why not talk about your city, my city, the people’s city, here? not my pic
and while we’re at it, why not talk about the great things in store?
thank you, norman foster!
It’s not my city! This is my city:
But Seattle looks cool. We used to wonder (in 1991) if you could hear the grunge coming from Seattle from several miles out.
Seattle has a giant Kurt Cobain statue that straddles the I-90 floating bridge and ejaculates grunge onto lucky drivers.
ive gone through like 50 sets of windshield wipers
and while we’re at it we might as well memorialize. this is getting knocked down, and not for anything good:
i don’t know what that is
just a great apartment building on QA
wait where in qa?
on highland, across from kerry park. wait, that’s like two blocks from you, isn’t it?
yep. i’ve seen it before.
or you have esp
watch seattle grow:
i can’t find a good image of the Washington Mutual / Seattle Art Museum building, also known as “my building” because i watched, from my office, as it grew from a mere elevator shaft into one of seattle’s most striking buildings, and because i love it so much.
so instead here’s a link to the “sam-cam,” which is now just an archive, not an active webcam. if you’re willing to make the effort, use the calendar and time selectors to go to june 1, 2006, 2:30 a.m., for one of my favorite images, not only of the building but of the city too.
and here’s a link to the four seasons hotel and residences webcam (actively being updated about every 20 minutes or so), which is being built across the street (towards the water) from the WAMU / SAM.
http://lewisbuilds.oxblue.com/cam1/
i wanted to post a rendering but suddenly i can’t seem to do a proper google search, and it’s really annoying me. j, if you can find one, will you please post it?
i took a good pic of your building (you were driving). i’ll find it.
TS: hating PDFs vs. loving future transit maps
http://soundtransit.org/Documents/pdf/st2/MAP_ST2plan_large.pdf
maps win.
and an article about it
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/313393_sound27.html
here’s the best rendering for that 4 seasons. supposedly, when it’s finished, it won’t look nearly as good:
here’s a pretty faithful rendering of your building. i’m having trouble uploading my pictures so we’ll take this for now
i’m loving this thread, having the links in one place and not buried in my email.
olive 8 webcam:
http://206.165.183.36/user/cgi-bin/view_S_t_uF.thtml
rendering:
your building, my picture:
THANKS!
yeah that’s a great picture of my building; love it with that smokestack business in the foreground.
also, see why i love the viaduct?
TS: hating PDFs vs. loving future transit maps
i choose maps.
historic photos (not that historic-70s and 80s, but still)
the pictures in that link are something else! so weird to see seattle that way... maybe the b/w makes it seem more gritty and grim, but it’s so difficult for me to imagine it looking like that. except, i guess, for some of the “industry” pictures.
also, really interesting to see the u.district looking much like i first saw it.
thanks for linking here. it’s tops.
btw, the SAM expansion opens this weekend. have you been reading the press?
sinkhole madness at the university bridge! (thx to lx for the tip)
The sinkhole swallowed two unoccupied cars.
it’s alive!
kinda the same pic but...grittier.
sinkhole = broken water main = low water pressure = coffee shortage in the u.district = TROUBLE!
i’m sure i would feel differently if it had affected me, but i have to lol a little bit at all the people trying to go south out of the u.district at 5 o’clock and the bridge still closed. because, come on, people. don’t take montlake. take a different way. go to the 99. go to fremont. go to ballard if you have to. but montlake? of course that’s going to take for fucking ever.
people in seattle are dumber than people in sf, i think. when that bridge burned in sf the other day they were expecting horrific backups and they never materialized. duh, take an alternate route! i think even with the orange DETOUR signs people would still try to take that bridge.
from what i observed this morning, yes: cars in the left lane on campus pkwy racing along towards the bridge, (past the ROAD CLOSED AHEAD signs) only to have to change lanes at the last second and then... what’re you gonna do now, sucka? dumb-dumbs.
71, 72 and 73 buses are taking the freeway (olive to 45th). the 49 (formerly the 7) aren’t coming to the u.d. at all. poor eastlakers are kinda screwed.
water cuts through our city both as a heartbeat and a heartstopper
nice. and true.
bridge reopened this afternoon.
Where has this thread been all my life? What is this 8090 business? WHERE AM I???
haha! welcome to our board, jaq!!
What is this shiny new land?? It’s very cozy and peaceful here. May I apply for citizenship? I have skillz!
no application necessary. you are welcome!
