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Harvey Golden
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Author, illustrator, researcher, bibliophile, builder of watercraft. Original/owned content only. NW Oregon. Smash the patriarchy. Tutta la vita è mar. My books and kayaks at www.traditionalkayaks.com
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Harvey Golden @harveygolden.bsky.social · May 26
Be that one cloud.
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Installation for exhibit at the Portland Mini Museum (on Insta.). It's about the state of humanity, of course. More in alt. #dioramas #art #models
A vignette or diorama. You ever get those deep rounded pressed paper lettuce or spinach containers at the grocery? Some people see an easy salad; I see a way to waste at least ten evenings making weird stuff out of junk and old toys while watching 18th Century Bel Canto operas by Hasse, Vinci, Vivaldi, Handel, etc. So, I used the container to form a cathedral-like setting. Please bear with me as I describe the display: From top, a Prussian Blue ceiling with gold stars painted all over; the walls and background are painted gold, and the texturing on the paper container has what looks like three grapes impressed at regular intervals-- this works quite well for the them, and 'hats-off' to the remarkable talent of the packaging designer. On the two side walls are religious paintings by the 18th C. Master Gig Keane: "Saint Mittens," and "Ecce Gato." The back wall is taken up by organ pipes, and a votive ship hangs from a gold chain. This is inspired by the ancient tradition, but more specifically by a Church I visited in Montreal, which had a container-ship model. So as not to copy them, I made mine a bulk-carrier. Obscured by the chain, is a round silver star with a round opening (available at most hardware stores)-- it frames a black cat's face. Those pipes go down to an organ, with a proud looking ceramic cat about to offer recital. To the left of the organ is a large glass container with a Fir tree inside. To the right is a row boat, phonograph, and sewing machine. Sitting on the edge of the floor at each side are to 'tram passengers' figures from the 1960s with cat heads-- big, smiling, yellow-eyed, cat heads. Beneath the floor are coffins, one of which has a monkey in it. Another monkey-- yellow and translucent-- seems to be doing Yoga.
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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I don’t always go to church, but when I do…. Haupt Kirche St.Michaelis, Hamburg. I’m a big fan of organs and organ music.
The bimah of St. Michaelis, ornate with gold on white arched walls. To the right is the air traffic control tower. I don’t know what half this stuff is, so just imagine a big fancy church from the 18th century, repaired numerous times after various disasters such as lightning, fire, and bombs. Wooden benches are in the foreground. The organ at the church: slate gray pipes framed with reddish wood trimmed in gold. The curvy balconies beneath are white with gold trim. The walls around are also white with curved arches and gold trimmed columns. The balcony in the foreground has multi-bulbed chandelier/sconces, or whatever those things are called.
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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In Hamburg briefly. Two goals: 1) study kayaks at the Ethnologisches Museum, and 2) eat my weight in Herring.
One is done; bring on the fishies!
Counter-clockwise from upper left: A tall glass of Duckstein, a fine local red beer; A red mug of napkins and silverware, which I did not drink nor steal; a candle; and in the foreground three split Bismarck herring on a plate with potatoes, salad, and a creamy vegetable mix. Off camera in the foreground: me, happy, and about to be properly herringed-up.
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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High winds at high tide (time-lapse). Gusting 60+ on the Megler bridge. The little John Day River, Astoria. #weather
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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First edited movie-- highlights in time-lapse and slo-mo capturing north-west Oregon's fickle weather, surprising wildlife, and captains-courageous. All shot on the little John Day River, Astoria. #oregon #pnw #weather
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Where the gloom of the night is brightened by the comings and goings on Oregon State Highway 30: The little John Day River, Astoria. #pnw
Up-river night photo on the little John Day River, Astoria, Oregon. Low clouds are illuminated by highway traffic, while to the right a cozy cabin gleams warmly, tucked beneath a shoreline of towering spruce and hemlock. Might be an alder or two up there as well.
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Full-size replica of a Sugpiaq two-person kayak. Built from a scale drawing in "Kayaks of Alaska" by Harvey Golden. This wooden frame will be covered with cloth for use. Original (seal or sea-lion covered) is at the Musée de la Marine, Paris, who received it in 1922. #kayaks #Alaska #boatbuilding
A two-person kayak frame-- a historical design used by the Sugpiaq of South central Alaska (Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, Prince William Sound vicinities). These were used for hunting and general travel. The frame is comprised of many strips of wood lashed together, and it is all painted red. Two circular openings on the deck denote the cockpits. The frame would have been covered in seal or sea-lion hides, but this will be covered in cloth, and then waterproofed with varnish. The kayak is just over 20 foot 6 inches long and 28 inches wide.
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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E/V Cormorant in Warren Slough, Knappa, Oregon. #boats
A white wooden electric-powered cabin boat rests at anchor at dusk. The water is gently rippled, reflecting the clear pale sky and the spruce lined shoreline behind the boat.
October 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This morning's sunrise time-lapse got photo-bombed!
#sunrise #pnw #birds
October 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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"Ship Erection," 1942. Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction #shipbuilding #boats #book_covers
Red paper cover of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Public Instruction Bulletin 349 of June 1942: "Ship Erection." Below the title is a line drawing of a portion of a ship's structure being lifted into place; staging structures frame the image along with blocking, shores, and dunnage. Below the image is text reading "Prepared by the Division of Industrial Education in cooperation with Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Below this is the publication information, given at the top.
