A Day in Boston

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At the moment I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Boston. As I mentioned earlier, I haven't been in Boston since I was fairly young and today I'm realizing that I should come here more often. What a great city.

This morning I went to the Museum of Fine Art, which had a fantastic and diverse collection. It's kind of fun going to galleries with no real idea of what their permanent collections contain. The MFA contains a great collection of 17th Dutch genre painting, Copley's Watson and the Shark, Millet's The Sower, Turner's The Slave Ship, and many other fine works. This afternoon I'm off to the Institute of Contemporary Art to see the exhibit "Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art".

Update: The influence of cartoons exhibit at the ICA is totally worth checking out if you're in Boston. It's a really well curated exhibit with stuff from Roy Lichtenstein, Warhol, and a number of currently working artists. One of the artists (I can't recall his name) was particularly interesting. Some guy from Chicago who no one had ever heard of, until he died and one of his friends went through his apartment and found a huge number of cartoon-like paintings and an epic illustrated book.

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Too embarassed to admit that you were in a Starbucks? (fair enough)

A great city indeed - we (another party on the same trip as Daniel) walked through the North End (albeit accidentally) and took in some fine science (IMAX 3D and OmniMax in one day).

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My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm one of the founders of Milk Inc.. For several years I was the creative director at Digg and previous to Milk, I was the director of design at Tiny Speck. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

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