Are you scooting on up Roman Holiday style? Boston seems to get a touch more European in the spring time when more scooters cruise the streets. It is certainly visible in the South End, where I snapped this shot. Continue reading
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SHUTTERSTORY: SCOOTER IT
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BIG OLD BIG ONE: BROTHERS MCCANN
An off-stage video performance doesn’t get more authentic and folk-pop warm than Brothers McCann singing, playing guitar and drinking some beers at the neighborhood bar.
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SHUTTERSTORY: SLOW DANCING IN HARVARD YARD
When you look up at the colorful dancers moving in slow-motion, projected on video screens high on the walls of Widener Library in Harvard Yard, you stop and watch. This is David Michalek’s “Slow Dancing.”
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SHUTTERSTORY: NO WAR WITH IRAN
I suddenly perked up when I saw this ad to “Say No To Another Middle East War.”
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SHUTTERSTORY: HACK TOGETHER AT ARTISAN’S ASYLUM
“Electric Pin Wheel?” “Metatron’s Cube?” “Artisan’s Asylum is the builder’s paradise.”
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BIG OLD BIG ONE: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER
“The one I loved, the one I hated, the one I just appreciated. Can you feel me reaching towards you? Because this song I wrote it for you…” is a BIG OL’ BIG ONE! Continue reading
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SHUTTERSTORY: PINTEREST, A COLLECTOR’S DREAM
Pinterest piques a collector’s interest. Continue reading
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SHUTTERSTORY: AWAY WITH THE SEGWAY
I went to New York City this past weekend, and on the crowded streets of SoHo, I was not expecting to walk by this couple riding on a Segway. I snapped this shot like a celebrity sighting when it was really two young hip thangs hogging the sidewalk with a cruise mobile on Spring Street.
So, this starts my beef with the Segway.
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BIG OLD BIG ONE: BARNABY BRIGHT
For this edition of Big Old Big One, they turn to Barnaby Bright and an indie folk ballad about uncertainties in love and the future. Continue reading
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SHUTTERSTORY: ART AT TEDXSOMERVILLE
With new ideas stirring at TEDxSomerville, innovative art displays further stimulate the TEDx talk experience. From public art to a gallery group show, diverse mediums came full force at the community-oriented event, held at Arts at the Armory this past Sunday. Continue reading
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