Schedule > Meeting #3 (April 18, 2002)

Description:

During this meeting weÃll be taking a walking tour with Steve Kluskens from an organization called Boston By Foot. This œUnderground Boston” tour will focus on the important structures that lie beneath the cityÃs surface (the subway system, the Big Dig project, the water system, etc), and the history of how these structures have changed over time.‹

Boston is a unique city because so much of its land has been filled in to increase the size of the city, and now millions of tons are being dug out again to make room for the Big Dig. To find out more about the Big Dig, check out this website before next week: http://www.bigdig.com

Neighborhood Exercise:

Your homework for this week and next week is to take an entire roll (24 exposures) of film in your neighborhood. Be creative with this exercise and try to take as many interesting pictures as you can. Experiment with not only what you photograph but how, and try to find some parts of the neighborhood youÃd like others to see.‹

The following exercises will help you get started, and then you make up your own style of taking pictures:

• Find five places that you think are good or beautiful and you wish would stay the way they are

• Find five places that you think are bad or ugly and you wish would be changed.

• Find five places that are changing or have recently changed in some way.

• Find a few place that you've never noticed before, or sections of your neighborhood you've never walked through Feel free to be creative with your photos, and feel free to go outside your neighborhood if you think of other places to explore.

•Pick an area outside your house that is 10 ft. x 20 ft. and take 10 pictures.

Examples:‹ your back yard, your front yard, a nearby playground or park

•Take 10 pictures from the height of a dogÃs eye view.

•Pick a shape and take pictures of that shape wherever it appears in your neighborhood

Examples: squares, circles, boxes, triangles.

•Pick a type of architecture and see how many examples you can find in your neighborhood.

Examples: doors, porches, front yards, fences, street corners, etc.‹

•Find something characteristic or unique about your neighborhood and find as many examples of as you can (be creative).

Examples: flower gardens, people sitting on the steps, kinds of graffiti, places kids hang out

•Look up an adjective or noun in the dictionary and try to take pictures of places or that‹ fit that word.

Examples:‹ sad, happy, passion, friendly, wild, lost, hot, soothing, boring‹ etc.

•Go into the bathroom for 20 minutes and take 10 pictures