by David | May 2, 2009 | culture, design, eating, media, photo, urbanism
but it’s awfully nice nonetheless. I’m sitting in True Grounds coffeehouse after an excellent breakfast at Sound Bites with Prof. M, passing time and blogging while waiting for Somerville Open Studios to open their doors. Sound Bites offered up a satisfying classic...
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....
