SAM Noir by Manuel W. from the Seattlest Flickr pool.
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Looks like the end of the world as we know it--and they feel fine. Another glorious post-apocalyptic shot from the talented Seattlest Flickr Poolmore ›
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Paula, lovely in black and white, by Timwillis, generously shared in our Flickr pool. Happy birthday, Paula. Thanks for sharing, Tim. Join on in, everyone else.
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Seattlest Pix: 09Mar27
"MLK and Jackson" by Kyle Johnson (kjten22) , from the Seattlest Flickr pool
Seattlest Pix: 08Aug02
Looks like the end of the world as we know it--and they feel fine. Another glorious post-apocalyptic shot from the talented Seattlest Flickr Pool
Next Stop: My Winnipeg
Guy Maddin films are not for everyone. With his love of silent film flourishes and his often bizarre sense of humor, Maddin can easily confound viewers. To wit: we have a good friend who lives and breathes cinema. He likes his films weird and dark and avant garde. But even he says of Maddin, "I just can't handle the guy."
Campout at City Hall
Real Change is setting up camp at City Hall, to protest the city's handling of homelessness and new policies regarding homeless encampments. The planned protest is scheduled for March 13th, with Real Change encouraging supporters to "bring a tent and a friend" down to City Hall.
Can't Miss It: Monday
Over at the Seattle Times, Sheila Farr was knocked out by Camille Seaman's show, The Last Iceberg, at Photographic Center Northwest. You can preview some of her photos here. Like Edward Burtynsky's photographs of quarries and trash heaps, there's a troubling aesthetic at work. Reflected in the dissolving grandeur of Seaman's ice-scapes is global warming. Says Farr:
A member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, born in 1969, Seaman records images that suggest a twilight-of-the-gods scenario at the melting polar ice cap. She points it out in the title of her eerie 2006 "Valhalla." Craggy frozen figures seem to be left standing after a production that has played out and ended badly — reminiscent of an earlier age when mastodons were caught in a cryogenic wind, summer daisies between their teeth.more ›
Get Out This Weekend: 14/48 at CHAC
We've got less than totally positive feelings about the sate of theater today. In fact, last time the subject came up in the Seattlest newsroom, we were vociferous in our belief that it's a dead art form. But whenever we take such a dramatic and unwavering stance on one side of a debate, we're reminded that the world is not black and white and is actually shades of gray.
Seattlest Pix: 07Nov21
Slightlynorth is one of our busiest and best Flickr pool contributors. "Delivery"? Delightful. Bonus points for black and white and for being shot on film. Thanks! (Mystery: who will be the lucky 400th member of our pool? You? We'll find out any day now.)...
Seattlest Pix: 07Nov14
Seattle Repertory Bluegrass
We were really looking forward to Seattle Rep's Fire on the Mountain last night, in part because it's an Appalachian coal mining thing and we love the Steven Segal movie Fire Down Below based on the same. Yes, we know, it's an indication of some serious flaw in our cultural map if upon hearing "Appalachian coal mining" we respond with "Steven Segal!" Maybe we fixed it last night. Maybe the next time we hear "Appalachian coal mining" we'll respond with "Fire on the Mountain at the Seattle Repertory Theater through March 24!" All we remember from Segal's version is that he saves some mining town and gets the girl through strength of body and character. Seattle Rep's production does a much better job of communicating the blatant rape of culture, people and land of the southern mountains that was (and is) perpetrated by the coal mines. They cover the low wages, black lung, cave-ins, busted families, ruined earth, the unions, strip mining, flight to the cities, the end of agrarian society, man's inability to confront death without a fistful of morphine, etc, all via song. The black and white photographs of Appalachian miners that were projected on large screens behind the musicians were a great addition, although none of the photos depicted a greasy-haired man with a little paunch righteously delivering a roundhouse to the face of a one-dimensional bad guy.
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