Thematic Photographic: Made of Glass

A very strong thunderstorm rushed through Cambridge yesterday. During the storm the windows in my office had sheets of rain flowing down them. This is looking through them at the building across the street.

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Two for Tuesday: Road-River

Looking across the Charles River toward Boston from Memorial Drive.

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Unique's Photo Challenge: Rust

Rusty Warning seen in a Cambridge sidewalk.
This sign was installed in the last year - so there's no reason for it to be rusty.

See more Rust at Unique's Photo Challenge.

Lensday: Alone

lone sailboat

This is evidence of the magic of composition. When I took this the river was full of sailboats. By positioning myself carefully I was able to capture this boat looking like it had the river to itself. The river really looked like this:

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Lensday: Travel

Redline T train crossing the Longfellow Bridge.

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Tuesday Challenge: Clocks

Clock Tower in Kendall Square

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Shutterday: Walk

Crosswalk

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Posting a little late. It was a busy weekend.

Shutterday: Best of 2008

Sunrise Clouds

I was up early yesterday (why is explained here), and drove into Cambridge as the sun rose. I caught this shot from the window of my office.

See more Shutterday, and an explanation of this week's theme, here.

Thursday Challenge: Communication

Advertising

Newspaper

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LensDay: Futuristic

The Stata Center at MIT

Take a good look at this building. To me it looks like something out of Dr Seuss. The construction was not easy. Many of the techniques were untested. You can read about the construction in Building Stata.

MIT is frustrated with what they have called "design flaws" in the building. Frustrated enough that they are suing the architect, Frank Gehry. You can read about the suit here. What gets me about this is that I expect MIT chose Gehry because he pushes the envelope. This building is eye-catching, particularly in the sea of red brick that is Kendall Square. So, MIT chose this design and architect so that they could get a building which will be written about in architecture magazines and texts for years to come. They went into the process knowing that the construction would be tricky and would require the development of new techniques, or at least they should have. Now a couple of years later the building is leaking. MIT is suing the architect because their cutting edge building isn't holding together like a standard rectangular box. It seems to me that if you ask for cutting edge you should expect to need a few bandages, but that's just my opinion.

The good news is that I can just sit back and enjoy the building without worrying about the suit, or the leaks.

More LensDay here.

Out the Window

I've taken to spending a few minutes of my work day looking out the windows. Here's what I saw yesterday.

Pedestrians moving through the rain.

Looking toward Boston.
The column with the 1 on it is part the Human Genome Trail. This is a depiction of chromosome 1 and is the start of the trail. If you follow the link and click on numbers it will give you a description of each chromosome.

At about 4 a flash of light caught my eye. In about 5 minutes time the rain had stopped and the sky had mostly cleared. This resulted in a lovely sunset. Here's one shot of it. This is looking back toward the MIT campus.