More info on their BLOG. Congratulations RPS crew! I’m looking forward to checking out the space.

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN: Stories from Rock Photography
Opening Reception with participating artists on Saturday June 21, 7-10pm

Featuring: Jini Dellaccio, Charles Peterson, Curt Doughty, Lance Mercer, David Belisle, and Morgan Keuler.

Belle & Wissell, Co.
6014 12th Ave South, Seattle, WA 98108
Exhibition runs from June 13th-July 13
Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday, 4-8pm and Sunday July 13th, 10-5pm

Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=6014+12th+Avenue+South,+Seattle,+98108

Belle & Wissell is pleased to present “Accidents Will Happen: Stories from Rock Photography,” an exhibition examining the evolution of music photography in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Organized by Belle & Wissell resident curators Gabe Kean and Marq Dean, together with EMP curator Jacob McMurray and photographer Curt Doughty, “Accidents Will Happen” explores the creative process of masters of the genre through video, photographs and digital media.

What: House of Pong (ping pong tournament)
When: Saturday April 12th at 5 p.m. in conjunction with the Art Attack
Where: Belle & Wissell, Co. 6014 12th Ave. South, Georgetown (Seattle)

Registration begins at 5pm with competition at 6pm. $5 entry fee.
Spectators are encouraged. Thematic DJ and beverages provided.

Ping pong diplomacy is dead and the House of Pong is born. High drama and cutthroat action will be the mainstays of this spectacular tournament to the finish. Georgetown is the home of this high power, high stakes event. Come try your luck and skill against some of the most talented players ever brought together in the House of Pong. Registration is open to all levels of play. Registration begins at 5 with games at 6.

Burton Snowboards Sample Sale ONE DAY ONLY

snowboards, bindings, boards, boots, jacket, parka’s, snow-pants, gloves, mittens, hoodies, tee’s, pants, jeans, denim, helmets, goggles, sunglasses, backcountry gear, beanies, hats, etc.

Friday March 28th, 4pm – 9pm
Cash only for proform prices (20% off wholesale)
Beer & food (for the worthy) provided by our good friends at Full Sail Ale
Music provided by DJ ANON-emous

Address:
3150 Elliott Ave, SUITE 105 (in the Northwest Work Lofts Building)

Directions:
1.5 blocks north of the Seattle Sculpture Park on Elliot Ave (look for the Burton “Jambulance” and Toyota trucks parked out front)

Just discovered a blog by Ariel Meadow Stallings. She is a writer and local blogger here in Seattle. Recently she started a blog about unplugging from her digital life once per week. I’ve said that I am addicted to the internet before, but I think she’s got a worse case than I do. Visit her blog.

Good friends of mine, Andrew and Ainsley Sundberg, got my wife and I a subscription to The Week. “The Week distills the best of the U.S. and foreign press into 44 pages–ideal for today’s busy lifestyle,” as described on the website.

The week has been a treasure to read during my long, daily, commute—two hours each day. Typically I have a short attention span and I skip over stories I’m not immediately interested in, but with The Week I force myself to read each article (except the theater stories).

Each week since November 2007 I’ve been learning something new about politics or wine and I feel that I am more educated because of this subscription. One of the best features of The Week is that there are virtually no ads and they are all full-page so I’m not bombarded by intrusive ads every other paragraph. I usually take two days to read The Week or four bus rides.

Follow-up to the post originally dated 2/1/2008…

I heard back from Joel a couple days ago. They decided to go with a name from a designer they also had working on the project. Joel’s team was aggressively seeking the most appropriate name for their needs and had a few teams of people working on the quest.

I am thankful for the opportunity to be creative for someone else. I have too many ideas rolling around in my head to know what to do with.

If you didn’t know. I like tinkering with words to make sentences. I also am very interested in branding and I have done some naming work in the past. It’s fun, but difficult as I told Joel, “It’s like naming a child.”

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This morning I opened up my Windows Media Player and checked out the Media Guide. I’ve never seen it before. The first thing I saw was a banner advertising a free Ice Cube live web concert broadcast from SXSW in Austin, Texas on March, 15th.

You can check out his latest video here. Listen to it and melt back into the 1990s.

Dear Ice Cube,
If you ever come to Seattle again I would much like to interview you.
-Kirk

“Everything can be described if it can be observed.” – Larry Cheek

Quote is from writing class last night. Larry talked about description in writing after a couple students used the word nondescript to describe objects in their “reporting by hanging around” articles. He challenged us to look more intently at subjects to find interesting details.

This past weekend my friend Sean played me Synthar’s album “Evenings and Weekends” on the way to “There Will Be Blood.”

I hadn’t heard of the band, but he told me that the members traded files back and forth over the Internet to produce the album. It’s electronic and wonderful to listen to while working on a project.

Not only is the music good, but the physical album jackets are cool too. They appear to be hand screenprinted.

Here are some links for you to investigate:

Official Synthar Website
Synthar Myspace
iLike Page