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In case anyones wondering, a developer is building a multi-unit condo building at the corners of Pawtucket & Bullocks Point Ave in Riverside. What a horrible location for this building. This is a very busy intersection during rush hour traffic so it may be difficult for residents to enter and exit this property. It's an unusual shaped lot which almost resembles a pyramid, with an apartment complex adjacent to it.
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If you wanna see something fun, check out this render on Emporis. Scroll up and down while staring at the image, and you get a weird optical illusion: it looks like the building is rotating.
My first thought on this building was "It looks like a big drill bit"... then you told us this and well... it is a Drill Bit!! Bob Villa must love it.
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Not sure what project this is.
http://www.bidclerk.com/projects/projectDe...rojectID=447262
Is it just me or does that address look suspicioulsy close to Grants Bock?
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OK... this is very OFF TOPIC but there's no place else to ask...
At the end of the month I'm going to Madison Wisconsin for 4 days to visit my brother. So, I went to look up the Madison WI thread here on UP to find out would I might get to see while I was out there. Guess what? No Madison thread.... In FACT no Wisconsin thread at all!!
What is up with that? Does no one in Wisconsin have any interest in archetechture or civic development? Anyway, I don't mean to bash on Wisconsin, but since I'm going and there is no WI forum here, I thought I would aks my RI UP friends if they have any recommendations?
Thanks for any ideas you have.
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Garris, THANKS for sharing such great photograpy. I don't know how many ways we can say it so it doesn't become trivialized. We are lucky to have such a talented guy to capture the beauty of Providence so skillfully.
Your pictures are just awesome.
The second of my "canyon" images. This one is from Weybosset which is where, if Providence ever has a tickertape parade, ours should be held (but it'll be short )...- Garris
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I realize this might be a tall order but I don't get the ProJo and I can't find on their website a copy of the picture they have on the cover of the Rhode Island section today. It's this crazy shot of a stranded car in cranston with water almost up to the windows. If someone could scan it and share it with all of us, that'd be sweet
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Here it is:
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I went to waterfire last night with a couple of friends. We walked down from Wickenden, along south main and crossed over near the Turks Head building. I must be clueless, because I never knew that they had a live jazz band and a huge dance floor set up in the middle of the intersection. There were lot's of people dancing and the whole area had a such a festive atmosphere. it was truely impressive.
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I love your photos, Garris. Mine aren't nearly as good, but I thought I'd share a few. Hope you all enjoy!
:Images:
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Hey Gusterfell, welcome! You photos are wonderful! Thanks for sharing them with us. Please don't hesitate to post more.
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Yes, and I give Providence forum members two
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Hopefully Eltron can get his gouged eyeballs fixed!! (and I hope ruchele was able to sew up that wrist!!) B)
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Yup, that's it!! Thanks for finding it. So it is a historical flag. I think that's pretty cool looking myself. I wonder how (and why) that house is flying a replica. I wonder where they got one. I actually like that flag better than our state flag...
- Garris
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So do I. I like the symbolism in our flag, but I've always thought it could use a little pizazz.
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When I got home I had the dipleasure of seeing myself on Channel 12, I hate being on TV.
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Our moderator... A CELEBRITY!!
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Hey everyone. I saw an interesting flag flying on a house while jogging today near the Brown Stadium. It was a Rhode Island flag, with the gold anchor and "Hope" on the bottom. However, it didn't have the 13 stars surrounding the anchor, but instead had a blue square in the upper left hand corner with 13 white stars in it. Very cool!
I didn't want to go up and knock on the door just to ask. However, I may do so now that I've searched the internet and come up dry as to what this is. All the current and historical flag sites online that I've found have nothing that looks like it.
Any ideas?
- Garris
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Garris - Did it look like this:
It's the flag of the Rhode Island Regiments. A quick search on google got this:
In Rhode Island the anchor has been used as a state symbol ever since 1647 which is evident in the current State flag. The anchor represents Rhode Island's seafaring activities and the thirteen stars, the original thirteen colonies. The native Rhode Islanders were among the first to join the Minutemen outside Boston. The Rhode Island Regiments served at the Battles of Brandywine, Trenton and Yorktown. This flag is preserved today in the State House at Providence, Rhode Island.
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In the Konk!? I've never heard that before
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me either... but I'M STEALING IT!!
