by David | Oct 7, 2008 | design, photo, transportation, urbanism
The Northern Avenue bridge was illuminaled in orange and blue but I didn’t get even halfway across when a security guy called out that we had to clear the bridge because it was going to open. Open? I had no idea it could. Turns out it’s the spinny kind...
by David | Oct 6, 2008 | design, photo, urbanism
Tonight was supposedly the last night of Boston Illuminale (warning: annoying flash site, see also more photos on flickr), wherein several Boston sites were festooned with fancy lighting. I didn’t get to all the sites, but I’m not sure if they were all in...
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...
by David | Sep 20, 2008 | photo, science!
The air at street level was crisp but still. At higher altitudes, something was definitely happening. It looks almost calligraphic, and reminds me a bit of the yud-shaped building at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. It also reminds me that...
by David | Sep 17, 2008 | culture, media, photo, transportation, urbanism
It’s rare that I know something about social media that C.C. Chapman doesn’t, but earlier this evening I left the third WBUR social media get-together and saw this tweet. So, for C.C. and others, let me set the context. WBUR’s social media guy, Ken...
by David | Sep 13, 2008 | culture, design, media, photo
Last month I visited San Francisco and engaged in some art-peeping and food-eating with Professor N and La Doctorante. One of the highlights of the trip was a visit to SFMoMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where I saw the headline show of Frida Kahlo...
