The iphone app Hipstamatic takes pictures with the iPhone camera as if it were an old camera. In this case, a Kaimal Mark II with Ina’s 1969 film. Mary read about it in Martha Stewart Living but our friend Jenny has posted some on ZestyEnterprise a few times as well. Really cool photos.
City Club's lunch this week will be with Janine Terrano (Topia Technology), Jim Merritt (Merritt Architecture), and CR Roberts (The News Tribune). The topic is downtown business. "Solutions only" is the tag line. I think it's going to be a pretty great lunch. RSVP by the end of Monday (office@cityclubtacoma.org). $22 for members, $30 for non-members. And if you're not a member, and haven't been before, mention you saw it here and we can invite you in at the member rate). Our last program was our dinner on 7/7. The speaker was Ziad Abusamha, a trustee at the Islamic Center. It Read more…
Toy Story 3 Toy Story 3 was once again, a very sweet movie with some good laughs and a lot of heart. I still don't feel like 3-D really ads anything to the story, but I don't think it really marred it either. The Girl Who Played With Fire The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was a fabulous crime film. But the second book just doesn't lend itself to adaptation as well. It was good, but probably not worth it if you haven't read the book (unlike the first movie).
A pilot car-share program with Zipcar might be headed for downtown and Pierce County’s major universities. Diane Wiatr of the City of Tacoma said Friday that the city, the University of Washington Tacoma, the University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University are negotiating on separate tracks with the Massachusetts-based car-sharing company to bring eight cars here by the fall. via blog.thenewstribune.com
From 1950, starring William Holden and Judy Holliday, this movie is surprisingly funny. It’s a twist on the Pygmalion story. If Henry Higgins were too busy to actually educate Eliza and instead hired Freddie to do it, you might get something like this movie. But it’s not as simple as that. Judy Holliday’s character changes, but it’s not that William Holden swooped in and saved her. Rather, her change comes from the books she’s read. It’s hard to think of a movie that can convincingly portray a character’s life being affected by a quote from Thomas Jefferson, but this one Read more…
That almost never happens. And I have so much I wanted to post on too. But work–all work, from City Club to Mary Holste Design to Metro Parks, has been extremely busy recently. And when I'm not doing that, I'm out enjoying the sun. I'll try to fill in some blanks soon.
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I’m about 100 million years late posting this one (in Internet years, at least). But if you haven’t seen it … Double Rainbow Guy will make your day. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI?wmode=transparent] What does this mean?