E M P T Y | V E S S E L | P R O J E C T | N E W S # 45 | JULY . 06 . 06
Our Hours This Week
Friday 7pm - 11pm
Saturday 8pm - party's end
Sunday 1-9pm
Monday 8pm - 12am
Happy Birthday to EV! It was exactly a year ago... (see history)
U P C O M I N G
FRIDAY, JULY 7, 8pm ::: LAY DOWN TRACKS (Danielle Lombardi) & a world premier of MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. (Todd Chandler), 8pm
LAY DOWN TRACKS
60 min, 16mm, 2006
by Danielle Lombardi and Brigid
McCaffrey?
This 16mm experimental documentary closely follows five American workers who have based their lives around traveling. The film journeys through the shifting surroundings of a retired carnival worker, girl- trucker, railroad executive, chimney sweep/surfer, and a nun/riverboat pilot, interweaving personal narratives in an exploration of the tenuous relationship between economic necessity and human aspirations within an alternative American Dream.
MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO.
21 min, video, 2006 - not yet released
by Todd Chandler
This is a film made during the middle of a three and a half month tour with the band, magnolia electric co. as they spent a week passing through the small towns and cities that dot the canadian great plains. The sprawling landscape of the praries and the band's haunting music tell
a disjointed story of being on the road day after day. It is the quiet, elusive and lonely side of the rock n'roll dream. it's about the mundane and the beautiful, the rest stops, the phone calls home, the hotel rooms, and the in-between moments. Not a concert film.
8pm, $3-10 donation
SATURDAY, JULY 8 ::: EV'S BIRTHDAY
Come celebrate a year of rockin on the water with the EV Crew, Shellshag, DJ Dirty Fingers and G. Lucas Crane vs. Non-Horse spinning YOUR mix tapes into a dance frenzy.
$5., cash bar, bring tapes
SUNDAY, JULY 11 ::: Russian Class
na lodke, no ranshe.
1-2pm, by donation
SUNDAY, JULY 12 ::: Work Day
Tin, tin, tin, tin; tin, tin, tin, tin.
oh-tinnety tin, wonderful tin...
1-6pm, free
SUNDAY, JULY 12 ::: Music in the Magic Hour with Mouth of Leaves and the Daughters Humans
The magic hour is when EV simply glows. She blushes. We giggle. Come appreciate her to some lovely tunes. Audio preview here:
http://samueldelarosa.tripod.com
BBQ 6pm, BYOdogandpony
Music starts 7pm, free, cash bar
MONDAY, JULY 10 9pm ::: Haiti's Hades Harlequin's Hymns
Poets and lyricists go head to head, accompanied by Chris Leo's and Jon Curley's etymological musings. 9-11p, free, vodka cocktails $3
For more upcoming events,check out our calendar at
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=info%40emptyvesselproject.org
or
http://log.emptyvesselproject.org/view/Main/GoogleCalendar
W H E R E I S T H E B O A T N O W ?
Access to the Empty Vessel is from the west side of 1st Street, one block south of 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
http://maps.google.com satellite image at
http://tinyurl.com/ba9cd
For directions by train:
http://www.hopstop.com. We are 3 blocks from the Carroll Street Stop on the F and G trains or the Union stop on the R train.
W I S H L I S T
MORE wood shavings, preferably the curly kind that come from a planer.
We need one (1) old working car stereo system with speakers to have fully solar powered audio. Got one?
H I S T O R Y
8am, July 8, 2005, EV left her previous home on Westchester Creek in the Bronx under her previous moniker, KOKKOMOKO and under the power of one stout grey tug. With no engines to guide her, she was at the mercy of the lines tied taught through her gaping windows and the wits of her bleary-eyes crew.
The tug had the world-weary Francios at its helm. Having just signed away his ownership of the tattered vessel for a dollar, he had made a promise to deliver her safely to her new home on the Gowanus Canal. A fabulous promise and a promising journey with the outbound tide.
Francios and his man rode in the tug, a squarenosed steel beast about 24 feet long. EV's crew rode aboard, helpless and grinning into the morning sun. Back here there was nothing to do but watch the world go by and hope. No tiller to turn, no sails to hoist, no engine to cut or turn or start. Nothing. At the outset, we thought we would have a nice Saturday morning cruise.
Our first obstacle was a draw bridge and the mouth of the Westchester Creek. High tide was meant to carry us out, cut down on fuel for the muscle boat and sweep us out to the hudson river with ease. But as we approached the bridge we heard Francios holler, "Are we gonna clear it?" One of our crew scrampled up to the roof of the bridge. "No!"
Lines taught, engine reversed, grinding sound of steel on half-a-century old mohagany. EV and her tug jackknifed in the creek to avoid a collision that would have knocked the bridge off EV's deck. The tug nudged EV sideways to the pilons of the bridge. We tied up and waited. Finally the bridge opened and we were headed south again.
But only for a moment before the roar of angry wood screamed out carelessness. We were still tied to the pilon - nearly ripped apart. But saved.
Finally out of the creek, we passed ancient ship wrecks, NYC's floating prison, Roosevelt Island, Manhattan Island, Redhook and finally made it to the mouth of the Gowanus Canal.
July 8, 2005 was a scorcher. 98 in the shade. By the time we arrived at the Gowanus, the temperature had risen past a hundred. The drawbridge operators refused to open the 9th Street bredge for fear that expanded metal would not permit it to close again under such furious temperatures.
We tied up to the Lowe's parking lot and began negotiating. "After the sun goes down?" "Nope - it;s gotta cool." "What if we ice it?"
Francios and his crew took off for home as we tried to talk our way up the canal. No luck. EV was doomed to spend her first night in her new incarnation tied up to the Lowe's lot. We slept on her to guard her.
Happy Birthday, EV!
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, Leah Beeferman, Brent Arnould, The Daniel 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, Justin Green,
BuildItGreen?, Mojo Fine Art Moving, Dave Sharps, David & Sharon Lefkowitz Hannah Marcus, Ruban, Cameron Hull, Bill Wasik, Alyssa Abeta & Zeb Stewart of Union Pool, Dylan Gauthier, Arnie at the Puppet Lending Library, Josh Wienstien, Dept. of Transportation Bridge operators, The Doctor, Erica Freas, Chris Leo, Susanna Conaway & because designs, Iris Lasn, Miss Rockaway Armada, Imaginary People, Watersports
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 each week, listing events and tracking changes. Can it be better? Contact
pz@emptyvesselprojectREMOVEANTISPAMMEASURE.org with suggestions.
--
PaulaZ - 06 Jul 2006
to top