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* Charles River, December 7, 2009: Still, reflecting waters
* Charles River, December 14, 2009: Cloudy blue skies, gently rippled water, hints of ice on distant shore
* Charles River, December 15, 2009: Early morning sun with "Maxfield Parrish" light with mottled cloud reflections
* Charles River, December 17, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, rippled waters
* Charles River, December 18, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, river becoming covered in swirling ice
* Charles River, December 20, 2009: First big snow storm of the season, snow & ice on the river, snowy branches on the trees
* Charles River, December 21, 2009: Night shot of road traffic & patches of ice on the frozen river
* Charles River, December 23, 2009: Patches of snow on the frozen river under a cloud-free sky
* Charles River, December 28, 2009: All of the snow and all but a ribbon of the ice gone, still waters return
* Charles River, December 29, 2009: River beginning to re-freeze
* Charles River, December 30, 2009: Frozen & re-frozen chunks of river ice under a clear blue sky
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (AM) River re-freezing again, cloudy skies
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (PM) Freshly fallen afternoon snow on the mostly frozen river
* Charles River, January 4, 2010: Long shadows reach through the trees across the snow & ice covered river
* Charles River, January 5, 2010: Grey cloudy skies, white snowy ground, and some black water reaching across the largely frozen river
* Charles River, January 6, 2010: Early morning shadows reach through the trees across the frozen river under a cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 8, 2010: Another fresh coat of snow on the frozen river, with a melted channel reaching down the middle under an even grey sky
* Charles River, January 11, 2010: Clear blue skies over thin snow & ice covering the river
* Charles River, January 12, 2010: Cloudy skies over thickening ice & snow on the river
* Charles River, January 13, 2010: Blue skies over white snow over black ice
* Charles River, January 14, 2010: Week of clear skies & snowy ice continues
* Charles River, January 16, 2010: Melting ice under cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 18, 2010: Evening view of thawing waters
* Charles River, January 22, 2010: Most of the ice gone now
* Charles River, January 25, 2010: Clear waters & skies, some snowy ice along the river banks
* Charles River, January 26, 2010: Warmer, drier day, some clouds, no snow or ice
* Charles River, January 28, 2010: Ducks swimming in the water
* Charles River, January 29, 2010: Ice covers the river again
* Charles River, February 1, 2010: Thin ice on the river
* Charles River, February 2, 2010: Third day of thin ice & clear skies
* Charles River, February 3, 2010: Thicker ice again, and snow-covered under cloudy grey skies
* Charles River, February 5, 2010: Clear skies again, and ice thinning once more
* Charles River, February 8, 2010: Thin ice, clear blue sky
* Charles River, February 9, 2010: Another day of thin ice & no clouds
* Charles River, February 10, 2010: Grey skies and vanishing ice
* Charles River, February 11, 2010: Wispy clouds over mostly melted waters
* Charles River, February 16, 2010: Light snowfall over ice-free water
* Charles River, February 17, 2010: Fresh snow & ice, geese & ducks swimming on the water
* Charles River, February 18, 2010: Thawing snow & ice
* Charles River, February 19, 2010: Geese spreading their wings while swimming on the thawed river by the snowy banks
* Charles River, February 23, 2010: Generic grey day, you pick a better caption
* Charles River, February 24, 2010: Light rain, very grey
* Charles River, February 25, 2010: "Icebergs" floating down the river under light rain
* Charles River, February 26, 2010: After a strong storm the night before, unusually choppy waters from strong winds
* Charles River, March 1, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 2, 2010: Canadian geese swimming on the water under cloudy blue skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 5, 2010: Sunlight reflected in the still grey water
* Charles River, March 9, 2010: Sunshine on barren trees, and some of the green fencing
* Charles River, March 10, 2010: Sunshine on the still barren tree branches
* Charles River, March 11, 2010: Pale grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 12, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 15, 2010: Swollen banks after 3 solid days of heavy rain
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
Seen on the walls of Rabbit Hole Studio. I cannot really tell if it's part of the studio or some kind of site-specific sculpture for their Emerging Artists Show. It looks interesting to me so I photographed it. :)
www.rabbitholestudio.com/gallery/
Underground
The Fall 2009 Emerging Artists Show
September 25 - October 28, 2009
Opening Reception
Friday September 25, 2009, 5-9pm
On view: Mon-Fri 1-6p and by Appointment
RABBITHOLESTUDIO is pleased to present Underground: the Fall 2009 Emerging Artists Show, featuring the work of 16 new talents across a diverse range of painting, drawing, photography and mixed media. Explored are the layers beneath the physical and non-physical surface, the porous, unpredictable home of ontological curiosity, dark visions and fragments of the unconscious.
