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Some of you may have noticed changes on BeChangeSeeChange.com, which was formerly the default portfolio site for Gabrielle DiPietro. All portfolio information can now be found on http://www.gabrielledipietro.com 

BeChangeSeeChange.com and thus, this blog, will become a functioning portal for articles dealing with social issues (education, politics, etc.) as the site was originally intended. 

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Gab

It’s four o’clock on Friday and the click-clack of freshly shined shoes and black leather pumps pound the pavement in four-four time.

As trains roll in and out of Suburban Station at 15^th and John F. Kennedy streets, commuters bustle by in hopes of catching an early train. Their focus is tight on the overhead digital boards reading off their train’s arrival and departure.

Five minutes late.

Their disappointment is as apparent as it is fleeting as it is quickly wavered by a thumping bass and rat-a-tat-tat of a snare drum.

“Every day I look forward to the unknown music of the Concourse,” says Mary Louise, 46, a Market East train rider. “It’s a real treat, and always a surprise.” Louise, a Comcast Center employee says she enjoys the walking from the Comcast Center through Suburban Station to the Market East rail line on her daily commute home.

The Music of Suburban Station

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According to CNN.com, “a temporary Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death in a rush of thousands of early morning shoppers as he and other employees attempted to unlock the doors of a Long Island, New York, store at 5 a.m., police said.”

Though charges have not, and reportedly will not be filed on customers who trampled the employee–customers at the front of the line were forcefully pushed by those in the back of the line, and it will be impossible to identify those in fault by surveillance footage–is it outrageous to feel that charges SHOULD be filed against corporate giant and proverbial “black friday fat cat”, Walmart? Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Thanksgiving and here’s to January 20, 2009!

After 25 years, the Philadelphia Phillies brought home a World Series win–in a quite unconventional series, a la rain delay–and became the 2008 world champions. Luckily, the young team managed to survive the celebration and the massive uncontrollable parade from 20th and Market to Citizens Bank park attracting over 2 million Philadelphia and suburban fans.

These photos were taken at Broad and Snyder where we managed to get to the second row for some heavy screaming, fog-horn blasting and confetti snowstorms.

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Created October 14th, 2008 — Top 5 Philly Halloween Attractions chosen and graphic created by Gabrielle DiPietro.

Unforgiving sidewalks and the blank faces of soaring skyscrapers can leave city dwellers longing for the solace of combing endless apple fields and raspberry bushes. For a brief afternoon, they’ll  take their minds off of the price of gas, the energy crisis, the economic devastation, and think solely about going green. 

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Written - March, 2005 (an older piece I dug up based on an actual phone-call. Think Arthur Hope - The Greatest Generation-esque)

Sitting in a diner I was quite confused when I noticed an advertisement on the placemat. I just couldn’t understand what it meant. Since the number was there and I couldn’t concentrate on anything else accept for the fact that this advertisement wrongfully spelled wonderful with an ‘A’ (wanderful) for no apparent reason…

Me: Hi I was just sitting in a restaurant and I noticed your advertisement on the placemat and I was wandering why you spelled wonderful wanderful…

Steve Forman: Well I just like to do things different that’s all.

Me: I see. But what is the significance of it?

Steve Forman: There is none I just like to do things different.

Me: Be original huh?

Steve Forman: That’s right. I like to be creative.

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