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Fukagawa Lumberyards, No. 106 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
The Fukagawa lumberyards, site of part of the huge supply of lumber needed by the world's largest wooden city, were of great economic importance. In early Edo, lumber was kept closer to the center of town. However, in the wake of a fire in 1641 that destroyed not only houses but the lumber needed to rebuild them as well, the government ordered the yards removed to the Fukagawa district. The snow falling on the water here provides one of the brightest images of winter in the series.
- Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando), Japanese, 1797-1858
- Medium: Woodblock print
- Place Made: Japan
- Dates: 8th month of 1856
- Period: Edo Period, Ansei Era
- Dimensions: Sheet: 14 3/16 x 9 1/4 in. (36 x 23.5 cm) Image: 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (34 x 22.2 cm) (show scale)
- Markings: Title in cartouche upper right. Signature in cartouche lower left. Censor seals in upper right border. No publisher's seal visible. Probably lost when left margin was trimmed. Date and censor seal at upper margin.
- Signature: Hiroshige-ga
- Collections:Asian Art
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Accession Number: 30.1478.106
- Credit Line: Gift of Anna Ferris
- Rights Statement: No known copyright restrictions
- Caption: Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858). Fukagawa Lumberyards, No. 106 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 8th month of 1856. Woodblock print, Sheet: 14 3/16 x 9 1/4 in. (36 x 23.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.106
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- Catalogue Description: After the fire in 1641 which destroyed both houses and the lumber needed to rebuild them, lumberyards were removed to the Fukagawa district, east of the Sumida River, to the place officially named Fukagawa Kiba ("wood place"). In this scene one sees the leaning poles, two sparrows, two loggers, two puppies, and at the bottom, a yellow umbrella which has the "fish mark" of the publisher Uoei. The lumber was transported to and from the Kiba lashed onto rafts and poled by skilled loggers, two of whom are seen here wearing straw capes. The Fukagawa lumberyards survived until the mid 1970's when the land began to subside, obstructing the passage of the lumber boats. Today, much of Tokyo's lumber arrives by ship from all over the world and is then transported by truck. However, Kiba survives as a place name.
- Record Completeness: Best (90%)


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Today is our 10th wedding anniversary! My sweetie and I have seen, done, and experienced so much over the past ten years and I wanted his anniversary present to commemorate that in some way. When I saw this idea on Pinterest (see the inspiration here by minimoz) a few weeks ago I just knew it was the perfect gift because the Mister is a collector of maps.
The hearts are cut from maps and represent places that have meaning to us: where we met, got engaged, got married, our honeymoon, our first home, where we had our baby, some places that we traveled, and where we adopted.
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And if there was ever a question about how often I dust the one thing hanging in my hallway, this should answer it... Yikes!
I removed the brown paper on the back of the frame and lifted the staples so I could remove the current photo.
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I then measured where I wanted each heart and taped some thread on so I could keep all of the hearts in line. (This was removed later, of course.)
Now the front looks so pretty and the back...well...this project is like a mullet: business in the front, crazy party in the back. But that's okay, no one will ever see that part. I just folded the staples back down to keep it in place...
...and covered the back with brown craft paper so it looked nice and neat. I knew this giant roll of paper would come in handy one day.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by BBBinAZ Great Outdoor Sink! This outdoor sink set-up works well for those planting project cleanups when you'd rather not have to go back into the house to clean up!! The additional wooden cart station makes it mobile. April 22, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Outdoorgardener Garden Sink This is a really nice unit. It is actually the second one we've installed. The last one had to be removed when our house was painted so we decided to just get a new one since we used the last one so much. We like the set up and the durability. Installation is fine as long as you follow the step by step directions. We like the sliding work surface on top when the sink is not in use. It's a really handy item. April 19, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Aardvark Outdoor Sink This item disappeared from the market for a while and I'm glad to see it back. Assembly was fairly routine, although some of the parts were a tight fit -- a good thing from a quality standpoint. My only minor disappointment is that proper sizing of lag bolts and washers for final installation was a challenge, as the mounting slots appear to be of non-standard size. From a DIY perspective, instructions to rely on "hardware professionals" for mounting advice was a cop-out. All in all, however, this outdoor garden sink appears to be a quality unit that will do the job. April 29, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ledra Exactly what I was looking for I wanted this product when I saw it last season even though I had no where to put it. This year I was so pleased to see it again and have the perfect place for it. If you're going to get a stationary hose reel you might as well spend a few more dollars and get one with such great features. I looks great, was easy to install and has so many functional attributes- it is well worth the money. I am very happy with my pruchase - but bewarned- follow the assembly instructions - it will, as always, save you alot of headache. May 14, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by MarylandGardner I really needed this product I had seen this product online several years ago and when I tried to order it was out of stock. We do a lot of yard work and do not have a utility sink so this product is perfect for us. We were at a little nursery buying some plants and they had a new one mounted on the outside of one of their greenhouses. I Googled it when we got home and Improvements had it so we ordered it immediately. It was easy to install and I added a two hose valve to the existing hose bib and we were in business! It is most convenient and prevents us from tracking mud, mulch and grass into the house. May 19, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by ladyt This product is just want we wanted a way to wash hands outside I had been looking all over for this product, I saw one a few years ago at a yards sale that someone was buying and I always wanted one. It is great, it was just want I wanted. And it was easy to put together and install. June 7, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by NYtoCA Outdoor Garden Sink My kids bought me this sink years ago, I still use it and love it. Now that my son has a family and a yard I wanted to get him the same one for Father's Day. I found that the manufacturer was out of business. Then...there it was on Improvements! I ordered it, it came in 2 days ahead of schedule and my son loves it. If I had anything at all to suggest - it should say "does not include mounting hardware" - wasn't a big deal, but I would have bought that ahead of time for him. June 21, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Dancinbuni Outdoor Garden Sink Perfect! Exactly what I needed. Went together easily. July 3, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by griffon outdoor garden sink I had one of these sinks about 10 years ago, then sold my house. now i found them again so i got it and i love it again. July 20, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by TagsPlace Outdoor Garden Sink Easy to assemble and install. Works great. So nice to have a place to wash off vegetables before bringing in the house August 7, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by LuvOnline Wonderful product The customer service with this company is excellent and their products of good quality. Be sure I will continue to buy from this company. September 28, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by BKER Outdoor Garden Sink This sink is perfect for the part-time gardener or gardener with limited space providing a work space with access to water for replanting etc. My particular unit arrived with two of the three screws, that hold in the drain plate, pulled out. Fortunately they were still in the box and I was able to re-install them and they appear that they will hold the plate so as not to allow leakage around the drain. Overall, pretty impressive in design ad function. April 8, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Speedlimit42 Love this outdoor sink! I have been wanting this kind of sink for a long time so a big THANK YOU to IMPROVEMENTS for the opportunity to buy one ! The price is very reasonable and shipping and delivery is as good as it gets! I am an avid gardener and this is perfect for my Spring planting and cleanup, without running inside each time I need to wash