+ Louise Barry
+ Lindsay Chandler
+ Carrie Christian
+ Lindsay Comstock
+ Heather Culp
+ Amanda Dandeneau
+ Michael Dickey
+ Samantha French
+ Jae Kyung Kim
+ Caroline McAuliffe
+ Rachel Meuler
+ Jungmin Park
+ R Wayne Reynolds
+ Yunfan Sun
+ Margaret Inga Wiatrowski
+ Joshua Zucker-Pluda
This picture of Quasimodo from Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" was on display near the Emmanuel bell. From the Wikipedia article on Notre Dame:
*****
During the early 19th century, the cathedral was in a state of disrepair, and city planners began to contemplate tearing it down. French novelist Victor Hugo, an admirer of the cathedral, wrote his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame (originally titled Notre Dame de Paris) in part to raise awareness of the cathedral's heritage, which sparked renewed interest in the cathedral's fate. A campaign to collect funds to save the cathedral followed, culminating in the 1845 restorations.
* Charles River, December 7, 2009: Still, reflecting waters
* Charles River, December 14, 2009: Cloudy blue skies, gently rippled water, hints of ice on distant shore
* Charles River, December 15, 2009: Early morning sun with "Maxfield Parrish" light with mottled cloud reflections
* Charles River, December 17, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, rippled waters
* Charles River, December 18, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, river becoming covered in swirling ice
* Charles River, December 20, 2009: First big snow storm of the season, snow & ice on the river, snowy branches on the trees
* Charles River, December 21, 2009: Night shot of road traffic & patches of ice on the frozen river
* Charles River, December 23, 2009: Patches of snow on the frozen river under a cloud-free sky
* Charles River, December 28, 2009: All of the snow and all but a ribbon of the ice gone, still waters return
* Charles River, December 29, 2009: River beginning to re-freeze
* Charles River, December 30, 2009: Frozen & re-frozen chunks of river ice under a clear blue sky
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (AM) River re-freezing again, cloudy skies
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (PM) Freshly fallen afternoon snow on the mostly frozen river
* Charles River, January 4, 2010: Long shadows reach through the trees across the snow & ice covered river
* Charles River, January 5, 2010: Grey cloudy skies, white snowy ground, and some black water reaching across the largely frozen river
* Charles River, January 6, 2010: Early morning shadows reach through the trees across the frozen river under a cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 8, 2010: Another fresh coat of snow on the frozen river, with a melted channel reaching down the middle under an even grey sky
* Charles River, January 11, 2010: Clear blue skies over thin snow & ice covering the river
* Charles River, January 12, 2010: Cloudy skies over thickening ice & snow on the river
* Charles River, January 13, 2010: Blue skies over white snow over black ice
* Charles River, January 14, 2010: Week of clear skies & snowy ice continues
* Charles River, January 16, 2010: Melting ice under cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 18, 2010: Evening view of thawing waters
* Charles River, January 22, 2010: Most of the ice gone now
* Charles River, January 25, 2010: Clear waters & skies, some snowy ice along the river banks
* Charles River, January 26, 2010: Warmer, drier day, some clouds, no snow or ice
* Charles River, January 28, 2010: Ducks swimming in the water
* Charles River, January 29, 2010: Ice covers the river again
* Charles River, February 1, 2010: Thin ice on the river
* Charles River, February 2, 2010: Third day of thin ice & clear skies
* Charles River, February 3, 2010: Thicker ice again, and snow-covered under cloudy grey skies
* Charles River, February 5, 2010: Clear skies again, and ice thinning once more
* Charles River, February 8, 2010: Thin ice, clear blue sky
* Charles River, February 9, 2010: Another day of thin ice & no clouds
* Charles River, February 10, 2010: Grey skies and vanishing ice
* Charles River, February 11, 2010: Wispy clouds over mostly melted waters
* Charles River, February 16, 2010: Light snowfall over ice-free water
* Charles River, February 17, 2010: Fresh snow & ice, geese & ducks swimming on the water
