Boston :: Trip 1

A first set of images from my 3 months in Boston. I worked there for Irrational Games on Bioshock Infinite.

Die ersten Bilder von Boston. Ich hab dort für Irrational Games an Bioshock Infinite gearbeitet.

Not much can be said about North Quincy. If North Quincy is to Quincy what Quincy is to Boston. A relative boring suburb. The best was that the apartment was close to the train.

North Quincy ist eine Vorstadt von Boston. Ziehmlich nichtssagend. Das Appartment in dem ich wohnte war ungefähr 20 Minuten zum Irrational Games Studio entfernt. Es lag an der S-Bahn Station zur City. Von da waren es nochmal 20 Minuten zum Zentrum von Boston.

We shared a spacious 2 bedroom apartment in the 8th floor.

American money is strange for a non American. Every note looks the same pretty much. And there are one dollar notes. So there is always a stack of money in your wallet. But you get something for 1 dollar not like in Australia.

So I bought a lot of stuff. I guess I spent well over 500 $ for clothes. The clothes are really good. You can get a designer shirt for 69 $.

I also bought a transformer pad from Asus. I wanted to get a google nexus tablet but it was sold out everywhere. Now I'm quite happy that I bought the transformer because it is a lot better.

Asus homepage

It was a surprise for me to see Boston having a lot of old buildings. You can feel the culture and history in the air here. I didn't know how much I missed it.

Pei Partnership Architects

Google Info

A good example of old and new buildings living together without problems. Sometimes I wish European architecture would focus a bit more on looking pretty than just being stylish. And I am an architect who says this.

I think there is nothing wrong to hold on to old values like harmony and symmetry. Some of the most recent buildings in Australia are interesting but they are not very pretty. I am afraid that they might become what so many buildings from the 60s to the 80s are now - ugly.

Ted movie trailer

Above: This is not an exceptional ornamented entry door for Boston. They use a lot of gold. If you play BioShock Infinite and you wonder were the artists got their inspiration from, go to Boston and you'll know.

Cory, Darren and Chris in Boston Common. We went for a movie afterwards. It might have been Ted. Which actually has been filmed in Boston. Mark Wahlberg is from here.

Frank Gehry Works

Below: M.I.T. museum.

M.I.T stands for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is were the world moves forward. In Boston a big chunk of the future is created.

Harvard is also here.

M.I.T stands for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is were the world moves forward. In Boston a big chunk of the future is created.

Harvard is also here.

Harvard Campus. It was some sort of a orientation week. The lessons had not started yet. Pretty nice here. I guess it must be really good to study here.

Geoff, Evyn, Joel and Chris. We bumped into each other by accident here.

Further down: A shop front and a corner building in Harvard.

Below: A part of the City Hall. A concrete fortress with windows.

Me and Cory near little Italy.

Google maps

Below: Hanover St. It used to be called little Germany, Irland and Poland before the Italian took over. It's basically café after restaurant after patisserie.

Boston Duck Tours.

Boston is home of the first democracy in the U.S. Here is where the first Tea Party happened. Here they started to become independent from England.