my hands. Thank you so much IMPROVEMENTS! I will be ordering from you again soon! May 8, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by mander this product is a must have This is a really great product, wish i would have known about it years ago. already purchased a second one . Also just showed my friend and gave all the details and hes buying one this week.. I'm thinking of other places that i could use one. May 10, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by kelly54 Wow Wow I should of gotten this years ago, love it. Can wash hands ,paint brushes, flower pots, kids hands, outdoor shoes. It works great .... May 14, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by plannerk As good as you think. I've been eyeing this, but I didn't want to attach it to my vinyl siding. The workstation pushed me off the fence. I had to send the first one back. The manufacturer forgot to put the holes in it for the screws. Improvements was very nice about it, and I got the replacement in a couple of days. I'm very happy with it. My husband agrees that it is a good thing, and is glad for the workstation as well. May 20, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by shoppinlaura Convenient - just what we wanted. We haven't used it yet - waiting for the warmer weather. But it looks great. March 26, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by ValH Great outdoor product Built one myself previously and this is comparable to it. Would have been happier if i both pieces were sold as a unit so all the hardware was included and it might have been less expensive June 8, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Carlinutah Great value at the price and looks like it will last for many years to come We had been using an outside sink for 6 or 7 years and this one looked like a good replacement. It was easy to assemble and mounted up nicely to our brick wall. I am having a little problem getting the water source connection snug so that it doesn't leak under pressure, but I like the design and functionality. It looks a whole lot neater than the old one we were using. Also the water drain connection is an improvement on previous designs. I think it's a great value. June 22, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by lizzybit garden sink and wooden holder Love it! Looks great. Fits perfect. Not too big not too small. My only comment is I wish the hose holder came out... our regular hose is too big. Going to buy one of those new flexible hoses. I would highly recommend. June 26, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by Widman Handy sink for outdoor I like the design. The 1st sink came and after assembly, the faucet leaked due to poor seals but the replacement works fine. It remains to be seen how long the plastic will last against the sun's rays. May 24, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by HicksnTX Difficult to mount Since the instructions refer you to your local handyman for mounting it probably isn't as good a buy as I thought. Also the photo is misleading since it looks like the garden hose hooks up to the sink instead of it being a drain hose from the sink. May be if a different color was used for the garden hose and the drain hose that would make it clearer. As it appears now I thought the garden hose was hooked up to the sink. I am looking forward to using it. June 2, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by HomeGardener Good for the home gardener I purchased the sink as it looked like a durable product that would be a convenient way to keep clean while potting plants. The moveable shelves are great and I really like the retractable faucet. The hose keeper holds up to a 50' hose, and there is a compact storage area for tools or a towel to dry my hands. I did have problems putting it together as the plastic pieces are stiff (need a little muscle). Also, it didn't come with mounting hardware or the 2 hoses for connection to the water source or drainage from the sink ( I purchased 4' hoses at a hardware store). I also needed to purchase a Y connector to the water source so I could use both the sink and my garden hose at the same time. All these extras added to the cost which were unexpected. June 25, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Redstickleaper Was a Great gift and appears to do the job. First box I received was missing all of the connection pieces and the instructions. Improvements was more than willing to immediately ship another one and pick up the defective item. The sink assembly was easy to assemble and install and I believe it will do a sufficient job for it's purpose of cleaning my father's hands, veggies from the garden and giving him a place to clean his fishing catch. It is appropriately priced for the quality of the product. I would not believe this will last years given the heavy sun and rain exposure we receive in south Louisiana, but at this price, replacing it every few would not be a big deal. He loved it as a Father's day gift and that's what matters. June 28, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Lv2airchr Review of outdoor garden sink We had our original outdoor garden sink about 10 years before it started to leak and we were quite pleased with that since the faucet was always being lifted and lowered from inside the sink. We ordered a new one from Improvements, put it together and attached the water to it and it leaked right away exactly where the old one did at the faucet, so we ordered a second one. The second one seems to be okay with no leaks to date. The customer service department was great with helping us with the exchange of the product and not charging us shipping to send the new one. I didn't give the product 5 stars for the quality and performance because of the fact that the first sink leaked right away. June 20, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Fiebs Good Outdoor Garden Sink Arrived in 2 days as expected. We bought the Wooden stand to go with the Sink and they were both easy to put together. As with some of the other reviews I have read here, the wooden stand did not include all the screws needed. Too many long screws and not enough short but my husband used some that he already had. The sink was easy to hook up and leaks a little bit but not enough to complain about. We have looked for quite a while for an outdoor sink (without having to actually buy an outdoor kitchen) and are happy with this one. July 16, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by htg1969 Great Product My wife needed an outside work area for her gardening and potting needs and this garden sink was the perfect idea. Assembly was quick and easy. It is well built and designed for years of use. My only problem is the box was delivered without all the parts so I have had to delay installation for over two weeks now. When the replacement box arrived it was also incomplete so now I have to wait even longer before I can complete this project. July 7, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Wags outdoor sink with cart Received the cart first and almost sent it back when I seen made in Viet Nam. I normally wouldn't buy anything made their, but put it together and it's fairly nice. The outdoor sink arrived a couple days later and when I went to put it together I found screws and anchor packet missing. Called Improvements. Two days later I received packet. Very, very impressed with the customer service. We will see how it stands up. I will check out other products from IMPROVEMENTS due to your Customer Service. May 3, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Pitbull1436 Outdoor Garden Sink I was very thrilled to receive the outdoor garden sink for my garden station but I was very disappointing to find that several key components were missing from the box. Even with this mishap, the sink was installed into the station . However the main features of the sink being concealed after use, were unable to be installed. Several of the screws and parts needed to install this feature were missing. Although your customer care is going to ship the parts out, it will still be 7-10 days wait for parts that should have been in the box to begin with. As this was a main feature to our outdoor decor, it is disappointing to say the least. May 18, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Mountainhome Handy outdoor sink Like the looks and neatness of it when not in use. Hard to find outdoor sinks - we looked many, many places. Glad to find it and it's exactly what we wanted. May 24, 2012
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Size of hose
My question is what size of hose can you hang on the hose holder?
50 ft-75 ft?
50 ft-75 ft?
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Answer:50 foot is the most that I can see it holding - I've put both 25 and 50 on it.
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Answer:The garden sink is designed to hold up to 50 feet of hose. Anything longer than that won't fit.
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Answer:I have a 50 ft hose on mine. Not sure if 75 ft will fit.
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hose reel
how do you roll up the hoes? is it automatic: how much weight can it support hoes and other items?
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Answer:It's manual - it's just a ledge that you put the hose on. The middle portion is where the faucet and drain connections happen, and many of us had leaks in that area.