* Charles River, February 18, 2010: Thawing snow & ice
* Charles River, February 19, 2010: Geese spreading their wings while swimming on the thawed river by the snowy banks
* Charles River, February 23, 2010: Generic grey day, you pick a better caption
* Charles River, February 24, 2010: Light rain, very grey
* Charles River, February 25, 2010: "Icebergs" floating down the river under light rain
* Charles River, February 26, 2010: After a strong storm the night before, unusually choppy waters from strong winds
* Charles River, March 1, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 2, 2010: Canadian geese swimming on the water under cloudy blue skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 5, 2010: Sunlight reflected in the still grey water
* Charles River, March 9, 2010: Sunshine on barren trees, and some of the green fencing
* Charles River, March 10, 2010: Sunshine on the still barren tree branches
* Charles River, March 11, 2010: Pale grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 12, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 15, 2010: Swollen banks after 3 solid days of heavy rain
Pasting from Bostonist: More MITardis: Doctor Who vs. Harvard?:
• • • • •
Earlier today, we posted photographs of the scifi cult object that recently appeared on the roof of MIT building 7. After a closer inspection of the images, we have deciphered the text on the left door:
HACKER TELEPHONE
FREE FOR USE OF
HACKERS
ADVICE & ASSISTANCE
NOT REALLY OBTAINABLE
JACK & JAMES
MAY RESPOND TO CALLS
DO NOT OPEN
We've also learned, from Eric Schmiedl's gorgeous nighttime photographs, that the TARDIS lights up at night.
The blue box, when it initially materialized at MIT, seems to have been accompanied by a banner declaring the score:
THE DOCTOR - 1
HAHVAHD - 0
We know (because we're nerds) that the Doctor has longstanding feuds with the Master, Sontarans, Cybermen, Daleks, the Rani, and the Ice Warriors, and he owes Casanova a chicken, but—what sort of conflict does he have with Harvard University?
• • • • •
UPDATE: After The Doctor's visit to MIT, a Dalek showed up, too.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
I always wondered what this glass section was. To either side of it was more stern-looking brick structures, and the doors underneath suggest that there was some kind of loading dock or garage on the ground floor, but the glass-enclosed upper floor here stood out somehow.
Was it the cafeteria? A gallery of photos taken with Polaroid equipment? Just more cubicle space?
In any case, it's fodder for the wrecking ball now. Sic transit gloria.
Broadway got most faves, Coffee most views, Lenox happy Christmas wishes most comments and Mac is my personal fave. I miss all my other girls in this mosaic!
Heavily modified Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser.
The guy was saying he basically replaced all the body panels, made it a couple of feet longer, and upgraded everything. It definitely still had the same nose as, say, this one.
It also had a car seat in back, complete with infant & doting mother, along with a couple of other kids in the other seats. And people say cars like this are impractical for families with kids, pshaw.
Anyway, Isaac thought this truck was fantastic, and watched intently as the family got inside and drove away. Then he didn't want to get up to leave in case maybe, just maybe, it would come back again.
A group of four F-15 fighter jets flew over Fenway Park for the Independence Day game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays.
While waiting for their cue for the flyover, the looped over Reading MA for what seemed like half an hour or longer, just swirling around & around.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
We saw this man working as a park ranger at the nearby William Smith House back in August. Apparently one of the perks of the job is multiple Minuteman uniforms, as this jacket is tan & he was wearing maroon the first time we saw him.
Anyway, he was a really nice guy -- a retired professor from Boston College, working part time as a park ranger now, and a good sport with Isaac running around in his nice little national park.
Of course, Isaac was slightly less happy with him today when the gun went off with an unbelievably loud BANG and scared the living snot out of him. Right up until that moment though, he was having a blast. Well, sort of.
