by Eric Franklin on March 17, 2010
Just in time for Tracy Boyd’s guided tour on Friday (see my invitation to TPN fans here), The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has just announced that they will now allow photographs to be taken from within the main collection halls -something which has always been a strict no-no (just ask my fiancee Jan how sneaky [...]
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by Eric Franklin on March 8, 2010
The data I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the soon-to-be-released iPads coming on April 3rd will include an onboard camera and video chart enabled via iChat [NOTE: I Am wrong. See update at bottom of post]. I think Apple just hinted it very strongly with the commercial that aired during [...]
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by Eric Franklin on March 4, 2010
It’s 1st Thursday and you know what that means – Art Walk! Are any of you going out tonight? What are the “can’t miss” shows and artists you’re excited to check out? Let me know in the comments. The photo is from a new work hanging on the outside of the burned out Simba’s on [...]
by Eric Franklin on November 17, 2009
I finally make it to NYC for the first time in September and now I need to find a way to get back straightaway for this Tim Burton exhibit from November 22nd – April 26th. The samples shown in the interview look incredible. New York Mag has a short show preview and a slideshow you [...]
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by Eric Franklin on November 13, 2009
Gonna be in Turin, Italy, any time soon (like before January 10, 2010)? Yeah, me neither, but if I were I’d want to check out the Gianni Colombo exhibit at Castello di Rivoli. Colombo puts the viewer at the center of his art and if the picture is anything to be believed may attempt to [...]
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Gruppo T,
Henry Art Gallery,
James Turrell
by Eric Franklin on November 5, 2009
Renda Dodge is a Seattle-based author who just published her first book, “Inked” in October. During the month of November, she is participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) – for the 5th time! Renda is also the South Seattle Municipal Liaison for NaNoWriMo which means she’s helping a bunch of less experienced NaNoWriMo-ers come [...]
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by Eric Franklin on July 28, 2009
Um, yeah. I’ll be seeing this. I just hate having to wait until March of 2010.
by Eric Franklin on June 10, 2009
The new Murakami 2-volume novel is selling fast enough to set records for the publisher in Japan. I wonder how long we’ll have to wait to see this one in the US? The publisher and Murakami, who rarely gives media interviews, kept a veil over “1Q84,” which can be read as “1984″ in Japanese, after [...]
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by Eric Franklin on May 11, 2009
Amazon today announced that the Kindle iPhone app supports purchasing of Kindle e-books. This should bring a compelling e-book offering to the more than 35 million iPhone and iPod touches already in the marketplace. In one simple update, the market for ebooks just got a whole lot bigger. I’ve seen a lot of sites discussing [...]
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by Eric Franklin on May 4, 2009
How meta can you get? The New York Times is reporting that big-screen e-readers are coming to the aid of beleaguered newspaper and print publications and that Amazon will be the first to the party, as early as this week: An Amazon spokesman would not comment, but some news organizations, including The New York Times, [...]
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