by David | Apr 28, 2009 | culture, design, eating, media, reading & writing, urbanism, working
It’s not every day you go to a social media event in a cargo container sponsored by a shoe company and hear somebody invoke Thoreau when talking about Twitter. Today was just such a day. But first, I’ll back up to last night, when J (have I mentioned...
by David | Apr 27, 2009 | culture, design, economics
As I often do as laundry day approaches, I dropped into the Gap to buy some black t-shirts the other day. While there, I also picked up some socks and underwear. The smallest purchase, the underwear, came with a disturbing array of packaging waste: a cardboard band, a...
by David | Apr 22, 2009 | culture, design, media, urbanism
Last week the Young Members of DeCordova (YMOD) massed on Newbury street for a gallery walk. Both L and Professor M joined me and up to 75 other YMODers for a tour of nine Newbury street galleries. Honestly, we managed to visit only eight of them, and I’ll...
by David | Apr 20, 2009 | culture, design, economics, media, urbanism
Despite Professor M calling Shepherd Fairey some bad names, or perhaps because of it, I ventured to the ICA again this weekend. Adjectival museum buddy L joined me. I went prepared to really love or hate the work, but ended up feeling left a little cold by it, and...
by David | Apr 15, 2009 | culture, design, eating, photo, urbanism
I ventured out at Lunch today for several reasons, not least among them to get some spring air. And some lunch. The destination: Porter Exchange. The observations: several… Kotobukiya Sushi Bar is doing great. I had a very nice crunchy spicy salmon roll....
by David | Apr 7, 2009 | culture, design, urbanism
If you can’t photo the art in a museum, try looking harder.
