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Never liked the WTC. The Chinese one is better looking.

P.S. The video looks like Batman meets the Jazz Age. DiCaprio looks convincing as Gatsby. Is Toby Maguire playing Nick? Good casting. Daisy is pretty bland looking. Got the car wrong...should be a Rolls Royce, not what looked like a Duesenberg in the clip? Might not be as authentic as the Robert Redford version, but a whole lot better than the Alan Ladd iteration.
 
Great night in the city! Highly uncomfortable game, but a success!
 
Good grief, I fucking hate Baz Luhrmann. That looks like a Heineken commercial. Sickening.
 
BostonUrbEx said:
I believe the Providence imagery on Google Maps has been updated. As I recall even just a couple weeks ago, the old I-195 bridge was still visible. Now there's just a scar.

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=41.818648,-71.405082&spn=0.011818,0.022724&t=h&z=16

Feels better already!
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That whole region (RI and SE Mass) has been updated. Here's the new Veterans' Memorial bridge in Fall River and Here's the new exit 8 1/2 on Route 24. The Bridge opened last October, and the new exit opened in January or February. This stuff is very recent.

re the Veterans' Bridge. It's great because it has a separate bike path... the only one crossing the Taunton River, Narragansett, or Mt. Hope Bay. It's a big part of the plans to connect the East Bay (Providence-Bristol) to Cape Cod and the trail system there.

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Also has the deconstruction work of the highway in downtown New Bedford (Rt. 18). These are probably from mid-late November.
 
Lrfox said:
That whole region (RI and SE Mass) has been updated. Here's the new Veterans' Memorial bridge in Fall River and Here's the new exit 8 1/2 on Route 24. The Bridge opened last October, and the new exit opened in January or February. This stuff is very recent.

re the Veterans' Bridge. It's great because it has a separate bike path... the only one crossing the Taunton River, Narragansett, or Mt. Hope Bay. It's a big part of the plans to connect the East Bay (Providence-Bristol) to Cape Cod and the trail system there.

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Also has the deconstruction work of the highway in downtown New Bedford (Rt. 18). These are probably from mid-late November.
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HA! New Bedford's even got the T's brand new Rotem bi-level coaches prototypes sitting in the rail yard by the Herman Melville Blvd. docks. Those are being tested by the freight carrier down there before they head back to the factory for modification.
 
F-Line to Dudley said:
HA! New Bedford's even got the T's brand new Rotem bi-level coaches prototypes sitting in the rail yard by the Herman Melville Blvd. docks. Those are being tested by the freight carrier down there before they head back to the factory for modification.
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Is that what's sitting there in the photo?! It looks like three of them, but they don't look like locomotives from overhead.

That move was no coincidence. The trains were originally scheduled to arrive at another port. However, the city pushed to have them delivered to New Bedford to draw attention to the SCR project as well as their efforts in creating more growth in shipping. For a publicity move, it got very little media attention.
 
Anyone know where I can get a list of the terra cotta faced buildings in the Boston area? I have noticed several great examples (Filenes and along Washington Street), and would like to get photos of more examples. The recent Globe article about cast iron buildings got me interested in facings. Appreciate any help.
Thx!
 
Can Your 4 Year Old Make Google SketchUp Masterpieces??

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Jed’s Masterpiece
April 30th, 2012
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Recently, my four-year-old son Jed has been expressing interest in what I do for a living, so yesterday I decided to start teaching him the basics of Google Sketch-up (3D design software). He grasped the fundamentals very quickly and learned how to navigate with the mouse, produce forms and change their colours.

I let him muck around on it for a while by himself fully expecting that when I came out – about half an hour later – he would be outside doing something else. To my amazement he was still intensely focused on the screen. When I asked him how it was going, he called me over and showed me this:



I was absolutely staggered. Ever since Jed could play with blocks I have been amazed at his ability to create interesting forms with relatively simple things. I think it is incredible what the unadulterated minds of children can produce.



Picasso once said, ‘Every child is born an artist. The trouble is remaining an artist when you grow up’.

I look forward to seeing what else he comes up with considering this was his first ‘mansion’, as he calls it. Love your work Jed, you're amazing!!!

http://bleuscape.com.au/blog/jeds-masterpiece/
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Picked up today by ArchDaily -- Probably the youngest architect to be featured on ArchDaily! The spatial concepts are all there. Phenomenal architectural compositions!
 
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I find it rather sad that many published architects display the same spatial aptitude as a 4 year old child.



Annoys me that San Francisco has gotten so moonbat dominated that they denied this significant bit of history from making the city its permanent home port. LA doesn't have anywhere the significance in the WWII PTO as SF.

http://framework.latimes.com/2012/05/13/battleship-iowas-final-journey/#/0

Battleship Iowa’s final journey in Photos



The battleship Iowa, a storied vessel that languished for years in the U.S. Navy’s mothball fleet, began its final journey Saturday, from the San Francisco Bay to its permanent home as a museum in the Port of Los Angeles.
Four tugboats guided the Iowa under the Golden Gate Bridge at 3 p.m. and out of the bay. One of them, the 7,200-horsepower Warrior, will chug down the coast with the massive ship in tow, taking about four days to reach Southern California.
 
Lurker said:
I find it rather sad that many published architects display the same spatial aptitude as a 4 year old child.
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The opposite is actually the case. Notice how the entire composition is proportional. The 4 year old demonstrates refined concepts of space that some modern architects today don't achieve successfully. Notice how he instinctively makes a lower ground floor and proportionally heightens the level above. There are obvious programmatic correlations to this in actual design - living areas tend to be higher in section, while service and sleeping areas can be lower. These two stacked volumes are linked vertically off to the side by a double-height space, as seen in figure 3. Each volume together forms a whole, with no proportion overwhelming another.
 
Had Halsey not taken the bait or had he prudently split his force, the Iowa and New Jersey would have gone muzzle to muzzle with the Yamato at Leyte Gulf.

The photos (and thanks Lurker) do not convey the size of the Iowa and her sisters.
 
I wish a Montana Class battleship had been completed for us to visit as a museum today.
 
Yes the 4th turret would have been amazing! The Iowa/Montana 16"/50 rifle had almost the same power as the Yamato's 18.1" and the class would have clearly overmatched the Yamatos.

Too slow to keep up with a carrier group though. In a way kind of a throwback to the 1920 South Dakotas, again giving away speed for armor and endurance.

In the Washington Navy Yard there are some 2 foot thick armor plates taken from Kure left over from Yamato/Musashi/Shinano. They were given ballistic testing by the 16" AP. Swiss cheese!

But probably would have stood up to a Silkworm or even a Sunburn. Maybe even one of those transformer toys in the movie Battleship.
 
Springfield?

I'll be in Springfield this weekend to lead a brand training exercise for my company. I'm going to be spending Saturday night in town (at the Shearton).

Anyone know what I should see/do there (within walking distance of the hotel). I hear just horrible things about Springfield and I've mostly only just passed through. I'm hoping that some of you may have suggestions. Hopefully I'll have time to snag some pictures.

Really interested to see if Springfield really is a diamond in the rough or just plain rough.
 
Go to the bar at the Student Prince and get f'd up on German beer.
 
WFNX has been silent on the radio and their web player for 30 minutes. NOOOOOOOOOOO!
 
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