Nov 18
keith commented on Scenes From the City.
charles, tell the haters you're something like the internet's de certeau.
Sep 19
keith commented on PARK(ing) Day 2009.
Thanks for the coverage, Kelly.
Fnarf: I typically agree with your comments - or at least find them reasonable - and am surprised that you have something against people spending a day reclaiming space that stands empty or is reserved for cars. Your beloved NYC also other versions of pro-people/pedestrian/occupation in Times Square:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/nyregi…
And I don't agree with banning cars and do understand they have their place, but they are generally more of a bane on urban existence than a benefit, I'd say.
kristinbell: you're right, living without cars is unrealistic; we used cars to get materials to the site and I used one last week to pick my mother up from the airport. This event is about countering dependence on cars (and having a little harmless fun). Great groups put together parks and lots of passersby came to see what was going on and stayed a while.
Check out Kelly's link for the official site of Park(ing) Day or look through my site for more information about this and other events we're planning for the 500 E Pine lot as well as other unused spaces.
http://peoplesparkinglot.blogspot.com
Thanks.
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Fnarf: I typically agree with your comments - or at least find them reasonable - and am surprised that you have something against people spending a day reclaiming space that stands empty or is reserved for cars. Your beloved NYC also other versions of pro-people/pedestrian/occupation in Times Square:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/nyregi…
And I don't agree with banning cars and do understand they have their place, but they are generally more of a bane on urban existence than a benefit, I'd say.
kristinbell: you're right, living without cars is unrealistic; we used cars to get materials to the site and I used one last week to pick my mother up from the airport. This event is about countering dependence on cars (and having a little harmless fun). Great groups put together parks and lots of passersby came to see what was going on and stayed a while.
Check out Kelly's link for the official site of Park(ing) Day or look through my site for more information about this and other events we're planning for the 500 E Pine lot as well as other unused spaces.
http://peoplesparkinglot.blogspot.com
Thanks.
Sep 9
keith commented on Chase Center, We Hardly New Ye.
i'm pretty sure SAM owns their portion and has rights to expand, so i don't believe they will be affected. then again, i don't know commercial real estate.
Sep 1
keith commented on Out of Time.
i know it would have been out of place in this dreamy little post, but can't help wondering why you, charles, think king street station be demolished...
Aug 30
keith commented on It's a Hit.
mm, i have to doubt your credibility wrt reviewing wilco, especially since you freely admit to not knowing one of their most famous songs:
http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/a…
and at the risk of sounding like wilco's bodyguard, i must ask if getoffmylawn thinks they have not "kept up with the times"?
http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/a…
and at the risk of sounding like wilco's bodyguard, i must ask if getoffmylawn thinks they have not "kept up with the times"?
Aug 29
keith commented on Buffy Sainte-Marie on NPR.
thanks for posting this! i heard the story this morning returning from the airport and had since slept it off. i'd never heard of buffy but i dug her politics, attitude about technology (both for recording and the internet), and performance. thanks for reminding me.
Aug 25
keith commented on Currently Hanging.
was just looking at that painting of greg's last week. i need it for my office/study/closet.
Aug 22
keith commented on How Many Songs From Pitchfork's Top 500 Songs of the 2000s Do You Know?.
i'm not here to castigate but, rather, to encourage, especially with regard to wilco.
i'm a fan, as are many thirty-year-olds, but not rabid like like some of them. anyway, a big part of that band is the mystique or mythological level to which jeff tweedy has risen. read an article or two where he talks about small town, midwest living, and listen to a few of his early songs, be they from uncle tupelo or wilco.
watch the documentary "i'm trying to break your heart" and take a listen to that album; check out the dvd of his solo tour in the northwest and listen to "a ghost is born." get a feel for the context and the journey from the small town country/punk to the big city/international scene/painkiller addictions and experimental electronica that comes from that, and maybe the music will blossom.
or maybe it won't.
all i'm saying is that i think they are best understood with his life/artistic arc in mind.
i'm a fan, as are many thirty-year-olds, but not rabid like like some of them. anyway, a big part of that band is the mystique or mythological level to which jeff tweedy has risen. read an article or two where he talks about small town, midwest living, and listen to a few of his early songs, be they from uncle tupelo or wilco.
watch the documentary "i'm trying to break your heart" and take a listen to that album; check out the dvd of his solo tour in the northwest and listen to "a ghost is born." get a feel for the context and the journey from the small town country/punk to the big city/international scene/painkiller addictions and experimental electronica that comes from that, and maybe the music will blossom.
or maybe it won't.
all i'm saying is that i think they are best understood with his life/artistic arc in mind.
Aug 15
keith commented on The Dream of Glass.
awesome structure, indeed; here's a photo i took of it at night a few years ago (not that good of a photo but it shows the transparency pretty well).
@2 FYI, it looks to be designed much like Charles' other favorite building -- the Seattle Central Library -- for resisting earthquakes. All that steel on the exterior isn't holding the building up, but it resists lateral motion from earthquakes; it's like a whole wall of "cross-bracing," which is extremely stiff and way more than typical buildings have. The glass is probably set in some gaskets that will flex and keep it from breaking. In other words, this building isn't going anywhere in an earthquake.
@2 FYI, it looks to be designed much like Charles' other favorite building -- the Seattle Central Library -- for resisting earthquakes. All that steel on the exterior isn't holding the building up, but it resists lateral motion from earthquakes; it's like a whole wall of "cross-bracing," which is extremely stiff and way more than typical buildings have. The glass is probably set in some gaskets that will flex and keep it from breaking. In other words, this building isn't going anywhere in an earthquake.
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