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Civics and Culture

Changing Awful

It was the day after what was unquestionably the worst night in my entire bus-driving career. We're not going to talk about it, for...

Human Life Was Made Of These

In filmmaking the edict is to show, not tell. That's why I won't summarize conversations here on the blog and merely tell you about them while...

Sunday Video: Blue Sun

The Seattle Art Museum showcases the installation of Blue Sun at the Olympic Sculpture Park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqPZAyh8Ups&feature=share

Six Good Seconds

My notes are simply a diagram of a triangle with labels at each point for the three people who made it all happen. Race doesn't play...

Mayor Murray Delays North Precinct Project

Yesterday morning, I attended a Seattle Design Commission meeting on the parking design of the North Precinct building. By the evening, Mayor Ed Murray...

Women Shaping Seattle: An Interview With Barbara Swift

Barbara Swift, FASLA, founded Swift Company in 1982. Swift Company is a landscape architecture and urban design practice dedicated to creating powerful places for civic...

Sunday Video: Design For Good

AIGA Seattle is hosting their housing for homelessness installation in Occidental Park today as part of the Seattle Design Festival. In this video, they...

Tropic Of

I couldn't quite make out what variety he specified, but I somehow knew his next word would be cancer. Him and his pet rabbit,...