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Answer:The hose hanger is designed to hold a 50 ft hose but it is not automatic. You have to hand wind the hose onto the hanger. As long as your sink is firmly and properly attached to the wall it will hold the hose and several small items on the sliding tops with no problem. Just remember it is made from plastic so it can't hold a great deal of weight at one time.
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Answer:You need to roll up the hose yourself. Shouldn't deter you. This is a great outdoor addition!
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What is the length of the drain hose?
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Answer:The drain hose that is included goes from the drain to the manifold on the side - there is a make connector there for you to add you own hose. The supply hose that is included is about 2-3'
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Answer:It doesn't come with a drain hose, so you can make it as long as you need to. It's a great opportunity to use an old hose that has otherwise served its usefulness.
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Answer:The drain hose is approx 6 feet long.
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The plastic part that goes into small line instantly broke when trying to position in place. This is the main water line connection with a small plastic connector that goes into the small plastic tube. It snapped off with very little pressure, poorly designed piece, this should be metal. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement ASAP?
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Answer:Happened to me - you need a garden hose to 1/4" ID barbed connector - which I could not find. I was able to rig a solution:
My water intake broke - i.e. the plastic flange connection broke right in the clear plastic hose that connects to the manifold. I repaired it with the following:
0. Disconnect the manifold, pull out faucet/basin assembly
1. Clip off part of hose that had the broken plastic flange inside.
2. Connect hose to a brass hose barb 1/4" ID x 3/8" MIP (Watts LFA-193).
3. Connect that piece to a 1/2" MIP x 3/8" FIP brushing
(Watts #LFA-828) -- I used teflon tape for a tight seal.
4. Drill out bottom hole in manifold to a 1" hole
5. Put the above two piece connection through the hole, and apply teflon tape to the threads
6. Attach to a swivel garden hose adapter (Watts #LFA-660) and tighten.
7. Attach garden hose intake and turn on water. I have the intake hose connected to a shut-off at the main connection and only open it a tiny bit, enough to ensure water flows but doesn't blast out.
It took about $16 in parts at Home Depot, which is what Improvements credited me for my trouble.
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Answer:You should go to Improvements home page and click on Contact Us for additional information on how to obtain your replacement parts.
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Can you tell me where I can order a new manifold for my sink? I love the product, but I can't use it right now.
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Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist and a central figure in the movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.
Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films since his death in 1987.
Warhol coined the phrase 15 minutes of fame, which refers to the fleeting condition of celebrity that attaches to an object of media attention, then passes to some new object as soon as the public's attention span is exhausted.
In third grade Warhol had St. Vitus' dance, a nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness. He became somewhat of a hypochondriac, developing a fear of hospitals and doctors. Often bed-ridden as a child, he became an outcast among his school-mates and bonded with his mother very strongly (Guiles, 1989). When in bed he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed. Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences.
Warhol showed an early artistic talent and studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (now Carnegie Mellon University). In 1949, he moved to New York City and began a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising. During the 1950s, he gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements. These were done in a loose, blotted ink style, and figured in some of his earliest showings in New York at the Bodley Gallery. With the concurrent rapid expansion of the record industry and the introduction of the vinyl record, Hi-Fi, and stereophonic recordings, RCA Records hired Warhol, along with another freelance artist, Sid Maurer, to design album covers and promotional materials.
It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American products such as Campbell's Soup Cans from the Campbell Soup Company and Coca-Cola bottles, as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Troy Donahue, and Elizabeth Taylor. He founded "The Factory," his studio during these years and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He switched to silkscreen prints which he produced serially, seeking not only to make art of mass-produced items but to mass produce the art itself. By minimizing the role of his own hand in the production of his work and declaring that he wanted to be "a machine," Warhol sparked a revolution in art. His work quickly became popular as well as controversial.
Warhol's work from this period revolves around United States pop (popular) culture. He painted dollar bills, celebrities, brand name products and images from newspaper clippings - many of the latter were iconic images from headline stories of the decade such as photographs of mushroom clouds, electric chairs, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters). His subjects were instantly recognizable and often had a mass appeal. This aspect interested him most and it unifies his paintings from this period. Take for example Warhol's comments on the appeal of Coke:
This quotation both expresses his affection for popular culture, and evidences an ambiguity of perspective that cuts across nearly all of the artist's statements about his own work.
New York's Museum of Modern Art hosted a Symposium on pop art in December 1962 during which artists like Warhol were attacked for "capitulating" to consumerism. Critics were scandalized by Warhol's open embrace of market culture. This symposium set the tone for Warhol's reception. Throughout the decade it became more and more clear that there had been a profound change in the culture of the art world, and that Warhol was at the center of that shift.
A pivotal event was the 1964 exhibit The American Supermarket, a show held in Paul Bianchini's Upper East Side gallery. The show was presented as a typical U.S. small supermarket environment, except that everything in it from the produce, canned goods, meat, posters on the wall, etc. were created by six prominent pop artists of the time including the controversial (and like-minded) Billy Apple, Mary Inman, and Robert Watts. Warhol's painting of a can of Campbell's soup cost $1,500 while each autographed can sold for $6. The exhibit was one of the first mass events that directly confronted the general public with both Pop Art and the perennial question of what is art.
As an advertisement illustrator in the 1950s, Warhol used assistants to increase his productivity. Collaboration would remain a defining (and controversial) aspect of his working methods throughout his career; in the 1960s, however, this was particularly true. One of the most important collaborators during this period was Gerard Malanga. Malanga assisted the artist with producing silkscreens, films, sculpture, and other works at "The Factory", Warhol's aluminum foil-and-silver-paint-lined studio on 47th Street (later moved to Broadway). Other members of Warhol's Factory crowd included Freddie Herko, Ondine, Ronald Tavel, Mary Woronov, Billy Name, and Brigid Berlin (from whom he apparently got the idea to tape record his phone conversations).
During this decade, Warhol also groomed a retinue of bohemian eccentrics upon whom he bestowed the designation "Superstars", including Edie Sedgwick, Viva, and Ultra Violet. These people all participated in the Factory films, and some, like Berlin, remained friends with Warhol until his death. Important figures in the New York underground art/cinema world (e.g. writer John Giorno, film-maker Jack Smith) also appear in Warhol films of the 1960s, revealing Warhol's connections to a diverse range of artistic scenes during this period. By the end of the decade, Andy Warhol was himself a celebrity, appearing frequently in newspapers and magazines alongside Factory cohorts like Sedgwick.
Before the shooting, Solanas had been a marginal figure in the Factory scene. She founded a "group" called S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting up Men) and authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist attack on patriarchy. Solanas appears in the 1968 Warhol film I, A Man. Earlier on the day of the attack, Solanas had been turned away from the Factory after asking for the return of a script she had given to Warhol. The script, apparently, had been misplaced.
