I want to resurrect Evher Green's idea...  here goes.

A new supermarket opened near my house. It has an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of rain.
When you pass the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and you experience the scent of fresh cut hay.
In the meat department there is the aroma of charcoal grilled steaks with onions.
When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle, and the air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying.
The bread department features the tantalizing smell of fresh baked bread and cookies.
I don't buy toilet paper there any more.

Im excited to join this site! I'm a junior at Evergreen State College and we are currently studying digital humanities, we have created blogs and wiki pages, which lead me here to blog with my Oly community:)

This is my blog from my online class:

http://organiccommunities.blogspot.com/.

Did JPO's thread about UW students protesting concealed carry on campus get deleted? I thought we determined that UW was considered local due to its affect on the great Olympia community?

Norm

enpen: Which technique/trick do you find yourself using the most in your art (e.g. horizon line, cross-hatch, etc.)?

Matthew: If I were to tell you the most useful trick in my arsenal, it would no longer by a trick. Therefore destroying the entire experience of visual art for the viewer...

As an artist, what about red is important to your work?

As a viewer, what about red is important to you?



Had you all the time and resources in the world, what story/history would you put into visual form and how would you do it?

The only one I know.

Grasping at straws is like submarines with a couple screen doors.

If 1+1=3 then I really don't know, I was never all that good at arithmetic.

It's the water and I know how to use it.

Matthew’s work is at Metro Body Piercing (214 4th Ave E) during Artswalk weekend (April 25th & 26th).

My Favorite Cut-Outs by tricyrtis hirta.

Other local blogging:

Olympia Salvage Blog: Arts Walk This Weekend!

Earball Visions: Oly, here I come!

Oly-Rafa: Arts Walk Celebration - Tile Painting and Performance for Olympia Rafah Mural Project

While not technically an "antiquated plat," like I wrote about before (look at my earlier post for background), I found something very interesting in the maps prepared by TRPC for the city in their discussion of the old, planned neighborhoods.

At one point, the city had laid out block in what is now Capitol Lake. Here it is overlaid in Google Earth:

Don't miss Word Bound under the 4th Ave. Bridge on Artswalk April 26th...Check out the flyer for details.

OK, so there has been some really strong talk on OlyBlog about "lifestyle" and wealth, so I'd like to make a challenge to those that think their largess justifies their lifestyle:

If you are "rich", then don't drive your automobile for just one week (7 days).

Walk to where you have to go or bicycle. Seriously, if you can, then that is great, but if you try and fail, then maybe try cutting the "rest of us" who don't buy into the entitlement mentality some slack (...is that fair enough?)...the point is that many of us make a choice not to pollute & consume, we are smart enough to realize the benefit for ourselves and want to impact the Earth as little as possible...all these things (and more!), whether or not we are "poor" or "rich"-

-in fact, to me, it seems a bigger committment when someone without alot of cash or resources makes the effort compared to when a "rich" person does, but I digress.

Just try it, OK?

It is pretty easy to drive a car (I can), but walking & biking is harder than pushing the gas pedal, so I challenge "you" to try to "fit in my shoes"?

Ask yourself:

Can you bike to work & walk to the store? (I can and do).

Can you even get to work under you own power?

Without debating, just do it (try at least).

A divided City Council approved an ordinance Thursday requiring faith-based groups that want to shelter the homeless to do so in their churches, and not outside in tents.

The vote was 4-3. Deputy Mayor John Darby and council members Ann Burgman, Jason Hearn and Tom Nelson voted yes. Mayor Graeme Sackrison and council members Virgil Clarkson and Mary Dean voted no.

Click the link for the rest of the story. Kudos to Jeff Kingsbury, speaking on Camp Quixote and Lacey's Ordinance:

No other transitional-housing program in this community has worked this well. It's just not practical to suggest a church is going to house the people inside their building.