Modica Way in Central Square, Cambridge is a narrow, short alley with public art on both sides:
• north: public side for graffiti
• south: official side, without graffiti
The graffiti on the northern wall is ever-changing, and very popular with photographers.
In contrast, the southern wall is graffiti-free, with a long mural consisting of stitched photo collages of the neighborhood, similar to the ones I make, or indeed the same as these mosaics themselves.
Another case where the available angles prevented me from getting more of the scene in, so the guys at the top & bottom are both truncated. Still some nice touches though -- my favorite is what appears to be the foreman of the building contractors working on what could be a black Macbook laptop. Plus, why is the guy on top using a metal detector? Why the guy next to Mr Laptop painting it black (or is he finishing painting it red)?
Posted via web from Chris Devers's Posterous linkblog thingy
Some boring statistics:-
Joined Flickr - May 2007
2001 photos
Average daily views since day one - just over 400 (but 833 since the half a million views milestone)
Done without joining post/ comment/ favourite groups or any photos with subject matter that could be classed as moderate or restricted (I.e. All "safe")
Most views on one pic - 33681 - a car
Most favourites - 103 - some dreadlocks
Most interesting (according to Flickr's formula) - a birthday cake
Because I didn't join post / comment awards groups, the most comments on one photo was 50.
Not a motorbike to be seen in those four so called Popular areas.
Appearances in Explore - 32
Most views in one day - 11261
Pics with more than 500 views - 344
Pics with more than 5000 views - 21
Hours spent at the PC - I dread to think
Hours of fun - loads
Full circle panorama, unbroken view. (Also see this version, which is split roughly in the middle to make some of the detail clearer.)
Standing at the stern of the USS Cassin Young, the World War 2 destroyer that is berthed next to the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") at the Charlestown Navy Yard national park.
I didn't realize it at the time, but the modern vessel marked "50" and docked next to Constitution is an active navy ship that was visiting Boston for shore leave at the time. The montage of the Constitution's stern shows that this ship is called "Taylor", making it the USS Taylor (FFG-50), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate.
Across the harbor to the top-right here, you can see the North End of Boston, with the downtown skyscrapers beyond. At the top-left you can make out some of Logan Airport in East Boston.
Nice detail: I like how this shows two versions of the guy in the brown jacket, first taking a photo at the top left, then just looking around at the bottom right. (Random thought: do one of these in a semi-crowded place like this and get multiple loops, so that the same people are shown several times doing different things.)
* ** *** ***** ******* *********** ************* ***************** *******************
I took a series of these panoramas the same day:
* Tobin Bridge #1 (under the tollbooths)
* Tobin Bridge #2 (over Little Mystic Channel)
* USS Cassin Young #1 (split panorama)
* USS Cassin Young #2 (full panorama)
Plus, of course, the other photomontages I've been putting up over the last few months.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
With its striking geometric facade, Murray Building (美利大廈)—a government office building located in Central, Hong Kong—is one of my favorite architectures in Hong Kong.
Form follows function—its facade is designed to be super functional. The windows were meticulously oriented such that every office would avoid the intrusion of excessive direct sunlight. The design won the Certificate of Merit of the Energy Efficient Building Award in 1994.
This building used to house many of the key decision making bureaus of the Hong Kong government, but the site will soon be auctioned off for re-development into a hotel as the government bureaus which used to be located there have moved to the Central Government Complex, Tamar in 2011.
Also in view is part of the Citibank Tower complex, and in the reflection, the HSBC headquarters designed by Norman Foster.
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+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°16'41" N 114°9'36" E
+ Location: 香港中環紅棉路22號美利大廈 Murray Building, 22 Cotton Road, Central, Hong Kong
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My experiment to see how I might drive up statistics through the use of metadata shows that the term "nude sunbathing" pulls daily views of over 100....And it hit 20,000 views today!
This would have been a bit steadier (and more level), but:
[a] I didn't have a tripod handy, and the railing I was balancing the camera on didn't prove to be as stable as I was hoping it would be, and
[b] it was frickin' freezing, and about halfway through (started on the right/west, worked to the left/east) I just wanted to get back in the car.
