i wouldn't want to go in that building even though i am a fan of ugly buildings. what's that penis building in the background?
― harbl, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
The Seattle Municipal Tower is a 62-story skyscraper located at 700 5th Avenue at the corner of 5th Avenue and Columbia Street in downtown Seattle. Rising to a height of 220 meters (722 feet)[1], it is the fourth tallest high-rise building in Seattle.
― jelky, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
along interbayhttp://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/IMG_0029.jpg
― jergins, Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i would totally go into that city hall and also i would go to that baby bar on interbay.
― lxy, Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
coupla inches fucking with commutes today! so pretty though.
― lxy, Thursday, 18 December 2008 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
look who walked four miles to work.
― jergins, Friday, 19 December 2008 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
got good pix though
articulated bus at 63rd and woodlawnhttp://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/1229641394.jpg
― jergins, Friday, 19 December 2008 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
aurora bridgehttp://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/1229651983.jpg
― jergins, Friday, 19 December 2008 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
nice work (both walking and pix).
i bussed both ways with no trouble, just a long wait for the 44 both ways.
― lxy, Friday, 19 December 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
better pictures to come
― jergins, Friday, 19 December 2008 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i drove around today. drove up to mountlake terrace in the morning. it was truly fun. some of the xmas songs i had playing sounded perfect. i listened to "if we make it through december" 3 times. i was later listening to a bollywood comp, and Asha Bhosle - In Aankhon Ki Masti meshed so well with the snow and snowfall. it was a pleasing moment.
― Lingbert, Friday, 19 December 2008 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
the only shitty part is parking. parking on hills is a ball sack.
i love these pictures
― tehresa, Friday, 19 December 2008 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks!aurora motel assortment packhttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/3119321405_8ef1d1bf39_m.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/3119320757_fd68a045e2_m.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3284/3119320361_2c58246a19_m.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/3119319685_f1ddd85993_m.jpg
― jergins, Friday, 19 December 2008 07:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3235/3120161404_7195df52c1.jpg
― jergins, Friday, 19 December 2008 07:24 (fifteen years ago) link
motel pack would make grebt postcards
― tehresa, Friday, 19 December 2008 07:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3103/3119340657_d90bb200bc.jpg
― jergins, Friday, 19 December 2008 07:29 (fifteen years ago) link
alien captured on camera:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3120901948_8dc50054d1.jpg?v=0
― lxy, Friday, 19 December 2008 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
22.1 on the porch guys
― lxy, Saturday, 20 December 2008 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link
it's on the other thread but we gotta catalogue it hereover i 5, the main highwayhttp://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/i5bus.png
― jergins, Saturday, 20 December 2008 08:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_121908WXB_bus_hangs_over_I-5_TP.7ba7cab9.html
http://i41.tinypic.com/2lu5jdl.jpg
― jergins, Saturday, 20 December 2008 08:02 (fifteen years ago) link
giant headline this morning:
IT'S TIME TO START PRAYING!
i was all WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY PREDICTING ARMAGEDDON NOW?! but then i realized it was a quote from one of the people on that bus.
― lxy, Saturday, 20 December 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/spaceneedlenewyears.jpg
― jergins, Thursday, 1 January 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/seattle.jpg
― tehresa, Friday, 2 January 2009 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
is that our young tza downtown?
― jergins, Friday, 2 January 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
1997!
― tehresa, Friday, 2 January 2009 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link
nice. that was the fountain i was thinking of.
― Lingbert, Friday, 2 January 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
lingbert did u hit the town for new year's?
― jergins, Friday, 2 January 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
went to a dinner with a friend at her friend's place. it was crabs and steak and salad. i remembered why i never eat crab. what a fucking huge hassle for the smallest of payoffs. then went back to her place and hung out with her bro and his gf. then we walked up to a party another friend of hers was throwing in some tea bar kinda near chop suey. i went to bed late. i thought i set my alarm but apparently not because my supervisor woke me up 30 min after my shift was supposed to start and wanted to know if i was still coming in. oops.
