the sun makes a glorious spring appearance

A sunny day in Seattle

a lunchtime walk in the cold sunlight

It is that time of year again....

Embrace Life

Who would have thought a seat belt ad could be so beautiful.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM

thanks to DavidAE!

a window seat at the cafe

Urban Achievers

Igor's Zeppelin cover band played last night. It was my first adventure in West Seattle...

9/11 images - the World Trade Center

Newly released aerial photographs taken by the New York City Police Department.

Beautiful and terrible.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/02/10/nyregion/20100210-WORLDTRADE_index.html

finalists?

two last minute entries

the Prius

I needed to take the Prius in for $75K service and decided to bring up - one more time - the braking issue I have had with this car since i got it in 2004. (I heard a radio report last night on the 2010 Prius issues - and it sounded remarkably like the problem I have for the last six years. It proved to be a frustrating experience. If there is no response from Toyota in two weeks, I'll be contacting the NTSB.

graphic design work

Another season of Tuning the Air is on the horizon - and that means a new poster design...











It always seems important to include some out-of-this-world ideas, and these are what I came up with.




In working on these I found the logo a huge constraint. It needs to be large enough to read the letters from a distance. The result is that it takes up a good deal of real estate on the poster.

Feb 5 2010

I was out making the usual cloud images for my graphics files when suddenly....


a crow convention appears