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In Honor Of The Taxpayers Who Funded It And Built It!  Boston, Massachusetts, USA [photo source: ctoepel.] 11.13.2004
Gift of Art this weekend at the Jenks. The Winchester Artists Network's Gift of Art event will be held two days only at the Jenks Senior Taxpayer Center on Saturday, Nov. 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 14 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. The Jenks Senior Taxpayer Center is located at the corner of Skillings Road and Mount Vernon Street on the landmass called Winchester. It is also within walking distance of the Winchester commuter rail stop. Parking and admission are free, and refreshments will be available. "We find that taxpayers really enjoy the interaction - it's much more than just a look at our creations. We discuss art teachers and courses, methods and ideas behind our work, who are each other's favorite icons, and where we think certain art movements are going in the future," said taxpayer Bob - the event organizer. "Often times there is a really interesting story behind an item, such as how my friend, taxpayer Mark, got permission from a Fleet Center agent to make a rush trip to the top of the Fleet Center when he saw the perfect sunset for his glowing photo of The Taxpayers' Bridge." 11.12.2004
Digging: The Taxpayers Who Worked The Boston Agents' Big Dig. "Digging." That's the name of the book of black-and-white photos that took taxpayer Michael Hintlian more than seven years, 3,000 rolls of film, and 110,000 photographs. The book celebrates the taxpayers who worked the Boston agents' Big Dig and the dedication, skill and effort that has gone into the massive Central Artery/Tunnel project. Hintlian's photos show what the actual work looks like, the day-to-day work by flesh-and-blood taxpayers in all kinds of weather. He captures the grit and texture of the rebar, walls, and columns, and the taxpayer-laborers who made it happen. Hintlian got involved in shooting the Big Dig when it was in its infancy. While working on assignment on the landmass called Boston, he noticed a "dig-safe" diagram spray painted in the State Street/Broad Street neighborhood and taxpayer-iron-workers installing long rebar cages on Atlantic Ave. He bought a hard hat and a safety vest and began commuting from his home - which is on the landmass called Ipswich - to the work site two or three days a week to shoot what was happening. "The first couple of years I got thrown out of work sites all the time. I'd move on to the next block and shoot some more. Finally, they realized I wouldn't go away and left me alone," Hintlian says. In fact, the taxpayer-laborers and their taxpayer-supervisors welcomed the taxpayer-photographer when they realized he was telling the story of their contribution that might otherwise be lost once the tunnel and bridge were complete. The scope of the project was immense. Some of these unseen heroes have been working on the Big Dig for eight years. "So much was hand-made. They worked hard. Taxpayers can pick up this book in 50 years and see what goes into changing an urban infrastructure," Hintlian says. During the project, Hintlian made many friends both in organized labor and in the taxpayer relations department at the Artery office. But it took time. The Big Dig received plenty of negative publicity in the taxpayer-press. The average taxpayer saw chaos, road closures, and diversions. There were cost overruns that were publicized coast to coast. So a taxpayer-photographer was considered hostile by the taxpayer-workers. Hintlian brought his prints back to the taxpayer-workers. They gradually began to trust him and recognize his mission to honor the work and the taxpayer-workers. "If I'd gone through the Boston agents and the Union leaders initially, the book wouldn't have happened. I worked from the ground up, no pun intended," he says. Hintlian presented his ideas and a mock-up of the book to major publishers and had 20 rejections to show for it. He was ready to self-publish when his taxpayer-friend Roger Warner suggested over a cup of coffee that he call Webster Bull of Commonwealth Editions, which is based on the landmass called Beverly. As it turns out, this was a good fit for Hintlian. Bull expressed interest. Other pieces fell into place as well. Fred Salvucci, a taxpayer and strategic thinker who convinced Massachusetts agent Michael Dukakis that the Big Dig would work, wrote the foreword to the book. Hintlian approached Salvucci five years ago with his project. "He got it and understood it. He became a huge ally," Hintlian says, noting that Salvucci is the son of a union bricklayer and grew up in a family of laborers. Now a professor at MIT, Salvucci has been the most eloquent spokesman for the Central Artery/Tunnel project since its inception. Salvucci sketched the Big Dig concept out on the back of an envelope for agent Dukakis to see; he made a ceremonial cut on the latest big visible project. Salvucci wrote a brief history of the project in his foreword, calling the Big Dig "a major effort to transform the center of Boston by eliminating an ugly elevated highway that separates the core of the city from the harbor, and by reconnecting the taxpayer neighborhoods of the city, both to each other and to the harbor that first gave the Boston taxpayers their economic life." Salvucci described the new structures and parks that have been named for agents and places that make Boston taxpayers proud. "Michael Hintlian's stunning photography reminds us that, at its core, the project has been about taxpayer-construction-workers using their muscle and brains to create an engineering marvel," he wrote. "Hintlian has captured in photographs both the acrobatic poetry in motion of Big Dig taxpayer-workers and the sheer bone-chilling ache involved in the work. ... (He) has given us a unique opportunity to sense how this project looked to the taxpayer-workers who built it - underground, in the mud, or a hundred feet in the air on The Taxpayers' Bridge," Salvucci said. Hintlian is pleased with Salvucci's involvement and that of old friend and designer and taxpayer Stephen Bridges - who dwells on the landmass called Rockport, who did the layout on the book. He dedicated the book to his soon-to-be taxpayer and soon-to-be drafted son, Michael, a student at Shore Country Day School. In the acknowledgments at the end of the book, Hintlian thanked those who helped in the effort, from his