start on the street ‘08
I would like to add a mostly unnecessary $0.02 to all the observations, comments and criticisms that will be tossed around about this weekends start on the street arts and music festival. This year felt like the festival finally found its groove. It seemed like the event was much less about the artists and musicians involved and much more focused on people who appreciate the things artists and musicians do, which ends up making it even more about the artists and musicians. It felt less forced than in previous years, people really seemed to want to be there, not just showing up out of curiosity. There were a few moments where I got to sit on the pavement in the bank parking lot eating with my son and watch as dozens of people rode by on bikes and skateboards while people of every conceivable demographic browsed […]
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Birmingham meets Banksy
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Not that anyone is keeping score
There’s an article in todays T&G about an art heist from the semi-permanent public art installation at Elm Park in Worcester. While the story is full of interesting bits of information such as Rob Antonelli, Assistant Commissioner of Public Works and Parks, having to explain to his staff that they were to look out for the sculptures after they noticed, but failed to report one missing. Makes one wonder what, exactly, his staff thought their job was up until this point. But it’s one magical quote from Assistant City Manager Julie Jacobson regarding the boosted statue really takes flight on it’s own:
“It’s upsetting that it didn’t even make it 48 hours,” Ms. Jacobson said yesterday. “This isn’t just an attack on a piece of art. It’s an attack on the whole community.”
Actually, what’s upsetting is the Assistant City Manager doesn’t seem to realize the art works were installed […]
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Lights! Cameras! Are you kidding me?
Today’s big story in the T&G is the Scorsese film being shot at Medfield State Hospital, which is the same Scorsese film that should have been shot in Worcester. The story is a good read for a number of reasons as the focus are the benefits being seen by local business in Medfield. For whatever reason, Worcesters leaders cannot wrap their heads around the concept of secondary effects of film for Worcester. That’s not hard to understand, Worcester being such an isolated community, many provincial locals are sure to believe we’ve got it all right here, which is quaint, but obviously not true. For example, my whole life I’ve run into people who have no connection to the city of Worcester other than one night at Ralphs Diner. There is a population of people scattered throughout the world who truly believe Worcester is a great place […]
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the Mos Eisley of the planet Earth
Just found this shirt while cruising cafepress. Pure unadulterated genius.
Worcester, MA may have been the Paris of the 80’s but now it is the Mos Eisley of the planet Earth. Great gift for Clarkies!
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Worcester Star Wars remake circa 1977
Came across this via metafilter:
In June of 1977, Jim Jongsma, John Jongsma, and Gary Baker saw Star Wars at White City Cinema in Worcester, Massachusetts. They were impressed. In the months after seeing the movie, so many costumes and models were made that they decided to remake a few scenes on super 8 film. The […]
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the day after
Wow. Just, wow.
I was real excited yesterday afternoon, watching Boston come to screeching halt. Not because I enjoy hysteria; no, I just kept telling myself ‘any minute now, they’ll figure it out and we’ll all have a good laugh’. Not so much, it seems. As Boston Mayor Tom Menino and AG […]
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