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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
Music that adapts to you!
I just discovered StereoMood and I am loving it! When there is no time to create the perfect playlist to fit your mood or event there is StereoMood. They have created a way to suggest songs that follow your feelings. Stereomood is the new internet radio with free playlists to suit you! Just click on … Continued
Happy Mount Saint Helen’s Eruption Day
30 years ago today….. BOOM! From Wired: The area around the mountain was devastated by the collapse of the northern flank of the mountain in what amounted to one of the largest landslides ever recorded, which buried 24 square miles of land under as much as 600 feet of debris. The nine-hour eruption blew 520 … Continued
Virginia Inn Print Ads
This is a series of print ads we create for the Virginia Inn Restaurant & Bar that were published in the Seattle Metropolitan magazine. I hear their patio calling my name on the next sunny Seattle day! Oh, how I love eating at the Virginia Inn…