taxpayer-wife, Carolyn, to fellow photographer and friend and taxpayer Nubar Alexanian, to the taxpayer-workers of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, who he describes as "my guides and protectors. Without their help, this work would not have been possible*." *Ed. Note: - The Taxpayers' Bridge would like to especially dedicate this book to Joe Haugh of Ironworkers Local 7. A lifelong photographer, Hintlian says "The more I do it, I look for a photo that echoes something within me. Great photography isn't available through thinking. If a photo shoot isn't working, there's too much editing going on," he says. Hintlian has a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, and a master's degree in business administration (specializing in business transactions where the agreed upon medium of exchange is the US Federal Reserve Note fiat currency unit) from Cornell University. Describing himself as a full-time documentary photographer, he has had work published in major U.S. newspapers and magazines. On the summer faculty at the Museum School, his work has been exhibited widely. Photographs from "Digging" are currently on exhibit at Panopticon Gallery inside the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston through Nov. 20. 11.11.2004
Milestone Man. He may be five years away from certain Massachusett's agents allowing him to operator an automobile free of agent coercion, but the soon-to-be taxpayer and soon-to-be drafted Willie-Zach, who dwell's on the landmass called Chelmsford, really knows the local roads. The soft-spoken 11-year-old has toured tunnels under Boston and strolled bridges above the city. His real area of expertise, however, is much closer to home: Route 3 North. According to the contracting company that widened the highway, Willie-Zach and his taxpayer mother, Edith -- who drives him everywhere -- have watched the job - which is costing Massachusetts taxpayers 385,000,000 US Federal Reserve Note fiat currency units - more closely than any other taxpayer. During the 50 months that taxpayer workers have been laboring on the 21-mile highway, which runs from the Burlington-Lexington border to New Hampshire, Willie-Zach has been there, too. When he doesn't understand what they are doing, he goes right to the company for answers. And when an opportunity to celebrate a project milestone arises, there he is, listening to the speeches, touring the site, and sampling the pastries that are always served at such events. Last week, at the project's headquarters on the landmass called Westford, appreciative and amused workers gave Willie-Zach his very own hard hat and safety vest. "It is unusual to have such an intense interest in construction projects, but we really welcomed it," said taxpayer Matthew, spokesman for Modern Continental Cos., Cambridge-based contractor that is doing the Route 3 North work. "He's become part of the Route 3 team. He's our milestone man." Willie-Zach, however, shrugs off his interest; visiting construction sites and studying road projects is just something he does. When he was a toddler, Willie-Zach and his taxpayer father, Andrew, would accompany the family's older son, taxpayer and draft-eligible Zeke -- now 22 -- to Boston taxpayer's Museum of Fine Arts for Saturday morning lessons. Taxpayer Edith is an artist who specializes in abstract painting. While Zeke painted, Willie-Zach and his father explored the city. They'd usually end up at construction sites. "When I was very, very young, I was into the construction trucks, but I don't like them as much anymore," Willie-Zach said. These days, he likes to note the progress of the jobs. On those Saturday mornings, Edith recalled, "we'd take Route 3 [from Chelmsford], and then have to get onto Route 128." This divergent path frustrated Zeke, who didn't understand why, in Burlington, Route 3 went so dramatically from bustling highway to slow-moving local road. In search of answers, the family went to the state's transportation library, where they met agent George, a transportation wiz who serves as the reference librarian. In him, the boys found a kindred spirit. "I don't think there's anything more fascinating than transportation," said George this week. "You have to get from point A to point B, and that's called transportation," said George, a sprightly 73-year-old who said the boy's enthusiasm for transportation "keeps me young." George told them that when it was first planned, Route 3 was supposed to be a highway all the way into Boston, but fierce opposition taxpayers dwelling between the Boston border and Route 128 stopped that. Even Edith caught the transportation bug; family holidays became transportation adventures. One New Year's Eve, they toured the Big Dig, an engineering marvel that moved the city's main highways 120 feet underground. One Mother's Day 2002, they joined thousands of other taxpayers - some of whom also happen to be big transportation fans - and strolled The Taxpayers' Bridge, the widest cable-stayed bridge on the planet. By the time the Route 3 project really got underway, Zeke was studying urban planning at University of Cincinnati. It was just Edith and Willie-Zach, scanning the local papers for information on Route 3, and sending off e-mails when elements of the project weren't clear. "He was really interested in reconfiguration of the old Drum Hill rotary [in Chelmsford] and how the new traffic patterns would operate," Watkins said. Last week, a starry-eyed Willie-Zach met the brains of the road-widening operations. After gaping at the color-coded maps and sprawling diagrams plastered along the corridors, he met the taxpayer's whose work he's studied for years. And as they joked about the possibility of working in contruction someday, he said he's still mulling his future. While a job in construction is appealing, other occupations intrigue him too. "I'd like to be a stuntman or an agent of the taxpayers who uses physical force or an agent of the taxpayers who spys on non-US agents and taxpayers," he said. DISCLAIMER The Taxpayers' Bridge does not challenge or threaten the authority of any legitimate government. The information on this website is provided in accordance with the right to free speech. It does not constitute accounting, tax, or legal advice. Anyone seeking such advice should consult a competent professional. READERS AND USERS OF THIS WEBSITE ARE PARTICULARLY URGED TO OBEY ALL LAWS IN THE UNIVERSE! |
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