Poem: Lifecycle

By Jack Brummet

A raindrop is born
In a cloud
And returns like a salmon

How it got there is another story
A droplet latches onto a nuclei
Of smoke salt or dust

And bumps into other droplets
Over and over and over
Coalescing a million times

Gravity pulls the raindrop down
To strike water or earth
And one day it evaporates

A raindrop is born
In a cloud
And returns like a salmon.
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Digital art: Woven map

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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The new Seattle waterfront Ferris wheel

The digital lighting on the new Seattle Ferris wheel is just amazing....the lighting permutations are endless and fascinating.

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Poem: The glass, half empty

By Jack Brummet

1

Blue sparks arc in the air
Leaving a trail of ozone

2
The man in the moon
Is a sociopath

3
Mother Earth
Had a sex change

4
Every flower is finished

5
The rising water
Is up to your knees.
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Poem: Falling

By Jack Brummet

1
Falling per se is not a bad thing.
The problems arise when falling
Becomes not falling.


2
I read an article in which
A plane embedded in the ground
And scattered across the desert
Was called an uncontrolled landing.
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Photograph: Traveling by air

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Alex Chadwick's amazing 100 riffs (a brief history of rock and roll)

By Jack Brummet, Music Editor

Alex Chadwick plays 100 famous guitar riffs in chronological order, or, as he calls it, a brief history of rock and roll.  He's playing a 1958 Stratocaster and a Fender '57 Reissue Tweed Deluxe amp.  He used these pedals:

 

The riffs:


1 Mr. Sandman - Chet Atkins
2 Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
3 Words of Love - Buddy Holly
4 Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
5 Rumble - Link Wray
6 Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran 
7 Pipeline - The Chantays 
8 Miserlou - Dick Dale 
9 Wipeout - Surfaris 
10 Daytripper - The Beatles 
11 Can't Explain - The Who 
12 Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones 
13 Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix 
14 Black Magic Woman - Santana 
15 Helter Skelter - The Beatles 
16 Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac 
17 Crossroads - Cream 
18 Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin 
19 Paranoid - Black Sabbath 
20 Fortunate Sun - Creedence Clearwater Revival 
21 Funk 49 - James Gang 
22 Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin 
23 Bitch - Rolling Stones 
24 Layla - Derek and the Dominos 
25 School's Out - Alice Cooper
26 Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple 
27 Money - Pink Floyd 
28 Jessica - Allman Brothers 
29 La Grange - ZZ Top 
30 20th Century Boy - T. Rex 
31 Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead 
32 Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd 
33 Walk This Way - Aerosmith
34 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
35 Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
36 Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy 
37 Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
38 Carry on My Wayward Son - Kansas 
39 Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramones 
40 Barracuda - Heart 
41 Runnin' with the Devil - Van Halen 
42 Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits 
43 Message in a Bottle - The Police
44 Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - Neil Young
45 Back in Black - AC/DC 
46 Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne 
47 Spirit of Radio - Rush 
48 Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan 
49 Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
50 Holy Diver - Dio 
51 Beat It - Michael Jackson 
52 Hot For Teacher - Van Halen 
53 What Difference Does It Make - The Smiths
54 Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen 
55 Money For Nothing - Dire Straits 
56 You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi 
57 The One I Love - REM 
58 Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
59 Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses
60 Sweet Child 'O Mine - Guns N' Roses 
61 Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue 
62 Cult of Personality -Living Colour
63 Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue 
64 Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty 
65 Pictures of Matchstick Men - Camper Van Beethoven 
66 Thunderstruck - AC/DC 
67 Twice as Hard - Black Crowes 
68 Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson 
69 Enter Sandman - Metallica 
70 Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
71 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 
72 Give it Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers 
73 Even Flow - Pearl Jam 
74 Outshined - Soundgarden 
75 Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine 
76 Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots
77 Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz 
78 Welcome to Paradise - Green Day 
79 Possum Kingdom - Toadies 
80 Say it Ain't So - Weezer 
81 Zero - Smashing Pumpkins 
82 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters 
83 Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground 
84 Smooth - Santana 
85 Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers 
86 Short Skirt, Long Jacket - Cake
87 Turn a Square - The Shins 
88 Seven Nation Army - White Stripes 
89 Hysteria - Muse 
90 I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness 
91 Blood and Thunder - Mastadon 
92 Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet 
93 Reptilia - The Strokes 
94 Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand 
95 Float On - Modest Mouse 
96 Blue Orchid - White Stripes 
97 Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day 
98 Steady As She Goes - The Raconteurs 
99 I Got Mine - Black Keys 
100 Cruel - St. Vincent
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Photo of Antonio Martina, circa 1910--eleven going on thirty

Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, taken in March,  1910. Buffalo, New York, from Sharpy.com.  "Antonio Martina, 53 Carolina Street. 11 years old last summer. Attends School No. 1. He and a 13-year-old sister worked in sheds of Ellis-Canning Factory, Brant, N.Y., snipping beans at 1 cent a pound. Left for the country in May, returned late in September, losing about 7 weeks of school. He sells papers reluctantly." 


