DOLPHIN by Hereshoff

Tomorrow I am going to crew on DOLPHIN and the last time was in the 1960s. I also varnished the bright work and performed other maintenance duties with my brother Jeff. John Lockwood was skipper then. Dolphin is a Herreshoff designed Newport 29 that is currently cared by Oakcliff Sailing Center.

Croquet with lawn chairs

My brother Jeff got married to Marilyn last week [09/10/11 12:13] in Westport. As an after event treat I positioned the reception plastic furniture for a game of croquet. The newly wed couple won over the other 3 brothers and their spouse partners: Steve & Terese, Jay & Cindy, Ware & Kahsia.
Photo by Ware.

Castle Brunnenburg

In March 2011, I visited long time friend and author Mary de Rachewiltz at her family Castle Brunnenburg. I first met Mary years before when I was European location scout on the PBS Voices and Visions documentary of Ezra Pound.


Castle Brunnenberg, March 2011 (map)


Romantic painting of Castle Brunneburg ruins before reconstruction


Authors Mary de Rachewiltz and Terese Svoboda


Bust of Ezra Pound by Gaudier


View from the pig pen of the castle's organic farm.

Three of the Herd

This will be the first year and my first time ever owning cattle. My herd will be very small, 8 to 15 animals. Individuals are bought in small numbers from nearby raisers or purchased at the end of the auctions after the bigger sized lots are sold and almost everyone else has left that event. Scott is raising them for me and the cattle are grazing on the organic buffer strip planted around my organic crops. The buffer strip is a barrier to prevent contamination by GMO crops that is the predominant new normal agriculture in western Nebraska. I favor heritage seeds and sustainable agriculture. The herd is not organic and I am participating for just a short time in the economic life cycle of this protein source.
Caveat: My = Terese Sovoboda and I (wife and husband, farming partners).

Aerial Fish Fertilizer

I spoke to my organic farming partner in Grant, Nebraska last night and he said that our crop of corn looked pretty good, a little more rain would help finish the growth. He has been busy this summer that included taking the opportunity to plant millet into tilled soil that had peas and oats growing earlier in the spring which were planted into last year's sunflower stalks. In this late summer break before harvest time he will bill me for my share of the fertilizer he had applied to the corn by airplane. The fertilizer included some fish but also a number of other components, such as seaweed and micro nutrients. The photo is imagined.
Farm report: Grant NE.

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50 oysters in a pail

50 oysters in a pail with the gear required to service these mollusks. Crocs for wading. Scrub brush for cleaning the oyster cages of squirts that block the flow of tides, and the brush makes the oysters themselves look their best. Heavy duty rubber cloves protect the hands from the razor front edges of the shells.

1500 oysters in cages that will soon return to hanging from the dock of the Harbor Knoll Bed and Breakfast in Greenport NY.

Use Gin to Clean Knot Hole

Back Story: The plug fell out of the knot hole in the floor of my old house. Coincidentally, I was building a spar for the lug sail of AEOLUS and I had left over thickened epoxy. I put the epoxy around the inside of the hole and the outside of the plug and gently hammered the plug back into the hole. See above photo.

Helpful tip: Epoxy had dribbled over the edges and I had run out denatured alcohol that I usually use to cleanup the mess. I remembered I had a new bottle of New Amsterdam Gin. I poured the gin on my clean up rag and cleaned the area around the hole and the plug.

PHIL image du jour

Public Health Image Library (PHIL) has many useful images that are in the public domain. Here is today's image du jour.
ID#: 1472
Description: Anterior chain of Mesocestoides sp.
Anterior chain of Mesocestoides sp. Tapeworm, cestode, parasite.
Content Providers(s): CDC/ Dr. George Healy
Creation Date: 1965
Categories: CDC Organization : MeSH : Organisms : Animals : Invertebrates : Helminths : Platyhelminths : Cestoda

Now where was I going in my search before I was delightfully distracted?

Neptune's Bicycle

I found Neptune's bicycle between the ebb and flood on the beach next to LIRR station in Greenport NY.

