Schadenfreude at Sea Shepherds Scuttle

reposted from OLD SALT BLOG. The reality TV stars, the Sea Shepherds, took their newest speed boat, the Brigitte Bardot, out on the Southern Ocean recently, which proved to be more than it could handle. The Brigitte Bardot reportedly cracked its main hull and severely damaged the port pontoon in heavy seas. No crew were reported to be injured and the boat will return to Freemantle Australia for repairs. The Brigitte Bardot is the ex-Ocean_7_Adventurer, a high-tech 115 ft stabilized monohull twin diesel powered vessel built built to circumnavigate the world in less than 80 days. (It succeeded in rounding the world in 74 days in 1998.) The Sea Shepherd’s acquired the boat after sinking their previous speed boat, the Ady Gil, the ex-Earthrace, a biodiesel powered wave-piecing trimaran, which completed a circumnavigation in just 60 days 23 hours and 49 minutes. Sea Shepherd anti-whaling boat damaged by wave Contrary to their claims, the Sea Shepherds do effectively nothing to protect endangered whales by their use of vigilante violence. While we do not support the continued Japanese whaling, the minke whales being hunted by the Japanese are not endangered, while the Sea Shepherd violence violates the Law of the Sea and risks the lives of sailors on both sides of the conflict. While we oppose whaling, violence against seafarers of any nation is not an acceptable nor an effective means of enacting change. We need a Real Do Gooder to erase these Assholes of the Sea once and for all. Two boats down, one blow hard named Paul Watson to go.

Up Close and Personal with Catbird

Thank you to Catbird for the fantastic coverage!!!!!

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There will be Rum

Dear Friends, Customers, and people I have not seen in a coons age. Come help to celebrate the opening of the studio and test the weight limits of the building! Friday, October 21st 2011 7:00 and after. 311 East Broadway, 5th Floor, New York NY 10002 (creepy old building with the gargoyle above the Ritualarium) Lower East Side If you are taking the Subway nearest stop is East Broadway on the F Train Hope you can make it

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Red Tides, Electric Blue Nights

As a Red Tide Washed the shores of Southern California yesterday, the heavy concentration of bioluminescent life made the waves glow electric blue by night. a mysterious, beautiful beach death cloaked in phosphorescence.

Message in a Bottle

Harold Hackett of Prince Edward Island in Canada has a hobby of tossing bottles in the sea. Of his 4,800 messages he has received 3,100 replies. For a heartwarming story check out the BBC interview here

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The Empire Strikes Back

On Tuesday September 13th join Josh Fox, Gasland, probably Mark Ruffalo and many other sane people in taking the time to tell your leaders to stop being short sighted. So What the United States has pockets of natural gas beneath its beautiful mountains? It also has tremendous amounts of sun soaking its lower half and wind blowing from coast to coast. Hydrofracking is earth rape. It promises to poisin the our drinking water and this is a small part of its intended environmental crimes. Please take a moment to call the whitehouse 212-456-1111 or 202-456-1414 or send an email through the whitehouse contact page If you live in NY State, contact Cuomo 212-681-4580 or 518-474-8390 or email. Learn more on United for Action's website.

The Crabs are Coming!!!!

The crab series began years ago- having found a perfect crab on the beaches in Montauk. In my laboratory/studio I have dissected their legs and bodies and re-arranged them and the franken-crab series continues to evolve. Early in the summer work began on wrapping claw rings, with hopes of completion during the Cancer Zodiac sign. Instead it looks like these will be ready to march with the Christmas Island Crabs!!!! Marching into stores in a few weeks.

Ram Head Well Mounted

Walking around Tompkins Square Park the other week, surveying the downed trees from Irene and the flora and fauna of rats, walked past this amazing hood ornament.

Pirate Ship Earrings and Spanish Galleon Pendant on Trend De L Creme

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea, and, as "Earth-Shaker," the creator of earthquakes. So, unlike his singularly-gifted co-gods, Poseidon was bestowed the ability to unleash his fury on land and at sea. So, it's no surprise that, only a week after the strangely unexpected earthquake centered in DC, a hurricane is now barreling towards the eastern coast. A clear indication that he's up to no good, and probably just getting started. So, friends, it's time to batten down the hatches in Boston while Hurricane Irene does her dirty work. (Does anyone else find it odd that Irene comes from the Greek Eirene which means "peace" ??)

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Qaddafi's Mermaid Couch

He had Good taste in Body Guards and Guilt Couches

DEEP BLUE HOME: SEA WOMEN

DEEP BLUE HOME: SEA WOMEN: "In southern Japan women freedivers have been collecting the flora and fauna of the sea for 2,000 years. Traditionally..."

Brave New World

Check out the fantastic piece by Stewart C. Prager, "How Seawater Can Power the World"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/opinion/11Prager.html

The Boxes Are In!

Ordered in February----received in June....worth the wait......still waiting on ring boxes...
but happy all the same.

Mark Motherbaugh Does Wallpaper

Mark Motherbaugh of DEVO and amazing sountrack making fame has designed wall paper.
Check it out

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So beautiful it hurts

Blogworld Darling Hollister Hovey shared this with the world today, and I am following the lead.
Austria, epicenter of high culture is preparing for their opera festival Bregenzer Festspiele, where they perform opera on floating stages. Just when you think humanity is a sinking ship, you become aware of something so beautiful and inspiring happening somewhere in this world.

Check out stage sets of the past and be amazed.

Pirates in Paris on the Cherry Blossom Girl

Blue World Ring rears its brassy head again. Thanks to The Cherry Blossom Girl and a perfect kick off to summer photoshoot PIRATE IN PARIS!!!!