This was taken back in January, or maybe even December, I forget. The river completely iced over after this, but i never had a chance to come back for more photos of it that way, and now we've had a pretty good thaw in February, so it may not ice over again this year. Oh well.
The replica of the Boston Tea Party ship Brig Beaver had been a landmark on the Fort Point Channel waterfront from 1973 until it was badly burned by a 2001 lightning-sparked fire, and another fire in 2007. Since then, work continues on rebuilding the site, and adding two more replica ships of the Dartmouth & Eleanor, the other two ships involved with the famous 1773 protest that helped spark (har har har) the American Revolution.
These two photos of the Beaver were taken in 2002, after the initial fire charred the masts & burned away the rigging, but before the ship was taken out of the water in 2004 for renovation work. Supposedly, the organization that runs the Boston Tea Party Ships museum wants to have it open again in the summer of 2010, but it looks like there have already been years of delays, so we'll see what happens.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
* * * * *
The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
THANKS to everyone out there in Flickrland- and beyond... I'm Famous!
It's kind of cool to see your pictures pop up out there on the internet, and in educational pamphlets, brochures, scientific forums and websites, not to mention the occasional hard print book, and even a museum exhibit.
All my pictures are available for non-commercial use under the creative commons license, and I have licensed a few others... nice to see your own name in the credits in the back of an actual book.
Now that I'm so popular, I can concentrate my efforts on other projects: first up is my new fragrance- it's made from Red Mangrove Root, Black Mangrove Leaves, and White Mangrove Bark, with a hint of sunscreen, bug juice, and just a little "paddling all day in the hot sun sweat"...proven to drive the ladies crazy. Although, with a name like ManGroove, there's is bound to be some misinterpretation.
Next I'm going to focus on a non-fiction coffee table/ cookbook on the Sugarbeet... the working title is "101 New Reasons Why You Can't Beet It."
Then, I'll post a few hours of our newest German Shepherd (GSD Rescue #3) attacking the water stream from the garden hose on YouTube. Of course, I will then have to do a re-mix of all the original videos, complete with original soundtracks, so that will take some time.
If I have time after that, maybe I'll solve some crimes and perhaps end world hunger...
Just got home to see my Flickr stats have passed the MILLION mark
Many thanks to everyone for your comments, faves, galleries, and for the pictures and friendship you have shared with me since 2010
and Happy Fence Friday from Jamies Italian in the old Courthouse Cheltenham Gloucs where my future daughter-in-law treated Sam and I to a delicious pre-Christmas lunch during our ultra-busy day
Window Farms (Flickr) are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.
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Goal 1: to start a Windowfarming craze in New York City and other dense urban areas, helping people grow some of their food year-round in their apartment windows.
Goal 2: give ordinary folks a means to collaborate on research and development at our.windowfarms.org
History
In February 2009, through a residency at Eyebeam, Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray began to build and test the first Window Farms prototype. Growing food inside NY apartments is a challenge, but within reach. The foundational knowledge base is emerging through working with agricultural, architectural and other specialists, collecting sensor data, and reinterpreting hydroponics research conducted by NASA scientists and marijuana farmers. We have been researching and developing hydroponic designs that are inexpensive and made from relatively inexpensive materials. The working prototype is a drip system made from recycled water bottles, holding 25 plants. Beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, arugula, basil, lettuce and kale are thriving.
While completing the first Prototype in mid-April, we invited a dozen "Pioneers" to join us in creating Window Farms. We asked them to approach the project like a night class, devoting one night a week for two months. We showed them our prototype and presented the DIY research and development we did so far and invited them to build on our research to create their own designs. Currently, the Pioneers are designing their systems. Their innovative ideas are adding to the knowledgebase about DIY hydroponics.
Eyebeam Open Studios: Fall 2009
eyebeam.org/events/open-studios-fall-2009
Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellows, Resident Artists, and Student Residents at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication studio; showcasing video performance, wearable technologies, code and humor, party technology, and sustainablity design.
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Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
Founded in 1996 and incorporated in 1997, Eyebeam was conceived as a non-profit art and technology center dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts, while simultaneously establishing and demonstrating new media as a significant genre of cultural production.
