Entries Tagged as 'West Seattle'

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

White Center Redux: O Film!

I spent about five hours this weekend cutting and sleeving and filing medium format film negatives and some 35mm stuff too.
The occasion for this was that I had just brought back 40 sheets of 4×5 film back from LightWaves lab* in Berkeley, and looking at it reminded me how much dust effects the viewing experience. [...]

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 [...]

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Cooper School’s Recent Open House That Hardly Anyone Got Invited To (But Lots Came Anyhow)

A couple weeks ago we had a big open house, “Fire in The Del” here at the Cooper Artist Housing / Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. It was a lot of fun.
 
If you didn’t receive an invitation, that’s our bad. We stink at that part of our job.
 
Here are some pictures from the time anyway.



Tenaya Sims’ [...]

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Wall of Joy

We’ve just had a little champagne-and-donuts going away party with some of our closest friends, and the bigness of this thing is creeping in all around.
 

A) We are maybe the luckiest people in the world
B) This is a Very Big Time in our lives
C) We love our friends a lot
D) We are so excited to [...]