28FEB13. Boston, MA
SELF-PORTRAITS: BOSTON, PT. 3
28FEB13. Boston, MA
Tag: Boston
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS STREET ART: OS GEMEOS TAGGING!
This is so cool! I was walking down Stuart Street just about to hit Church Street, when I saw this awesome mural by the Brazilian twin brother art collective, Os Gemeos. It’s on the front of a parking garage. So cool.
24FEB13. Boston, MA
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ARCHITECTURE: “BUILDING 32” by FRANK GEHRY AT MIT
From Wikipedia ~ The Ray and Maria Stata Center /steɪtə/ or Building 32 is a 720,000-square-foot (67,000 m2) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The building opened for initial occupancy on March 16, 2004. It sits on the site of MIT’s former Building 20, which housed the historic Radiation Laboratory, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Major funding for the project was provided by Ray Stata (MIT class of 1957) and Maria Stata. Other major funders include Bill Gates, Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (MIT class of 1954), Charles Thomas “E.B” Pritchard Hintze (a graduate and of JD Edwards, now Oracle) and Morris Chang of TSMC. Above the fourth floor, the building splits into two distinct structures: the Gates tower and the Dreyfoos tower. Contained within the building are the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, as well as the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Academic celebrities such as Noam Chomsky and Ron Rivest have offices there. World Wide Web Consortium founder Tim Berners-Lee and free software movement founder Richard Stallman also have offices within. Several MIT classes, including many taught by the computer science and electrical engineering department (Course VI), are held inside. The Forbes Family Café is also located in the Stata Center, serving coffee and lunch to the public. In contrast to the trend at MIT of referring to buildings by their numbers rather than their official names, the complex is usually referred to as “Stata”, or “the Stata Center”. The two towers are often called “G Tower” and “D tower”.
23FEB13. Boston, MA
SELF-PORTRAITS: BOSTON, PT. 2
Seeking shelter from the storm on Sunday afternoon in the Boston Public Library.
24FEB13. Boston, MA
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS FOOD & DRINK: WHOOPIE & GUINNESS
23FEB13. Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA.
BOSTON STREET ART: ELVIS THE COMMUNIST
23FEB13. On the walls of The Republik in Cambridge, Boston, MA.
BOSTON GRAFFITI: LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING, WHAT IS NOT ART?
23FEB13. Boston, MA.
BOSTON STREET ART: CITY-COMMISSIONED UTILITY BOX
Another utility box painted by Howie Green, local artist. This one is located at Pearl & High Streets.
23FEB13. Boston, MA.
BOSTON STREET ART: ME & THE MURALS
23FEB13. Boston, MA. photos by Diana Collins.
BOSTON STREET ART: OBEY by SHEPARD FAIREY!
I saw another awesome mural (paste-up) yesterday and the information below is taken from this link: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2011/12/14/Shepard-Fairey-Recycles-Harvard-Square-Mural-of-Muslim-Woman-on-Time-Person-of-the-Year-Cover–Updated ~
The mural below, by Obama iconographer and “OBEY” designer Shepard Fairey, appears on the side of a shopping center in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Though the word “peace” appears at bottom, and there is a tulip in the barrel of the gun, the tulip is also a symbol adopted by Iranian revolutionaries in 1979, and adorns the regime’s flag.As in much of Fairey’s work, the themes of “hope” and liberation are connected in the Harvard Square mural with fantasies of totalitarian violence and domination.
23FEB13. Cambridge, Boston, MA.