Since then, Eyebeam has supported more than 130 fellowships and residencies for artists and creative technologists; we've run an active education program for youth, artists' professional development and community outreach; and have mounted an extensive series of public programs, over recent years approximately 4 exhibitions and 40 workshops, performances and events annually.
Today, Eyebeam offers residencies and fellowships for artists and technologists working in a wide range of media. At any given time, there are up to 20 resident artists and fellows onsite at Eyebeam's 15,000-square foot Chelsea offices and Labs, developing new projects and creating work for open dissemination through online, primarily open-source, publication as well as a robust calendar of public programming that includes free exhibitions, lectures and panels, participatory workshops, live performances and educational series.
A slowdown in views means that despite 119 uploads and 16 explored photos, it's taken over 13 months to reach this milestone from 8 million in April 2023.
From the Museum of Bad Art, in the basement of the otherwise lovely Somerville Theatre. The Museum, of course, has its online collection of bad art, but I figure bad photos of the bad art can only be a positive contribution to the cause.
Here, we have Jerez the Clown, by Higgins, working in acrylic on canvas, acquired from Todd Farm Flea Market by Scott Wilson. Quoting from MOBA's site:
"A perfect depiction of pure evil in the guise of childhood's friend. This blending of big top themes with a piercing study of the dark side of human nature, elevates the well worn clown genre to a new and exhilarating level."
I like how you can see light through the tower window, too. Nice touch, completely planned that in advance. *ahem*.
For a broader context, see this photomontage, which covers the whole horizon at the time this was happening. While it was all reds over here, the rest of the sky was still blue...
* Charles River, December 7, 2009: Still, reflecting waters
* Charles River, December 14, 2009: Cloudy blue skies, gently rippled water, hints of ice on distant shore
* Charles River, December 15, 2009: Early morning sun with "Maxfield Parrish" light with mottled cloud reflections
* Charles River, December 17, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, rippled waters
* Charles River, December 18, 2009: Cloudless blue sky, river becoming covered in swirling ice
* Charles River, December 20, 2009: First big snow storm of the season, snow & ice on the river, snowy branches on the trees
* Charles River, December 21, 2009: Night shot of road traffic & patches of ice on the frozen river
* Charles River, December 23, 2009: Patches of snow on the frozen river under a cloud-free sky
* Charles River, December 28, 2009: All of the snow and all but a ribbon of the ice gone, still waters return
* Charles River, December 29, 2009: River beginning to re-freeze
* Charles River, December 30, 2009: Frozen & re-frozen chunks of river ice under a clear blue sky
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (AM) River re-freezing again, cloudy skies
* Charles River, December 31, 2009: (PM) Freshly fallen afternoon snow on the mostly frozen river
* Charles River, January 4, 2010: Long shadows reach through the trees across the snow & ice covered river
* Charles River, January 5, 2010: Grey cloudy skies, white snowy ground, and some black water reaching across the largely frozen river
* Charles River, January 6, 2010: Early morning shadows reach through the trees across the frozen river under a cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 8, 2010: Another fresh coat of snow on the frozen river, with a melted channel reaching down the middle under an even grey sky
* Charles River, January 11, 2010: Clear blue skies over thin snow & ice covering the river
* Charles River, January 12, 2010: Cloudy skies over thickening ice & snow on the river
* Charles River, January 13, 2010: Blue skies over white snow over black ice
* Charles River, January 14, 2010: Week of clear skies & snowy ice continues
* Charles River, January 16, 2010: Melting ice under cloudless blue sky
* Charles River, January 18, 2010: Evening view of thawing waters
* Charles River, January 22, 2010: Most of the ice gone now
* Charles River, January 25, 2010: Clear waters & skies, some snowy ice along the river banks
* Charles River, January 26, 2010: Warmer, drier day, some clouds, no snow or ice
* Charles River, January 28, 2010: Ducks swimming in the water
* Charles River, January 29, 2010: Ice covers the river again
* Charles River, February 1, 2010: Thin ice on the river
* Charles River, February 2, 2010: Third day of thin ice & clear skies
