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Saturday, January 5, 2013
miracles
Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me.
And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility
Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see.
Believe me.
It's not far to never-never land, no reason to pretend.
And if the wind is right you can find the joy of innocence again
Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see.
Believe me.
Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be.
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free
Fantasy, it gets the best of me
When I'm sailing.
All caught up in the reverie, every word is a symphony
Won't you believe me?
Well it's not far back to sanity, at least it's not for me.
And if the wind is right you can sail away and find serenity
Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see.
Believe me.
1980
Friday, January 4, 2013
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
c’mon in, the water’s fine
ClockTowerTenants has visited Adam Green’s wonderful RockingTheBoat before.
It’s right on the Bronx River and the idea is simple, as genius often is.
He gives young people a boatbuilding skill and a chance to apply it, growing pride in accomplishment and a self-esteem that money cannot buy.
So when the Mystic Seaport Museum needed an authentic six-person whaling boat replica, RockingTheBoat was the obvious place to turn.
nytimes
Mystic is refurbishing their National Historic Landmark, the Charles W. Morgan whaling ship from 1841. This smaller boat is part of that big restoration project.
whalesmobi
Twenty jobs-skills apprentices are building this 29 footer right side up, typical of the 19th century but a departure from modern boatbuilding technique.
Historically, this whaleboat is the most technical project RockingTheBoat has ever taken on. Check out the copper boat nails.
Construction is expected to take about 2 years.
Sixty four individually numbered boat frames will guide over 600 feet of northern white cedar for the hull planking, attached to white oak for the keel.
This little whaler should be completed this Summer, then sailed 120 miles to Mystic, Connecticut for mounting up on the big ship.
So cool. Let’s rock our own boats in 2013!
Monday, December 31, 2012
sphere of passing time
vintageeveryday.com
It was 1907. A 700 pound, iron and wood, 100 lightbulb ball dropped for the first time in Times Square. By 1920 it was 400 pounds of cast iron.
In 1942 and ‘43 it did not drop, honoring wartime energy rationing. In those years chimes were broadcast, literally “ringing out the old and in the new.”
By 1955 it reduced to 200 pounds of pure aluminum skin and glass.
Sounds and looks so ’50’s.
By 1978 it had lost its skin.
Later it got more lightbulbs, but was still old school.
From 1981-1988 under Mayor Ed Koch it became an Apple, part of the 
campaign.
campaign.
Then in 1995 it received an aluminum skin again, with rhinestones and for the first time, computer controls.
Today it weighs a whopping 11,875 pounds and is technically a 12 foot geodesic sphere.
It’s covered in 2,688 Waterford Crystals and is internally lit by LED’s.
New Year's Eve on Times Square has taken... balls. :-)
velvetropeny.com
Happy New Year!
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