by David | Apr 2, 2013 | photo, transportation
Cold morning sunlight Gives no warmth but burns the eye Early Boston spring
by David | Jan 31, 2013 | culture, design, media, photo
I am sitting in a room probably very different from the one you are in now. I am sitting on a metal glider swing in the front parlor of a Somerville home facing two intensely bright lamps and listening to recorded sounds of nature. It’s artist Lyn...
by David | Jun 25, 2012 | photo
I was looking for something, a photo, in fact, but I found something else, a different photo. It’s a Polaroid SX-70 print, that classic almost square instant format that comes out with a whirr and develops with (or without, actually) a shake. Depending on your...
by David | Jun 1, 2012 | photo
During Somerville Open Studios a while back, I visited the studio of Bruce Myren in the Vernon Street Studios. Bruce is an artist and educator I’ve been following for a while and I was excited to see some new work, and there was plenty of it. Be sure to see the...
by David | May 18, 2012 | media, photo, technology, Uncategorized
It’s the eve of the Facebook IPO, a few weeks after the Instagram sale, and I’m still trying to figure out Pinterest. Is it three syllables or two? But seriously, what does a wildly-popular site built on appropriating other peoples’ images mean for...
by David | May 17, 2012 | photo, travel, urbanism
I’m having an Aaron Siskind moment looking at the peeling paint on the side of an MBTA car. Or maybe it’s an Adam Marcinek moment, who knows. But the point is, some of these MBTA cars are looking pretty cruddy, and sometimes that crud is pretty pretty. So...
