat enough?
Will our power supply be sufficient?
Will the projector overheat and crap out?
As of yet we don’t know.
Stay Tuned
Just bumped into Ernest at the Lone Gull and thank goodness he reminded me tonight is the night for the presentation.
Four Perspectives On The Waterfront Event, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Tonight! 7:00PM at City Hall- Four Perspectives on The Waterfront will be presented at Gloucester’s City Hall.
It features the paintings of Jeff Weaver and Matthew Rose along with a documentary slide show of the Fort by Ernest Morin and a “short history of groundfish rebuilding” by Sara Robinson.
Good Morning Gloucester 