o monorail
wha happen
the red one broke
pos
i think the blue one is already in the shop so
it’s a good think i like my winter clothes since it’s already winter clothes weather
# Calandra wrote:
August 22nd, 2008 @ 7:45 am
What a great photo! I work at the Seattle Art Museum, and we’ll be opening a Pacific Coast Salish Art show in October that features a number of Curtis’ images. If you enjoy this one, you should really come check it out!
loooooooooove native coastal art. we should all go.
i will go to this. it will be something nice to do when the weather is shittier than it is now.
also, i have decided that at some point during the winter, i am going to the goldmyer hot springs http://www.goldmyer.org/
it will be a good motivation to get outdoors.
i will take the virtual tour
the bank of america tower is the 51st tallest building in the world
oh bummer for not making the top 50
tallest west of the mississippi when built. once one of the 20 tallest buildings in the world
...a world with a disco ball that spun lights throughout the huge performance hall. When we came out of the hall into the rain, I felt I was almost staggering, drunk with beauty. And then I heard the sound of a tuba. A man in a sodden, red and white Cat-in-the-Hat hat was husking in the rain. He was terrible. Couldn’t even recognize the tune. I put my change in his bucket, next to the dollar already there. He stopped to say thank you and played on.
link in time lapse
i’ve thought for a while that i want to explore the Duwamish and this seems like a good primer:
http://seattlest.com/2008/10/17/life_on_the_duwamish.php
map here:
http://www.duwamishcleanup.org/uploads/MapOrderForm.pdf
port of seattle parks resource:
http://www.portseattle.org/community/resources/parks/index.shtml
NOW
NICE
4 those of you who don’t know, that’s our front yard. notice how nicely trimmed it is.
thank you, waste management:
Starting March 30, 2009, Seattle will add new recycling services, including:
*Weekly food and yard wast collection for all households.
*Subscribers will be able to put leftover meat and dairy in their carts.
*Glass bottles and jars will go in your recycling cart—no more sorting into a separate container!
*More plastics will be recycled, including cups and take-out containers.
*Special curbside electronics and used motor oil collection.
*New low-emission garbage and recycling trucks will dramatically reduce key pollutants in neighborhoods.
(about a year ago wm implemented a program to allow non-meat and non-dairy food waste and food-soiled paper in the yard waste bin. we hardly have any garbage now. with these new services, plus the banning of styrofoam containers which will go into effect in january, we could consider getting rid of the garbage can entirely.)
!!!
what would still need to be thrown away? some plastic?
can’t recycle or compost garbage from the bathroom, and yeah some plastic probably. definitely we can downgrade to the smallest size garbage can. but we could do that already if somebody got around to calling.
somebody = me
http://www.soundtransit.org/x78.xml?curID=x9880
Blue Duwamish
Earlier this week, the recently installed artwork on the Link light rail elevated guideway over the Duwamish River was turned on. The artwork is a series of steel “ribs” that include clear plastic tubes filled with blue LEDs (light-emitting-diode) lights. The lights will turn on just before a light rail train crosses the Duwamish, and turn off soon after it passes. The Blue Duwamish artists are Dan Corson and Norie Sato. (photo by Dan Corson)
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0:27 saw Nirvana in that crappy building
0:58 they painted it grey/brown. weak
did i ever tell you guys about when i was 15 and i went to seattle and i wanted to see kurt cobain’s house and so my dad dropped my sister and i off to walk around and look for it but we never found it and so we left. then later, there was a shot of it on ‘unsolved mysteries’ and my dad said ‘oh hey! that’s the driveway we turned around in when you guys were walking around!’
good news today from the stb
Seattle’s City Council approved a streetcar expansion plan in a 4 to 2 vote today by the council’s transportation committee. Four lines in total were approved, the First Hill Line, the Central Line, a Ballard line and a University District Line. The two streetcar lines fast-tracked are the First Hill Line, which has had $120 million in funding approved as part of ST2 that passed last month, and the Central Line, which is meant to be a part of viaduct construction mitigation. The Central Line will replace the defunct Waterfront Streetcar line, which will be finally removed during viaduct construction.
The First Hill line would run from the Pioneer Square or ID tunnel station up Jackson to around Broadway, turn north and follow Broadway up to either John or Aloha. The Central Line would follow First Ave from the Pioneer Square station to about Mercer street. Neither alignment is fixed, and there are groups pushing to change both plans. Some in First Hill want that line moved further west, since it was meant as a replacement for a First Hill subway station, and some along First Avenue don’t like that alignment for the Central Line, believing it would worsen traffic and remove parking along the street.
The vote also approved an extension of the SLU line on Eastlake to the University District, and a line to Ballard either on 15th Avenue or along Westlake through Fremont. Those two lines are not fast tracked. It’s worth noting that there is no funding for either of these lines, and that funding for the Central Line as part of the viaduct replacement is not definite.
Since these routes can be built pretty quickly, both the Central Line and the First Hill line could open by 2012 or possibly sooner. Many in the city want the First Hill line to open much sooner than the funding is scheduled to come on line from ST2—which allocates funding for the line around 2016 -since construction on the Capitol Hill station is going to disrupt life on Broadway, and bringing the streetcar there could make life a little easier. Final engineering for the First Hill line should be done by February 2009.
crosscut has a good rundown of how the viaduct might play out:
http://crosscut.com/2008/12/11/alaskan-way-viaduct/18703/
looks like surface/transit + maybe a tunnel and tolls. seems like an ok way to go.
rat city roller derby is skating at the key arena next season i’m gonna hook us up with tickets
lol @ fashion here at the theater:
flowy white dress + leather jacket
utilikilt (to show off the tats?)
those colors!
jergins are you going to go to city console next week and ask why wasn’t the snow not plowed
city hall. would this building make you more or less likely to go in?
where is the fountain that is a wall that you walk through? i went there once. maybe i will find the lol15yearold picture when i am home for christmastime.
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?
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.
along interbay
i would totally go into that city hall and also i would go to that baby bar on interbay.
coupla inches fucking with commutes today! so pretty though.
look who walked four miles to work.
got good pix though
articulated bus at 63rd and woodlawn
aurora bridge
nice work (both walking and pix).
i bussed both ways with no trouble, just a long wait for the 44 both ways.
better pictures to come
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.
the only shitty part is parking. parking on hills is a ball sack.
i love these pictures
thanks!
aurora motel assortment pack
motel pack would make grebt postcards
alien captured on camera:
22.1 on the porch guys
it’s on the other thread but we gotta catalogue it here
over i 5, the main highway
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.
is that our young tza downtown?
1997!
nice. that was the fountain i was thinking of.
lingbert did u hit the town for new year’s?
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.
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.
i approve of your crab policy, it’s identical to mine.
did people guess who you were?
xpost
the majority of the people there didn’t acknowledge my existence, but they were probably thinking hmm i wonder who that special someone is
the P-I is likely to shut in the next few months
:-(
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.”
will probably cry if/when this goes dark:
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
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 2
insight into how the story broke at the PI
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/10/_please_join_me_in_the_newsroo
from http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftown/washington/seattle/safeco/07-04-08/index.htm
love a double exposure
not my pic
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.
see u in march!
hey great!
setting up lunch meeting w/ that opera co! weee!
first, the P-I
The 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 things—a 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.
tehresa what will you do in seattle
things i would like to do in seattle:
prev. mentioned meeting w/ opera ppl
go see opera
meet lots of ilxors
ride a ferry
sightsee
wander
develop a feel for city
visit portland*
feel free to recommend good things!
*not actually in seattle
eat food, drink booze
we never talked about the 99 replacement tunnel announcement last week