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there was a Play it Again Sports or whatever it's called, in the Konk, not sure if it's still there. It would be in the shopping plaza where Child World and Lechemare used to be - where Taco Bell and the Seekonk 6 theaters are now, on the left when you're heading east on rt. 6.
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Child World = is now Home Goods
Leachmere!! = Now Target
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Google Maps has a "hybrid button" that I never noticed before.
You used to have to chose between Map or Satellite. But now, if you click the Hybrid option, you get the satellite view with street names (and arrows, indicating one way streets - also names of parks, golf courses, cemetaries, etc etc etc...) superimposed on it. Very Cool!
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Hey everyone,
Those photos above were the first I had edited with my new laptop computer and, on my old computer, they look quite dark on the web. My new laptop is one of those "brightscreen" laptops where the OS looks terrific, but I think it's artificially turning up the brightness to the point where I think it's making me think everything I photograph is overexposed and washed out... Or maybe my old computer's brightness was too low... Hum...
How did the Ogunquit shots look to you? Too dark? Thanks.
- Garris
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They look awesome. Excellent Job!
I noticed that all pix look much darker for me when I'm on my computer at work with a standard CRT type monitor. But when I look at them at home with my (new) flat panel LCD monitor things look much brighter and better.
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Im I the only one who thinks "Whoville" when they see this??
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Not to cut in on this conversation, but I just wanted to introduce myself to the Providence forums...
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Welcome!
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Ughh, I was showing some people some pics of the projects going up downtown this week (Intercontinental, GTECH, 110, etc.), and all I got was negativity....
One person was mad that "all that green" around Waterplace park was going away....
Another was complaining that it will be too congested.....
And my favorite, when I said that "density is good, Providence is becoming a real urban city", I got "ohhh I don't want Providence to be a real city!"....
People just don't get it. We gotta set them straight.
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I hear this stuff all the time too! I really have to restrain myself when going to Waterfire and overhearing person after person saying how "... it's a shame that they're leting GTECH ruin WaterPlace..." , and how the codo towers will make everything too congested.
Even friends of mine have talked about losing all that "GREEN" space. I have to keep reminding them that Capital Center wasn't designed to be huge open spaces but a place for economic expansion to take place (in the form of office and residential towers).
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... The state/city should have been working on this for years. If they did, we could have completed capital center years ago...
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It seems like the city & state only get involved AFTER someone threatens to move their corporation out of state. As witnessed by GTECH and now Brown & Sharp.
If I were Hasbro/CVS/APC or any other large RI corporation, I'd be threatening to move just to watch the state scramble to kiss my @ss to get me to stay!
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They were suppose to be launched from Station Park across from Prov Pl Mall. Instead they did it from Capital Hill near state property.
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I went to Station Park for the Fireworks Sunday night. I thought the display was pretty good. The State House in the foreground added an especially nice touch. Next year I'm hoping for BIGGER & BETTER, preferably with music. But for the 1st show for years in Providence, I was moderatly impressed. I NEED to start remembering to carry my damned camera more often.
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Here's some more:
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Excellents shots! Thanks to you & Mahesh, these are great.
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Yeah, this was easily the best web thing for maybe a year.. Everyone in the office was on it all week..
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Amazing... I like being able to just type in an address and the program zooms right in on it.
Thanks - gotta love those Google people.
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Carpionato just rebuilt that entire plaza only 2 yrs or so ago, and forwhatever reason it took them over 2yrs to do it. Did you see it before they re-did it? Quite an inprovement. The old McDonald's was torn down and a new one built just so they could have the drive-up window on the other side of the building. The Boston Market place & Soveign Bank are now in their own stand alone building instead of being connected to the main building as was the case before construction. Nobody seems to like strip malls, but this property is much more better than before.
Oh yeah! I remember it before. It was fugly, that's for sure!
They basically totally tore down the old strip mall. They did it in sections, so that the existing stores didn't have to close completly (but the stores had to shift a couple of times during the construction). I think that's why it took so long. It wasn't refurbish, but completly domolished and replaced at the same time. While I generally hate strip malls, this one isn't TOO bad. Except of course....
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Yeah.... that whole end needs to be reconfigured somehow. Makes you wonder what the hell they were thinking.
What is up with that? Does no one in Wisconsin have any interest in archetechture or civic development? 
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So there I was playing around with Googles "Street Views" when I found this. When did our buildings start magically floating the upper floors? (Nice trick of the light, eh?)