Oct
30
2009
A great photo study from photographer Mark Menjivar’s latest series: You Are What You Eat. Menjivar’s documents the contents of different people’s refrigerators. It’s interesting matching the person’s occupation or situation to what they have in their fridge.
Click HERE to access his portfolio for this series.
Oct
29
2009
The WhitePages online has just published their latest list of most popular names in America. Click HERE to check out the entire list.
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27
2009
Oct
26
2009
I still remember the Nisqually earthquake from February 2001. I was sitting in my office up on the 11th floor of an office tower in downtown Bellevue, rockin’ and rollin’! It was incredibly powerful – the strongest recorded in Washington State history – and it was amazing that there wasn’t more property damage and lives lost (I think one woman died of a heart attack at the airport). Since then, the powers-that-be have been endlessly debating the necessity and costs of replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct, an elevated two-level freeway that runs along the Seattle waterfront that was completed way back in 1953. No one disputes the fact that the Viaduct was damaged in the Nisqually quake and is living on borrowed time. There’s little doubt that another severe earthquake will probably take the Viaduct down and cause incredible damage. The odds are stacked against us. After more years of studies, voters finally voted for an underground tunnel to replace the old Viaduct and it’s been one of the main battlegrounds between mayoral candidates in the upcoming November election.
This passive-aggressive crap is one of the most annoying aspects of living in Seattle. The majority voted to have the tunnel built over other options and the money has now been set aside from the Federal government as well as from State and city coffers. It’s time to start building and quit whining before the damn thing comes down and the real finger-pointing starts. I for one don’t want to waste any time wondering what we could have done AFTER the earthquake’s happened…
I was impressed by an animation I saw last night on one of the local late night news broadcasts and was hoping it would be posted online today. Lo and behold, here it is! And here’s the lead-in from today’s Seattle Times (click HERE to read it).
“The simulation, say transportation officials, is based on a 2007 state report that said there is a 1-in-10 chance that in the next 10 years an earthquake could cause parts of the viaduct and adjacent seawall to collapse.”
And here’s the original simulated tunnel proposal:
Oct
26
2009
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25
2009
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Oct
20
2009
This is one of the few Microsoft commercials that I’ve found to be actually funny!
Apple suffers from App Fatigue – too many damn Stupid Apps!
What? No toilet paper in your stall? Why – there’s an App for that! Electronic voice in background, “Toilet paper located in stall two doors down!”
Oct
19
2009
Remember the original Pixar Films intro where the lamp crushes the letter ‘I’ in PIXAR?
Oct
18
2009
Photographer Eric Spiegelman took 130 photos from a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and then made a time-lapse video of Obama’s “smile.”
Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
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