Amaya received only minor injuries and was released from the hospital later the same day. Warhol however, was seriously wounded by the attack and barely survived (doctors opened his chest and massaged his heart to help stimulate its movement again). He suffered physical effects for the rest of his life. The shooting had a profound effect on Warhol's life and art.
Solanas was arrested the day after the assault. By way of explanation, she said that "He had too much control over my life." After the shooting, the Factory scene became much more tightly controlled, and for many this event brought the "Factory 60s" to an end.
The shooting was mostly overshadowed in the media due to the murder of Robert F. Kennedy two days later. On recalling the event of the shooting Warhol stated, "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there. I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life."
Warhol used to socialize at various nightspots in New York City, including Max's Kansas City, Serendipity 3 and, later in the 70s, Studio 54. He was generally regarded as quiet, shy, and a meticulous observer. Art critic Robert Hughes called him "the white mole of Union Square."
By this period, Warhol was being criticized for becoming merely a "business artist." In 1979 unfavorable reviews met his exhibits of portraits of 1970s personalities and celebrities, calling them superficial, facile and commercial, with no depth or indication of the significance of the subjects. This criticism was echoed for his 1980 exhibit of ten portraits at the Jewish Museum in New York, entitled Jewish Geniuses, which Warhol, who exhibited no interest in Judaism or matters of interest to Jews, had described in his diary as "They're going to sell."
In hindsight, however, some critics have come to view Warhol's superficiality and commerciality as "the most brilliant mirror of our times," contending that "Warhol had captured something irresistible about the zeitgeist of American culture in the 1970s."
Warhol also had an appreciation for intense Hollywood glamour. He once said: "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're so beautiful. Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."
Throughout his career, Warhol produced erotic photography and drawings of male nudes. Many of his most famous works (portraits of Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor, and films like Blow Job, My Hustler, and Lonesome Cowboys) draw from gay underground culture and/or openly explore the complexity of sexuality and desire. Many of his films premiered in gay porn theaters. That said, some stories about Warhol's development as an artist revolved around the obstacle his sexuality initially presented as he tried to launch his career. The first works that he submitted to a gallery in the pursuit of a career as an artist were homoerotic drawings of male nudes. They were rejected for being too openly gay. In Popism, furthermore, the artist recalls a conversation with the film maker Emile de Antonio about the difficulty Warhol had being accepted socially by the then more famous (but closeted) gay artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. De Antonio explained that Warhol was "too swish and that upsets them." In response to this, Warhol writes, "There was nothing I could say to that. It was all too true. So I decided I just wasn't going to care, because those were all the things that I didn't want to change anyway, that I didn't think I 'should' want to change ... Other people could change their attitudes but not me". In exploring Warhol's biography, many turn to this period - the late 1950s and early 1960s - as a key moment in the development of his persona. Some have suggested that his frequent refusal to comment on his work, to speak about himself (confining himself in interviews to responses like "Um, No" and "Um, Yes", and often allowing others to speak for him), and even the evolution of his Pop style can be traced to the years when Warhol was first dismissed by the inner circles of the New York art world.
During his life, Warhol regularly attended Mass, and the priest at Warhol's church, Saint Vincent, said that the artist went there almost daily. His art is noticeably influenced by the eastern Christian iconographic tradition which was so evident in his places of worship.
Warhol's brother has described the artist as "really religious, but he didn't want people to know about that because [it was] private." Despite the private nature of his faith, in Warhol's eulogy John Richardson depicted it as devout: "To my certain knowledge, he was responsible for at least one conversion. He took considerable pride in financing his nephew's studies for the priesthood."
Warhol's body was taken back to Pittsburgh by his brothers for burial. The wake was at Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral Home and was an open-coffin ceremony. The coffin was a solid bronze casket with gold plated rails and white upholstery. Warhol wore a black cashmere suit, a paisley tie, a platinum wig, and sunglasses. He was holding a small prayer book and a red rose. The funeral liturgy was held at the Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church on Pittsburgh's North Side. The eulogy was given by Monsignor Peter Tay. Yoko Ono also made an appearance. The coffin was covered with white roses and asparagus ferns. After the liturgy, the coffin was driven to St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, a south suburb of Pittsburgh. At the grave, the priest said a brief prayer and sprinkled holy water on the casket. Before the coffin was lowered, Paige Powell dropped a copy of Interview magazine, an Interview t-shirt, and a bottle of the Estee Lauder perfume "Beautiful" into the grave. Warhol was buried next to his mother and father. Weeks later a memorial service was held in Manhattan for Warhol on April 1, 1987 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
Warhol's will dictated that his entire estate, with the exception of a few modest legacies to family members, would go to create a foundation dedicated to the "advancement of the visual arts." Warhol had so many possessions that it took Sotheby's nine days to auction his estate after his death; the auction grossed more than US$20 million. His total estate was worth considerably more, in no small part due to shrewd investments over the years.
In 1987, in accordance for Warhol's will, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was founded. The Foundation not only serves as the official Estate of Andy Warhol, but it also has a mission "to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process" and is "focused primarily on supporting work of a challenging and often experimental nature.
The Artists Rights Society is the U.S. copyright representative for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for all Warhol works with the exception of Warhol film stills. The U.S. copyright representative for Warhol film stills is the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Additionally, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has agreements in place for their image archive. All digital images of Warhol are exclusively managed by Corbis, while all transparency images of Warhol are managed by Art Resource
The Andy Warhol Foundation recently released their 20th Anniversary Annual Report as three volume set (Vol. I 1987-2007; Vol. II Grants & Exhibitions; and Vol. III Legacy Program).. The Foundation remains one of the largest grant giving organizations for the visual arts in the U.S..
In the early 1960s, Warhol tried to exhibit some of his drawings using these techniques in a gallery, only to be turned down. He began to rethink the relationship between his commercial work and the rest of his art. Instead of treating these things as opposites, he merged them, and began to take commercial and popular culture more explicitly as his topic.
Pop Art was an experimental form that several artists were independently adopting; some of these pioneers, such as Roy Lichtenstein, would later become synonymous with the movement. Warhol, who would become famous as the "Pope of Pop," turned to this new style, where popular subjects could be part of the artist's palette. His early paintings show images taken from cartoons and advertisements, hand-painted with paint drips. Those drips emulated the style of successful abstract expressionists (such as Robert Rauschenberg). Eventually, Warhol pared his image vocabulary down to the icon itself—to brand names, celebrities, dollar signs—and removed all traces of the artist's "hand" in the production of his paintings.
To him, part of defining a niche was defining his subject matter. Cartoons were already being used by Lichtenstein, typography by Jasper Johns, and so on; Warhol wanted a distinguishing subject. His friends suggested he should paint the things he loved the most. In his signature way of taking things literally, for his first major exhibition he painted his famous cans of Campbell's Soup, which he claimed to have had for lunch for most of his life. The work sold for $10,000 at an auction on November 17, 1971 at Sotheby's New York, which is a minimal amount for the artist whose paintings sell for over $6 million more recently.
