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I was only a young man
In those days. On that evening
The cold was so God damned
Bitter there was nothing.
Nothing. I was in trouble
With a woman, and there was nothing
There but me and dead snow.
I stood on the street corner
In Minneapolis, lashed
This way and that.
Wind rose from some pit,
Hunting me.
Another bus to Saint Paul
Would arrive in three hours,
If I was lucky.
Then the young Sioux
Loomed beside me, his scars
Were just my age.
Ain't got no bus here
A long time, he said.
You got enough money
To get home on?
What did they do
To your hand? I answered.
He raised up his hook into the terrible starlight
And slashed the wind.
Oh, that? he said.
I had a bad time with a woman. Here,
You take this.
Did you ever feel a man hold
Sixty-five cents
In a hook,
And place it
Gently
In your freezing hand?
I took it.
It wasn't the money I needed.
But I took it.
Red Hook Jazz festival, Brooklyn, 20.06.10
Todd Sickafoose's Tiny Resistors with Jonathan Goldberger, Mike Gamble, John Ellis, Alan Ferber & Ches Smith
John Hook speaking with attendees at an event titled "Who Killed Bob Crane?: The Final Close-Up" at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
The angle that these hooks were interlocking at just seemed particularly appealing. Or maybe I had just got a bit bored with lilypads at this point.
metal wall hook
a mosaic piece of art to hung your coat, your bag, your towel, your umbrella, your shoe and many other things.!
the theme is a blue bird and is made with Stained Glass and ceramic tiles.
the hook is metal and very steady.
dimensions: 13 cm x 14(h) cm
weight: 230 gr
John Hook speaking with attendees at an event titled "Who Killed Bob Crane?: The Final Close-Up" at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
This solid brass coat hook comes from an "old federal building", according to the label on the back.
Being in Chicago, this likely means it originally hung somewhere in Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago Federal Building, demolished in 1965. I imagine dozens of them, lining the hallway of the judges' chambers... or in a cloak room off the lobby. Who knows.
I love the worn patina, the little voids and spots where the molten metal didn't quite fill, and the overall size and heft; it juts out 4" from the base, and stands nearly 5.5" tall. Feels like it's around a pound.
I hope to one day reproduce these in brass - maybe also a darkened bronze. It'd make a killer bathrobe hook, and I could even imagine a row of them, lined up on an exposed brick wall in a garage or barn.
It's a simple, utilitarian design that neither Melissa nor I have seen before. That's saying something, as we've looked at a lot of old hardware. At $25, we just couldn't pass up.
Found over the weekend locally on Craigslist.
Good to see that Red Hook’s waterfront is just as available to its residents as the Queens and Brooklyn waterfront is back in the Pentacle. Fenced off, privately owned, used as vehicle parking and storage.
Working Harbor Committee Jun 15th tour, quoting from their website:
workingharbor.com/Events.htm#sunset_tour
"We depart Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport, go by the Brooklyn Piers and south in Buttermilk Channel between Brooklyn & Governors Island, passing Atlantic Basin. We go further south and nose into Erie Basin, a large barge & tug facility and home to IKEA's Brooklyn store on the former site of Todd Shipyard and a now filled in graving dock.
We then cross Upper New York Harbor, passing numerous moored barges and tugs to the entrance to the Kill Van Kull, a waterway that separates Staten Island and Bayonne, passing tanker terminals, tug yards, and a large ship repair facility with floating drydocks. We proceed westerly and pass under the Bayonne Bridge, turning north to enter Newark Bay, home of Port Newark and Port Elizabeth, the largest collection of huge container ports on the East Coast of the US.
We come back out through the Kill Van Kull again, then north passing the end of the Military Ocean Terminal with its large active graving dock, then go by Global Marine Terminal just north. We pause at the end at the Statue of Liberty (around sunset) and then proceed to the tip of Manhattan and back to Pier 16."
Red hook Crit,
Fixed gear race in NYC, pretty amazing to watch guys bomb down the straight into the hairpin at the end, brakeless, and in big packs.
Loads of stacks.
Early c1100 Norman bucket font of oolitic limestone, designed for total immersion , stands on a more recent base. It has a lead lining, and a recent fixed wooden surround on the upper surface
Round the upper part of the bowl, within a border, is a beaded wavy line (snakes ?) with foliage at intervals on either side and a half lozenge underneath. Round the lower part, within a border, is a series of roundels with circular medallions.
The figures show Adam and Eve (ADAM and EVA inscribed on their chests in mixed Roman and Lombardic capitals) , the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and signs of the Zodiac (Sagittarius (SAGITARIVS) , Aquarius & Aries)
Adam has a spade in his right hand and a rake held up in his left hand. Eve, who has plaited hair, holds an apple in her right hand and a fig leaf in her left.
Sagittarius (SAGITARIVS) the archer portrayed as a centaur, with the body, hind legs and tail of a horse and human torso, is turned away from Aquarius, but the upper, human part is looking back and holds a bow with a short arrow, which he is about to discharge. This combination suggests Sagittarius as the champion of all that is right and good, driving away the evil influence as represented by the flood which would destroy the world, released by Aquarius (the water carrier) who has a hooked stick over his shoulder with 2 water-bags hanging from it, and carries an axe in front of him., The destructive character of the water of the flood is thus contrasted with the regenerative power of the water of baptism.
Aries is typical of the lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world. He is standing on a flat pedestal and below this is a tree with foliage extending on either side from the top of the trunk, suggesting the tree of life. The remaining figure is Serpens, represented as a two headed serpent, with one head biting the other. This is a symbol o f the powers of evil which war against one another and bring about their own destruction. (or possibly the symbol of eternity)
- Church of St Peter, Hook Norton Oxfordshire
Hook Head is the oldest lighthouse in Ireland, and one of the oldest in Europe still operating. In the 5th century St Dubhan set up a fire beacon on the headland as a warning to mariners. After his death his monks kept the beacon going for another 6 centuries. Between 1170 and 1184 the Normans built the present lighthouse.
In 1665 King Charles II granted letters patent to Sir Robert Reading to erect a lighthouse at Hook Head, Co Wexford, Ireland.
It was built from local limestone and burned lime mixed with ox’s blood. The walls are 9 to 13 feet thick and 80 feet above the ground. Even today traces of the blood-lime mix can be seen coming through the paintwork.
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Taken with a Tamron 17-35mm on the 400D. A polariser allowed the use of a slowish shutter speed - 1/6th sec @f/22 - thus showing some movement in the water.
The dome of the Taj Mahal in Agra India is made of marble in which in recent time, hooks were inserted ffor the purpose of attaching camoflouge. Attempts were made to camoflouge the dome from the German Luftwaffe and the Japanese during World War II and decades later from the Pakastani air force. Because removing the hooks would cause damage to the dome, they have been left in place and now serve only as unintended bird perches for black kites - large birds of prey that soar on the thermal currents. A black kite can be seen flying on the left side of the photograph.
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This solid brass coat hook comes from an "old federal building", according to the label on the back.
Being in Chicago, this likely means it originally hung somewhere in Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago Federal Building, demolished in 1965. I imagine dozens of them, lining the hallway of the judges' chambers... or in a cloak room off the lobby. Who knows.
I love the worn patina, the little voids and spots where the molten metal didn't quite fill, and the overall size and heft; it juts out 4" from the base, and stands nearly 5.5" tall. Feels like it's around a pound.
I hope to one day reproduce these in brass - maybe also a darkened bronze. It'd make a killer bathrobe hook, and I could even imagine a row of them, lined up on an exposed brick wall in a garage or barn.
It's a simple, utilitarian design that neither Melissa nor I have seen before. That's saying something, as we've looked at a lot of old hardware. At $25, we just couldn't pass up.
Found over the weekend locally on Craigslist.