A video about the Lilypad, a creative, multi-use space located in Inman Square, Cambridge, MA. Produced by the March 2009 ZIPDOCS class at Cambridge Community Television: Eden Bereket, Heather Eades, Monika Fimpel, Brian Gale, Jessica Sutich.

This short documentary focuses on the fence surrounding Moose and Grizzly Bears' Ville, founded in the early 1990's. The fence, brightly painted with images and messages, has become an intriguing and highly visible part of the community.

This short documentary on the afterschool program Afterworks, located in Central Square, was produced by Emily Hennessy, Dave Rafkind and Ian McClennan in the January 2009 ZipDocs class. For more info on Afterworks, contact 617-661-8831 or afterworks@aol.com.

A short documentary on the afterschool program "Afterworks" located in central square. Produced by members of the January 2009 Zipdocs Class: Emiy Hennessy, Dave Rafkind and Ian McClellan. For more info on Afterworks, contact 617-661-8831 or afterworks@aol.com

Do you know of any people/places/things in Cambridge that are begging to be profiled?

We are soliciting potential topics for our Documentary Production: Zip Docs 021XX workshop. The students in Zip Docs produce a 3-5 minute documentary that is featured on CCTV's Media Map and channels. Past classes have produced pieces about 55 Magazine St., The Potluck Mural, Cambridge Co-Housing, and The Charles River White Geese.

If you have any subjects that you would like to see covered, post a comment below! And if you are interested in signing up for the Zip Docs workshop, please continue to check our class schedule to see when it will run again!

The Central Square Theater is now open! Check out this video produced by CCTV"s Documentary Production: Zip Docs 021XX class to learn all about the new theater, its history and design. The producers/students were: Haeree Chang, Nishima Chudasama, KC Forcier, Pelle Lowe, Jill Sheppard-Davenport, Vadim Timoshpolsky. Matt Landry was the instructor.

Link to Boston Globe article published July 15, 2008

I met with David Rabkin at the museum of Science on Wednesday 7/9/2008 to learn about the wind energy project that they want to start within the next year. It would involve installing an array of small wind turbines made by several manufacturers on the roof of the museum and monitoring them for a year or more. It seems that there is a major lack of hard data on the performance of small scale wind energy equipment. They would like to help change that. Right now the main source of information is from the manufactures themselves. read more...

A friend who lives on the Cambridge Riviera sent me an e-mail on Monday June 16 saying that there was another oil slick on the Charles River this morning. It extended from the Charles River Yacht Club opposite 100 Memorial Drive to some point down river from the Mirant Kendall electric plant. The Broad Canal was completely covered. This has been happening since April.

Both Cambridge Fire Department and the State Police were on the scene investigating. Mass DEP also sent a crew. I called the CFD and was told that the Mirant plant manager reported the spill at 9:28 A.M., and that they had eliminated the barges working on the Longfellow Bridge as a source. The gentleman also mentioned run-off as a possible source. This seems unlikely since the rain did not come until Monday night. read more...

To see an interactive map with pictures of locations mentioned in this post click this. 2008 Herring run map

If you go down to the south coast of Cambridge these says you can see this year's herring run in progress. It looks the best run in several years. There aren't nearly as many fish as I used to see in the 1990's, and orders of magnitude below numbers seen before the river was dammed and polluted.

If you go to the dam just upstream from Watertown Square, you can see them trying to jump the dam and swimming up the fish ladder. It is a pretty cool sight. There are hundreds of fish below the dam trying to get over. You can see them trying to swim up Laundry Brook from the footbridge on the south bank. Also present are dozens of herring gulls and cormorants taking advantage of the traffic jam. read more...