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Stella Artois Commissioned NYC Sign Painters Mural & Film Project
Day 18 'Enter the knife'
Just after the New Year, I received an e-mail from a spokesperson for a documentary crew in New York City called The Ritual Project, currently working on an art and film project commissioned by Stella Artois.
The Ritual Project Painter Crew - Sky High painters are some of the last purveyors of the hand-painted advertising tradition.
They’ve been working with the guys at Colossal/Sky High Murals, New York’s finest outdoor advertising company that “specializes in high-impact painted wallscapes.”
Wallscape
As was explained t0 me, Stella Artois commissioned “the guys over at Sky High Murals” to paint the entire 9-step Belgian pouring ritual, step by step. Over 21 days of painting, the documentary team created a stop-motion film on a 20×50 wall.
The spokesperson went on further to say, “As you’re quite familiar with the craft of handpainted signage, I’m sure you can image the scale of the project — and then to keep painting over it! That’s a lot of hard work, and a great effort from the painters to keep the talent and creativity going from day to day.”
Beyond that, The Ritual Project is delving into the painters’ world. In the coming weeks, they will be releasing a short documentary about them online and at events around the U.S.
Belgian Pouring Process
Belgian Pouring Process close up
The entire documentary process is beautifully documented with photography and videos on The Ritual Project website. Thank you for giving us at FAB an “insider’s peek” at the upcoming project. Also featured is a great interview with our friend and fading ad enthusiast in the UK, Ghostsign’s Sam Roberts!
The Ritual Project:
The City Concealed: Weeksville on Vimeo
Coy, Disbrow & Company Revisited – Greenwich Village, NYC
© Vincenzo Aiosa
These three five-story, brick-clad structures were originally constructed c. 1868-69 as tenements, with ground-story commercial spaces, for David and William H. Millemann, provisions dealers.D. & W. H. Millemann, as well as their father’s provisions firm, D[iebold]. Millemann & Son, only used these buildings, as well as the adjacent pork packing plant building at No. 692 Greenwich Street (1868-69) [see] that they owned, until 1870 when they were declared bankrupt. David Millemann, a director of the West Side Bank, was indicted in 1872 for “fraudulently securing… barrels of pork… and within a period of three months of committing acts of bankruptcy.” The Millemanns sold No. 692 and Nos. 686-690 Greenwich Street in 1871 to Charles White of Charles White & Co., hog butchers located at the “foot of 40th Street.” The White Estate retained these four buildings until 1902. No. 692 and Nos. 686-690 Greenwich Street remained under joint ownership until 1952.
Edesheimer Bros., manufacturers of cider, vinegar, and pickles operated by Isaac Edesheimer (died 1918) and Michael Edesheimer (died 1915) was located in these buildings c. 1885-93; this firm also declared bankruptcy several times (Michael Edesheimer later worked for the Fleischmann Co. nearby). At the time of the sale of Nos. 686-67, 690 in 1902, they were referred to as warehouses in the New York Times. The buildings were ownedfrom 1903 until 1947 by Thomas J. Farrell (c. 1844-1921), his wife Catherine A. McIntee Farrell (died 1927), and their heirs. Nos. 686-690 were converted to lofts with stores in 1906 by architect James W. Cole. Consolidated California Vineyard Co. (Benno C. Samuel) was a tenant c. 1907-11. The buildings were converted into a single warehouse in 1917 (Alt. 2396-17). A long-term tenant (c. 1930-65) was Coy, Disbrow & Co./ Pohlman Paper Co., wholesale paper and twine merchants.
Coy, Disbrow & Co. was founded in 1922 by Robert Henry Coy and Hamilton T. Disbrow. Coy (c.1877-1942), born in Vermont, began in the paper business while a young man and was a partner in 1898 in Coy, Hunt & Co. He served as president and general manager of Coy, Disbrow & Co., as well as executive director of the Paper Association of New York. Disbrow (c. 1853-1942), born in New York City, started work as a boy in drygoods, then went into the paper business in 1876 with his brother, H. Grinell Disbrow. He left Disbrow Bros. to work in Wilkinson Bros. & Co., then Coy, Hunt & Co. in 1898. Disbrow served as chairman of the board of Coy, Disbrow & Co. Their firm became a division of Pohlman Paper Co., established in 1919 by Arthur W. Pohlman (c. 1883-1952), who served as president until his death. The building was converted to apartments in 1977 – taken from Greenwich Village Historic District Extension Designation Report, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission -May 2, 2006
Other resources and citings:
- New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission – May 2, 2006 (PDF)
- Walter Grutchfield – Coy, Disbrow & Co., 686 Greenwich St. at Christopher St., New York, 2001
- Fading Ad Blog: Coy, Disbrow & Co. Paper – West Village, NYC 2005 – previously posted March 8, 2008
- Michael Minn’s NYC Ghost Signs
- Triborough’s Flickr Stream– Coy, Disbrow & C0
Images of ‘Gents Furnishings’ on the Internet
Seigman & Wherleys Gents Furnishings – Glen Rock, Pennsylvania – kyfireenginephoto’s Flickr
circa 1903 – Chronicling America – Library of Congress (CLICK FOR PDF)
Ben Freedman – 137 Orchard Street NYC
Chronicling America – Library of Congress (CLICK FOR PDF)
May 23, 1887 The first CPR passenger train arrived in Vancouver from Montreal. Locomotive 374, attached to the train at Port Moody, brought it in with Peter Righter at the throttle. (It is often thought #374 pulled the train right across the country. Nope, just from Port Moody.) The choice of Vancouver as the Pacific terminus for the CPR ensured the town’s dominant role in southwestern B.C. – The History of Metropolitan Vancouver
The Daily Star – Fredricksburg, VA – Google News
Lansing 1897 – H. Kositchek & Bros. – Michigan Historical Museum
Sellers of men’s clothing included gents’ furnishings stores and merchant tailors. Dressmakers made custom frocks for women (many worked out of their homes). Sewers might purchase fabric and notions—or ready-to-wear clothing—at a dry goods store. General clothing stores and department stores sold clothing items for men, women, and/or children.
Gent’s Furnishings- H. Kositchek & Bros. Henry Kositchek came to the United States from his native Bohemia while still in his teens. He settled in the growing mill town of Eaton Rapids, where he opened a store selling dry goods and millinery. Three brothers—Max, Jacob and Adolph—followed Kositchek to Michigan and joined him in business.
Gents’ Furnishings Display In 1889 Henry opened a men’s clothing store, H. Kositchek & Bros., in Lansing. The business operates today at the same address as in 1897: 113 N. Washington Avenue. – Michigan Historical Museum
Noun 1. gent’s (men’s) furnishings – the drygoods sold by a haberdasher – haberdashery drygoods, soft goods – textiles or clothing and related merchandise – The Free Dictionary
Not Fade Away – Frank H. Jump – Produced & Directed by Jim Sayegh
a film produced and directed by Jim Sayegh
Signs and vines weather and grow.
Brick, pigment, plant and lime-
Tenuously intertwined through time.
As paint degrades and image fades,
Soft tones evolve
From salmon pinks and jades-
Into sand and grime.
– Frank H. Jump, Fading Ad Campaign
Highly skilled television director with wide-ranging experience • Multi-camera studio drama • Live, multi-camera news, talk, and lifestyle • Single camera location drama • Single camera news and sports features • Extensive special effects and post-production • Production and technical systems consultant • Control Room and post-production AD
Specialties
- multi-camera studio directing, control room and post-production AD – LinkedIn
Mr. Sayegh has a BA in Journalism from New York University and is currently an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College where he is completing his Masters in Fine Arts.
Ricotta Cheese-Making in Campbell Hall, NY & Through the Ages – Mangia Bene!
Curds draining in slotted baskets © Frank H. Jump
Clifford A. Wright dot com – Wikipedia
Stirring the serum over heat © Frank H. Jump
Nature: cold and wet. Optimum: made from good, pure milk. Benefit: nutritious and fattening. Harm: it causes obstructions and is difficult to digest. Remedy for harm: with butter and honey. Effects: thick blood. Most advisable for hot and robust temperaments, youth, at the beginning of summer and in mountainous regions.
Checking for right temperature as not to boil © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Adding vinegar to lower the pH © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Checking the curds © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Curds separating from serum leaving behind the whey © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Gode Cookery dot com
Gently scooping out the limpid curds © Vincenzo Aiosa
© Frank H. Jump
The first depiction of the making of ricotta is an illustration in the medical treatise known as the Tacuinum sanitatis (medieval health handbook), the Latin translation of the Arab physician Ibn Butlan’s eleventh century Taqwim al-sihha. – Clifford A. Wright
Ricotta is not a cheese but a creamy curd. The curd is literally cooked twice hence the name “ricotta,” re-cooked. The leftover hot whey of milk used for cheese making has milk solids and a protein called albumin, which solidifies under high heat. When the whey is reheated (re-cooked) the solid milk parts are skimmed off to drain, and this is called ricotta cheese. Ricotta is known as an albumin or serum cheese, a cheese made as a by-product of provolone cheese from the recooked whey, hence its name. The foam of the whey when it is being recooked is called zabbina in Sicilian, which comes from the Arabic word zarb, thought also to be the root of the custard dessert zabaione. The best ricotta is made with sheep’s milk.
Ricotta salata is a Sicilian specialty made from drained and dried ricotta. It is used in salads, grated over pasta and stuffed into some fritters.
Two of the earliest mentions or depictions of ricotta are related to Sicily. Professor Santi Correnti, chairman of the history department of the University of Catania and a preeminent historian of Sicily, writes that during the reign of the Sicilian king Frederick II, in the early thirteenth century, the king and his hunting party came across the hut of a dairy farmer making ricotta and, being ravenous, asked for some. Frederick pulled out his bread loaf, poured the hot ricotta and whey on top and advised his retinue that cu’ non mancia ccu’ so’ cucchiaru lassa tutto ‘o zammataru (Those who don’t eat with a spoon will leave all their ricotta behind).
The first depiction of the making of ricotta is an illustration in the medical treatise known as the Tacuinum sanitatis (medieval health handbook), the Latin translation of the Arab physician Ibn Butlan’s eleventh century Taqwim al-sihha.
Ortensio Lando in his Commentario delle piu notabili e mostruose cose d’Italia published in 1548 has his fictional traveler go to Val Calci, at some distance from Pisa, for the best ricotta in the world. – A History of Ricotta Cheese (Clifford A. Wright)
CLICK FOR WIKIPEDIA ENTRY FOR Cheese
Other Ricotta & image sources:
- Ricotta – Wikipedia
- Mangia Bene image – Wikipedia
- Tacuin Ricotta – Wikipedia
- Tacuinum Sanitatis – Wikipedia
Garlic – CLICK FOR LINK TO WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Tacuinum Sanitatis IMAGE GALLERY
Honk if you love cheeses!
