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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:21:09 -0800

CASE-REAL | Works | EK AMP

heimaey: jorge-regula:

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:13:05 -0800

heimaey:

jorge-regula:

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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:50:29 -0800

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:23:25 -0800

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Good Morning 2/19/10

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:57:00 -0800

Good morning, I’m off to the UK next week so no news is good news. If time permits I’ll keep you informed of the Brighton scenery. Until then, here are three projects that are blowing my mind, on my radar, and inspiring:

This first is Annie Musselman’s Finding Trust project. She is a Seattle based photographer that recently showed the work that she shot while volunteering at the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Project. Mind blowing stuff (navigate through her site to the Personal section linked from the bottom of the page and click Finding Trust). Check them out, the photos are amazing and the work they do is magical.

The second project is Take Part’s awareness campaign. Take Part offers a platform for social organizing around causes. They are making one PB&J for a homeless person for each person that follows them on twitter. Delicious, rewarding and easy way to make a small impact by clicking that follow button, try it.

Lastly, All-ages Music Project, a spin-off from The Vera Project, has been working for years to bring all-ages music and art venues to the other 50 49 (duh) states. They are in the running for $50,000 from Pepsi’s refresh challenge. I challenge you to help keep them in the running by clicking a link, once a day, for the rest of the month.

That’s all, except that Spring is early here in Seattle and some news is expected to return in March.

Sample of Annie’s work:

Good Morning 2/17/10

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:02:48 -0800

Good morning, eat some lunchtime comics…

An awesome book/comic archive here. Example:

This is a rad one about a dangerous beard I found on Flickr.

Of course, XKCD (be sure to read the alt text):

And there is this from Jessica Levey:

That’s all. Except for this, it’s not a comic, but it is a funny drawing by Irana, a favorite illustrator:

Supposedly...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:43:00 -0800

…you can reply to my posts if you are a tumblr user that I follow. This is a new beta feature. Does it really work? Whatevs.

One of my favorite NW artists. “Mater Matrix Mother and...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:40:10 -0800

One of my favorite NW artists.

“Mater Matrix Mother and Medium” installation, Seattle 2009 (via mandymama)

Good Morning 2/16/10

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:54:00 -0800

Good morning, it’s technology Tuesday I guess. I just got a Kindle and am getting the hang of it, but the iPad seems strange to me, probably because I don’t have an iPhone…Steve Jobs knew people are attached to keyboards, with the iPhone he has retrained everybody to use a tiny screen with tap-it-out screenboards. Now iPads seem like the most obvious and greatest thing evar, due to his foresight and restraint from diving into unknown markets without preparing them first. Dudes like Jobs are way ahead of us, and cleverly training our behaviors to adapt to, and thus adopt, their wares. I prefer to keep it small and feel that mobile projection has much cooler potential, so the Samsung Beam caught my eye this week. It’s an Android projector phone. NICE. Can’t wait for the hyperspeed Google-net to come to Seattle so I can stream projected movies while riding the light rail. Mayor McGInn’s already got the ask in for the fat pipe.

As software and hardware continues to develop, these items seem like lame trinkets. We’ve all heard of the robot being developed to haul old folks around their homes (yay future!). Now a robot can draw a nice picture of you too.

Robots are even making more robots (yikes?).

That’s all, except for the fact that the Robot Wars have begun.

(hat tip to Slog)

Paris Maquis was the a-side of Metal Urbain first single on...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0800

Paris Maquis was the a-side of Metal Urbain first single on Rough Trade records issued in december 1977. (via John Robb)

Do want remixes.

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:19:31 -0800

Do want remixes.

Maybe not web design...?

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:06:00 -0800

Apparently it was a hiccup, but funny no less.

LINK

I miss Muji. I used to save my pounds for it while living in...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:00:00 -0800

I miss Muji. I used to save my pounds for it while living in London. Hopefully I’ll have time to stop in next week.

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Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:36:20 -0800

Vote for All Ages shows, a click a day=$50k payday...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:23:00 -0800

I need your help. If there is one thing you do today, tomorrow, and for the rest of the month, once a day, on the internet, it must be to click on this *brilliant!* link. Log in with via, FB connect and BLAMMO, click to vote, you’ll see a thank you pop up, and done. This is a Pepsi challenge. They are giving away 50 grand and the All-ages Movement Project is in the top ten and *MUST* stay there. Let’s help Pepsi take karmicly (sp?) corrective action for all the corn syrup they’ve peddled into our collective cellular structure.

As the AMPers say: “Let’s prove that a people-powered campaign of hip-hop activists, DIY punks, youth organizers, underground musicians and fans, and their friends and families can unite to wrestle some cash away from the fizzy-sugar-water industry!”

Thanks for clicky-linky. Share it with your friends.

Good Morning 2/15/10

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:27:00 -0800

Good morning, I’m envious of the folks that get to go the killer show at the Croc tonight. It’s a Sasquatch Festival preview/kick off and looks to be super fun. Although with all the good times this weekend, I’m due for an evening in. The SSWSW DVD release yesterday was pretty amazing and fun, there was so much talent in that little theater at the Rendezvous, it was kind of amazing. My ears are still ringing with Sax solos.

I hope you had a happy Valentines. As Kimya Dawson said: “Be your own Valentine first and foremost. If there is no one to please you— please yourself”. That’s all, except Ursula found some pads and made something rad. Happy Monday.

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Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:01:59 -0800

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The Flaming Lips’ Crib Is Even More Psychedelic Than Their...

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:58:26 -0800

The Flaming Lips’ Crib Is Even More Psychedelic Than Their Music - flaminglips - Gizmodo

nevver: Teenage Riot, Nick Drake

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:16:06 -0800

nevver:

Teenage Riot, Nick Drake

Good Morning 2/12/10

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:23:00 -0800

Good morning, late morning that it is, or rather afternoon now. The week ends with some thoughts on Seattle. Our City has Reggae Rock on it’s hold music by Kore Ionz, it sponsors a music party in Austin at SxSW (which I am already sick of hearing about and it’s not even March). How do I know about this weird Mr. Hyde support our City government gives to music while Dr. Jeckyll simultaneously tries to shut down venues (under the old Mayor Nickels guard at least)? A pretty neat email newsletter I get and actually read. You can sign up and get it too from the City’s Office of Music. That’s all, except for the fact that this week I have noticed five people (all dudes) holding a finger to a nostril and blowing snot on the street. Like driving and brushing teeth, another disgusting trend.

Now, back to the music…