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The Stranger on the OSP

Jen Graves of The Stranger has an intriguing perspective on the Olympic Sculpture Park (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=137180). Also, check out the Time magazine article on the OSP and similar urban parks (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580397,00.html).

Yay for Design Commission :)

cat on a keyboard in space

I am still working on uploading pictures from Pike Place last Friday. In the mean time, I bring you the cosmic cat.

Pike Place Marketiness

So, I've only been living in Seattle since school started and I've only made my way down to Pike Place Market once (I think) before with my sister. We were just wondering around and I didn't think it was anything spectacular... but this time I found it amazing! Just talking to some of the "shop" keepers, and how they've been there for 35 years and such... I just find it facinating. And the whole underworld of the market -- which I so didn't know was there until Blake pulled me down the stairs. The first thing I thought was "wow, I want to have a dance down here". Don't know why.

But I love the atmosphere of the place... it's so busy and bustling and exploding with an almost antique energy... I love it.

Great field trip :)

chocolate soup and....rachael

Aaaaaaah the picture thing on here is driving me crrrrrrrazy. I don't know what's going on with all that...but i'll figure it out eventually. In the mean time, there it is. Awkward but whatever

SO, PIKE PLACE!!!
Yea...i have been there quite a few times. Spending summers dancing in seattle since I was 14, plus living here

for the past three years, I love pike place but it does get really touristy. It seems like some people think that pike place is so seattle and they go there to get a real taste of the city but it seems funny because no one from seattle really hangs out there. It has become just one huge tourist spot. However, it is a lot of fun.

I had some columbian hot chocolate for the first time! It was SO good. The texture was more like chocolate soup but it was amazing. Our team also got some doughnuts from the stand near the fish throwers. Yea, to me Pike Place is a lot about good food. For real, they have such good food down there!

You can see above a man with a tennis ball. Yes, they put people's payment into the tennis balls and then they throw it to the cashier. It's supposed to be more efficient I guess. If it were me throwing the credit cards around, i don't know how efficient it would really be.

Aren't my teamates the cutest?? They are a good time. yes they are.

-abby

On Broadway!

So i found some interesting stuff...

Check this out...

Society Theatre, c.1913

According to the Junchen opus lists, the Broadway Society Theatre originally had a 2/7 tubular pneumatic Kimball organ, installed in 1909. In 1921, the Society Theatre was renamed the Broadway Theatre.

Broadway Theater in 1948

Broadway Theater...errr Rite Aid Today.

....I have a feeling I'm going to become the "Blog nerd" in this group.

C'mon ppl! BLOG BLOG BLOG!

The Market Of Death

How could the weather be so shitty and it not rain? That's what i remember thinking when we were walking to the Pike Place Market. Afterwards I called to order a pizza from Pagliacci and their greeting message said that the classification of the weather that day was "dreary". I sat there and listened to the hold music and decided that I agreed with them. Huh...

Our group consists of Ka-Bing, Aimee, and myself.

My name is Greg Larson and yes, I am from Seattle. Pike Place is just another spot where outsiders like to shop for food while I just go to QFC. It's okay though. I like walking around and seeing the people that come and visit Seattle. They act like little kids in a toy store. Awestruck by every little detail in the 100+ year old structure, they walk around from booth to booth, shop to shop and enjoy every part of it. Or at least that's what it seems like to me.

This time i got more of a feeling that it is a tourist point. Postcards, thimbles, shot glasses, and t-shirts stands seem to stick out more than usual. I wonder if it would be cool to send someone a postcard from the city you live in. no?

Other highlights of this journey to the, normally crowed, market where:

-The neon coloured , sheer, headdresses (which i tried to coax the girls in to wearing)
-The Dried Fruit Stand
-The Fish guy that hit on Amiee
-The Prime Rib Sandwich I ate for lunch
-Watching Sean ride the pig
-Going in the very first Starbucks (my first time)
-Finding out there still might be culture left to find for someone who grew up in Seattle.

We did our little scavenger hunt assignment and then walked aimlessly for an hour. I don't know...

Pike Place Market... a little over rated? Maybe... It might just be I am older. I remember this summer I went on a trip to the ocean and as we drove in the back country we came across a deer. Everyone in the whole car was SOOO fucking amazed, like they've never seen a fucking deer before. Or like it fucking came down from a spaceship and was here to eat our brains out and implant us with cyborg deer brains so we'll do their bidding. I sat there and thought, "oh a dear". Needless to say everyone got mad at me because I didn't see what the big fucking deal was about a dumb ass dear standing in the middle of the road. Maybe that's the problem with with me...

Some of our trips I've already experienced. I believe the next one will gather more emotion...

Team 3 Findings

Team 3 (Kim, Sean, and Jessie)

What is the significance of the pig--
After asking everyone we came across at the different shops, the best answer we got was "I don't know...it's just there." Well, we later realized that right above the pig was a plaque that explained everything about it. We felt pretty stupid. So...yeah, I guess it's a piggy bank. A really big piggy bank.

Why do the workers at City fish toss yellow tennis balls around--
They do this to pass money and credit cards back and forth.

Fish Seller--
Ryan
worked there for 1 year and 8 months (2nd newest employee)
the source of the fish is the puget sound
recommended the fresh black cod steaks

Fruit/Vegetable Seller--
Leslie
worked there for 16 years
produce comes from local farmers outside CA and Chile
she said her favorite thing to do at the market was take advantage of all the free samples

Crafts Person--
*She was selling pepperjelly, but we considered that a craft and she was such a nice lady, we had to include her
Ligaya
worked there for 10 years
Micks Peppourri comes from Yakima Valley
she would recommend the new cheescake place accross the speech

Optional--
*Honey stand
Kelsey
worked there August
comes from Northbend
recommends the craft line

SHOCK FACTOR!

Just for fun.... HAHA!

CELEBRITY SIGHTING!

...I got bored. Jeezzz.

Pigs and Crumpets

Pike Place was a fun lil' trip. I enjoyed spending time with my team and getting to know them a little bit more on a personal level. Kim and Jessie are 2 awesome people! We all walked around and talked about our own experiences here in Seattle, and then ate Crumpets at the Crumpet Shop. We did our assignments (Talking to strangers) and found that most of the people there were really nice and willing to offer up as much info as possible. We found out that the people that work at Pike Place Fish Co. have to work from 6:30am to 6:30pm... NUTS! Imagine spending that much of your life with dead fish... Oh, and Abbey likes to Rodeo on Rachel the pig!

Critical perspective on the Olympic Sculpture Park

Check this out. What do you think?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2003529633_sculpturereview18.html

Olympic Sculpture Park - featured in Seattle Times article

Click on this link to read the latest about Seattle's new Olympic Sculpture Park:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003524511&slug=sculpturepark140&date=20070114

Welcome!

Welcome to the Spring semester of "Seattle Arts Ecology." Please make use of this space to share your thoughts, questions, discoveries, and realizations.