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Two arty things seen today.
The first was this graffiti on a brick wall on Boston Newbury’s Street. I was caught it from the right angle and thought the text and the tree were prefect juxtaposed:
The next is this thing made out of cardboard, it looks a bit like a kite and a totem pole done my Mr. Picasso:
It was in a tree near Boston’s MFA (Museum of Fine Arts).
Angle Art
Art on Boston University’s campus:
Got home
Just back from a trip home to Ireland and am pooped. Got up at 6am (1am EST) and drove up to Dublin Airport from Donegal Town via Omagh. Got there about 10.30am, would have been earlier but the car was running on fumes and I had to stop for petrol. As I was whizzing down the M1, my cousin John, whom I gave a lift to the airport, said there’s no services on that motorway. Which lead us on a 30 minute detour trying to find some petrol pumps in the wastes of Louth! š
Got to the airport at 10.30am, dropped off the car, had a ciggie, met my friend Eamon L. who dropped out to see me off and had a nice big (expensive) breakfast before going through security. Had 3 jumbo sausages, 2 rashers, 2 slices of thick toast, 1 egg, 1 hash brown, 1/2 a fried tomato, and numerous backed beans.:) A good end to a long drive, and a nice fill-up before a long flight.
On the plane I got 2 seats to meself and dosed off for about 2 hours or more after they served “dinner”. Woke up somewhere over the Canadian north and got to watch the lame ending to the last Harry Blouter film.
At Logan (Boston’s airport), I got through everything quickly, and didn’t have to wait too long for a shuttle bus to the blue line on the subway. And it wasn’t too busy considering it was rush hour. I guess most of the commuters were heading the other way. I changed Gov Center for the Green Line that goes near the house, and lucky enough I got a local train going to Kenmore (never seen one of those before) which was nice and quiet and not full of rush-hour nasties. And got home in time to see the sunset.
So now I’m pooped, as it’s 11:45pm Irish Time, and I need dinner … pics will appear on Flickr at some point.
Update: Here’s one! š
More via this Flickr search.
4th of July Fireworks!
I won’t be in Boston for the fireworks show on July 4th. But if you show up at the last minute to see the fireworks, they start at 10.30pm, you can head onto to Harvard Bridge, commonly know as Mass Ave Bridge and get some decent view of the fireworks.
The last time I watched the fireworks from the bridge was in 2007, and I was near the middle at the 200 smoot mark:
The views of the fireworks was quite good, not as good as being on the river banks. Considering you could show up 5 minutes before the start of the display instead of 12 hours before is a good tradeoff in viewing quality. š Continue reading 4th of July Fireworks!
The View
The view from my desk at my new job isn’t bad:
Much better than looking at the tweed walls of the cube in the cube farm of my old workplace. And, non-Donegal Tweed at that, sure even the Donegal Tweed is now made in Morocco, and the only native Donegal Tweed is made by artisans.
De Charles
Went for a walk along the Charles yesterday, what a great day, and it’s was nice and quite down there and a great to relax, chill and get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. And the MIT’er were out sailing too and it almost looks they were sailing on the ice.
And those are seagulls perched on the ice.
Ryan & The Cardinals
The missues is big into Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. I’ve been listening to him too, but thought he was a bit too “countryish” for my tastes. So anyways we go see them live at the Orpheum last month, and they are one mean guitar band. Very good gig and well worth seeing.
Check out their tour dates at:
If your outside North American, your out of luck for this tour. But, they post a lot of live clips from their concerts on their Twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/cardinology
And some video clips at:
Ryan also has or had a blog which he has had an on-again/off-again relationship with. He often does little videos of himself writting and singing new songs or just jamming away, but he’sĀ deleted all the blog entries as he’s in the hate-stage of blog relationship. š
But, I think he’s used to great affect to reach out to his fans and to create a relationship with his fans that he wouldn’t have otherwise. Hopefully he’ll start blogging again as it’s great to be able to see an artist at work! š
Snow!
Got a tonne of snow about a week ago:
It’s still been lying around and slowly thawing and refreezing, and being ground down. Today it snow about 5 inches, and now it’s turned to rain/sleet and it’s a sloopy mess outside. Huge snow laden puddles everywhere.
First Baptist Church of Boston
I was looking through my Flickr photostream and realised that I’ve taken a fair number of pics of the tower at Boston’s First Baptist Church. It really is a splendid old building:
The doorway:
From across the street:
From down the road:
From afar:
And a close-up of one of the angels on the tower:
