With over 50 trees, a three-story water sprinkler that can also hold a movie screen, and tons of play features, Somerville's locally-designed Chuckie Harris Park represents a truly innovative reclamation of urban space for public use.
Posts Tagged ‘Photo Essays’
July 15th, 2013 - 10:02 pm § in Boston, Photo Essays
8 Photos: The Birth of Somerville’s Chuckie Harris Park
June 24th, 2013 - 11:50 am § in Boston, Photo Essays
9 Photos: The Last Blast Carnival at Revere Beach
We love Revere Beach. The first public beach in North America, it's right outside of Boston at the end of the MBTA Blue Line. This weekend, there was an added attraction: a traveling carnival. We stumbled upon the party and shot some of the action:
June 2nd, 2013 - 10:54 pm § in Boston, Photo Essays
6 Photos: SomerStreets Carnaval in Somerville
Boxers, kids on stilts, clowns and people in giant sun costumes – it was the SomerStreets Carnaval in East Somerville, Mass.
December 10th, 2012 - 7:38 am § in New York, Photo Essays
11 Photos: The 2012 NYC Beard and Mustache Competition
Civil war soldiers, prohibition era barkeeps, and a few name-brand charterers hit the stage during the third annual NYC Beard and Mustache Competition at the Warsaw in Greenpoint, New York.
November 30th, 2012 - 8:12 am § in Dignity Hunts, South Korea
13 Photos: The Women of Korea’s Jagalchi Market
Busan is said to be the San Francisco of Korea. It's a city of 3.6 million and a hub of education and commerce, but much life there remains based on the sea. That's very apparent at Jagalchi Market, the biggest fish market in Korea.
April 3rd, 2011 - 5:30 pm § in Japan, Photo Essays
The Frantic, Gruesome Heart of Tsukiji Market
The tuna auction floor of Tsukiji fish market is supposedly tourist-friendly, but we ventured into other areas to capture the behind-the-scenes action.
November 16th, 2010 - 12:45 am § in Japan, Photo Essays
The Great Tsukiji Tuna Chase
If you go into the frantic heart of Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market, you get to see so much, including this worker hauling tuna steaks (and heads) out into the daylight.
October 23rd, 2010 - 3:47 pm § in Great Plains
The Saga of the Headless Mannequins
A surreal tale of abandonment, hope lost, and an attempted return to a life that can no longer exist, as told from the point of view of Hestor and Nestor, the twin headless mannequins of Joplin, Mo.
August 16th, 2010 - 11:44 pm § in Japan
You Want to See… Japanese Baseball?
You often hear about how there are two types of baseball fans in America: the die-hards and the casual fans. We expected this to hold true in Tokyo. We were wrong. The rabidity of the fans at the Tokyo Dome proved that we sure as hell weren’t in Kansas City anymore.