Joel
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I think probably the easiest one to describe is our last public piece in Boston, which was called Lost House. The premise of the project started with an abandoned piece of land in Boston. There was originally a house built by a woman in the mid 1800's, which was very rare. Sometime in the sixties, it went abandoned when the area went through an economic collapse. It's now owned by the city. We found it to be almost a crime against the area, that the government was waiting on a developer to find value in it before actually doing anything with it. We fell in love with the site and decided on a 'ghost version' of a house. It took on some of the aspects of the original house that was there, but then also tried to make it as unfamiliar as possible. Essentially, it looked like a bunch of columns that branched out as trees and then connected to other columns and that when put together made a canopy that suggested a roof line of a house. As you walked around, it would change form because from the front it had the image of a house, but as you moved around it looked occasionally just more like trees and these branching structures. Inside the middle, we had a simple set of benches so that people could come and now actually use the site.
Danny
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I like to coach my son's baseball team. I'm assistant coach. We're practicing on the same field where I used to play which is crazy to think about. The thing I miss most about baseball, is not playing the game, it's the camaraderie. It's hard to explain to a seven-year-old, but I just want him to have fun and make those friendships too.
Bekki
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PKD or Polycystic Kidney Disease and basically it's a genetic disorder. It effects over 600,000 Americans and it's a quiet disease that nobody really knows about. It results in cysts forming on the kidneys which effect their function. Three years ago we, he and I moved to Tampa for two months and he had a kidney transplant and did his recovery there. Thank goodness he's super healthy now. And my brother is a hero because he donated his kidney to my husband.
Diane
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My husband and I had a fight at a party because I was trying to boss him around a dance floor. We left the dance floor because we couldn't agree on what to do, because neither of us knew anything. So, I got him a gift of a single dance lesson with me. That was 15 years ago. And that led to lesson after lesson, after lesson. The thing I didn't understand at the time was that in ballroom dancing, the man is in charge. It's sort of the last bastion of gender inequality. I didn't know anything about this.
Chris
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Oh, wow. I became a fireman when I was 24 years old, so the list is really long. Mostly, I've learned how to deal with people and different personalities. You're living with seven other people, every third day. Whether you like it or not, they become your family. Guys on the fire department are super interesting. They're from all walks of life. Some guys are really good financially, some guys are really good with building. I met a girl the other day who worked at Dunkin Donuts before the fire department. There's just such a large spectrum of personalities and backgrounds that you learn a lot.