― Lingbert, Friday, 2 January 2009 06:09 (fifteen years ago) link
oh the party at the tea room was a masquerade ball theme and had techno djs playing. i didn't know about the theme before going out though. so i just masqueraded as a someone.
― Lingbert, Friday, 2 January 2009 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i approve of your crab policy, it's identical to mine.
― estela, Friday, 2 January 2009 07:53 (fifteen years ago) link
did people guess who you were?xpost
― tehresa, Friday, 2 January 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the majority of the people there didn't acknowledge my existence, but they were probably thinking hmm i wonder who that special someone is
― Lingbert, Friday, 2 January 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
the P-I is likely to shut in the next few months
― jergins, Friday, 9 January 2009 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link
:-(
― max max max max, Friday, 9 January 2009 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i hate their dance critic-dude is a straightup dick-but that's small consolation.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/facts/
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the oldest morning newspaper in the state of Washington and has a following throughout the Northwest. It has been "The Voice of the Northwest since 1863."
― jergins, Friday, 9 January 2009 02:44 (fifteen years ago) link
will probably cry if/when this goes dark:
http://www.g1sat.com/images/sce/Seattle_PI_globe.jpg
― jergins, Friday, 9 January 2009 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link
themediaisdying SEATTLE PI has lost 14 from the newsroom (39 employees laid off in total). less than 10 seconds ago from TweetDeck
themediaisdying The SEATTLE-PI has been put up for sale. If it doesn't sell in 60 days, it will become web only or fold. 4 minutes ago from TweetDeck
― max max max max, Friday, 9 January 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
this link is somewhere upthread but it's worth a repost because whoever does this seems to be constantly uploading photos. page 1 isn't much today but there are a bunch of great alaska-pacific expo pix on page 2http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/
― jergins, Saturday, 10 January 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
insight into how the story broke at the PIhttp://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/10/_please_join_me_in_the_newsroo
― jergins, Sunday, 11 January 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
from http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftown/washington/seattle/safeco/07-04-08/index.htmlove a double exposurehttp://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/23section337.jpg
― jergins, Sunday, 11 January 2009 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
not my pichttp://farm2.static.flickr.com/1059/3172687157_4c016e3135.jpg
― jergins, Thursday, 15 January 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3450/3202426984_06c14cca68_m.jpg
― lxy, Friday, 16 January 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
The University of Washington has taken the drastic step of closing its doors to new students who want to start classes this spring.
The move, which applies only at the main Seattle campus, comes in response to budget cuts and overenrollment -- both driven by an ailing economy.
― lxy, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
see u in march!
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 January 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
hey great!
― jergins, Thursday, 22 January 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
setting up lunch meeting w/ that opera co! weee!
― tehresa, Thursday, 22 January 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
THE TOWER
first, the P-IThe best decoration for a high-rise is built in, not tacked on. It grows out of a bold, intriguing and thoughtfully detailed sculptural form. The Columbia Center still may be Seattle's best skyscraper simply because it's so strong: No other building expresses attitude, ambition and power so nakedly.
and then, the stranger:
Let's remove The Columbia Tower out of the mud of Cheek's doubt by saying this with no hesitation: It is the best skyscraper in Seattle. And this is so not only because of what it expresses ("attitude, ambition and power") but also because it facilitates cognitive mapping over the widest area. The tower can be seen from my mother's grave in the hills above Renton, and from the east side of Vashon Island, and from the Ave in the University District, and from a considerable length of Aurora Avenue. Its orienting power helps make the city readable and your place in it understandable. It connects you to the center of thingsāa center that radiates from this one and sure point. When you see it from Magnolia Park or Rainier Avenue or on I-5 not long after passing the exit to the airport, you feel as if you are one of many beings and buildings orbiting this core. And that feeling of being a person in an urban system is the same great feeling of being a planet in a solar system.
― jergins, Saturday, 24 January 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link