The semester is ending, summer is coming, so how does a University of Washington student celebrate?
Well, recently about 700 students stripped to their underwear and ran wild through campus in the third annual Undie Run.
The clothes students shed were gathered by Washington Student Public Interest Research Group and donated to Union Gospel Mission in Pioneer Square.
13 June 2009
03 June 2009
Search engines and seach lights
The Space Needle becomes a beacon for Microsoft's new search engine Bing.
30 May 2009
25 million hugs
Below is a video I did for Seattlepi.com about an Indian woman they call the "Hugging Saint."
Read more here.
Read more here.
18 May 2009
31 March 2009
1811 Eastlake, home
Nathaniel Porter, a resident at 1811 Eastlake - a home for people with chronic alcohol addiction - shows off his living quarters. Operated by the Downtown Emergency Service Center, the home offers residents a place to live safely while continuing to consume alcohol. A University of Washington study found the home saved taxpayers more than $4 million in 12 months because fewer residents visited emergency rooms, spent time in jail or relied on other social services.
27 March 2009
Moving North Seattle's Concrete Elephant
Driving along Aurora Avenue North yesterday and saw that bizarre concrete elephant being removed from its perch above Aurora. Reporter Casey McNerthney had also seen the pachyderm coming down while driving and stopped. Together we produced this short video.
25 March 2009
17 March 2009
King County Deaths
Browsing the final edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer this morning and noticed this:
I am going to miss working for the Print P-I.
14 March 2009
University District grafitti
Graffiti seems to have appeared overnight on the former Tubs spa in Seattle's University District. The building has been vacant for a couple of years but was kept relatively clear of grafitti; until recently. One nearby resident said he saw graffiti artists on scaffolding in the middle of the day and assumed they had permission to paint the building.
11 March 2009
The Seattle P-I eclipses the moon
I have always wanted to photograph a full moon behind my newspaper's giant neon globe.
The likely closure of the Post-Intelligencer newspaper, last night's full moon, the clear sky and a serious need for some solitude on the water prompted me to finally make that happen.
The challenge was to align the globe with the rising moon: One needs to be on the water, with a long, fast and heavy lens. An inflatable kayak launched at nearby Myrtle Edwards Park got me into position. A compass, a GPS and a lunar azimuth table helped me place the kayak to catch the moon rising behind the globe.
A few minutes after the 7:15 p.m. moonrise, the two globes were aligned perfectly and I began making photographs. The challenge was to hold my position in a kayak in 10 knot winds, 500 yards offshore, while holding about $8,000 worth of camera and lens.
Here is the result:
The likely closure of the Post-Intelligencer newspaper, last night's full moon, the clear sky and a serious need for some solitude on the water prompted me to finally make that happen.
The challenge was to align the globe with the rising moon: One needs to be on the water, with a long, fast and heavy lens. An inflatable kayak launched at nearby Myrtle Edwards Park got me into position. A compass, a GPS and a lunar azimuth table helped me place the kayak to catch the moon rising behind the globe.
A few minutes after the 7:15 p.m. moonrise, the two globes were aligned perfectly and I began making photographs. The challenge was to hold my position in a kayak in 10 knot winds, 500 yards offshore, while holding about $8,000 worth of camera and lens.
Here is the result:
Edith Macefield's last stand still stands
A while back I posted photos and a story about Edith Macefield, a Ballard woman who refused an offer of $1 million from a developer for her small home. She became a Seattle legend as the building rose around the defiant and elderly woman.
In June of 2008 she passed away and left her humble abode to the foreman of the construction site.
The building is now complete and the tenants, including LA Fitness and Trader Joes have moved in. Edith's former industrial neighborhood of warehouses and vacant lots is now populated by people in workout clothes who buy organic and drive Range Rovers.
Here is today's story.
Edith's house is squeezed between towering concrete walls of development.
A Range Rover takes the spot where Edith used to park her little blue car.
Ms. Macefield's handicapped parking sign sits with a pile of recycling and trash in her yard.
In June of 2008 she passed away and left her humble abode to the foreman of the construction site.
The building is now complete and the tenants, including LA Fitness and Trader Joes have moved in. Edith's former industrial neighborhood of warehouses and vacant lots is now populated by people in workout clothes who buy organic and drive Range Rovers.
Here is today's story.
Edith's house is squeezed between towering concrete walls of development.
A Range Rover takes the spot where Edith used to park her little blue car.
Ms. Macefield's handicapped parking sign sits with a pile of recycling and trash in her yard.
25 February 2009
The Word: Scale
scale
Pronunciation: \ˈskāl\
Function: noun
Pronunciation: \ˈskāl\
Function: noun
- 1 a: either pan or tray of a balance b: a beam that is supported freely in the center and has two pans of equal weight suspended from its ends —usually used in plural2: an instrument or machine for weighing
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