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Suicide, Sunglasses, and Umbrellas: Seattle myths and truths

By Jack Brummet, Seattle Metro Editor

Seattle Myth No. 1 - Seattle has the highest suicide rate in the country.  

Artist's rendition of the suicide-prevention gates recently installed

on the Aurora Bridge (a/k/a George Washington Memorial Bridge)

Not true.  This high suicide rate is commonly blamed on the rain, and S.A.D. (seasonal affective disorder), as well as serotonin deficiencies--caused by lack of sunlight--that lead to depression.   In fact, Seattle falls in the bottom half of the top 50 cities.  The top cities for suicide per capita (including many sunny and warm places):


1 Las Vegas, NV
2 Colorado Springs, CO 
3 Tucson, AZ 
4 Sacramento, CA 
5 Albuquerque, NM 
6 Mesa, AZ 
7 Miami, FL 
8 Denver, CO 
9 Jacksonville, FL 
10 Pittsburgh, PA 
10 Wichita, KS
12 Portland, OR 
13 Fresno, CA 
14 Phoenix, AZ 
15 Tulsa, OK 
16 Milwaukee, WI 
17 Oklahoma City, OK 
18 Atlanta, GA
19 Austin, TX 
20 Cincinnati, OH 
21 Charlotte, NC 
22 St. Louis, MO
23 Indianapolis, IN 
24 Louisville/Jefferson Co., KY
24 Virginia Beach,VA 
26 Nashville-Davidson,TN
27 Cleveland, OH 
28 Seattle, WA 
29 Kansas City, MO 
30 Houston, TX 
31 San Francisco, CA 
32 Fort Worth, TX
32 Honolulu, HI 
34 Columbus, OH 
35 Philadelphia, PA 
36 Omaha, NB
37 San Diego, CA 
38 Dallas, TX 
39 San Antonio, TX 
40 Arlington, TX 
41 Long Beach, CA 
42 San Jose, CA 
43 New Orleans, LA
44 Minneapolis, MN 
45 Memphis,TN 
46 Oakland, CA 
47 El Paso, TX 
48 Los Angeles, CA
49 Chicago, IL 
50 Detroit, MI
51 New York City, NY 
52 Baltimore, MD 
52 Washington, DC
54 Boston, MA

[source city-data.com]


Seattle Myth No. 2 - Seattleites buy more sunglasses per capita than any other city in the country.

True.  Various theories exist to support this; the most common one is that it is so rarely sunny that no one ever remembers where they put their sunglasses.  Another theory is that the tourists and visitors to Seattle don't bring sunglasses (because they've heard it is never sunny). 


Sources: Philanthropic Educational Organization Record  and Jet City Orange and Cha-Cha.  


Seattle Myth No. 3 - People do not use umbrellas in Seattle; it has one of the lowest per capita rates of umbrella ownership in the entire country. 

This photo from the Museum of History and Industry 

shows umbrellas have never been popular here.

Mostly true. Conventional wisdom on umbrellas in Seattle says only tourists or newbies use them. You see them, but I don't think anyone I know uses one. Mostly we just wear raincoats from REI, or wherever. Go to any clothing shop in Seattle, and you'll find them ranging from $10 plastic ones to $350 Goretex models. Mostly we wear hooded rain shells, not too heavy, because it doesn't get cold here often. When it does, you just slip on your down REI or Eddie Bauer vest and put the rain shell over it.

According to Komo News, Seattle is in the top five cloudy cities, with 226 cloudy days per year--well behind Anchorage, and three Washington cities, Forks, Astoria and Olympia.   And Seattle is in the top 20 rainy cities, with 140 days of measurable rain.


“People dress casual here,” said Satoko Kobayashi, owner of Seattle-based umbrella boutique, Pare Umbrella. “So if you wear suits, it’s OK to wear a rain jacket over it.”


From KOMO TV's website:  "KOMO photographer Doug Pigsley was in Seattle's Pioneer Square Thursday morning shooting a press conference when the skies opened up as an intense rain squall moved through. He ran around the neighborhood getting people in the downpour for footage for the website and evening newscast."

"But as I was making a photo gallery, it hit me while watching the raw video: Hardly anyone has an umbrella, but several did have a cup of coffee."

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Digital art: cross-section

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: Turning

By Jack Brummet

1

The host and the tenant are locked

In benign equilibrium.

Each valley is followed by a slope
And every going followed by a return.

There is no relief without an ache
And no virus without a host.

2

The bricks tumble into the moat.
The king's body hangs naked from the flagpole.

For a fleeting moment

The condition exists for change.
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5bits' "Nights Like This"music video - don't miss this one

By Jack Brummet, Northwest Music Editor

5bit, the Seattle-area a capella group, has released a fine new video covering Nights Like This.  It's pretty effing great.  Check it out.  Full disclosure:  four of these guys are co-workers and employees.  I've been to a couple of their shows, which were great.  Pass the word!

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