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Jan 07, 2009
Politics

National Portrait Gallery Gets Obama Poster

Shepard Fairey’s ubiquitous illustration of President-elect Barack Obama, seen in rallies, parties, shop windows and construction sites throughout the 2008 election season, has found a permanent home. The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D...

Jan 07, 2009
Microsoft

Relevancy

Oh yeah, I forgot that Ballmer was giving the keynote at CES tonight. It’s funny how much can change in just a year after leaving the ‘Soft.

Jan 07, 2009
Photography

Seattle in Miniature

These awesome tilt-shifted photos of Seattle—shot by Erynn Rose—make me feel like I stumbled into the neighborhood of Make-Believe. You can buy the book on Blurb, or see more of Erynn’s photos on Flickr.

Jan 07, 2009
Music

The Most Unwanted Song

Head on over to the Slog and listen to the song; there’s an embedded music player at the bottom of the blog entry. This thing is totally, awesomely terrible. If you can tolerate it for 30 seconds, listen to the portion from about 5:40 - 6:10. It’...

Jan 07, 2009
Seattle

Wetter than usual

Seattle is wetter than usual today. It’s been raining since last night, and some areas around here are expected to receive 10-20” before it’s all over. Needless to say, this amount of rainfall is way above the minimum level required for flooding a...

Jan 06, 2009
Politics

Breaking: Norm Coleman to challenge election results

Just heard on Minnesota Public Radio that Coleman is going to challenge the election results that determined Al Franken to be the winner of the very close Minnesota Senatorial race for Paul Wellstone’s old seat. I’m disappointed but not surprised.

Jan 06, 2009
Photography

Fear of Failure and Portrait Lighting for Beginners

If you’ve ever taken a gander through my collection of photos on Flickr, you’ve probably noticed that I don’t shoot many people, and when I do, it’s normally candid photo work. There’s a really simple reason for this: I don’t find portrait work to...