"Emerald City Overwatch Brigade" by Taylor Hain 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......

"light marks" by Jonathan Hanlon Saint Mark's Cathedral, perched atop the north end of Capitol Hill, where an excellent choir chants the Compline Service—and which lends itself to stunning black-and-white photos. Thanks for sharing!......

"Reading-the-funnies" by Greg Phipps (El Gregein) How much do we love you, sweet Flickr pool of ours? So, so much. And it's shots like these that make it so. There's more where this came from, so dive in and share your own.......

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." Well, think again Nick, because Guy Maddin's latest critically-acclaimed film, "docu-fantasia" My Winnipeg has......

untitled by flckrd1 e n r at u i d s end r it i c |+- built l a n d scapes r rectil i n e a r ...the seattlest pool is the gray areas in between. thanks for sharing!......

"bw drawbridge" by Coffee Jitters This photograph looks like it could have been taken decades ago except for the contemporary boat on the right side of the frame. It reminds of us of the old photos we worked with at the archives. The blacks are so dark and the greys are so rich... it's so still and melancholy. The combination of the sky and bridge's structure seems quintessentially Washingtonian; it takes us to Aberdeen......

"ash grove cement" by Andy Lachance ...from one of our favorite parts of town. Guess our other favorite parts of town, photograph them, and drop them in our pool.......

untitled by Adrian Harwood You never know when someone might be taking your picture. And you never know when that picture might end up in our Flickr pool. Thanks for snapping, and thanks sharing!......

Untitled by Aaron Morris Mr. Aaron Morris captures the delicious excess and melodrama of Catholicism in this long exposure. Thank you for sharing this gorgeous photo! Add your beautiful exposures to the Seattlest Flickr Pool right now.......

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. The protest has been spawned by a proposed city protocol, which would force people living in "illegal encampments" to vacate and find somewhere else to live within 48......

Pinnacle Iceberg, East Greenland 2006 © Camille Seaman 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......

"coming and going" by Todd Bates This lovely composition looks right out of the 1950s --except for the schleps on the left who forgot to dress the part. Regardless, they make this photo. Wire your own wonderfully anachronistic photographs to the Seattlest Flickr Pool. Thanks for sharing, Todd.......

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. So we'll admit it here and......

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.)......

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.......

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......

Back in October we posted about not being able to get our grubby little eyes on Jonathan Raban's new novel until January. The month has come and, now, gone, and the book is available at all your favorite retail outlets - Tonight Jonathan's reading from it at Queen Anne Books. If you've never heard Jonathan Raban speak you're nearly as impoverished as if you'd never read any of his books. He seems to write out......

Regarding Friday's Amy Millan show at the Triple Door, we draw a parallel between ourselves and Amy Millan's feet. Amy arrived on stage in a cute little black dress, with open toed black and white shoes. She spent much of the show shifting her weight, with the shoes' "cute" apparently not equating to "comfort." Likewise, we spent much of the show getting used to the Triple Door environment and the fact that we were at......

Seattlest gets around. Sometimes we eat in Ballard, and sometimes we make it all the way down to West Seattle. Thursday night, we were at the opening of Blackbird Bistro, a new restaurant right by the Admiral Theatre (unlike an identically named venue in Chicago, this Admiral shows movies, rather than naked ladies). For the time being, Blackbird will be serving lunch and dinner, with weekend brunch debuting sometime next month. They're trying to promote......

Seattlest shelled out the $255 and got our new license-plate tag in the mail the other day. (Remind us to tell you the story sometime about the time our brother's mother-in-law, horrified at the state of affairs at her daughter's apartment, took the initiative to vacuum...and inadvertently vacuumed up their new license-plate tag.) Imagine our surprise when we popped open the envelope to retrieve the world's most expensive sticker and saw what's pictured on this......

Way back in Seattlest's infancy (ah, February) we encouraged you to attend the silent movie series at The Paramount. We took our own advice on that one, and we have to say that the experience was incredible. We saw the world through black and white glasses for days afterwards until modern life yanked us from our 1919 fantasy. That's why we were so grateful for the reminder that another silent series was beginning at the......

While most of Seattle was out playing in the sun the last few days, two more candidates emerged for this fall's election. Mayor Nickels received his first opponent in the form of Christal Wood, who ran as a write-in candidate for mayor in 2001, and for a seat on the council in 2003. The Times described her as a "long-shot candidate" announcing her run for mayor in a tight little blurb. The PI, who endorsed......