Go visit my friend Sean at Boston 3D Printsmiths:
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).
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. π Continue reading 4th of July Fireworks!
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.
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’sΒ deleted all the blog entries as he’s in the hate-stage of blog relationship. π
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! π
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:
I wrote this up for a friend who is arriving at Boston’s Logan Airport and whom has never been to Boston before. She has to get from Terminal E (Aer Lingus) to Terminal B (US Airways). It’s pretty simple, and I thought this might be of use to someone else:
It’s not a big airport, but it’s a lot bigger than Dublin Airport.Β There’s 5 terminals; A, B, C, D, and E. It might seem confusing how to get one from one to another, and how to get to Downtown Boston (the city center) if you don’t know where to go! But, it’s really very very simple, as they have free shuttle buses connecting all the terminals.
You will arrive at Terminal E (used for most of international arrivals/departures).
US Airways is at Terminal B.Exit terminal E, and look for the signs for the Airport Shuttle Bus (they’re across the street inΒ this sorta big traffic island thingy).
They have at least 3 different routes for the shuttle bus, they have signs that say what bus goes to what terminal.
Catch the bus that goes to Terminal B:
http://www.massport.com/logan/insid_termi_b.htmlIf you’ve a lot of bags, don’t get on at the front door, get on at the middle door. Waiting for the bus and getting to the terminal will take about 10 minutes. So relax and have a smoke while you wait, in Massachusetts you cannot smoke anywhere indoors.
There’s a good variety of restaurants at Terminal B, I suggest stopping at Bonfire for a steak if you’ve time, if you don’t have time get a sandwich from “Au Bon Pain“.
So, in summary, catch the shuttle bus from terminal E to terminal B. π
If your arriving at any other terminal and need to get to another terminal at the airport it’s basically the same procedure. All you need to know is what terminal you need to get to, if you don’t know ask any of the Airport staff, or at an Information Desk, or alternatively ask the Shuttle Bus drivers which Terminal your airline is at. Also, the Airport’s Shuttle Buses are free, the Silver Line (which is part of the public transit system is not free and will take you to South Station, one of Boston’s major train stations).
If your delayed at the airport and have a lot of time to kill, I’d suggest going to the Hyatt Hotel at the airport. It’s connected to the garage, which I think is called Central Parking. It’s a good spot to spend a few hours, has a nice view, and the food ain’t bad and it’s a nice place to relax away from the hustle and bustle of the Airport terminals. Alternatively go to Terminal B which seems to have a pretty decent collection of restaurants.
If you’ve more that 4 hours to kill, it’s also very easy to get into the city. What I’d suggest for tourists to do is to catch the shuttle bus to the Subway line (the Blue Line). Catch this inbound to Government Center, which is less than a 10 minute subway ride. Fanueil Hall which is about 5 minutes walk from there has plenty of stores (shops for all you Irish and Brits) and restuarants and pubs. I quite like Durgin Park and their Yankee Roast followed by their traditional style Strawberry Shortcake for desert.
It’s also less than 10 minutes walk from both the State House, Boston Common, and 2 minutes walk from the Old State House (the seat of British rule during colonial times).
I’ll try and update this posting with relevant information.
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/12/15/getting-from-one-terminal-to-another-at-bostons-logan-airport
Support Boston’s Pine Street Inn this year and buy holidays cards based on a photograph I took:
http://www.pinestreetinn.org/news.php?id=343
The photograph also came 24th in the Boston Globe’s 2008 Winter Wonderland contest:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/02/22/winter-wonderland-24/
Penny over at BostonZest did a write up on this and asked me to comment on the picture:
http://www.bostonzest.com/2008/10/holiday-cards-to-support-pine-street-inn.html
Updated: Oct 25th with updated link to Pine Street Inn’s Greeting Card page.