http://heave-ho.org all the news that's fit to click! Sun, 27 May 2012 07:15:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/12/streetscapes-central-park-central-parkstreetscapes-changing-times-on-the-reservoir-path/ http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/12/streetscapes-central-park-central-parkstreetscapes-changing-times-on-the-reservoir-path/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 23:54:15 +0000 By CHRISTOPHER GRAY http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/12/streetscapes-central-park-central-parkstreetscapes-changing-times-on-the-reservoir-path/ Share|]]> http://heave-ho.org/2012/05/12/streetscapes-central-park-central-parkstreetscapes-changing-times-on-the-reservoir-path/feed/ 0 http://heave-ho.org/2012/03/24/big-deal-central-park-goodbye-malaria-hello-condos/ http://heave-ho.org/2012/03/24/big-deal-central-park-goodbye-malaria-hello-condos/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:15:23 +0000 By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO http://heave-ho.org/2012/03/24/big-deal-central-park-goodbye-malaria-hello-condos/ Share|]]> http://heave-ho.org/2012/03/24/big-deal-central-park-goodbye-malaria-hello-condos/feed/ 0 http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/24/secrets-of-a-great-spiral-the-grip-and-the-release/ http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/24/secrets-of-a-great-spiral-the-grip-and-the-release/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:23:47 +0000 http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/24/secrets-of-a-great-spiral-the-grip-and-the-release/ Share|]]> http://heave-ho.org/2011/11/24/secrets-of-a-great-spiral-the-grip-and-the-release/feed/ 0 http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/26/census-apparently-did-check-behind-every-tree-3/ http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/26/census-apparently-did-check-behind-every-tree-3/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:10:01 +0000 http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/26/census-apparently-did-check-behind-every-tree-3/ Share|]]> http://heave-ho.org/2011/03/26/census-apparently-did-check-behind-every-tree-3/feed/ 0 http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/21/a-sex-offenders-royal-ties-2/ http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/21/a-sex-offenders-royal-ties-2/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:03:00 +0000 http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/21/a-sex-offenders-royal-ties-2/ Share|]]> http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/21/a-sex-offenders-royal-ties-2/feed/ 0 http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/16/hooker-co/ http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/16/hooker-co/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:43:18 +0000 http://heave-ho.org/2011/02/16/hooker-co/ Jesse Hooker . The former actor builds custom tables, mirrors and seating using reclaimed wood from those structures—the Central Park Stables, for example—that helped define one of the greatest modern metropolises. Hooker, the son of a potter and a painter, grew up in Wisconsin and has been woodworking since he was 12, restoring wooden boats from the WWII era. When the now 30-year-old moved to New York in 2005 to act, he took odd woodworking jobs, like building gyrotonic exercise equipment, or "Hippie Bowflex torture machines" as he calls them. After a friend saw a trestle table Hooker had built for himself and payed $1,500 for Hooker to build him his own, Hooker started taking commissions in 2008. Others saw the friend's table and wanted their own; his dining room tables caught on similarly. Built from the remnants of a Queens bowling alley, Hooker constructs their frames from simple angled iron welded together (with exceptional attention to detail), which he then hand paints. "It always starts with the materials," says Hooker, surrounded by ancient wood in his studio. "Someone will ask for a commission and I'll go to salvage and start working around whatever I pick out." Hooker's craftsmanship is immaculately simple, yet having a piece of his furniture isn't just an aesthetic experience, it's a connection to a bygone New York City's older aspects of manufacturing and design. "I like the history of the materials," he continues. "Those beams over there, some guys with handsaws and nails used them to erect a building, and then years later it's all torn down to make room for steel and glass condos. But you can have a piece of that history. You can have some of that workmanship."

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