* Charles River, February 3, 2010: Thicker ice again, and snow-covered under cloudy grey skies
* Charles River, February 5, 2010: Clear skies again, and ice thinning once more
* Charles River, February 8, 2010: Thin ice, clear blue sky
* Charles River, February 9, 2010: Another day of thin ice & no clouds
* Charles River, February 10, 2010: Grey skies and vanishing ice
* Charles River, February 11, 2010: Wispy clouds over mostly melted waters
* Charles River, February 16, 2010: Light snowfall over ice-free water
* Charles River, February 17, 2010: Fresh snow & ice, geese & ducks swimming on the water
* Charles River, February 18, 2010: Thawing snow & ice
* Charles River, February 19, 2010: Geese spreading their wings while swimming on the thawed river by the snowy banks
* Charles River, February 23, 2010: Generic grey day, you pick a better caption
* Charles River, February 24, 2010: Light rain, very grey
* Charles River, February 25, 2010: "Icebergs" floating down the river under light rain
* Charles River, February 26, 2010: After a strong storm the night before, unusually choppy waters from strong winds
* Charles River, March 1, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 2, 2010: Canadian geese swimming on the water under cloudy blue skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 3, 2010: The first day of the sculling boats rowing down the river under grey skies
* Charles River, March 5, 2010: Sunlight reflected in the still grey water
* Charles River, March 9, 2010: Sunshine on barren trees, and some of the green fencing
* Charles River, March 10, 2010: Sunshine on the still barren tree branches
* Charles River, March 11, 2010: Pale grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 12, 2010: Grey skies & waters
* Charles River, March 15, 2010: Swollen banks after 3 solid days of heavy rain
If you see footage on TV of home runs going over the Green Monster, it may well have been shot from this camera.
If you like the pictures of the Austin-Healey 3000 MkII, you should also check out the later ones of a 3000 MkIII. :-)
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Pasting from Wikipedia: Austin-Healey 3000:
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The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 to 1967, and is the best known of the 'big' Healey models. The car's bodywork was made by Jensen Motors, and the vehicles were assembled at the BMC Abingdon works.
The 3000 was a successful car which won its class in many European rallies in its heyday - and is still used in competition by enthusiasts today.
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Introduced in March 1961, the 3000 Mk II came with three SU HS4 carburettors and an improved camshaft, designated the BT7 MkII (4 seat version) and BN7 MkII (2 Seat version). However, upon the introduction of the BJ7 (2+2 seats) model in January 1962, the number of carburettors was reduced to two, (SU type HS6) due to the problems experienced with balancing three carburettors. As a result of the introduction of the BJ7, the BN7 MkII was discontinued in March 1962, and the BT7 MkII followed in June 1962. Externally, the main changes introduced with the BJ7 were a vertical barred front grille, wind up windows rather than side curtains, an improved hood, and a wrap-around windscreen. Optional extras were similar to the MkI, although the option of a factory hardtop was not available from the BJ7's introduction. From August 1961 a brake servo was also available as an optional extra, which greatly improved braking performance. The BJ7 was discontinued in October 1963 with the introduction of the 3000 MkIII.
A 3000 MkII BT7 with hardtop and overdrive tested by the British The Motor magazine in 1961 had a top speed of 112.9 mph (181.7 km/h) and could accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 10.9 seconds. A fuel consumption of 23.5 miles per imperial gallon (12.0 L/100 km; 19.6 mpg-US) was recorded. The test car cost £1362 including taxes.[3]
11,564 were made (355 BN7 MkII, 5,096 BT7 MkII, and 6,113 BJ7).[2]
2005 original www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/167976944
2008 reprocessed www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3050042009/
2008 reprocessed again. The only way I can explain this is... obsession. This one was HDR-processed using Photoshop Merge to HDR. I then rendered two different 16-bit compositions and had a little bit too much fun manipulating channels, which may explain that overdrive outcome...
I forget where this street was (or what it was called), but it seemed like the main shopping district, like 5th Ave in NYC, Regent St in London, Champs Elysses in Paris, etc.
