Boston, Shadow-Sketchers and Friday Night Noodles

Boston from across the bay.

Below --- scenes from Boston nights.

(Man chalking the shadow of a bicycle)

Friday night sights in Allston.

Park Serve Day 2010

Above: the author of the blog, city skyline in the background.

Park Serve Day 2010 at Spectacle Island!



We get there by boat.





Above: I would just like to point how, in the corner of this picture, there is a dog.
Also there are volunteers clearing out the vegetation, in this photo.




Collecting rubbish. This area used to be a landfill, and 100 - year old marbles and things still turn up once in a while.




A lot of dandelions here, around this time of year.




Above: fungi

Below: bumblebee

Fighting Boston heat and humidity

Why, this is the 70th post. I guess I should have noticed when it was 50th, and celebrated?

Anyway, Wild Ink party was success. I'll get photos up pretty soon. Meanwhile, I'm still working on my comic for Inbound no. 4. Specifically, I'm hanging around the nearby public library and Starbucks and drawing the comic. Because those places have air conditioning.

Take Friday -- I don't know what the temperature was, though I imagine it was in the 80's. Still, I've spent summers with 100+ Fahrenheit days, and it's not the heat that gets to one. Rather, it's the addition of the 80% humidity outside, if what I overheard at the library was correct. (I also overheard a lot of comments like, "Oh, I didn't know this library is so nice inside!" "I've never been here before!" This makes me think I was not the only person to seek refuge at the library that day.)

But it's kind of fun when I work on comics in libraries and cafe's, and people ask what I'm drawing.

Sketchcrawl and Zoo

Saturday Sketchcrawl with Dave M!

*Like a bar crawl, but people bring along sketchbooks and watercolors and draw whatever they see. In this case, the crawl started at the Middle East restaurant in Central and ended at Grendel's Den in Harvard Square.

** I don't think I've ever taken 7 hours to walk from Central to Harvard before.


Update! See more sketchcrawl info here!

Dave Marshall's Sketchcrawl main page
Sketchcrawl 23
Dave M's Flickr page
Dave M's facebook photos
The Cambridge Sketchcrawl on the International Sketchcrawl Homepage

Article in Wicked Local
Below: Video from Wicked Local
(You can see me at 0:17 and 1:08)

Above: Middle East.

(The restaurant.)
(Not the geographical location.)

Streetways of Central Square, outside Phoenix Landing.

Photo courtesy of Dave M.
Yes, that is a bomb. I think.
Pop by People's Republik and see it.
I don't think its active.

Below: zoo sketches!

I hope Franklin Zoo and Stone Zoo stay open.

It's almost July and I'm wearing a jacket

It's June 28 and I'm wearing a jacket because of the temperature outside.

. . . . .


And unrelated, but I just discovered that I might have mis-stapled a copy (or several copies) of "Kattan"... if you bought a copy and managed to read this blog entry, please email me and I'll do something about it!


Now here's a photo of some clouds from Cambridge River Festival two weeks ago, when the temperature and sunlight was at a level where one could walk outside and say "Ah, it's summer" with more confidence.

Anime Boston 2009

Boston, Memorial Day Weekend....




And at the Hynes, cosplayers and fans and curious people come out in hordes. Some kind of Anime event.

* Is it just me or are there at no less than three Alucards in that crowd

Below: People going crazy in the Artist's Alley, I guess?

Below -- Rorschach,

with a sushi plushie.

Below: L. With plushy bear slippers and hat.







Also, I threw together a goofy little minicomic of doodles based on Anime Boston 2008. I sold the minis at Hyun and Shelli's table in the Artist's Alley.

Below: Cover, sample insidepage, and backcover.

(Of course, those 3 hour lines are how I met new friends at Anime Boston....)

Later, I enjoyed a dinner together with Dirk T, Emily, Dave L., Dave L's charming significant other whose name eludes me, and two gentlemen who sold swords and props at the convention.


Below . . . . Sunset, walking home.

Snow. Also a lab mouse.

Boston is still cold, but at least it's snowing. (I think it's the first snow this season.)



Unrelated, but here's a graphic I was working on for freelance work.

Q: Do you know what's cold?

Answer: Boston.

Boston is cold.

Boston is far, far too cold.

Most of my thoughts this week were, "Aaaargh! Boston! Cold!"

There should be a law against Boston being this cold.



On other news... check out this new billboard spotted on Peachtree! (Georgia)