by David | Jul 3, 2014 | urbanism, working
They say that your MIT credentials get more impressive and valuable the farther you get from MIT. This is nicely illustrated by this thing that happened to me in New York the other day, which most certainly could not have happened in Cambridge. It also, by the way,...
by David | Nov 13, 2009 | photo, urbanism
It’s an incredible time for Boston photo fans. I’ll never blog it all properly, but here’s a passel of updates on photography stuff of the recent past, present and near future. The DeCordova (sculpture park and) Museum has three (three!) photography...
by David | Dec 16, 2008 | culture, science!, urbanism
Maybe Central Square isn’t going to the dogs after all. This weekend I caught a performance of a stage adaptation of one of my favorite books ever, Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams. The show is closed now, and you can read better reviews of it in...
by David | Nov 15, 2008 | culture, design, media, photo, urbanism
It was a photographic version of the colorful phrase, drinking from the firehose. Thursday night I attended a lecture by Magnum photographer Paul Fusco and then Friday, an opening of a show by National Geographic photographer Cary Wolinsky, both events presented by...
by David | Dec 5, 2007 | culture, reading & writing, technology, working
More synchronicities and reveries. Last week, I joined some good folks from two of my favorite TLAs, PRC and MIT for a reception at the new gallery space at MIT’s Center for Theoretical Physics, which was created in collaboration with the Photographic Resource...