HONK! Parade from Davis Square in Somerville through Porter Square to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Pasting from the honkfest.org site:
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The Honk Parade this year will include most of the Honk bands plus a wide array of community groups, each responding to the theme of “Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes, and Feet” in their own way. The goal of the parade is to create a spectacular processional theater piece with striking visual images and plenty of brass band music in order to show by example how our streets and public spaces can function as places for community celebration and fun, as well as for their everyday practical purposes. The parade showcases alternative modes of transportation (pedicabs, bicycles, feet) and celebrates the possibilities of live performance as a mode for entertaining and thoughtful inspiration.
The local organizations inventing colorful processional street spectacle for the Honk Parade include community performance groups such as the Open Air Circus, the Boston Hoop Troop, Tumbling for Two, the Royal Frog Ballet, the Disbanded Drill Team, and Can-Can Revolution; activist groups such as the Livable Streets Alliance, Food not Bombs, Somerville Climate Action, Veterans for Peace, the Red Bandanna Brigade, the Green Streets Initiative, the Tufts University Peace and Justice Group; and fascinating art and performance projects such as Mitch Ryerson’s Star Wheel, the Endangered Species with Lipstick parading comparsa, the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater of Vermont, Jamaica Plain’s Spontaneous Celebrations, and Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Club. The parade has also attracted neighbors joining together to have fun, such as Somerville’s Barbecue Co-op, which is constructing a four-wheeled wagon full of pigs (children in costumes) to be pulled by a contingent of chefs (their parents, also in costumes).
These four images (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and panorama) were taken from windows on the 15th floor of the Hyatt hotel in Boston (formerly the Swissôtel, but now under new ownership).
Here we're looking across downtown Boston, with the Macy's at Downtown Crossing in the left foreground, the skyscrapers of the Financial District across the middle, and a glimpse over the Southeast Expressway to South Boston at the right edge.
I've tagged the separate images with the buildings, landmarks, and neighborhoods that I recognize. Feel free to add more notes if you can identify some of these things.
Trick-or-Treating in Beacon Hill, Boston.
I was impressed at the "toothpicks" solution these people hit upon in order do create a "B" stencil in the pumpkin.
Whenever I've thought about designs for jack-o-lanterns (not often, admittedly), I always assumed you were just stuck if you wanted to have a design with "B" or "O" type patterns, where there's a dark spot encircled by a carved section.
Using toothpicks to hold up the center dot is a good, simple solution to this problem.
Since posting the waxing crescent moon [1], Tom Giebel (aka Atomische) [2] commented on Facebook that the movement in the full res might have come not from the vibration of the camera but rather from the transmit of the moon [3]. That is, the moon moves quite swiftly and he thinks that 1/4 sec is probably not fast enough to track it properly.
So I put on the 1.4x again with the 100-400 on the 7D again tonight but dial it up to ISO 2000 to expose at 1/40 sec. This seems to fair quite well. I did not use the mirror lockup even though I said I would—mostly actually because I couldn’t seem to find it in my settings so I just shot and see if it works. And it works well with this higher shutter speed. The cavit is that ISO 2000 on the 7D is noisy.
The capture is exposed manually. Lightroom has some limits as to how I can “extract” more details using its very generalised controls so I processed this photo mostly inside Photoshop using multiple USM settings layered on top of each other and afterwards tweak some more inside Lightroom. That “clarity” setting is particularly sweet in controlling local contrast within areas which are clustered around shadows and highlights, as I have found, and is a good match when combined with Photoshop’s Shadow+Highlight adjustments.
# Notes
1. “娥眉月 Waxing Crescent Moon” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130513.7D.41748.BW: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8746961665/
2. Tom Giebel (Atomische): Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/atomische/
3. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151416705462544
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-05-18T22:15:43+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/11
+ Focal Length: 560 mm
+ ISO: 2000
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III
+ Accessories: Canon TC-80N3 Timer Remote Release, Manfrotto tripod
+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'25" E
+ Location: SML Universe HKG
+ Subject: 月 Moon
+ Serial: SML.20130518.7D.41851.P1.L1.BW
+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4
+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 自然 Nature
# Media Licensing
Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited
“上弦月 First quarter moon” / 夜之寧 Night Serenity / SML.20130518.7D.41851.P1.L1.BW
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