If they cared about the city then they wouldn't limit all their planning to a few adjacent neighborhoods. Expanding to other spots would help spread the economic benefits to other parts of town and businesses, it would also lessen the burden on transit by not sending everyone to the same area.
If they cared about the sport then they'd take this opportunity to fund murals that are soccer related. Seattle doesn't really have soccer street art and we are hosting the world cup, with fans seeing "every corner of the city" there should be soccer murals in those corners.
SeattleFWC26 committee pisses me off, 2 big public decisions they've made are spitting in our faces. First they fund large murals but don't make them soccer related, now they claim that "every corner of the city" is just downtown. They don't care about the sport or the city.
Do it, Luis. You have the green light for the first time in your life
Graffiti is also largely about democratizing who can paint so it doesn't have the same extent of gatekeeping and barriers to entry which inherently promotes diversity.
You could maybe make an argument that graffiti (tags in particular) is sufficiently stylistically similar that it also creates a monoculture. My counter to that is that graffiti is a highly diverse genre of art but most people don't care to see the nuance.
I like Henry's work but at the same time agree that he has far too many opportunities, it makes it harder for other artists to get a chance and it creates a visual monoculture.
I funny aspect of Seattle's street art/graffiti discourse online is that there is unsurprisingly a ton of hate for tags but there is also a ton of hate for Henry's murals.
I know I'm day dreaming.
If the pendulum swings the other direction from online short form content and algorithmic recommendations, it's opinionated and curated print media.
I'm thinking along the lines of a city having a host of periodicals that focus on one niche interest or another. For Seattle I could see some for the music scene, the art/gallery showings, coffee and biking subcultures, and local sports. High production value, quality images, long form articles.
As the internet, media, and social media becomes increasingly tainted and dominated by ai slop, I hope that we see a cultural reaction which leads to a renaissance of curated local print media.
I misremembered Alysa Liu's piercing's name, which is frenulum, as frenum...and it was a bit shocking to look that up.
I get it, but having the corner store legislation require the biz close by 10pm is a real bummer. I'd love to have a low key local bar in Ballard, in one of the quieter parts of the neighborhood mixed amongst the houses, with an occasional jazz + trivia night, like a Targy's but a bit less of a dive
Ok, so underground suburbia has some storyline implications...it all makes sense, in that the people who have power don't make sense.
Want some insight into what I'm like? ... My therapist recommended I read "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Melville.
A short story about a person who is so apathetic about life that they continually say "I'd prefer not to", to the point of literally starve to death.
Supposedly the WA state cannabis industry is not doing well. There was a lil bubble at the start of covid that has now popped, big companies are undercutting small producers (reminds me of Walmart in the 2000's), and most brands are becoming white labels for the big corps.
I'm not too surprised by the news though. Turns out I have been smoking a Solstice brand for the past 5 years and I didn't even know it was them. Their site hasn't been active for years and their socials haven't been active for years, the bare minimum for retail businesses nowadays.
My budtender and I got talking and they told me that Solstice Grown is closing but I can't find any news/info on it. Has anyone else hear about this?
Solstice was the first legal cannabis producer in WA and advocated for policy changes, feels like a big loss.
Having the last name "Trees" means I've run into this to a certain extent forever.
One that pisses me off is "Speed" for "iShowSpeed", I would love to ignore him but I can't mute the word "speed".
Recently the one that annoyed me is "solstice" as a weed brand name.
Something that has bothered me more and more as I've gotten older is when something is named after a really common word making it impossible to mute online without overly filtering and impossible to effectively search for it without getting a bunch of noise.
If you made a Seattle mural and you didn't include the needle did you really make a Seattle mural?
Great piece on murals as urban identity and placemaking. Sean Morl struck a great balance between humor and legitimate critiques of sterile advertiser friendly public art.
Oh god, start of episode 2 and they are flying heavy equipment in and stuff out by helicopter, how is that at all efficient, if they did all this digging did they not build out infrastructure for ground shipping?
I started watching the show "Paradise" and (first episode spoilers) it bothers me that they made an underground city and still made it car centric and included suburbia.
It's been a bad week for gaming.
Think of how horrible Black Friday is/was and how over time we have increased the window for retail savings with Cyber Monday and Prime Day (which is now more than a day). We've learned that having a single day designated for sale shopping creates headaches and chaos.
I was with him until sales tax "holiday". Why a holiday, why limit it to a single day which means that it still doesn't help working families >99% of the time? Why a holiday where it adds admin overhead for the state and has the potential to create weird incentives for buyers and sellers.
But why? What was Cortes' reasoning? Seems pretty straightforward of a change and it doesn't effect his district.
CROSSFIRE sharks and blowfish by S.Leonard. street art - truck sign. Crossfire theme.
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