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The lunchtime presenter at Seed 3 was Edward Lifson who dropped in to tell us a bit about the building we were in. I’ll admit, I loved the Seed Conference, but Crown Hall was easily one of the largest stars of the day for me. I became an enthusiastic Mies van der Rohe fan while [...]
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Jason Fried decided to part with the “Getting Real” presentations he’s been giving for a while and focused on why the details matter and how 37signals thinks about the details of their products. His talk was sprinkled with tons of application demonstrations and interface development experience. Fried started with a high level discussion on the [...]
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Imagine standing in a completely vacant Shibuya Station admiring the lines: up, down, left, right. Beautiful. An opportunity that doesn’t exist in the everyday. It has the atmosphere of one of those hidden spaces accessed through Haruki Murakami’s fiction. Does anyone have an idea of how to take a screenshot of a flash tour like [...]
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We’re in the process of closing on some beautiful property outside of Walla Walla in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. As a result, we’ve been very interested in pre-fab and/or very inexpensive structures that will allow us to enjoy the property on long weekends. “The Shack at Hinkle Farm” by Broadhurst Architects is exactly [...]
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Two outstanding pieces of Chilean architecture with some striking similarities. Spa Las palmas de Leyda / Cristobal Valenzuela Haeussler – A beautiful Chilean Spa retreat. Natural slatted wood exterior outside of the windows provides privacy while still allowing light. Straight lines, clean, floor to ceiling windows. House on the road to Farellones / Max Nuñez [...]
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My mother came to town late last week and Jan and I took her to Walla Walla to do some wine touring and look at some property. If you live in Washington and you have not been to Walla Wall yet, get out there as soon as you can because it’s moving up-scale in price [...]
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I’m not the most well-versed theatre-goer you’ve ever met. I don’t know the major playwrights or the “can’t miss” plays that come through town. What I do know, however, is that “Three Days of Rain” (playing through February 24th) is an exquisitely written piece by Richard Greenberg and that the production is ably directed and [...]
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Pogo Furniture is an idea whose time has come. Discovered via this post at the Signal vs. Noise blog.
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