South Street Seaport Seamonster.....or Sturgeon

On the little beach beneath the Brooklyn Bridge lied a leviathan, swollen and smelling and swimming no more. Its head was flat like an eel and body covered in scutes like Dinosaurs.
Turns out it was a Sturgeon in the East River.

S.O.S. Save our Seaport

During the Winter of 2011 the South Street Seaport Museum closed its doors to the public. Since March the Historic Bowne Print Shop, tours of the Tall Ships: Peking and Wavertree, The Hellen McAllister Tugboat, Ambrose Lightship and sailboats Lettie G. and Pioneer are no longer open to the public. Attempts have been made to send the modest collection of ships representing New York's Maritime History away from New York City's downtown.
Join the Many Volunteers that have preserved these traditions of nautical wood working, printing, sailing, and educating youth about the East River's Ecology rally to re open the museum and the ships. If you can not attend the rally, join Save Our Seaport and see how you can get involved.

Sunny the Seal Sleeping in the Sun

Flotsam and Jetsam docks in Red Hook

Flotsam and Jetsam NY will be carried in the amazing Metal and Thread store in Red Hook Brooklyn. 398 Van Brunt Street. The shop carries work by the artisan owners as well who make amazing quilts and chain mail jewelry.

Its Alive

Dutch Kinetic Sculptor Theo Jansen builds beasts that with help of the wind propel themselves along the dunes.

Expedition to the South Bronx and Spanish Harlem

Pointed the car north to the South Bronx this morning to crawl through the exotic wood warehouse of Rosenzweig Lumber. Walked the corridors surrounded by planks of zebra wood, weng, mahogany, bass, walnut and cherry and chose a selection of walnut for its strength, affordability and dark wood grained expressions. We hauled the wood next door to Jose, master carpenter of the South Bronx to cut and join and rip and round the wood into a workbench. Lunch was a dark wooden spot for the truck drivers, police officers and EMTS that found their way to this short order cook and gravy haven that may have been called Mary L's.
Harlem was on the way home with a terrifying walk through Demolition Depot, being chased by the house cat, and wondering if the building crammed full of artifacts would collapse any second (like their former location "Irreplacable Artifacts" actually did.
Photographic Evidence below.

The Boy with the Pearl Earring

An Obvious Title for a not so obvious new Talent I came across. Johnny Quinlan, wearer of The Pirate Ship Earring with Pearl, possessor of a very strong, powerful voice and nimble piano playing fingers. Singer of a dark-post-punk-meets-synth-pop band, Revel Hotel, playing Don Hills April 20th at 10:00. For those who still enjoy a band that not only plays well but brings style to the stage, it should be a great show.

Photo by Emily Strange Photography

Sea Organ Croatia

Thanks to Carrie Barrett's world of curious wisdom for turning me on to the Sea Organ in Zadar Croatia, playing the sound of the Adriatic Sea meeting the land.

James Demaria brings his second Second Line To Coney Island

Shipwreck Furniture

Where land meets the sea, many gifts often wash ashore. From Rubber Duckies

inside capsized shipping containers to your life's calling. That was the case for Nic Kruger of South Africa, who came across the carcass of the shipwreck Kunene. While her bone- like boards were drying in the South African Sun, they spoke to him. He carried the ship skeleton home to his workshop. The Kunene was built for sea fishery patrols, but like all ships, her careers changed many paths before she sank in the ship retirement home that was her harbor. Now her boards, vessels of sea stories fashioned into tables continue their lives, revived by the craftsman of Shipwreck Furniture.

First Studio Visit

If the studio were a ship, and most everything can be likened to a ship, Yesterday I watched for my first passenger. From the iron railing on the downstairs street prowl I met the lovely and talented Daisy Press, Master Modern Vocalist, and welcomed her aboard. She purchased a Spanish Galleon Ring, of course, that she will wear as she tours with Chromeo. We rose to the crows nest and watched the suns light go down and the lower east side light up. We spoke of her unique childhood touring with her parents and Neil Diamond and discovered that we had most definitely been in the same places before as Neil Diamond was my first concert. We spoke of places never been and books to be read. Daisy's wide range of musics mastered can be experienced by all on her website, visit and be seduced by song

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Salt Cell for Cherry Blossom Girl

The Sea Horse Salt Cell gets its 15 minutes....and beautiful photographs used in its glory....as a salt cell. It also comes in handy as in ink well for illustrators. Thanks to Cherry Blossom Girl Blog. Inspirations from this cell are from Benvenuto Cellini, mannerist master. Most of his work was melted, while he loved creating beautiful objects for his patrons, he also had a penchant for the equivalent of bar fighting of his day, backtalking to cardinals, and swashbuckling and was known to melt most of his metal for battles. A true Renaissance man, he created timeless sculptures of Perseus slaying Medusa for the Piazza Del Signore in Florence. The infamous salt cell was stolen. Operas were made. His legend as a master metalsmith, swashbuckler, author, creator of highly valued stolen objects continues... in life and in his homages like Flotsam and Jetsam's salt cell.

The Oldest Living Things in the World

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Rachel Sussman travels the world, documenting the oldest living things in the world. Did you know brain coral can be 2000 years old?

Love Note Lockets are spreading across the City

Thanks to the lovely Catbird of Williamsburg and Dave Arman, bike messenger extraordinaire, and today, Cupid.
An early morning marriage proposal and an evening surprise is under way.
Its shaping up to be a very special Valentines Day.

The Lovely Dana Varon

Seen in "I want to be her," blog by Ebay Fashion Editor Andrea Linnet. Thanks for including the Spanish Galleon Ring in your lovely outfit.
When not performing her music and acting in movies, Dana also concocts perfume called Doll. Her intoxicating aromas can take you to that island far away.

Edward Hoppers Beautiful Solitudes at the Whitney