E M P T Y | V E S S E L | P R O J E C T | N E W S # 1 7 | N O V 23 . 05
Happy Turkeys!
Buy Nothing!
A great weekend to relax into an EV work party!
Also note:
50 people x $10. = HEAT ON THE BOAT
25 people x $20. = COZY MOVIE NIGHTS THROUGH THE BLIZZARDS OF 06
20 people x $25. = FACING THE INTERIOR WITHOUT FREEZING YOUR FINGERS OFF
10 people x $50. = A SAFE HAVEN IN THE STORM
We need to riase $500 to make the warm water run through our lovely heating loop and radiate warm air through the vessel.
Thanks to the Madagascar Institute, we have a 501c(3) Non-Profit number we can provide you for your contribution. Give to the Empty Vessel Project = save on your taxes.
You can make a financial contribution to the EVP on our website at
http://log.emptyvesselproject.org or by clicking here:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=info%40emptyvesselproject%2eorg&item_name=Empty%20Vessel%20Project&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8
U P C O M I N G
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Work Day
More insulating fun! The ceiling needs the loving hands of a few volunteers in tandem. By the end of the day, our interior will look just like your middle school haunted house. Black plastic walls are always the rage.
If you have any of these, please bring them: your personal work gloves, safety goggles, a respirator or dust mask, a staple gun, a space heater, a great mix CD. We'll provide if you don't.
10 - 6p
***at the boat
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Work Day, a two part mission:
Part One:::Field Trip to Build It Green
We will pick up wood for facing the cabin interior and spiral stairs to reach our (future) rooftop deck at the Build It Green warehouse in Astoria, Queens. The wood needs to be hauled from the warehouse's backyard and de-nailed before loading onto the truck. It's a lot of wood. We could use some help. This is a great chance to check out an awesome green business and find some fantastic salvaged materials for your own project. If it fits in our truck (donated by Mojo Fine Art Movers), we'll haul it to Brooklyn for you!
You can find directions at
http://www.bignyc.org.
11-2p
***Build It Green, 3-17 26th Ave. (at 4th St.), Astoria, Queens
Part Two
Work day on the boat including fancy foam draft elimination and waterproofing with all matter of epoxy. Then the wood arrives and the unloading begins.
12-8p
***at the boat
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27
Work Day
Let the facing begin! A day of cleaning salvaged materials and delicate carpentry.
1-9p
***at the boat
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1
Visual Resistance and the Empty Vessel Project present
Film Night on the Canal:::The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
8p, $2-10 sliding scale
***at the boat
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6
Sort-of-Fancy Dinner
8pm, $15-30 sliding scale
This is a fundraiser. Volunteer to cook and you will eat for free.
***at a lovely Brooklyn home, address TBA
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10
Knot Just for Pirates:::An On-Board Knot-Tying Class
Taught by the lovely and twisted Maureen Flaureghty. Find out how to identify which knot is the one for you in any situation. Learn all the knots you will ever need on our vessel or elsewhere(...).
This class will culminate in a knot tying competition and other party games. A shot of rum is included with registration (for adults!).
2-4p, $1-25 sliding scale, maximum class size is 16
This class will be held on board EV, our salvaged WWII rescue boat docked along side the Carroll Street Bridge.
All proceeds go to fund construction on the boat.
email
pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org to register.
***at the boat
**December/January**
Midnight, The First Snow Storm
W H E R E I S T H E B O A T ?
We are at the Carroll Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal.
To take a look at a bird’s eye view of the boat’s location, check out the maps.google.com satellite image at
http://tinyurl.com/7eu5q. For directions by train: www.hopstop.com.
H I S T O R Y
New York City has a floating prison.
It is 800-bed Vernon C. Bain barge permanently anchored accross the channel from Rikers Island at Hunts Point in the Bronx. It was commissioned by the Department of Corrections in 1988 for $161 million. The facility first accepted prisoners in the fall of 1992.
When we were bringin EV from her last home port in Westchester Creek to the Gowanus Canal by tug last July, we were shocked by its gleaming perfect form modernist form. Look here:
http://www.jjma.com/Documents/PhotoGallery/commerce/PrLaunchB.htm.
S H I P ’ S L O G
Insulation really does make a difference.
We watched STALKER last week BEFORE getting the walls covered and it was quite a wonderful wasteland (mis)adventure, complete with far-away fuses, spontaneous warm-up dance parties, Japanese subtitles/Russian dialogue and an extension chord burned to a crisp. Thanks to everyone who stuck it out. It was one of our favorite nights on EV.
More walls were covered the next morning. That night can never be had again.
Heat on EV: In our utopia, we will create a pod that runs on garbage. A figurative cultural machine that is fed exclusively on our culture's literal debris. We would like to heat the vessel with waste oil. Our initial experiments have been with appropriating a small oil-buring, water-circulating home heat boiler. We are not sure that we have considered all our options. We are investigating diesel stoves and other oil-compatible solutins. We need your (or your neighbor's, your uncle's, that strange guy's who lived in the trailer down the street from your grandpa's farm) stories of waste-oil-burning success or failure. Email
pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org. We are hungry for advice.
