art walk

my attempt to get my co-workers out and about for extracurricular activities failed miserably. well that's not entirely true. i did get 2 co-workers to come to art walk with me. we visited the usually galleries. the opening of the new james harris gallery was fantastic! beautiful video installations that made my heart pound (i dont know why!?). this one in particular of a (paper?) airplane flying around and then through a tent. i wished i was high!

Attention, 2005
Single-channel video installation, silent
Edition of five and one artist’s proof

the animations were by a fellow named gary hill. also playing was a video of a two goats walking in circles. it was almost like watching those "sphere" desktop screen savers on your old microsoft computer. you know, the one that changed into a square, then a ball, then a spikey looking ball, then back to a square again. well the goats kept walking in circles but then would walk through each other. it was so strange.

Church and State, 2005
Single-channel video/sound installation
Edition of five and one artist’s proof

the star of the gallery was definitely mary quan knight, whose picture of a gun on a bed seriously never looked so sexy. tarantino must have seen her work before...

Margot Quan Knight
Pistoletto, 2008
96” x 54” x 8”
Fujitrans print mounted on plexi, 2-way mirror, plexiglass, aluminum fluorescent light box, wood
Edition of 2, 1AP

at gallery4culture, cutesy needlework one of which had a portrait of Rza's face and others with quaint images...

Allison Manch - Saturn's Return

good stuff!

we have internet! i woke up on saturday morning (with a minor hangover from hh at moe bar) determined to get my internet connection working. i had forgotten that my ethernet connection on the computer tower is loose so that is why i could never get that little green light blinking on the modem. finally after 20 minutes of tweaking, i got my connection up and running and officially wireless. score!

brian and i moseyed on up to my new favorite store, last waltz, on 18th ave and e union. i found a card for my sis, a beautiful tin that i want to fill with lemon drop or ribbon candies, and one of my best purchases ever - a scarf that i'm hanging on my dining room wall. it's gorgeous!


tin, dining room, scarf

afterwards, we headed to cafe presse for "coffee and a baguette" and ended up ordering caramelized onion soup, a croque monsieur, frites, a baguette, and a demi-pichet of wine. so much for a light lunch. the baguette is served with a rich french style butter and a house made rhubarb jam that i can't get enough of. brett, you would totally dig it! every time i have something that contains rhubarb i think of you.


butter/rhubarb jam/baguette, delicious fare at Cafe Presse

later in the evening, dom and aaron came over. the snow that fell outside made my apartment feel cozy. we drank a copious amount of wine, listened to music and talked all evening. it's been a good weekend.

"these are the good times that you'll miss..."

i love spring time in seattle even if it is raining intermittently all day long!


cherry blossom trees in front of my building

brian and i saw jens lekman last night at neumos. fantastic show. jens is just so precious! i want to squeeze him! his band consisted of two Swedish girls, one on drums, one on bass and to mid-westerners one on cello and the other on violin. i'm not sure what the other guy did...

SXSW '08

i'm finally getting back in the groove of my life here in seattle. after spending almost a week in austin, it's hard to get back in the slow poke mindset that everyone else here lives in. we saw a ridiculous amount of bands. most notably, thurston moore, fleet foxes, blitzen trapper, jens lekman, and atlas sound. the list goes on and on. also, i think i'm having withdrawal symptoms from lack of cigarettes, free beer, tex-mex, and bbq.

right: katie and i looking real haggard after hours of rock band