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the good stuff: craigmod

by Eric Franklin on March 7, 2010

I recently discovered the craigmod journal, a smallish set of well-articulated explorations on book design, photography, illustration, and interactive design. Each entry in the craigmod journal is a gem: clear writing, lots of data, thoughtful layout, and beautiful design. It’s a reminder of how wonderful a blog can be when the focus is on quality [...]

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I could sing the praises of The Frye Art Museum until the end of time. After all, who can argue with the power of free – especially when you’re talking about a wonderful collection of art and the outstanding rotating exhibitions (see “The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art”) that come through the [...]

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Seattle’s “Hammering Man” a recent amputee

by Eric Franklin on November 25, 2009

According to a blog at the Seattle P-I, Jonathan Borofsky’s “Hammering Man,” beloved art icon owned by the City of Seattle, and the logo-sake of this very blog, has had to have his arm removed for repairs.

The Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs has posted that they believe the sculpture will have his [...]

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Happenings at The Puget News

by Eric Franklin on November 25, 2009

It’s been a busy few days at TPN and I apologize for the recent lack of postings. Rest assured, there is some good stuff coming for you shortly. So what’s been happening? I’m glad you asked.
As some of you may have read in my twitter feed, I had some issue migrating the blog over [...]

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Amazon Announces Top 100 Books of 2009

by Eric Franklin on November 2, 2009

I always think it’s a bit *ahem* manufactured when the Top 100 books of 2009 are announced with 16.66% of the year still left to go, but I guess that’s how you help drum up holiday sales. Anyways, Amazon announced its top 100 Books of the Year today.
The full list is here.
Here are the [...]

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Has Infinite Summer Gone Dark for Good? Did #drac kill it?

by Eric Franklin on November 1, 2009

I’ve been participating in the Infinite Summer project since it began back in June. The project brought together tons of people around the world to read Infinite Jest throughout the summer and then more recently read Dracula during the month of October.
I’ve been hosting bi-weekly Seattle area meetups throughout the online reading projects and [...]

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Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land has a candid and lengthy interview with Eric Schmidt on the future of newspapers and journalism, along with clarification of Google’s interest in the discussion. It’s a really well-done and thoughtful interview that is well worth your time and may surprise you on many fronts.
I was especially intrigued [...]

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Undistinguished Exteriors Obscuring Interior Sophistication

by Eric Franklin on September 3, 2009

As some of you know, I own a piece of mountain property in the hills above Walla Walla that we use for camping. The property overlooks the Walla Walla valley and consists of an excavated flat spot, driveway, shed and fire pit – that’s it. The remoteness of the property and the fact that we [...]

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Does our “way of life” scale?

by Eric Franklin on July 4, 2009

Lately, in strident conversations with friends, I’ve noticed myself returning to a particular viewpoint. For ease of use, let’s call it the “imagine everyone lived that way” view. When my friends discuss locavorism or transportation one of the first things I try to do do is scale the conversation to infinite participants and see where [...]

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