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[FILM] Eames: The Architect and the Painter

by Eric Franklin on October 30, 2011

Opens in movie theaters, November 18th. Another story of dropouts changing the world. A recurring plot with the right kind of dangerous consequences?

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Looking for a little something to do this weekend?

by Eric Franklin on August 5, 2011

It’s the last weekend of Seattle Shakespeare Company’s “Wooden O” park performance of “A Comedy of Errors.” You can see the show tonight, tomorrow and Sunday at 7PM in Luther Burbank Park on Mercer Island. The show is open to all and based on donation. With the way the weather is shaping up for the [...]

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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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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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Art Walk in Seattle today

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 [...]

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MoMA’s Tim Burton retrospective opens November 22nd

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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Gianni Colombo. He, like, messes with your mind man.

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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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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Trailer for Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”

by Eric Franklin on July 28, 2009

Um, yeah. I’ll be seeing this. I just hate having to wait until March of 2010.

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New Murakami novel, “1Q84,” selling like hotcakes

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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