He loved celebrities, so he painted them as well. From these beginnings he developed his later style and subjects. Instead of working on a signature subject matter, as he started out to do, he worked more and more on a signature style, slowly eliminating the hand-made from the artistic process. Warhol frequently used silk-screening; his later drawings were traced from slide projections. Warhol went from being a painter to being a designer of paintings. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make different versions and variations.
Warhol produced both comic and serious works; his subject could be a soup can or an electric chair. Warhol used the same techniques—silkscreens, reproduced serially, and often painted with bright colors—whether he painted celebrities, everyday objects, or images of suicide, car crashes, and disasters, as in the 1962-63 Death and Disaster series. The Death and Disaster paintings (such as Red Car Crash, Purple Jumping Man, and Orange Disaster) transform personal tragedies into public spectacles, and signal the use of images of disaster in the then evolving media.
The unifying element in Warhol's work is his deadpan Keatonesque style—artistically and personally affectless. This was mirrored by Warhol's own demeanor, as he often played "dumb" to the media, and refused to explain his work. The artist was famous for having said that all you need to know about him and his works is already there, "on the surface."
Warhol's work as a Pop Artist has always had conceptual aspects. His series of do it yourself paintings and Rorschach inkblots are intended as pop comments on art and what art could be. His cow wallpaper (literally, wallpaper with a cow motif) and his oxidation paintings (canvases prepared with copper paint that was then oxidized with urine) are also noteworthy in this context. Equally noteworthy is the way these works—and their means of production—mirrored the atmosphere at Andy's New York "Factory." Biographer Bob Colacello provides some details on Andy's "piss paintings":
Warhol's The Last Supper cycle, a deeply religious body of work, was his last series, possibly his largest and "arguably his greatest". It is also the largest series of religious works by any U.S. artist.
Batman Dracula is a 1964 film that was produced and directed by Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. It was screened only at his art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol's movie was an "homage" to the series, and is considered the first appearance of a blatantly campy Batman. The film was until recently thought to have been lost, until scenes from the picture were shown at some length in the 2006 documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.
Warhol's 1965 film Vinyl is an adaptation of Anthony Burgess' popular dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Others record improvised encounters between Factory regulars such as Brigid Berlin, Viva, Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Ondine, Nico, and Jackie Curtis. Legendary underground artist Jack Smith appears in the film Camp.
His most popular and critically successful film was 1966's Chelsea Girls. The film was highly innovative in that it consisted of two 16 mm films being projected simultaneously, with two different stories being shown in tandem. From the projection booth, the sound would be raised for one film to elucidate that "story" while it was lowered for the other. The multiplication of images evoked Warhol's seminal silk-screen works of the early 1960s. The influence of the film's split-screen, multi-narrative style could be felt in such modern work as Mike Figgis' Timecode and, however indirectly, the early seasons of 24.
Other important films include Bike Boy, My Hustler, and Lonesome Cowboys, a raunchy pseudo-western. These and other titles document gay underground and camp culture, and continue to feature prominently in scholarship about sexuality and art - see, for example, Mathew Tinkom's Working Like a Homosexual (Duke University Press, 2002) or Juan Suarez's Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars (Indiana University Press, 1996). Blue Movie, a film in which Warhol superstar Viva makes love and fools around in bed with a man for 33 minutes of the film's playing-time, was Warhol's last film as director. The film was at the time scandalous for its frank approach to a sexual encounter. For many years Viva refused to allow it to be screened. It was publicly screened in New York in 2005 for the first time in over thirty years.
After his June 3, 1968 shooting, a reclusive Warhol relinquished his personal involvement in filmmaking. His acolyte and assistant director, Paul Morrissey, took over the film-making chores for the Factory collective, steering Warhol-branded cinema towards more mainstream, narrative-based, B-movie exploitation fare with Flesh, Trash, and Heat. All of these films, including the later Andy Warhol's Dracula and Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, were far more mainstream than anything Warhol as a director had attempted. These latter "Warhol" films starred Joe Dallesandro, who was more of a Morrissey star than a true Warhol superstar.
In order to facilitate the success of these Warhol-branded, Morrissey-directed movies in the marketplace, all of Warhol's earlier avant-garde films were removed from distribution and exhibition by 1972.
Another film, Andy Warhol's Bad, made significant impact as a "Warhol" film yet was directed by Jed Johnson. Bad starred Carroll Baker, Susan Blond and a young Perry King.
The first volume of a catalogue raisonne for the Factory film archive, edited by Callie Angell, was published in the spring of 2006.
In the mid 1960s, Warhol adopted the band The Velvet Underground, making them a crucial element of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia performance art show. Warhol, with Paul Morrissey, acted as the band's manager, introducing them to Nico (who would perform with the band at Warhol's request). In 1966 he "produced" their first album The Velvet Underground and Nico, as well as providing its album art. His actual participation in the album's production amounted to simply paying for the studio time. After the band's first album, Warhol and band leader Lou Reed started to disagree more about the direction the band should take, and their artistic friendship ended.
Warhol designed many album covers for various artists starting with the photographic cover of John Wallowitch's debut album, This Is John Wallowitch!!! (1964). Warhol designed the cover art for The Rolling Stones albums Sticky Fingers (1971) and Love You Live (1977), and the John Cale album Honi Soit in 1981. In 1975, Warhol was commissioned to do several portraits of the band's frontman Mick Jagger while in 1982, he designed the album cover for the Diana Ross album Silk Electric.
Warhol was also friendly with many recording artists, including Deborah Harry, Grace Jones, Diana Ross and John Lennon - he designed the cover to Lennon's 1986 posthumously released Menlove Ave.. Warhol also appeared as a bartender in The Cars' music video for their single "Hello Again", and Curiosity Killed The Cat's video for their "Misfit" single (both videos, and others, were produced by Warhol's video production company).
Warhol strongly influenced the New Wave/punk rock band Devo, as well as David Bowie. Bowie recorded a song called "Andy Warhol" for his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Lou Reed wrote the song "Andy's Chest", about Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Warhol, in 1968. He recorded it with the Velvet Underground, but this version wasn't officially released until the VU album appeared in 1985. He recorded a new version for his 1972 solo album Transformer, produced by Bowie and Mick Ronson.
The first of several bound self-published books by Warhol was 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy, printed in 1954 by Seymour Berlin on Arches brand watermarked paper using his blotted line technique for the lithographs. The original edition was limited to 190 numbered, hand colored copies, using Dr. Martin's ink washes. Most of these were given by Warhol as gifts to clients and friends. Copy #4, inscribed "Jerry" on the front cover and given to Geraldine Stutz, was used for a facsimile printing in 1987 and the original was auctioned in May 2006 for US $35,000.
Other self-published books by Warhol include:
Later Warhol "wrote" several books that were commercially printed.
Warhol created the fashion magazine Interview that is still published today. The loopy title script on the cover is thought to be either his own handwriting or that of his mother, Julia Warhola, who would often do text work for his early commercial pieces.
