Why so many perfect games?
Is it because the steroid era has come to an end? Do the pitchers have the upper hand now that all the artificial beefcakes are gone? That’s my completely uneducated guess.
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Birds Shifts Anatomically Towards the Reptilian
Quirky explorations of nature always pull me in, and Justin Gibben’s newest watercolor drawings Hydras and Basilisks definitely fits the bill. Hydras and Basilisks opens on Seattle’s First Thursday Art Walk at Punch Gallery in Pioneer Square. Meet the artist at the opening reception from 5-8pm on June 3rd. Justin Gibbens received his BA in … Continued
The Element—How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
The Element, offers insights about the importance of discovering your own true best self. Author, Ken Robinson provides a worthy critique on our education system. Public education was created in the interested of industrialism and in the image of industrialism which puts relentless pressure on students to conform. This conformity drains our creativity and prevents … Continued
Folklife Marks the Start of Summer in Seattle
First photo is courtesy of larry&flo (Larry Miller) on Flickr, the other two are courtesy of pictoscibe (Peter Prehn) on Flickr. Northwest Folklife Festival starts on Friday at Seattle Center! Folklife is a pleasant reminder that the world is bigger than Seattle, and Seattle is bigger than it seems. —Andrew Matson, The Seattle Times. Riley … Continued
Enhance Your Online Presence
Freelancers and business owners are consistently trying to make a name for themselves. We are all on the Internet to some capacity, but are we using our online tools to their highest potential? Here are some recommendations we can all do to enhance our presence on the Internet. Some tips are quick and easy. Other … Continued
W3C WHATWG HTML5
HTML5 is coming and no there is not a space between HTML and 5. Check out A Brief History of Markup, for possibly the most amusing history of various markup acronyms ever (I know it’s a low bar). You’ll learn how we got to HTML5 without ever having HTML1, that XHTML is much more eXtreme, … Continued
The Wonder Hospital at SIFF
We saw the ‘Animation for Adults’ series of shorts at SIFF on Friday and it was excellent. I am a huge fan of shorts at film festivals. It feels like you get more for your money, I think we saw a dozen shorts. Also, you don’t have to worry about sitting through some 3hr-long-gut-wrenching-crap-pile. My … Continued
Seattle Crawfish
We were planning on having a big ol’ crawfish boil for Memorial Day at Golden Gardens. Alas, I discovered today that local Lake Washington crawfish season doesn’t get going until the end of June. I could order them from LACrawfish.com, but even with Saturday delivery they would probably all be dead by Monday. Oh well, … Continued
Time & Tide: The Waterways of Puget Sound
A solo exhibition and discussion with the artist Emma Jane Levitt opens today Friday, May 21st at The Center for Wooden Boats. Time & Tide examines how each of us experience and develop a sense of place. It explores how water interacts with land, with people, and with itself. Emma describes the Puget Sound body … Continued