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I don't know Maddy. What's your render scale? Mine is confusion at the moment. Call me back. I'll be up late. 

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Pedestrian movement out of the area, and zones showing the dead space. Works, no/yes?

A little addendum to the last note session: this area is NOT, I repeat NOT the "South End." This is the portion of a three-neighborhood section of town called "South Boston", or if you prefer, "Southie." The bottom half of our peninsula is one of these neighborhoods, but the top half (the area we should be concentrating on) is still just shipping, hotels, and parking.

With the dotted lines I was trying to insinuate that the primary flux of traffic is leaving the area, not entering it. Do you think it works?

Obviously some labels need to be put on, even for those familiar with Boston.

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2nd shift-Boston brainstorm

Second try.

Here are the notes from the initial conversation between me and Temps:

2 big renders
bank of people
1 time lapse band
1 sectional band instructional


literal captions
san serif on captions

acrylic in tension?

Captions are important
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Vague, right?

We talked about the ultimate idea just being how to make dead spaces be not so dead. In doing this, we hope to increase pedestrian circulation from the Financial District into the South End, all the way to the port. The area offers a series of disconnected zones--dense brick studios > parking lots galore > convention center and hotels for those coming to Boston just to sit in their hotel lobbies and have meetings > shipping central.

I'm making a density map out of the South End and using it to call attention to the enormous amount of dead spaces, specifically parking lots. There are a LOT.

Our scrim boxes will entice from across the bridge as odd boxes on poles and trees, acting aslarge urban lamps.

As you move from the Summer/Congress Street bridges inward and move past the denser blocks of brick buildings, you move into a zone where you can either continue crossing the bridges to come to the Convention Center, or walk beneath the bridges to what amounts to a half a mile of parking lots.

Larger scrim boxes will be suspended above the parking lots, not so much as physical areas of congregation (which the rest of the scrim boxes are) but acting more like guideposts for continuing the journey toward the port.

Continuing from the parking lots is a more dense area full of hotels for professionals visiting the Financial District. Or the Convention Center. Or the World Trade Center. The hotel area iseconomic holy ground, but there is no pedestrian traffic. The few outdoor areas are sad.

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This is getting too specific, but whatever. Temples and I have configured what elements we want on the board and who would be the best to realize them.

We want two very large renders showing the scale/population density/materiality of the scrim boxes. The title of our project should pose a provocative question, and these renders should be our visceral, visual reaction. But, they're also kind of just eye candy.

With these renders, we're going to concentrate not only on the scrim boxes, but also on the rendering the people--physically and emotionally. There will be "ticker tape" lines of dialogue spanning the renders, acting as thoughts and reactions of our population. These should represent what we're trying to accomplish with the scrim boxes--stop and smell the roses, ask your neighbor what these fucking ugly boxes are, whatever. The act of conversing/socializing is important, not the quality.

In addition to these renders, we'd like to make a film-strip of an area/multiple areas throughout the day, showing the change and increase in population density and also the physical qualities of the scrim and how our lighting system can change, or react (if we wanted to do motion-sensor leds).

In tandem with that film strip, we'd like to develop another film strip that mimics the action of the first, but deconstructs it as a series of elements, ending with what we would imagine is a construction-material diagram. The first would be rendered with photos, this one might simply be a collection of lines--perhaps the city skyline and then the elements we're bringing out, ie. showing just the scrim box as an element, showing how it's hung (via tension with local objects), etc. This diagram would show the ease with which the system could be mounted, because let's face it, the South End is broke as a joke.

So in the end, here's our final schedule/task list:

TEMPLES:

1 large render with people and lighting (night or day, pick one)

filmstrip 1 showing daylighting, density

DYLAN:

filmstrip 2 showing elements, construction--talk to Temples about this, I don't know if I did a great job explaining above

MADISON:

density map with scrim placement (can be adjusted, of course)

1 large render with people and lighting (night or day, whichever one Temples didn't pick)

And then we'll do/edit the write-up together. Or Temples and I can do it.

Temples and I want to have prelim renders done by tomorrow so we can match the styles and everything. The final board can be pieced together on Thursday night--it's not due until Friday at 4.

I feel like I'm missing some things, so let me know. This is going to be good. I hope.

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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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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

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In Progress

It's a work in progress, but the video version of Coffee Calendar will include a little something to the left and to the right (along with other broke electronics). A printed calendar is in the works with Ros-writing and Soaking Lima Beans.  Coffee Calendar (version Beta) on display in Hendrix, Friday, October 16th from 10am until 5pm. 

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