He founded the gossip magazine Interview, a stage for celebrities he "endorsed" and a business staffed by his friends. He collaborated with others on all of his books (some of which were written with Pat Hackett.) He adopted the young painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the band The Velvet Underground, presenting them to the public as his latest interest, and collaborating with them. One might even say that he produced people (as in the Warholian "Superstar" and the Warholian portrait). He endorsed products, appeared in commercials, and made frequent celebrity guest appearances on television shows and in films (he appeared in everything from Love Boat to Saturday Night Live and the Richard Pryor movie, Dynamite Chicken).
In this respect Warhol was a fan of "Art Business" and "Business Art" - he, in fact, wrote about his interest in thinking about art as business in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and Back Again. This was a radical new stance, as artists traditionally positioned themselves against commercialism. Warhol and other pop-artists helped redefine the artist's position as professional, commercial, and popular. He did this using methods, imagery and talents that were (or at least seemed to be) available to everyone. In this respect Pop Art has contributed to a philosophical and practical incorporation of art into popular culture and society, and art offered to us as a product of that society.
The other museum is the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, established in 1991 by Andy's brother John Warhola, the Slovak Ministry of Culture, and the Warhol Foundation in New York. It is located in the small town of Medzilaborce, Slovakia. Andy's parents were born 15 kilometers away in the village of Miková. The museum houses several originals donated mainly by the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York and also personal items donated by Warhol's relatives.
Andy Warhol is portrayed by Crispin Glover in Oliver Stone's film The Doors (1991), by David Bowie in Basquiat, a film by Julian Schnabel and by Jared Harris in the film I Shot Andy Warhol directed by Mary Harron (1996). Actor Mark Bringleson makes a brief cameo as Warhol in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, painting a supine woman's outfit to match the pattern on the floor of the Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers' Club while looking at a Campbell's Soup can. Also, many films by Jonas Mekas have the moments of Andy's life caught (for example "Super 8 films"; "Scenes From The Life Of Andy Warhol" and many more). Sean Gregory Sullivan depicted Warhol in the 1998 film 54. The latest film actor to portray the artist is Guy Pearce in the 2007 film, Factory Girl.
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a reverential four-hour 2006 movie by Ric Burns.
The 2001 documentary, Absolut Warhola, was produced by German director Stanislaw Mucha, featuring Warhol's parents' family and hometown in Slovakia.
Gus Van Sant was planning a version of Warhol's life with River Phoenix in the lead role just before Phoenix's death in 1993 (as discussed in an interview with the two, included in the published My Own Private Idaho script book).
Warhol appears as a character in Michael Daugherty's 1997 opera Jackie O.
Two years after Warhol's death, Songs for Drella, a co-commissioned work by The Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Arts at St. Ann's in New York City, was staged as a concept album performed by Lou Reed and John Cale, alumni of The Velvet Underground. The performance was filmed and directed by Ed Lachman, on December 6, 1989, and released on VHS and laserdisc formats. It was released on CD in a black velveteen package in 1990 by Sire Records. Drella was a nickname coined by Warhol superstar Ondine for Warhol, a portmanteau of Dracula and Cinderella, used by Warhol's crowd.
Songs for Drella offers a kind of vie romancée of Warhol, focusing on his interpersonal relations. The songs fall roughly into three categories: Warhol's (semi-fictitious) first-person perspective, third-person narratives chronicling events and affairs, and first-person feelings towards and commentaries on Warhol by Reed and Cale themselves. On Drella, Reed apologizes to a departed Warhol and comes to terms with his part in their personal conflict.
Reed and Cale had been playing the songs live in 1989 as a song cycle before committing them to tape. By the end of recording Cale vowed never to work with Reed again due to personal differences; nevertheless, Songs for Drella would prove to be the overture to a full-blown Velvet Underground reunion.
Although the album was conceived as an indivisible whole, a single was released off it, "Nobody But You".
On the twentieth anniversary of his death The Gershwin Hotel in New York City held a week-long series of events commemorating Warhol's art and his superstars. There was an award ceremony, a fashion show, and Blondie performed at the closing party. At the same time, The Carrozzini von Buhler Gallery in New York City held an exhibit titled, Andy Warhol: In His Wake. The exhibit featured the art of Warhol's superstars Ultra Violet, Billy Name, Taylor Mead, and Ivy Nicholson as well as art by a younger generation of artists who have been inspired by Warhol. One interactive sculpture in the exhibit, The Great Warhola, by Cynthia von Buhler, depicted Warhol as an arcade fortune-telling machine. The gallery was transformed to look like Warhol's silver factory. Factory Girl, a film about the life of Edie Sedgwick, starring Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen, was also released one week before the anniversary of Warhol's death.


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Greater Lansing Area Development (GLAD) is spearheading a project to increase the length of the creeper walking trail to about seven miles long, turning it into a park.
A public meeting was held at the Lansing Volunteer Fire Department on Thursday, Jan. 3, to get input from the community about expanding the park. The meeting was also a requirement for a grant needed to pursue the project.
"This meeting is just one of 77 pages required for the grant," said Ann Rose, GLAD's project manager.
The walking trail is currently 3,500 feet paved, and the area is home to the Ola Belle Reed Festival.
"As great at the current trail is, it could be much more," said Rose. After the meeting, Rose said the extension of the park could extend the walking trail to seven miles long, maybe even longer.
The $1 million grant Rose is pursuing covers both land and development. Rose said it is one of the few grants that also pays for land.
"We have three qualities the grant looks for – we are small, poor, and rural," said Rose.
The grant will match Lansing dollar for dollar up to $500,000. If Lansing requests $1 million for the project, the grant will only cover $500,000, leaving the other half for Lansing to pay.
However, Rose said the town can apply for other grants to help pay for the remainder.
The grant has several stipulations regarding the use and infrastructure of the land. The park must include a parking lot and all of the park's utilities must be buried underground. Also, the grant stipulates the park would forever be parkland.
To move forward with this project, Lansing will need to appraise three different properties and talk to each owner before pursuing the land.
Several community members had ideas about what should be added to the park, including installing a community garden, a dog park, an ice skating rink, and camping sites.
One of the three properties GLAD is pursuing for this project is the hayfield behind the Lansing Volunteer Fire Department. This land could be used for a disc golf course or a soccer field.
"One flat spot in the county and everyone makes plans for it," joked an audience member.
GLAD members in attendance were also enthusiastic about incorporating the existing infrastructure on the property they want to acquire.
A nearby barn could be used as another stage for the Ola Belle Reed Festival. The Barn could also be used as space for barn dancing, which would also promote local mountain music.
A nearby cinder block building could be utilized as a shower house for campers, or as an office for the park.
"Once this grant comes through, the possibilities could be endless," said Rose.
