Entries Tagged as 'vernacular'

Monday, November 30th, 2009

The Daybooks of Samuel Brentano, Gestalt Detective

 

In the Autumn of the year  - – – 3 a seemingly otherwise unremarkable friend of mine inherited a sum of money from an aunt at Marienberg am Rhein whose immediate line had died out. The freedom thus conferred upon my friend allowed him to leave our company suddenly and completely. Some years later I [...]

Monday, November 30th, 2009

SomeFiction Media :: Conspiracy of Inspiration

In the interest of continuing our collaboration, and of providing ourselves a bit of external accountability, my good friend and Edges of Bounty collaborator William and I have commenced a new project, which we will post here.
Here’s how we hope it’ll work: I shoot five or seven potentially evocative pictures, send them to William. He [...]

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

How Very Refreshing

Week ago, driving down the road, I saw a truck with beverages inside. I said to Amy, “Hmm. Looks like Pepsi Cola changed their logo.”
Now, I’m not one of those design people that eat sleep and breathe logos. But I notice. 
I like the old (i.e., most recent previous) Pepsi logo, insofar as this kind of thing [...]

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

White Center. So Close, Yet So Far

I admit it. I’ve got a crush on White Center. 
I grew up in West Seattle, and if you’re from here, White Center is kind of the handiest butt of regionalistic humor. Rat City, it’s always been called. Known for having a pretty seedy strip of taverns and porn shops and martial arts palaces as its [...]

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Snow in Seattle.

I don’t think my relationship with snow is that unusual.
As a kid growing up in Seattle, I could never get enough of the stuff. Not just because it could cause school to be cancelled. Snow–at least here–makes people nicer. It brings brightness into the winter. It makes people go outside. Outside, with their bodies, not [...]