This morning, I had the hi ho work song of the 7 dwarves from snow white stuck in my head. Mostly just Doc (or was it Grumpy) doing the hi ho call and the other dwarves doing the response. Maybe because of Hammmering Man:
everybody report back on free museum weekend plz
lol museum is hueg
the centerpiece (frontpiece? The main exhibit, the gigantic one that takes up the majority of the first floor) exhibit was a pretty underwhelming dud, I thought. I feel like 7 automobiles hanging from the ceiling should have been more exciting somehow. Maybe something other than the tubes of lights would have been better? Also, the one fireworks-strapped car....couldn’t they have done something less hokey with the footage of all the fireworks going off?
Lots of great stuff otherwise, though. My favorite was probably the aboriginal stuff (don’t remember which countries). Loved the paintings, the giant mask in the corner, and the statue below it.
The only outdoors festivities I saw were the buskers at various locations and the super bouncy, permasmile jump-roping people who were making things fun for the people in line to the tune of kool & the gang—celebration.
I would liked to have gone in the evening hours, but i have to get up at 4 am-ish
Here I am, up before 2 am. We went to bed at 7 (it was a long day). Time for tea. Will report on the wee hours crowd later.
between all of your crazy hours and my time zone this is a 24 hour board
lol museum is hueg
lingbert otm x 8080. It’s doubled at least, and the two lower floors are free (cafe, shop, auditorium, hands-on studio, music stage under tumbling cars. Cars are very meh. The 3:30—4 am crowd was smallish, but there were still lots of people there. mellow amped guitar dood played non-stop to keep people happy, Caffe Lladro and Starbucks were open. We got there at 3:30, got tix for 4 am, didn’t think to try to get in early until stepson and friend showed up at 3:50—they let us all right in, no waiting. Techno playing and dancing in the main gallery. Escalators now up to the 3rd and 4th floor spaces, as well as elevators. Most disturbing new acquisition: Untitled (Cheap to Feed)—a taxidermied dog (jack russell or wirehaired fox terrier) curled up as if asleep in a dark tan plastic chair. gold plated Brancusi bird. Most memorable room after a nap: 5 Asian restorations, with the fabulous crow screen that used to be at SAAM, a 13th century chinese richly colored scroll, the section of 72 foot long japanese deer poem scroll. 2 original woodblocks from Views of Mt. Fuji. The PNW artists gallery—lots of Mark Tobey’s market scenes and Morris Graves. Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight have their own gallery. The Tiepolo ceiling has been moved into this overwhelmingly shiny new porcelain room. My happiest moment—realizing there weren’t any huge blatant Chihuly’s hanging around. Favoritest piece—an atypical John Singer Sargent portrait titled something like In the Olive Grove.
We didn’t see everything, didn’t get to the tea house, didn’t find the Maori longhouse or jade, collapsed in the cafe around 5:30 am and had tea and frites w/ remoulade and some cheese/crackers, then gawked in the new shop. Home by 6:30 am, asleep by 7:30.
jaq, you were getting home just as i was leaving home. and LOL there were times on the tickets? i just blithely walked right in. no line at all when i got there, though... uncrowded till after 8:30 or so. no techno either; that sounds fun.
guys, i liked the cars! at least i did after i saw the video that accompanies the piece. i mean i’m not in love with it, but i think it works. i love that it’s pedestrian (whatever, ford tauruses) and yet monumental (that thing takes up a lot of space, and there are cars inside the museum! a bunch of them! and they’re hanging from the ceiling!). i think it’s a good installation.
i love that j. lawrence and g. knight have a gallery.
that dog is FUCKED UP.
i spent most of my time in the modern rooms. i especially enjoyed the minimal room and the, what was it called? the room with the joseph bueys and the dog-tag chainmail? god my memory sucks. anyway, the northernmost part — the new part — of the third floor is my deal.
i was pretty done by the time i got to the aboriginal rooms, and basically raced through the rest of it. the william eggelston in the special exibition room was a treat (though not one of his more compelling pieces, to be sure), but that museum needs a lot more photography — non-portrait photography, that is.
otm to the lack of monster chihuly bullshit.
there’s a lot i didn’t see BUT i took the opportunity to finally get my museum membership (birthday 2006 now officially concluded). so i can go back any time. and so can you, jergins. or anyone who wants to pose as jergins.
kudos to the lusty lady for being a good neighbor, and kudos to the neighborhood for letting the lusty lady be. luv u, seattle.
here are a couple of different renderings of the four seasons, posted at the construction site:
yay membership! we got one too; good to share :) I also really liked the giant seascape by the german guy—and the one of the isolated house by the same guy. And the etruscan influenced greyhounds. I was trying to imagine dancing with some of those masks on my head. Would severely curtail my party endurance even further I think.
jaq, speaking of: i just left a voicemail for you, re. sunday night cocktails. it’s going to be a SAM de-brief. call me!
lxy, how long were you at the museum?
ling bert, mmm... 2 or 2 1/2 hours, i guess. how long were you there?
jaq, re. your question last night about what most excited or enthused or affected me: i named the contemporary japanese artists (nara, murakami) that i was happy to see but neglected to mention in my “review” above, however what i forgot to talk about both here and in our conversation is this:
joseph cornell! i love him, and i was so happy to see his work in person for the first time!
our quarter was released last week! i just saw it for the first time today.
