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Live SHIFT; Here Dylan

needs people, needs shadows, needs more ephemerality etc... damn pitas, got to work. What IF...People gathered on the sidewalk, to look up at the sky, or at their neighbor next to them, between an intersection and a parking lot, on the south end of Boston? What if, I parking lot, a billboard, an intersection, and a sidewalk were contained into a single intimate space, a place for gathering, looking, learning?

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Live SHIFT

....perspective finagling

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skype convo

[11/21/09 4:41:47 PM] Dylan Thomas: what chat did you mean?
[11/21/09 4:42:16 PM] Dylan Thomas: ok.
[11/21/09 4:42:20 PM] Dylan Thomas: you make the image.
[11/21/09 4:42:23 PM] Dylan Thomas: um
[11/21/09 4:42:35 PM] Dylan Thomas: there's a lot of open space
[11/21/09 4:42:37 PM] Dylan Thomas: parking lots
[11/21/09 4:42:42 PM] Dylan Thomas: voids in the sky
[11/21/09 4:42:47 PM] Dylan Thomas: but not on the ground
[11/21/09 4:43:02 PM] Dylan Thomas: cultural institutions that need to be linked
[11/21/09 4:43:12 PM] Dylan Thomas: we need something that connects different programs
[11/21/09 4:43:29 PM] Dylan Thomas: defining space/program nodes
[11/21/09 4:43:47 PM] Dylan Thomas: roofs
[11/21/09 4:43:50 PM] Dylan Thomas: walls
[11/21/09 4:44:07 PM] Dylan Thomas: maddie said we need a space for people to gather
[11/21/09 4:44:14 PM] Dylan Thomas: SPACES FOR THE TRANSITION
[11/21/09 4:44:21 PM] Dylan Thomas: park.
[11/21/09 4:44:23 PM] Dylan Thomas: walk.
[11/21/09 4:44:27 PM] Dylan Thomas: enter.
[11/21/09 4:44:30 PM] Dylan Thomas: (building)
[11/21/09 4:45:09 PM] Dylan Thomas: four floating scrim planes
[11/21/09 4:45:18 PM] Dylan Thomas: sometimes suspended from a billboard
[11/21/09 4:45:45 PM] Dylan Thomas: the billboard could be kept blank, because the idea is realized
[11/21/09 4:47:15 PM] temples: http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=boston&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Boston,+MA&gl
[11/21/09 4:48:47 PM] Dylan Thomas: http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/stairsquare.jpg
[11/21/09 4:52:22 PM] Dylan Thomas: spaces that are seperate become unified under the civic house (floating box)
[11/21/09 4:52:48 PM] Dylan Thomas: unified pathways?
[11/21/09 4:54:47 PM] temples posted files Picture 1.png, Picture 2.png, Picture 3.png, Picture 4.png, Picture 5.png, Picture 6.png, Picture 7.png, Picture 8.png to members of this chat
[11/21/09 4:55:51 PM] Dylan Thomas: not literal pathways, but gathering nodes that lead you from one cultural hotspot to another
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How the f/// did we miss this?!!!

Between Madison Meggs, You, Virginia Black and Andrew Temples
Andrew Temples November 20 at 2:37pm Reply
http://shiftboston.org/
Easy-ass comp and cheap to enter!
SHIFTboston
Source: shiftboston.org
The SHIFTboston Ideas Competition 2009 is calling on all architects, artists, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers and anyone else to submit their most provocative ideas for the City of Boston ...
Madison Meggs November 20 at 3:04pm Reply
Ooh, let's do it.
Dylan K. H. Thomas November 20 at 3:07pm
first chance to use multi local? maddie can tell us what boston needs.
Andrew Temples November 20 at 4:09pm Reply
Ain't no time boo. But good thing the whole point is that there is not point. Maddy, Look at the sites real quick and figure out what you'd like to happen there "what if this happened in boston".
Madison Meggs November 20 at 5:41pm Reply
I'm at work and this requires more thought than I can give right now, but my first inclination is to go with site #3. It's a series of bridges that connect downtown/financial district with South Boston, which kind of looks like Brooklyn.
Lots of BRICK and semi-brokedown. It has the children's museum and the Institute for Contemporary Art. There's also the Harpoon Brewery (which is awesome).
There's some cool shit, but it's hidden--starting point???
Madison Meggs November 20 at 5:42pm Reply
also, in general, Boston needs an artsy meeting place, kind of like the Bean in Chicago, but less tacky.
There's lots of design schools, and the Boston Center for Design, but there's no real touristy design spots that culture can revolve around.
Andrew Temples November 20 at 7:59pm Reply
ok, cool. It need a CHARGED VOID! How to charge a void, go!
Rambla style = crazy shit, prostitutes, human statues and bad food.
A Piazza! Space, infinite space!!!
What about a new Urban Coney Island? Hot dogs, and Funnel cakes.
Idk
Andrew Temples November 20 at 7:59pm Reply
Thanks Madison
Madison Meggs November 20 at 9:33pm Reply
another possible concept: using netting/screening to span the bridges and give hidden meaning to the views to South Boston?
I also read on the "shift" blog that much of the construction down their has been post-poned, and there is an ongoing "competition" for artists and designers to re-imagine these empty, halted spaces.
we could use these bridge span images to not only point to existing destinations in South Boston, but to trick the eye into imagining what COULD be in these empty holes left behind by the recession.
Not going to lie, I was totally inspired by Christo in this idea (his partner/wife Jean-Claude just passed away yesterday)
so many ideas! I'm getting excited! sexually.
Andrew Temples November 21 at 3:05pm Reply
OH SHIT! This Is good madison! WE should so do this!. What if.... LITERALLY FILL IN THE BLANK!
This kind of idea could be done really fast too. SCRIM
Dylan???!!>!?
Dylan K. H. Thomas November 21 at 12:33pm
why are we not using the blog for this?
i love all these ideas. are the boards in a position to appear as if they are in front of the area of concern? because i also love the thought of making an image and when you walk on this bridge it's like. look what could be behind this... Continue