Additions will also be made to the walking trail. Adding lights to the trail will allow people to walk after dark, and adding a nature trail will identify the different plant and animal species indigenous to the area.
To beautify the park, Rose suggested adding edible landscaping like apple trees and blueberry bushes, which should draw more wildlife to the area.
Another idea discussed at the meeting was maximizing trout fishing in the park. Several members of the Lansing community have noticed and increase in fishermen who are not locals.
This increase could be attributed to new stream reports from resources like flyfishingnc.com that list Helton Creek and Big Horse Creek as desirable trout fishing locations.
The only draw back is the walking trail must be 25 foot away from trout waters.
A wooded or concrete platform could be added for visitors to fish off of. Adding railing and a ramp to this area would make the fishing platform handicap accessible and also provide a safety net for children who use the area to fish.
While developing the park, GLAD will need to consider adding access spaces for trout trucks to add fish.
During the meeting, maintaining the park was mentioned.
To this point, the Lansing Volunteer Fire Department maintained the park's grounds while the town maintained the walking trail.
With the increasing size of the park, Rose said she doubts the entire park could be maintained using only volunteers.
"In the future, we will need to have an operating budget," said Rose.
One audience member suggested using high school students as volunteer because they have mandatory volunteer hours.
Wendy also added people who use the walking trail may also help maintain it. In that way, the entire community itself would be enlisted as a volunteer.
Rose concluded the town could come together and figure out a way to maintain the park if they manage to get the grant.
This meeting served as an opportunity for members of the community to have their voices heard, and no one in attendance spoke out against expanding the park.
Most of the community members were excited about the park's potential impact on the town.
"I think expanding the park could change everything for Lansing," said Rose.


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Ever since we painted the dining room and kitchen, I've been pondering a mini-reno. Changing door fronts and counters is mini, right? Our house is so wonky, what we think of as actual renovation involves ripping up floors and walls and we're not going that far. Yet (we're not, Finn, I promise). And as much as I'd like to switch out the lighting and fix the electrical, in our old house that's a whole other budget.
When I painted the dining room, on a whim I decided to paint the back of the island as well. We'd just put some plywood up there when we installed the kitchen years ago, always intending to do "something" to it. So why not. Because we both liked it a lot is why not. This is what happens when you try new things people, you start to get ideas.
It looks nice gray. It's not what I want it to end up as, matching the walls, but it's heading in the right direction. The counter, though, is too dark. The counter is laminate and the edges are chipped, replacing it has been on the agenda for a while. And while we're at it, we're thinking about tackling the cabinet doors. We mis-measured the counter when we installed it and it's slightly back of the sink doors. Which have warped and peeled from years of water dripping. So they need to be replaced. The drawer handles are also warped from years of a certain little boy using them as a ladder to the counter tops (the little girl never did this, btw).
So they need to be replaced. And so on. So we're looking at painting/replacing the cabinet doors and replacing the counter. Not too crazy. I'd like to fix this stair/stove/pantry weirdness too.
Moving the stairs isn't actually that tricky or expensive, but I need to think more about how we'd account for losing all that storage. The pantry is 48″ x 80″, it holds a lot. The space that would be left next to the stove after turning the stairs would only accommodate a 30″ cabinet. We could install some drawers to run under the stairs, but it would still require some minimizing and reconfiguring. Not impossible, but I'm not quite sure how to make it work yet.
As you can see in the collage above, I'm leaning towards a two-tone cabinet look with white counters. I think navy or a really, really dark gray on the island, with white on the others. We have Ikea cabinets, so we'll likely just switch in new doors. We're going to try painting the island doors, but if that doesn't work we'll switch those out too. I'm not holding my breath that painting over Ikea laminate will produce durable results. I need to decide on a door profile and a counter material. Something easy to maintain, as I have enough going on in my life without having to remember to seal the counter. Any recommendations? Anyone done white cabinets with kids, will I forever be wiping grubbiness off them?
Inspiration kitchen sources here. 1. 2. 3. 4.
I know what you mean about losing storage! So difficult. We cut our storage in half and are still recovering with where to stash what :).
Oh, you don't want to lose all that storage … New countertops would definitely be nice! And white on top might be fine. My grubbiest cabinets are on the bottom.
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Reeves Callaway is a man of many talents. He won the 1973 SCCA National Championship driving a Formula Vee, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Amherst College, and is regarded as an expert in critical car-development areas such as chassis tuning, engine building, and fabrication. Since starting out by modifying cars with turbochargers in his garage, Reeves has built his tuning firm into an international powerhouse with facilities in Connecticut, California, and Germany.
In the mid '80s, Callaway Cars became the first tuner authorized by GM to modify new Corvettes through Chevrolet dealers. The resulting B2K program proved tremendously successful for everyone involved, and today the cars continue to command premium prices on the open market. Since the B2K program's dissolution in 1991, Reeves and his small band of enthusiastic employees have turned out a seemingly endless series of amazing Corvettes. Who could forget the 450hp SuperNaturals, the 254.76-mph Sledgehammer, the LM Le Mans racers, the C7, or the C12?
New-car tuning was not a priority for Callaway during the C5-based C12 supercar program. That changed in 2004, with introduction of the C6. In fact, Callaway was one of the first to modify the sixth-generation car, most notably with its Carlisle/Callaway project vehicle. Recently, we had a chance to talk with Reeves about Callaway Cars' ongoing projects and future plans.
Vette: Reeves, thanks for spending some time with us. Why did you decide to reinvolve your company with the mainstream Corvette-tuning business?
Reeves Callaway: We are a project-oriented engineering company, and we can only handle so many at one time. We were not able to be involved with the C5-with the exception of the C12-because of other company commitments. With the introduction of C6, it was a great time to reenter the Corvette arena.
Vette: What is your opinion of the C6 Corvette?
RC: A lot of things changed on the C6. The platform is different, and it is a much, much better car. GM spent a tremendous amount of money improving the car. It is a great basis for modifications, and that is why we are sitting here today.
Vette: Can you tell us about some of your new C6 programs?
RC: We have a great program for supercharging the C6. Cars can now be ordered through selected Chevrolet dealerships. When the cars leave Bowling Green, they are dropped off at one of our facilities, modified, and shipped to the dealer. The customer picks up the completed car with a five-year, 100,000-mile warranty for 2007. It is very seamless for our customers. In addition, we are moving forward on commercialization of the competition C6 platform. We are making the platform into a correct race car for FIA and Le Mans competition. That is our focus today.
Vette: Do you think you will ever return to Le Mans?
RC: We are planning to be at Le Mans in 2007 with two entries. Now the question is, can we reconfigure our GT3 car into an adequate GT2 race car for Le Mans? This has more to do with regulations and the organizers than with us, but that is the objective.
Vette: Z06.Rs finished First and Second in the GT3 class in the three-hour FIA GT race at Paul Ricard. That was a pretty impressive finish in their current configuration.
RC: The FIA GT3 rules limit what we can change on the standard Z06. When we go to Le Mans, they will be raced as Callaway Cars, and therefore, we will homologate these cars with different features. Some of the handicaps that the current car has will be eliminated in our new car.
Vette: Watching the cars race in Europe, it is obvious that the aero can be improved as well as the gearing. The car is really handicapped with its current 3.42 gearset.
RC: As you know, it is all about regulations-making the car fit the correct slot at the GT2 level at Le Mans and fixing all of the things you just mentioned. One of them interestingly ties back into our road-car program. Specifically, that is the introduction of the new C16 project. This is what we have labeled the new body design for the C6 platform. This is the car we will introduce at the Los Angeles Auto Show. It is a completely re-bodied C6 with a supercharged engine, the right wheels, tires, suspension, and brake package. It's a well-engineered, completely redone automobile-based on a C6, of course.


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Through the first six installments of our project series, we've covered project planning, chassis and suspension, engine, drivetrain, brakes, installing C5 seats in a midyear, engine electronics, exhaust, fuel systems, and the exterior features of the body. In this installment, we'll feature the engine-compartment modifications, and cold-air intake and cooling systems.
We've tried to cover each subject in enough detail to give you a good idea of what's involved, the sources we used, and the reasons for our approach. At the very least, we hope it will stimulate some ideas and save you time, but the fun of these projects is coming up with your own ideas to build a car reflecting your personal taste and achieving your own objectives. Since each project is unique, and you'll have your own ideas on the approach to take and components to use, we'll just describe the approach we've taken and what has worked for us.
To complement the work on the engine, we went to some lengths to enhance the appearance of the engine compartment. The major changes to the body involved reworking the firewall, inner fender panels, and hood (which were done at the Corvette Center in Newington, Connecticut), and the design of the cooling and air-intake systems.
Engine Compartment Firewall
The firewall was smoothed and all unnecessary holes filled. One particular aspect we wanted to change was the wiper-motor area. A new filler piece was made on the driver side of the wiper-motor opening, which mirrored the shape on the passenger side to make a uniform opening. An access door was then made to fit the new wiper-motor opening, which fits flush with the firewall and is held in place by two tabs. To gain enough clearance, the windshield-washer assembly was removed (a new cover plate was made to enclose the motor), and we also had to modify the four wiper-motor mounts to recess the motor another 1/4 inch to make the cover fit flush with the firewall.
We also wanted to hide the hood latch cable as much as possible, and we ran the cable (using a lawnmower throttle cable) along the inside of the firewall. (See photos 1, wiper recess; 2, finished wiper door opening and firewall in primer; and 3, painted firewall.) In photo 3 you can see the two-tone paint scheme of our red and Quicksilver and how the transmission tunnel was modified. Since the frame is red, we wanted to have more contrast against the underside of the body, and the silver really helps to distinguish the frame.
Additional changes to the firewall included fitting a parking-brake setup from the '64 Corvette (the '64 style fits much closer to the firewall), mounting the hydraulic-clutch master cylinder and reservoir, installing a bulkhead (from Vintage Air) for the A/C and heater lines, and mounting the Engine Control Unit.
Inner Fenders
In addition to smoothing the inner fenders and making clearance for the C5 upper control arms, three other major changes were made. The first was to install a battery-access door (from an A/C car) in the driver-side fenderwell. Moving the battery to that side was necessary because we relocated the dry sump tank on the passenger side. As a side benefit, this also helped gain easier access when installing components such as the ECU, the brake system, and the hydraulic clutch. (See photo 4, battery access door.) The second was to extend the inner fender panels by making new covers to enclose the upper control arms in lieu of using rubber dust shields. (See photo 5, control-arm cover.) The third was to make a hidden tunnel for the wiring that normally runs along the inside of the driver's fenderwell. The "conduit" runs along the underside of the fender peak and works well to enclose all the wiring. We used a length of fiberglass panel and glassed it in place. From the underside, you can't tell it's there, so we don't have a good picture of that.


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As South Carolina schools move forward with the new year, education is top of mind at ETV.
Creative teacher training in a state-of-the-art classroom is happening now at ETV. The "Idea Lab" in the ETV Telecommunications Center is a beautiful remodeled facility that features a wall of windows looking out to the Columbia cityscape. Hands-on training for teachers in the "Idea Lab" began the first week of July. Week-long workshops were offered, which included courses on ETV services, using the Internet and iPad for free webtools and apps, and more. The lab features all-new mobile devices, laptops and tablets in a wireless environment, and can also be utilized for receptions, meetings and conferences.
ETV's StreamlineSC has a new content provider: Learn360. This new classroom video resources provider brings access to materials from the BBC, National Geographic, Encyclopædia Britannica, History, Bio, Cambridge Educational, and many more. In addition, ETV StreamlineSC continues to provide ETV-produced South Carolina content, as well as free K–12 resources to all public, private and home schools throughout South Carolina.
Also this month, ETV HD offers a full day of programming on September 27 from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. American Graduate Day 2014: Let's Make It Happen is a public media initiative, supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, designed to help students stay on the path to high school graduation. The full-day broadcast and outreach event features celebrity guests, engaging spokespeople and stories from the students themselves. Interspersed in the programming are local segments produced by ETV, which highlight education initiatives from around the state.
Education is central to ETV's mission, and these innovative enterprises are examples of the commitment we have made to provide quality resources to help educate the next generation of citizens.
Linda O'Bryon President and CEO


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LilMaibe wrote:well, the usual thing I hear when I say I don't like the book is 'how can you do that? it's discworld'
EDIT: But on the bit pooh dug up: let's see. the book is 400 to 541 pages long (hardcover/paperback). Aside from that one scene, which doesn't even fill a page, there is no occassion where he fails.
poohcarrot wrote: It's impossible to like every Discworld book
raptornx01 wrote:poohcarrot wrote: It's impossible to like every Discworld book
Not necessarily true.
LilMaibe wrote:
As for the first bit: Imagine all the 'arguments' people could muster to support their claim that MM or MR are 'best book ever' is 'cause it's pratchett and you are just too stupid to realise that'. Or if the only argument you could come up with in defense of Pyramids (I btw still need to check if I got the version with the soup-add or the cleaned up one) would be that.
poohcarrot wrote:
It's impossible to like every Discworld book equally as much.
PS: Nice speech yesterday!
PPS: What IS that horsey-thing on your sig doing!!?
Batty wrote:
And for the record, Pyramids is not the best TP book.
Batty wrote:Did I? ... Coo!
Well, in that case, I award you a merit badge and a polishing cloth to keep your ring all shiny!
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KingCarrot wrote:I got all the silver lining....
...and I am keeping it!
Del wrote:WELCOME LOKISMUM !!!!!
Uuuuum pink for your greeting because I have no idea what colour Loki IS... and you are a girl I am guessing.... (being Loki's MUM and all).
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