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“Solitary Transcendence” (images of people alone)
Artist Statement;
Through random circumstance some years ago, I found myself in relationships with Filipiino or Pinay (the Tagalog term) cam girls alone in their rooms some 6500 miles away. Over time their lives and images combined with those of local people and graffiti to become the focus of this project.
Themes of distant emptiness, longing and survival naturally course through many of the images here, often with some Seattle graffiti overlaid on top.
All flashes of color came about from natural malfunctions in a very stressed printer. The images are collage on wood under epoxy resin with steel closet supports as the frames.
I have been doing art in Seattle for 15 years, used to live in SE Asia and in the recent past ran ERAC Galleria, an art collective for homeless/mentally ill in Belltown.

>RadioBedlam, an Open Mic night at Bedlam, every Tuesday starting June 8th
7pm-10pm
Come on down and share your unique voice.

Obi Kaufmann, arrived and departed all in one weekend, and oh boy what an impression he made, selling absolutely everything he brought for the show.

Well if you missed him, or saw him but missed a chance to snap up one of his pieces you’ve got another chance. Obi Kaufmann brings a whole new set of paintings that he’ll be selling on the spot, this is another pay and take event so get here early and bring cash…

Check out more of Obi at >
www.obikaufmann.com
www.oaklandsweetart.info

The posters for Belltown Art Walk & More BAWM are done and they look fantastic! To get your participants posters email info@belltownartwalk.com or stop by Bedlam. (2&Bell)

Are you a Belltown Business? For further participation details visit the “private participants” page. (email for password)

poster is 11×17 $10.00 ea (listing on flyers and website included)

http://www.belltownartwalk.com

http://www.belltown.minutemanpress.com Thanks Brenda!

Have you heard about this app? I just came across this while searching for Seattle specific apps. It’s not actually just Seattle tho, a few cities. The way it works is, your walking down the street, you see a broken street lamp, you snap a picture of it (I’ve not yet done that) you post this with a description of the problem, other people do the same thing, the city sees it and it get’s fixed.

http://seeclickfix.com/seattle

Another way it’s being used right now in Seattle is on Capitol Hill, the intersection at Broadway and John has a few people interested in changing it into an all walk (like 1st and Pike) intersection. I agreed with it so I clicked the little button and added my name to the list of people who thinks it’s something that needs a fix. Now we can all sit back and smugly enjoy the “tell your government what to do” feeling. AND they give you one of those .pdf you can print with a bar code on it to ease access for those app users that can read them when posted at the site of the needed fix. (while at the same time becoming something that needs to be fixed)

Course the blazing question in your mind, and mine…does the city actually fix it? Is there a list somewhere of things being fixed either here or elsewhere?I dunno. (there does seem to be a system in place to check off what did get fixed, no idea if the fixer is doing that tho, I bet not)

I think this is a great idea, and I plan to see what I can do to find out whether Seattle City gov even knows this app/site exists.

• http://appify.com/seattle
• http://seeclickfix.com/citizens
• http://seeclickfix.com/apps

Real Change is celebrating 15 years. I’ve always supported Real Change, if you don’t know what it is, or what’s it’s about.check out the website As part of the birthday celebration they have a CD they are selling, Bedlam actually has two Real Change vendors that stop here, one of Which is Peridoh (I’ve no idea how to spell his name), Who was just featured in a King5 story about the paper and the CD, check it out here > RealChange

…it just struck me as kinda cool.
I got this in my email this morning…

City Launches Expedited Permitting for Green Projects

The City of Seattle has launched a new expedited permitting process for highly energy efficient development projects. On Sept. 30, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) unveiled the Green Q permitting program for single family and other small residential projects. A second phase for larger and more complex projects will begin in early 2010. This implements a recommendation from the Green Building Task Force.

The program offers the following benefits:

• Priority Intake Appointments
• 50% Faster Initial Plan review
• Application and Review assistance from staff with green building expertise
• Green Building/ Energy Efficiency Recognition.

