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Adam and Sean with shuttlecock in the air.

May 14, 2010 | No Comments »

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Image taken on 2004-07-25 14:39:13 by bump.

Does anyone have any pictures of a kid’s playground ‘ride’ that was (nick)named ‘The Bobby’s Helmet’?

February 05, 2010 | 3 Comments »

It was a tall steel tubular pole with a frame (similar to a shuttlecock) ‘balanced’ on the top. This frame had a wooden ledge around the bottom that kids stood on and a handrail part way up. The frame spun but also ‘rocked’. The last time I saw one the frame had been removed – H&S again.

RCOP Picnic

February 05, 2010 | No Comments »


Simply a video and stills recording of a picnic of members of the Real Change Organizing Project celebrating last month’s action (see my three previous uploads). The video shows some amusing attempts of picnickers to keep a badmitton shuttlecock in the air, and some stray comments from myself, such as , “The object is to hit it, Anitra” and “Hit it higher, Anitra.” The picnic was held in Seattle’s unique Gas Works Park, and closes with a couple of images taken of it as we left near sunset. This is also a test of a new video camera.

Dwell Gets a Gag Gift on Its Birthday

February 05, 2010 | No Comments »

Dwell Gets a Gag Gift on Its Birthday
The earnestly modern habitats extolled in Dwell magazine, which celebrates its 10th birthday this year, veered into parody last week, pushed there by a mischievous blog called Unhappy Hipsters (unhappyhipsters.tumblr.com). With its deadpan captions (example below), it ricocheted in the blogosphere like a shuttlecock, as Twitterers like Matthew Yglesias, a political blogger, Andrew Sullivan of …

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