TONIGHT! Gage Academy of the Art exhibition and sale. I’m really curious about this. The only time I’ve been to the Gage Academy was for a grantwriting workshop for artists. So it’s going to be fun to check out the art there tonight. It’s tonight! At the Steele Gallery. From 6 to 9pm.
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7 FREE art events in Seattle thru next week
Written by June 19th, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 CommentsOpen house at Ballard art studio Piano Nobile this Saturday
Written by June 18th, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.1 Comment
Economic recession woes? No problem! Get yourself a money plant. Some people call them fortune plants. Others say lucky bamboo.
None of these descriptive terms, however, cast a glint of recognition in the eyes of a garden lady (GL) working outdoors not too many weekends ago at City People’s plant store on Madison Avenue.
My encounter with […]
Ten DOs and DONTs of running a biz with your spouse
Written by June 15th, 2009 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.4 CommentsAkira and I have been in business together in Seattle since 2004, and we have been together together since, um, 1995. The thing is, we just really like hanging out.
Everything started at North Carolina State University with a t-shirt design. (I had originally taken it to the Asian Students Association, where Akira, then president […]
Last days to see DK’s Sharpie art!
Written by May 29th, 2009 in Portfolio, Design Inspirations, News at DK and Desk Notes.0 CommentsI have been thinking of getting some safety goggles.
Really.
The thing is, I have a little baby. He keeps swatting me with his fist. In the eye.
I see these little flashes of white behind my eyelids when that happens.
I just went to the eye doctor, too. He said that’s not good.
Should I get […]
Flashback to youth and summer beergardens of Sapporo
Written by May 27th, 2009 in Design Inspirations.0 CommentsIn the summer of 2002, I was in Japan for World Cup Soccer. I got an assignment from a newspaper in Ireland, The Southern Star, to go and meet people in Irish bars in Roppongi and report on what people were saying. Oh, yeah. Ireland was in the World Cup at the time. And oh, […]
DK tours South Seattle’s artist lofts: the Bemis Building art opening
Written by May 22nd, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments
Here are some pics from the art opening at the Bemis Building earlier this month. The location’s so cool, right next to Safeco field and also the train tracks.

