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
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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…
These adorable snails are getting hitched!
Our good friends Phil and Lauren are getting married this summer. Lauren loves snails and gave us a drawing with snails and ferns. Riley transformed the drawing into a playful wedding invitation. They were silk screened with three colors on Pop Tone Lemon Drop from French Paper. I think they turned out incredibly cute and … Continued
PaperCutWorks
I love maps. I dig unique paper projects. I have a thing for anything cut with an exacto knife. Since I also love Seattle it seems PaperCutWorks was made for me. I heart homemade, a great blog about all things homemade, is doing a special PaperCutWorks givaway. (Deadline for entry in May 19th.) Each of … Continued
Giant Whale Sculptures in the City!
I was walking down Broad Street in Philadelphia when I turned and saw these life size gray whales. Amazing. The artist Shay Church thinks about the long daunting migrations gray whales must survive each year. He describes his wet clay installations as migrations interrupted. Just when you think you have seen everything you come across … Continued