Selling Cornflakes

This photo of me comes from the shoe box photo archives of colleague Brian Perkinson. I confess that as crew in the movie/TV industry, as well as member of the DGA, to aiding in the legal sale of corn flakes, kitchen detergents and after shave tonics that are "necessary" products in today's consumerism. I was "sitting-in" for the DP and gaffers in a lighting check. The folds in the photo delineate the frame of the shot masking out the back light and rest of set. The grip stand in front me of was a temporary spatial marker. While the further details of this particular job elude me, a close examination of the digital watch on my wrist should give a clue to the decade of this early Polaroid image.

Oyster Report - June 10, 2011

I spent several hours at the Cedar Beach Creek facility of SPAT: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County working on my 1,000 oyster crop that over wintered there. I brought a few back for taste testing.
My progress report:
Fall 2010 tasting = 24
Early Summer 2011 tasting = 49
5 cages x 100 = 500
7 cages x 50 = 350
Hollow shells = 31
Total accounted = 954

Kim Tetrault who runs this Southold cooperative can also be discovered locally playing electric and acoustic bass with Jazz on the Half Shell.

Fordham FAB - Dean Gautschi

Dean David Gautschi was at the white board last night at the summer practicum of Fordham FAB. I am posting this photo for the benefit of my fellow classmates. Click on the image to see more detail of the diagram and formula.

I am fortunate to have my proposal PreMinder selected and I am joined with two terrific team members that are MBA graduates: Anthony Battaglia and Andrew Arcangel.

Stay tuned.

Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides (video)

This was my first exposure to Andy Goldsworthy's artistic practice. His connection with rock and others fundamental elements then launched into the forces hidden nature inspire me. Huge praise to Thomas Riedelsheimer, director+cinematographer+editor, who elegantly captured the ephemeral in Goldsworthy's work. This movie was made in part with funds provided by Scottish art lotteries--bravo--I'll buy a ticket next time I'm there. Rivers and Tides is available as a DVD order from Amazon. I saw it as immediate play on Netflix.

AR answer to Willa Cather

This is an iPad2 screen grab of my first AR Junaio GLUE object that is the answer to the poster behind, "Why is Willa worried?" This project is in support of the author Terese Svoboda in the release of her new novel Bohemian Girl, University of Nebraska Press at BookExpo America conference May 23-25, 2011 in Jacob Javits Convention Center in NYC. Here is the poster:

The oval portrait of Willa Cather is the target.

today's dualities

do/don't
live/die
stranger/friend
build/destroy
engage/ignore
and/or/nor
bit/bitten
nourish/harm
tag/erase

stay tuned,
notes to myself for another project,
steve

Many Steps by Takayuki Akachi

I like MANY STEPS by Takayuki Akachi.

Nautical object

What is the name of this nautical object? Where does it get positioned on the boat hull? Orientation star upwards? Terese got this for me last year when she teaching for the SLS in Lamu, Kenya. I want to attach correctly to Aeolus.

Against the wind

Despite the drizzle and gale winds last Saturday, the opening of the Décollage: Torn Exteriors Show in Williamsburg was nicely attended. Above is an iPad2 screen grab of my work "After Delvaux" and here's a video made by Stephen Heiden.

After Delvaux .obj final

These are screen grabs of the final After Delvaux 3D .obj as posted to Layar for their approval before the Décollage: Torn Exteriors show at Ventana244 Art Space.



FRONT VIEW: The 3D object is designed to be inserted into the street side living room of a ground floor apartment at 252 N. 6th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11211, a few doors away from the gallery at 244. The red back rectangle hangs in front of the school windows across the street.

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REAR VIEW: Theoretically this would only be viewable to inhabitants within the apartment building itself.

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Please come to the Artist’s reception: Saturday, April 16, 2-5pm.

See AR 'After Delvaux' at Bklyn opening 4/16

The show runs from April 16 to May 8, 2011.

The gallery is Ventana244, 244 North 6th Street, Brooklyn NY 11211

Click on the image above and print it out as a handy flyer with more details.