I didn’t see the Joseph Cornell and so now I have to go back.
What is that business down by the fish’s tail? A fly-fisher on the shore?
herschel?
GIS I love you (searching for the other proposed WA quarters and i found this)
the tunnel boring machine breaks through, completing the first of two link light rail tunnels under beacon hill:
http://www.king5.com/video/featured-index.html?nvid=142029&shu=1
Tunnel boring pron! White spurting drilling stuff!
They are planting plants along the tracks down by us. I don’t want it to sit idle until 2009; there should be short route mule-drawn trams! Take me 3 blocks, up to Othello, to the Safeway and the bank.
boys and their construction toys.
word is it’ll open 3–6 months early, so that’s something.
not necessarily a recommendation:
University District Street Fair this weekend
you love it
Hm. No market this morning due to street fair :( But we can go to the Columbia City one on Wednesday night.
The Seattle Cheese Festival is today and tomorrow, down at Pike Place Market. I don’t know that we’ll go. I had got tix for the cheese nun doco at the art museum for Fri afternoon, but Mr. Jaq had a late running phone interview so we didn’t go. (He got the job though, yay!)
congratulations to mr. jaq!
look and this monster. damn. 44 stories at 8th and Pine.
kinda fun:
http://www.urbancondominiums.com/
click on CITYSCAPE 2010 at the top. it’ll popup for a flyover video thingee.
ghost buildings
ghost boxes
they managed to save first united methodist and are planning to put a skinny tower next to it. it may look something like this:
Escala webcam (I can never seem to get these to work in Firefox):
i’d always wondered why the routing of the future LRT line through the u-district didn’t go under campus:
Sound Transit moved its tunnel east from Portage Bay to the Montlake Cut, where the soil is more stable; and it agreed to a winding tunnel around the east edge of campus in a future phase, instead of a direct line that could pose vibration risks to UW science labs.
That Escala webcam is cool... live action!
we have to go to the showroom
I’ve been thinking that the Columbia Tower needs a counterpoint. It takes up too much mental space on the skyline. Something like the Chicago Spire:
(though they look evenly matched the chicago spire will be about 2x as tall when completed. but you get what i’m saying)
like WOW:
exciting!
what will become of it?
big day 7–8–7
Marilynne Robinson is giving a free public lecture at 7 pm on 8/15 at the Henry. Spotting the announcement in the Sunday paper gave me giddy fan-girl palpitations!
And, I wondered, is this part of D4n’s summer UW series?
it is part of that, as a matter of fact. good call, jaq!
not exactly seattle but,
tacoma got a new bridge today:
it’s very beautiful:
Dear Faculty and Staff:
I am writing to congratulate you for helping the University reach a remarkable milestone. This week, the University is announcing that for the first time, total annual funding for sponsored research exceeded $1 billion. These results are for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2007, and they include funding for research from the federal government and from private sources like foundations and corporations. Funding from the federal government comprises nearly 80 percent of this total. As you may know, the University of Washington has been the top recipient of federal funds among public universities every year since 1974. It has been in the top five for both public and private universities every year since 1969, and in recent years has been second only to Johns Hopkins.
Yet even with this incredible track record, this year marks the first time our total funding for research has topped a billion dollars.
This is an extraordinary accomplishment at any time, but especially now when federal funding is flat. It is due, of course, to all of you who participate in the University’s research enterprise and who work so hard to garner funding for sponsored research. It is, in my view, the single most telling fact about the quality of the people who work here.
Competing so successfully at this level is truly an amazing feat, and I want to thank the many thousands of you who play a role and participate in our research for helping us reach this milestone.
Congratulations to everyone. You should all take great pride in being a part of this exceptional record of success.
Sincerely,
Mark A. Emmert
President
oh btw good work uw
(cuz it looks so good)
since i’ve been giving portland bars props lately, i figure i should at least give ups to one of my favorite bars in seawa:
check out this route map for flights from seattle:
