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Court
| Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 03:19 pm: |
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Busy day, no time to write the story. I'd love to later. I think some of you, distant from New York, need to hear it. I did want some of you to be able to see what I've been seeing today. God bless the families of the poor innocent victims whose lives were snuffed out. Court
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Thespive
| Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 03:37 pm: |
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Thanks for that Court. I watched the whole thing live on CNN (I had just gotten off graveyard shift and was laying down to bed) and to this day, its hard for me to think about it, talk about, or see anything about it. I remember seeing the second plane hit live, watching the towers fall live, seeing the people jump and run and the devistation. Calling my mom on the phone at work and giving her updates, then telling her the first tower fell and hearing her in disbelief, then crying on the other side of the line. It was a horrible day for all Americans. I can only image what it would be like to be a New Yorker living it, as I am all the way out here in So Cal. Its nice to know that people can bring out thier flag and not forget those who fell victim to this horrible day. God Bless America.
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Bomber
| Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 04:35 pm: |
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Court -- believe me, no one has forgotten -- NYC wasn't alone then, nor is it alone now -- it's good to see a community pull together |
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Damnut
| Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 05:36 pm: |
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Was there on Saturday. Did a bike run from MA to Ground Zero. I for one will never forget this tragic event. I would like to thank all of the State and local officers from MA, CT and NY for escorting us all the way there from MA and making the ride one that I will never forget. God bless all of our Troops, Fire & Police Officers. Here are a few pictures from that ride.
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Court
| Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 06:12 pm: |
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Panhead_dan
| Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 08:12 pm: |
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Thanks for the pics guys. There were flags flying EVERYWHERE in my little town today and discussion on the jobsite tells me that the folks out here have not forgotten, nor will we ever forget. |
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Court
| Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 10:32 pm: |
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Toona
| Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 - 10:33 pm: |
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Court, I'll email addy. Could you send the last skyline picture w/ the twin light towers in full resolution? I've been watching the news channels all day. Stingeroo, myself and another fellow Bueller rode to the Shanksville Flight 93 Memorial on Saturday. Very Moving. Thx, Dan |
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Thespive
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 03:10 am: |
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Court, could you also e-mail me that picture. It is one of my favorite post-9/11 photos. Thanks, --Sean |
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Hans
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 11:44 am: |
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Hi Court, Could you send me also a full resolution copy of the first picture "Looking toward Manhattan"? I am trying to get that view on Manhattan at night for a long time. I have even accepted a photograph, like that, as paying for sending a spare part. The part: A remote control, was send, but I got never any response. I want that picture as long time remembrance: Before you know there is a new building, half a mile high, and those endless lights, glowing with hope and belief in future, are gone forever. Thanks, Hans |
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Court
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 03:21 pm: |
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Hans: I'd be thrilled to. In fact, I can shoot them about any night you want out the back window. I have many of the harbor with a silver full moon illuminating it . . . pictures from the kitchen window when the towers were present. If you need ANY pictures of New York, from Staten Island to the fabled Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. . . I'm your guy. What remote control? Did you send it to me? Ecccccccccccck! I'll send pics when I get home tonight. |
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Hans
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 04:54 pm: |
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Thanks Court, No, it wasn`t you. I did send a remote control for my first digital camera, which I lost, to an American who was dying for it, but not wanting to pay the really exaggerated high price (Canon) for that simple part. I thought that a postcard with the wanted view would be a fair trade for the thing, now useless for me. From the first time I saw that picture, and I believe it was yours years ago on Badweb, I wanted to have it in high resolution. But I couldn`t find it nowhere on internet, while I supposed it would be there as common, as pictures of tulips from Holland. Maybe that view is NOT everywhere between the postcards in any bookshop in New York ? However: The picture above in high res is just fine. Excellent even. Hans |
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Court
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 05:15 pm: |
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>>>>No, it wasn`t you. Whew. . . you scared me. I have the world's worst memory and old timers have learned, years ago, to KEEP BUGGING ME! I'll send the high (3.5MB) res pic tonight and it you want to e-mail me an address, I'll fire you off a DVD with any pictures you want. . . of I'll just pepper it with images of New York City. If there is anything you are interested in seeing, just let me know. For you . . NO PROBLEM! |
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Court
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 07:26 pm: |
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By the way, I got an e-mail today inquiring about the "Post Cards" Exhibit in my photo.