“I’m excited to offer this new, expedited permitting process for sustainable development projects,” said Diane Sugimura, DPD Director. “This program recognizes those who are creating energy, water, and resource efficient buildings, and encourages others to do the same. The Green Q is a very important step in the effort to raise the sustainability bar in Seattle.”

To qualify for Green Q, applicants must: recycle construction waste; limit dwelling unit size to no more than 2,400 square feet; meet existing code requirements; and design the project to meet one of the following sustainability standards:

• LEED Silver, Gold or Platinum
• Built Green 4 or 5 star
• DPD’s Green Q Alternative Path

The LEED and Built Green programs include broad green building strategies and require third party verification. DPD’s Alternative Path focuses on energy efficiency and provides an option for applicants who choose not to pursue third party verification. The Green Q Alternative Path requirements closely align with the anticipated 2009 Washington State Energy Code, scheduled to be applicable in summer 2010.

The Green Q will further Seattle’s leadership role in climate change initiatives and support DPD’s efforts to make sustainable design the standard rather than the exception. Faster permit reviews will encourage the construction of more energy efficient buildings, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing jobs for green building designers and contractors.

Other Green Building assistance available at DPD for sustainable development includes:

• Priority Green – an integrated review process for projects pushing the envelope of green building. Facilitated permitting support by DPD is provided for highly innovative projects that will serve as visible models of high performance and sustainability. Projects must meet stringent environmental criteria, including adherence to the 2030 Challenge. Launched in 2008.

• Deconstruction Permits – code change to allow residential builders the additional time needed to deconstruct buildings for re-use and re-cycling that would otherwise be slated for the landfill. Adopted by City Council in 2009.

• The Innovation Review Board – a new advisory board created to provide objective, technical input from members of the community and development industry, assisting developers seeking to use innovative new technology not currently recognized by technical code standards. To convene fall 2009.

• Living Building Challenge – working with developers seeking to meet the advanced sustainability standards set by Cascadia Green Building Council’s Living Building Challenge. Living buildings generate all their own energy, process their own waste, and meet a number of other requirements, thus presenting the most challenge to design, permit and construct. Legislation to City Council in fall of 2009.

DPD is working to advance Seattle’s Action Agenda by improving the regulatory climate for sustainable development.

To learn more about Green Q go to: www.seattle.gov/dpd/GreenQ

So I walked to office depot Friday, and came across all this cool stuff downtown. The first was that Seattle, has at last caught on to the artistic possibility of the electrical box, I’ve found another since this shot.

1st and Stewart St

And then after that, I found these wonderful giant Daisies in Westlake Center, apparently sponsored by Prius, they are Solar WiFi stations, complete with plug-ins and everything.

AND THEN, on the walk back I discovered these lovely new Solar Trash Compactors around Macy’s

Solar WiFi Daisy

“CreateLive SEA” Aug 29th 3pm at Bedlam Coffee!

at 2231 2ND Ave in Belltown

Create Live simply is artists creating, right there in front of you. Maybe you want to join in? No Prob, come on down and create. What could be a better match for a place called Bedlam.

A statement from the CreateLive AZ event;

–The rules at a CreateLive event are simple. If you have something creative that you are working on, bring it and work along side our featured artists. If you want to come and just hang out, by all means! You are more than welcome. Come, have fun, create, hang out, eat, drink, whatever. Be Awesome!

The Seattle event will feature Local Artist David Hoang http://davidhoang.com/ (twitter @davidhoang)

AND CreateLive Co-Founder Natasha Wescoat http://natashasartcandy.com/ (twitter @natasha)

Mark that date Aug 29th (it’s the day SkyNet becomes self aware if that’ll help) at 3pm

–sponsored by  MASHABLE, & BEDLAM COFFEE http://createliveseattle.com/

If you missed it, these photos should help you feel really bad about missing it… This is just 20 of the photos taken, more from my camera, and a bunch from Powdermonkey’s camera will likely be up on the Bedlam Coffee Flickr page in the next couple days. More info about the City Hostel Project can be found here> The Link