I just wanted to note that I fully intend to vote yes to APPROVE Washington Referendum 71 a vote which to maintain the rights that same sex couples currently have in Washington.
If you feel the same way, it would be great for you to link to approvereferendum71.org to give them a hand in the old search engines.
The picture above is stolen from Chris Rollins via the SLOG.
I’m psyched to say that Amanda and I are moving south to an awesome space in the old Rainier Brewery. I’m psyched to finally have the space to have a semi-permanent music setup. It will be nice to not have to tear down all my stuff when it’s time to eat dinner. Not to mention an awesome place to take pictures and hone some indoor photography skills.
Of course Amanda will be making even better use of the place, i’m super excited to see what she comes up with.
We don’t get keys for a couple more weeks but as soon as we got home from signing the lease last night we started boxing up books in anticipation of the move.
photo from flickr user jascha
This is one of my favorite pictures from Iceland. Amanda loves cats, so she was pumped to find the first one we saw in Iceland.
Rad dance band Chromeo with Daryl Hall doing one of his classics. You can skip the first 4 1/2 minutes although those are an interesting peak behind the scenes.
If you haven’t already, you should check out Amanda’s stuff on her blog at amandafiebing.com
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Finally getting some Iceland pictures up feels really good. I feel like the pictures i took in the first couple of days are not nearly as good as the ones i took on later days of the trip.
After work on friday Amanda and I took a look at a live/work space in the Old Rainier Brewery in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood. Later in the evening we found ourselves at a party in that same neighborhood that centered on a large interactive art installation. Then today I spent the first part of today sitting in a booth at the Fremont Outdoor market where Amanda was selling some of her craft stuff.
The common thread here is that there seem to be some neighborhoods that lend themselves to creativity more than others. For example now I’m sitting in our lovely apartment in Eastlake and i couldn’t tell you where the closest piece of public art is.
Naturally the people make the neighborhood. SODO gets all kinds of cool stuff because land is relatively inexpensive and it’s not considered a desirable place to live. As such lots of creative types that want to live in the city end up doing their creative things there.
Fremont was once a center of art and culture in Seattle, and arguably still is. But it’s the kind of neighborhood that was recognized for it’s quirky support of creative types which then attracted all kinds of other people to water down the culture.
Anyway, next time we move (which will hopefully be soon), I’ll be picking the location based on the creative energy around me.