Bathroom on EV: At the moment, it's a bucket masquerading as a toilet. But the sink works. We would love help setting up a greywater filtration system that will deposit refuse into the canal in an ecologically friendly manner. Got any advice or suggestions? Email
pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org.
IMMINENT, PENDING, AND CONTINUING PROJECTS:
For updates on ongoing projects, check out our TWiki at
http://log.emptyvesselproject.org. Advice is always appreciated. Don’t be shy. Please post.
W I S H L I S T
MATERIALS: We are creating a practice of re-use and salvage. We would like to give your old materials new life. Specifically, we are looking for:
**fire extinguisher
**10 gallon plastic buckets with lids
**toaster oven
**vegetable steamer
**wet/dry vac
**50,000 –100,000 BTU oil-burning
boiler OR a diesel stove
**a Franklin stove
**solar panels
**12V batteries
**a transformer 120V to 12/24V
**another small boat (canoe, kayak, motor)
**life rings
**marine paint
**small fans
**beautiful material in bulk to face ceiling (about 12' x 42') - tin would be fantastic
**plywood for skinning the ceiling (about 12'x 42') - 1/2" or 3/4"
**pretty old single-pane windows
**handles, hooks, small cleats
**steel
**aluminum for constructing a gangplank
**railings
**water hose
**plastic 50 gallon barrels
We will haul away any material contributions. Please forward widely. Contact
tk@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org to donate.
MATERIAL DONATIONS: We are partnering with companies that have ecologically friendly materials and getting material contributions to the Empty Vessel Project.
Johns Manville (www.specjm.com) has donated formaldehyde-free insulation.
BuildItGreen? (www.bignyc.org), a salvaged building materials warehouse in Astoria, will be contributing some great slotted floorboards to face the cabin walls.
Do you know a company that might be interested in showcasing their products on EV? Contact
pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org.
F U N D R A I S I N G
Let us lay this on you again:
50 people x $10. = HEAT ON THE BAOT
25 people x $20. = COZY MOVIE NIGHTS THROUGH THE BLIZZARDS OF 06
20 people x $25. = FACING THE INTERIOR WITHOUT FREEZING YOUR FINGERS OFF
10 people x $50. = A SAFE HAVEN IN THE STORM
We need to riase $500 to make the warm water run through our lovely heating loop and radiate warm air through the vessel.
Thanks to the Madagascar Institute, we have a 501c(3) Non-Profit number we can provide you for your contribution. Give to the Empty Vessel Project = save on your taxes.
You can make a financial contribution to the EVP on our website at
http://log.emptyvesselproject.org or by clicking here:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=info%40emptyvesselproject%2eorg&item_name=Empty%20Vessel%20Project&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8
We are also looking for sources of official money that will fund the Empty Vessel Project in the longer term as either (a) an arts project (b) an environmental project or (c) a social experiment and decentralized environment for skill shares. We need money for both infrastructure and specific projects. Are you a grant writer? In development? Know someone that is? We need to raise $10-20,000 to get through the winter. Contact
pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org.
FANCY DINNER has been post-poned until we find a suitably FANCY location.
There will be a SORT-OF-FANCY DINNER on Tuesday, December 6, 2005. We have a lovely Brooklyn house to feast at. We are looking for chefs and donations of food from your store or restaurant. Contact
tk@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org about either DINNER.
Do you know anyone who works LOCATIONS for a film or photo shoots? EV is a great location and available for rentals. Do you know how we can get on a database to share/rent our wonderful resource? Contact
pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org.
H E R O E S
A history of heroes:
Danny, GDM, Captain Jim, Fictional Company, Ed, Michael, Madagascar Institute, Cindy Vanden Bosch, Dirty Fingers, Porkchop, northguineahills, Front Room Gallery, DJ Olive, Steven, Ed and Brooke, Paris 1968, Corey and the Free Store, Christian, Mike Topper, Alisa Blanter, Jesse Green, Leo Raphaely, Peter Field, Jeff Stark, Stephen, Lee Azzarello, Nathan,
ToddP?, Dan and Elizabeth, Trevor, Brian Spinks, Andy Baker, Shellshag (Jen and Shell), Urban Stitch (Alessandro and William), Paul Ford, Bez, Brian, Alex Lucas, Leqah Beeferman, Brent Arnould, The Dave Carter Quartet, Estee Pierce, Alison Prete, Jason Enghert, Rosie Weinberg, Johns Manville, Black Label Bike Club, New York Harbor School, Eric Forman, Gregory Zaslavsky, Leslie Stem, Andres Colapinto, Anney Fresh
W H A T I S T H I S ?
The Empty Vessel Project is an action, art, and sustainability experiment. We salvaged EV, a WWII rescue boat, to create a space for re-imagining the post-industrial urban environment. We
are a non-profit, volunteer-run organization and encourage participation on all levels.
EV is moored on Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. The boat is our first project. We invite you to come join us on board to work and play.
We host work parties, movie nights, seminars, concerts, dinners, and workshops. The Empty Vessel is available to realize your dreams and schemes.
This newsletter is your guide. It appears in your in box at the beginning of each week, listing events and tracking changes. Can it be better? Contact
pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org with suggestions.
Please forward to all potential co-conspirators.
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