by David | Oct 25, 2008 | culture, design, eating, photo, urbanism
I visited the hip South of Washington Street (SoWa) arts district Accompanied by some good people from the DeCordova and gallery buddy L for the YMOD gallery walk. There was a similar event on Newbury Street in the Spring. We began at the 450 Harrison at Thayer...
by David | Oct 24, 2008 | culture, media, transportation
The folks who think the bible is a fairy tale have come up with their own stranger than fiction scenario. The British Humanist Association has raised over 100,000 pounds (far in excess of their original goal of 5,500) to fund something called the Atheist Bus Campaign...
by David | Oct 15, 2008 | culture, economics, media
I started off writing another “grumpy philanthropist” bit, but decided to mellow out a little for once. I’d been getting cheesed off at high-fuss low-impact online (and offline) awareness campaigns that didn’t really do enough for the causes. ...
by David | Oct 8, 2008 | culture, design, urbanism
Once again, I’m in danger of falling seriously behind on posting about events that I’ve attended or noted, so I’m going to get proactive and blog about some events that are upcoming and maybe drum up a few more attendees. Perhaps I’ll see you...
by David | Sep 29, 2008 | culture, design, media
Clearly I’m a bit behind on the art writeups here. I was at the opening for the DeCordova’s drawing show, “Drawn to Detail” with erstwhile museum buddy L some weeks ago. As usual, the opening was way too crowded to really see the work, but I...
by David | Sep 25, 2008 | culture, design, economics, media, photo
You know you have a problem when you go shopping for something when you have recently purchased examples of that same thing sitting around your house, unopened. Well, maybe not in the case of food. But in the case of art, I think I might have this problem. Last...