quote:"Postcards" Will Be Staten Island September 11 Memorial Project Background Borough President James P. Molinaro set aside $2 million in capital funds for a memorial to Staten Islanders lost on September 11, 2001. An Advisory Committee was formed, composed of Deputy Borough President Dan Donovan; City Councilmen Andrew Lanza, Michael McMahon, James Oddo; Community Board Chairmen John Antoniello, George Caputo, Lou Caravone; family representatives Sam Cannizzaro, Patricia Henrique, Linda Manfredi, Joanne Modafferi, and architect Vince MacDermot. They selected a site on the St. George waterfront. A Request for Proposals resulted in 179 entries from 19 countries. The Advisory Committee narrowed the pool to six finalists, who then refined their designs. The six proposals were exhibited and community opinions solicited throughout the borough, followed by a public forum at the College of Staten Island. The next day, the finalists made presentations to the Committee and answered their remaining questions. The Advisory Committee then discussed the six proposals and selected Masayuki Sono's "Postcards." The New York City Economic Development Corporation, which is the agency with jurisdiction over the esplanade site, will contract with consultants and contractors and oversee the project. Laura Jean Watters, COAHSIıs Executive Director, was responsible for coordination of the panel process as well as providing community liaison and outreach. Masayuki Sono's Poetic Proposal Written by Tamara Coombs First published in COAHSI Arts & Letters July/August 2003 Issue Architect Masayuki Sono always has postcards in his apartment. Some are sent to friends and family. He writes on others and keeps them. When he wants to make a model, he grabs a postcard. Unlike many young designers, the 32 year-old Sono works out his forms by hand rather than on a computer. Sketches may come first, but his early design process depends on hand-built models. At the public forum on the Memorial Competition designs, Sono held a small one on his palm, turning it to illustrate his points. Sono was born in Kobe, a seaport in Japan. For the Staten Island September 11 Memorial, he thought back to the ten years he spent as a boy in Fort Lee, New Jersey. His father worked in Manhattan. He imagined losing him as others lost those they loved on September 11. Through this "painful and scary" process of trying to place himself "in their shoes," he focused on the victims and their families, and what they would want. Sono then made sketches and began to test his concepts by building models, models of "even the most stupid idea." He wanted to somehow connect the victims to those left behind. In a serendipitous moment, he realized that the postcard in his hands was more than model-making material. It was a way to send messages of love and remembrance. Even in the era of cell phones and e-mail, the postcard continues to be a handwritten communication sent across great distances. Sono liked that it was a commonplace part of daily life. He multiplied its dimensions by 267 to convey the scale of the loss for Staten Island, then gave the postcard origami-like inward folds (as if to keep a personal message private). Sono chose to be abstract and metaphoric rather than literal in his design, to allow each person who experiences it to call on their own memories and interpretation. Twin postcards can be seen as a reference to the twin towers. He placed the postcards side by side, close together at the entrance to form a compressive space. The space widens and releases towards the harbor and the open sky. A view of lower Manhattan is framed by the high walls. He softly bent the upper edges at an angle, transforming simple rectangles into abstractly organic forms in which some see wings of a dove or biomorphic shapes. To individually memorialize those who died, Sono designed reachable rows of rectangular "commemorative stamps" for the interior walls. In addition to a name and other facts, each white granite "stamp" bears a profile facing the harbor. When the sun strikes a profile, it will cast a shadow on the recessed granite box behind it. When the wall is shaded, an open slot behind each profile will backlight the profile with daylight. At night, spotlights will substitute for the sun. Shifting light and shadow on the profiles will enliven the surface of the memorial as they mark time and change. Given his design, it's not surprising that Sono is an artist as well as architect. He has been in sixty exhibitions in media ranging from watercolor to video. Sono's choice of favorite painter and architect suggest an independent mind. He likes Andrew Wyeth and the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer ("He's my god"), known for his organic use of concrete and expressive design. Sono was good at math and physics in school. Sono chose architecture as a way to combine his skills and interests. His father is an engineer of a highly technical sort. Sono himself is at ease with the practicalities of construction. He recognized concrete would be an appropriately long-lasting choice for a waterfront site. He even cast a sample of Portland cement and light-colored sand and aggregate ("not as white as I want") to illustrate the concrete of the memorial, which will be sealed to resist pollution and graffiti. As it happens, Sono is in the United States in large part because of a disaster that struck his own hometown. In 1995, while Sono was in a graduate exchange program at the University of Seattle, Kobe was struck by an earthquake. It cost 5,000 lives and displaced 300,000 people. There were no applicants for the University of Seattle/University of Kobe program for the following year, so Sono was awarded another scholarship to remain a second year. After he received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Seattle, he returned to Kobe to complete his M Arch there. The Kobe he knew was gone. He decided to come back to the United States and work here. Since 1998, he has been with Voorsanger & Associates Architects in Manhattan. At the public forum on the Memorial design held at the College of Staten Island, CSI's president, Dr. Marlene Springer welcomed those in attendance. In an allusion to CSI's past as Willowbrook State School, Dr. Springer remarked of CSI that a thing of beauty had come out of what had been a tragedy for many. She held out the hope that something of beauty could come out of the September 11 tragedy as well. "Postcards" promises to be something of beauty for Staten Island. Designed by a talented and empathetic architect, it was chosen by a panel that saw in it a memorial to those lost and a comfort to those left behind. "The first time I saw it, it made me think of the wings of a butterfly," said Patricia Henrique, who lost her daughter Michelle on September 11. "It's about life; new life evolving." By September 11, 2004, "Postcards" will be sending Masayuki Sono's poetic message across New York Harbor.
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![Postcards](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/17/227036.jpg) It's pleasing to provide information for folks who are not touched by this daily to the extent those of us who walked to work through streets filled with ash for 2 months perhaps do. The spirit of the American people is great. Firefighters in NYC compare stories about how many states and countries the folks are from who have handed them sandwiches and bottles of water. When the tragic events occurred . . . the sounds of jets overhead had barely ceased by the time the sound of Americans thundering across the country replaced it. One of my prize mementos is the patch from Fireman Jim Higgins and the Vallejo, CA Fire Department. The 9-11-01 tragedy hurt me in a different way than some. Some of you know Howard Kelly former Editor of Hot Bike. His wife was a friend of Father Judge who was killed when he, kneeling over a body that had fallen from the tower administering Last Rites, was struck by another falling body. My personal pain resulted from being the victim of random violence years ago. The events of the World Trade Center seemed to unleash those demons and memories of hiding and evading death threats while the guy who shot me awaited trial. When New York, it is said, sneezes. . . America gets sick and the world staggers. This, like New York of not, is the "Center of the Universe". The fellow holding the shotgun in the photo I included yesterday is in front of the largest stash of currency and gold bullion in the world. Fort Knox is a piggy bank compared to what is held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. . where all countries come to trade. Not long from now, and we're already seeing Naval ships in the harbor and military troops taking up position, the leaders of the world, including Afghanistan and Iran, will all be. . you guessed it, in New York. Lucky for me and my pictures, so will virtually every top fashion model in the world. Paris and Milan combined pale in comparison to New York City. Think about it . . . the place where George Harrison shopped and the only place Paul McCartney would allow to work on his Hofner bass was in England? Nope, 3 blocks from my house at the "Center of the Acoustic Universe". . . heck...Google that phrase and see what you find. New York City, New York USA was not a "random target". New York is the Capital of the World. Period Oh yes. . . and lest I forget. Crews from the OME are now, after 5 years, down to 4 refrigerated trailers. I pass them everyday; sometimes I cry, of human remains. Every speck of anything has been painstakingly preserved. The Great Kills Land Fill has a spanking new Forensic Laboratory and in addition to the "known elements" recovered during the clean-up, each and every bucket of dust, debris, powdered sheetrock, powdered desktops and powdered elevator cars is being sifted and sorted on a set of conveyor belts that looks like something from a corporate Almond farming operation for any microscopic evidence of remains. America has always been first to step up to the plate, to send it's sons and daughters to distant lands to die so not only we, but other freedom loving persons, around the world may live in freedom the way a loving and caring God, as we believe, intended it. I went to the World Trade Center site yesterday, as much as any other reason, for personal catharsis and to say "Thank you" to any and all of the young United States Marines I saw. We are a people who love our freedom. Pundits, hurling words, quickly fade and their words mean little. We are a nation built on freedom, love of freedom and the common commitment to defend that principle no matter how difficult of far from home. Folks like Bomber, Road Thing and I remember all to well when some who defended our freedom came home and were not thanked. That will never happen again on my watch. Court PHOTO CREDIT: I snagged the 2 pics from someone's Flick account they had posted them to |
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Court
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 07:56 pm: |
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Hey. . . knock, knock . . . it's ME . . . Court! You think I'm leaving you with something that heavy WITHOUT telling a story? FAT CHANCE. . . so here ya go. I'm a construction worker as some of you know. Some of the electricity, lighting and glitzy billboards in this city sparkle in part due to my toil and the sweat of my brow. . . no really. . . just wait. Anyway. . . I consider about anything electric, including lights, traffics signals, power plants and so forth, to be my "babies". . . little wonder I was drawn to the lights, the first year they were installed, much like a firefly. As some of you know and a few of you can attest, I have no problem parking. I can drive down a sidewalk and parallel park a truck into a space from the sidewalk side; it's a breeze. As a shaken Saro from San Francisco could attest from his visit, I am also nary constrained by a silly tin arrow "suggesting" a single direction of travel down a street and if the parking place is too small, my truck can easily move a car a foot or so. . . although, it was a bit dicey when we discovered I'd just pushed an unmarked NYPD Detectives car in front of a fire hydrant......I'm digressable. Okay, I'm parked. . . I see the lights. . . I grad a big fat Nikon with a lens that was (long story about the time the anti-terrorism folks (3 of them) were on the front porch when I got home) that can be mistaken for a mortar launcher and set out for the lights. Uno problemo Amigo . . they are filming The Sopranos on the street I am walking down looking, unbeknownst to me, like the Paparazzi. As some of you know, I'm no stranger (you may have read "Court: Accidental Movie Star" in 2002) having run ins with folks filming movies. This one got ugly and these guys, I chalk it up to the roles they play, tried to play tough guy with Mr. "I'm not from here...Ya'll". Anyway. . . we reached an accord. . . I was not "whacked" and for your enjoyment here's a couple pieces of what I tore my slacks climbing an 8' fence in Downtown for.
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Crusty
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 08:42 pm: |
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Neat stuff! Thanks, Court. |
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Retired_cop
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 09:40 pm: |
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Court, As you said....NOT ON MY WATCH!!! From those of us who were there a long time ago and have been defiled and looked down upon, we will not let the current heros be forgotten, be they police, fire, security, or military. They are the reason we can post and exchange our opinions so freely. Tim Young USN 1971-1977 CE1/SEAL |
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Road_thing
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 10:14 pm: |
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Great pictures, Court, thanks! rt |
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Court
| Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 11:04 pm: |
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![Fire Department of New York](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/17/227140.jpg) 343 of his fellow fighters who WERE NOT IN THE BUILDINGS . . . RAN IN and died trying to save people |
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Brucelee
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 09:48 am: |
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"When the tragic events occurred . . . the sounds of jets overhead had barely ceased by the time the sound of Americans thundering across the country replaced it" America's finest hour in my opinion. These actions on 9/11 and the days that followed defined this country for all to see and I was never prouder than on those days. Hats off to all who helped and a special thanks for these photos. THANKS! |
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Bomber
| Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 09:56 am: |
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Mr Young -- welcome home, brother! the support the uniformed forces get these days is perhaps the greatest positive change that's occured in the country in the last 30 years -- I'm thinkin it'll be a long time before things backslide, and, as Court and TIm said, not on our watch thanks for the pics, Court! your slax sacrifice was not in vain! |
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