We turned our bathroom into a darkroom for a day of screenprinting. Photos of our adventures here …
A few months ago, Mary came up with a very cool idea for a screenprinting project. Since then, she's been assembling everything she needs to make it work. We finally got all the pieces arranged and spent a lot of our Sunday working on this. (Turns out, screenprinting is quite involved!) Here's a rough photo journey of the day. With the Speedball screenprinting kit, we taped the edges and prepared for work. The green sheen is a "photo-emulsion" chemical. Essentially it's like a photo developer chemical. The darkroom assembled (we replaced the heat lamp with a red bulb) the photo Read more…
The letters in Tollefson Plaza are the best thing to happen to date. Way to go Spaceworks!
It’s too dark to capture it well, but there are at least 30 people here. I’ve NEVER seen that many people here before. See the full gallery on Posterous
I thought this was worth sharing …
via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Your Oldie for the Day – Needles And Pins
Bands just don’t look like this anymore. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unwa_XQKc4A?wmode=transparent]
How to turn your iPhone into a Ping Pong paddle for the weirdest game of Ping Pong ever …
via youtube.com I dunno. This video doesn’t exactly sell the concept. I especially like where they recommend you “hold on tight” to the phone.
The Sun Also Rises
When getting ready for a yard sale a few weeks ago, I stumbled onto a box of books I read for classes in high school and college. In it was my copy of The Sun Also Rises from junior-year of high school. I decided it was worth checking out again and it turns out it was a pretty good book. Part of the problem of reading books like that in high school English classes is that you just don't pick up on everything you should. I don't meet metaphor, allusions, and allegory so much–that's what we were being trained to Read more…
Your Oldie for the Day
The singer's message to the woman who lives below him is about one step above "check this box if you like me." Really? That's the best you can do, Mr. Romantic? Still. A catchy number. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emvVDC1-bwI?wmode=transparent]
Social Media as Performance
Here are two interrelated stories worth sharing. The first, in The New York Times, suggests that broadcasting our most mundane details is preventing us from being in the moment. We think, "I should totally tweet what I'm doing right now." Here's the start of it. On a recent lazy Saturday morning, my daughter and I lolled on a blanket in our front yard, snacking on apricots, listening to a download of E. B. White reading “The Trumpet of the Swan.” Her legs sprawled across mine; the grass tickled our ankles. It was the quintessential summer moment, and a year ago, I Read more…
I just realized I’ve been at @cityclubtacoma for just over a year! Man, time flies.
It took the first Monday of August for me to realize I've been on the job with City Club more than a year now. Last year at this time, we were two days away from an outing to the LeMay Car Museum at the old military academy on Pacific. This year, I'm just a day away from our fundraiser gala at Lakewold. There's been a lot of great things in this last year. Interesting programs, sometimes controversially so. I'm also very happy with Tacoma Art Museum as our lunch venue (pitch for TAM: you should definitely consider having an event Read more…
Quiet Weekend
We spent a long weekend at Mason Lake, catching up on reading and perfecting the fine art of doing nothing. Mary beat me at Spite and Malice (a good card game). We watched a DVD or two. And I wrote a couple chapters in the novel I'm working on. The weather wasn't all it could have been for the last weekend of July and the first weekend of August, but even with some cloudy skies, the lake isn't a bad place to while away the time. After that we met up with my friend Deborah from The Netherlands in Seattle Read more…
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