October 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Shipfitter Handbook, published by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Tacoma, 1944. #ships #shipbuilding #Tacoma
Light green paper cover of "Shipfitter Handbook." Cloth strip glued to spine; photo center, B&W, of a Commencement Bay class Escort Carrier being slid down the ways-- launched-- with bunting on the bow. Text below title is "Todd Pacific Shipyards Inc. Tacoma Division. Published by Training Dept. Revised June, 1944." Former owner's name hand written: R. B. Price.
October 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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A summer past on the lower Columbia River. #photography #boats #oregon #nature
Cirrus and alto-cumulus skies over a tree lined bay, with grassy shores. A white wooden skiff rests in shallow calm water.
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Cover of W. E. Swanson's "Modern Shipfitter's Handbook" (1941) one of many technical books published by Cornell Maritime Press during the early 1940s as the U.S. was gearing up its wartime production. More in Alt. #ships #shipbuilding #nautical #WWII
Dust jacket of a technical manual published by Cornell Maritime Press in 1941 (2nd edition). Titled "Modern Shipfitter's Handbook" by W. E. Swanson, master ship fitter. Light buff text in maroon diagonal stripe has title/author along with sub-text reading "Today welded ships have taken over the ways. Here is the only practical book to show with over 200 working drawings how they are built. Buff backgrounded upper left shows oblique view of a merchantman's wheelhouse and stack, while opposite corner shows lower bulkhead framing of a ship under construction.
October 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A Rower's View. On the Lower Columbia River, some summer past. #photography #boats #pnw #rivers More in Alt-Text.
Slightly dispersed mackerel skies, bright blue behind the hundreds of small cumulus puffs. Horizon is cottonwoods of Miller Sands on right, with the high ground of the Washington shore, forested with spruce and hemlock; center is the hill near the former town of Brookfield. The hill forms a point and is named after the African American Oregon Pioneer, Wilkes Expedition ship-jumper, and Antarctic explorer James Saules (Wha...? Look him up!!!!). In the foreground are my ten little piggies on the rear coaming of a hand-built wooden row boat, based on a Howard Chapelle drawing of a historic 'Garvey' from New Jersey, ca. 1900; Garvey's are general purpose gotten' around boats suitable for cargo, and in smaller forms such as this, for bird hunting. The Green-tipped oars are drawn in and resting on the aft deck of the boat. The wooden stern rail has a notch cut in it for sculling (just behind my right big toe . . . I forget which piggy that is).
October 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Sunny day on the little John Day River, Astoria. #Oregon #pnw #rivers
The sun upper center, with cirrus and blue skies above a hillside with mature Sitka Spruce and Western Red Cedar. Middle is a river bank with green grass, willows, and other shrubs. Foreground is the river, reflecting all of the above. The river is slightly rippled from wind.
September 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Hong Kong bulk carrier "Great Mind" off Tongue Point, Astoria.
#astoria #columbia_river #ships
Blue-gray skies and blue-gray water with a dark blue timbered horizon in the distance (Washington). Center is a ship illuminated by the sun poking through the clouds. The ship has red bottom, showing quite high up the sides, indicating she is empty. The upper hull is black, with the superstructure gleaming white on the left. The white is reflecting in the water below.
September 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Astoria Sunrise and Retreat of the Fog. #pnw #timelapse #weather
September 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The morning push and pull between the sun and fog. Astoria, OR. #timelapse #pnw #oregon
September 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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After 50 years kicking around western Oregon, I have never seen such a large garter snake: 32" long, markedly thicker than my thumb. It has the pattern of 'yellow-stripe/red dashes' only the stripes are robins' egg blue and the dashes are brown. Astoria, Oregon. #wildlife #snakes #nature #pnw
A garter snake in a grassy swamp. The stripes are light blue on this one. Close-up of the blue striped garter snake's head. He seems to be smiling. Dense grass in the background.
September 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Evening reflections: Fishing boats and floating homes along the little John Day River, Astoria. #photography #oregon #boats
Warmly illuminated cumulus reflected on a cal river. The left bank is flanked with fishing boats and floating homes, with the background lined with Spruce and Hemlock. Highway 30 bridge in right background.
September 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Westbound fog and southbound cumulus: Monday morning rush hour on the John Day River, Astoria. #time_lapse #pnw #sunrise
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Boats and ships; big and small. #boats #ships #models #not_those_kinds_of_models
View of model ships on a desk, wall, and window sill: All models of U.S. Maritime Commission designs in war-time colors (except for one Moor-McCormack freighter). These include an S-4 (on sill), C-2s, C-3s, a C-1, an earlier USSB design, and a T-2. On the wall are a Liberty Ship and a Victory Ship. On the shelf at the top are smaller watercraft (built at a larger scale), including a Portuguese Fishing boat, a Chumash Tomol, A surf dory, some East Coast Sharpies, and a Hawaiian Motor Sampan (a vessel with Japanese lineage). Out the window, one can see real boats-- a canoe on a dock, a motor boat, and some commercial fishing vessels. Do not let this level of nautical interest gain a foothold in your family; may this serve as a warning.
September 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The evening of the light-- this very evening. Astoria, Oregon. Clouds coming off the ocean over the little John Day River. #boats #Oregon #timelapse
September 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Another day, another stow-away. #cats #stowaways #kayaks #stowawaycatsinkayaks
Lurking deep within the vessel, betrayed by gleaming green eyes and glistening whiskers. . . behold! TINKER!!! Nibbler of kayaker toes! Beware.....
September 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM