Photo by Trey Ratcliff, check out his Stuck in Customs photosteam on Flickr “Perpetual peace is only found in the graveyard”—Philosopher Immanuel Kant What are your plans for Halloween weekend? Maybe a trip to a scenic graveyard? Trails.com recommends 4 favorite graveyard hikes around the world, just in time for Halloween. Wherever your weekend takes … Continued
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Less is More: Tubeless Toilet Paper
All things can be improved. Toilet paper first found its way to the roll in the late 1800s. From USA Today: The 17 billion toilet paper tubes produced annually in the USA account for 160 million pounds of trash, according to Kimberly-Clark estimates, and could stretch more than a million miles placed end-to-end. That’s from … Continued
Alfstad Capital Brand Identity Design, Part 1
Alfstad Capital, is a boutique investment firm who works with community banks to manage their fixed-income portfolios. They hired Blank Space to create a new brand identity design system. The identity design and our sketches are posted below. Thanks for reading. As always, we welcome any constructive criticism.
Pyramid Scheme
Cool story from NYT about the people in the the pyramid. I have been curious what the inside was like since I first moved to Pioneer Square. There are some great pics on the NYT’s slide-show. It has to be the sweetest apartment in the city. And it comes with a lot of history. “It … Continued
Ink on Glass? A New Look at Photo Printing
Turn your digital photos into glass. Upload your favorite photo to Fracture and see the results of printing ink onto the back of shatter-proof glass. I’d love to see one in person. It’s a unique way to simplify the printing and framing process. It may even inspire me to print some photos!
In B Flat
A very cool site and idea, unless all the video clogs up your tubes. The music reminds me a lot of one of my favorite bands, The Books. From the site: In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from … Continued
Go See This Art Right Now
I’m serious. I was pulled in from across the street, by a sculpture that appeared to be dancing, in a jerky stop motion kind-of-way. The photos and the video of artist Casey Curran‘s work doesn’t do it justice. Trust me. The Sacred and Profane is worth the trip to Gallery IMA in pioneer square. I’m … Continued
Art Creates Future Law
Cool mini-doc about remix culture called Walking on Eggshells. Definitely worth watching, but it is worth just listening if you can’t spare 24 minutes of full attention. Lots of cool ideas and quotes. Walking on Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age from Brendan Schlagel on Vimeo. Researching a quote from Thomas Jefferson led me … Continued
A New Space for Your Desktop Mountaintop
Are your storage boxes in your office space? Or part of your living space? Here is a fun way to spruce them up. Desktop Mountaintop, by artist Jason Urban is part of the Repercussions: Tides and Time exhibit at Soil Art Gallery in Pioneer Square through October 31st.
How many hangers does it take to make art?
I was pleasantly surprised to discover this tshirt sculpture, by Jiho Park of Park Place Studio in the 619 Building. It is constructed with white hangers and tape. (I have no idea how many hangers.) It makes smile, as I fondly remember our own Tshirt is Art days. Jiho Park is a programmer at Amazon … Continued