Seahawks

Here is a little piece of trivia for you. What kind of bird is a seahawk? Is it even a bird or did it just sound like a good team name?

Tim and I finally found a Seahawks game that wasn't on Sunday. We went to the preseason game against the Raiders. We were seated about 12 rows from the bottom by the end zone where all the action happened. It was a great game. The stadium is phenomenal. The crowds of people cheering, the smell of beer and stale hot dogs, our crude and tipsy fellow fans...makes for one great night.



Did you have time to think about it? Turns out a seahawk is one of the nicknames for the Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). It's a brown and white, long-winged raptor. (I guess the color scheme is a little different than the blue, teal and chartreuse of our new favorite NFL team)

Found: A Collection of Creatures and Curiosities

For the first time a few weeks ago, Tim had some of his artwork on display in a gallery on Capitol Hill in Seattle. I wish you all could have seen it. He did a really good job of it, not only the art he contributed, but he was in charge of organizing and arranging the show. My plan was to give you a virtual tour of the gallery, but some of my pictures (some of the better ones, might I add) wouldn't upload, so I'll do my best to paint the picture for you.
The theme for the exhibit was Found: A Collection of Creatures and Curiosities. The idea came from a project that Digital Kitchen (Tim's work) did earlier this year. They did the videos advertising SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival). This exhibit is made of the great ideas they came up with and weren't able to use in their final product.

Walking in the Vermillion gallery. It is long and skinny, you can see the art work on the walls.
The whole gallery was Tim and his Coworkers art. It is a nice but casual gallery where you
can hang out, check out the art, and get drinks in the back.

Wall of prints by one of Tim's coworkers. All of them were prints of different fluids she
mixed together. They would form crazy shapes and she would
zoom really close into it. I liked them quite a bit.

I think this is one of the coolest things at the exhibit. This is a stop motion animation rig. Here's how it works: it's kind of like a shelf with each layer made of glass. There is a light at the bottom. Each layer has a different part of the background. They take the pictures from the top to get a very 3D look to it. You can kind of see on the top row there are cutouts of the characters. Stop motion means they take a picture of the characters in one position, move their limbs, take another picture and so on. Amazing...and incredibly time consuming. That's how the whole SIFF video was made.

Tim's part of the exhibit (unfortunately those pictures are some that wouldn't upload) consisted of 4 awesome shadow prints of some of the characters he developed. Then above those, the following video was being projected. The video just circled onto itself and played continually. Everything you're about to see came from the mind of Timothy Michael Howe, my husband :) I think it's pretty impressive...enjoy.

Hell's Angels: our trip to the San Juan Islands

Now we will take a ride through Tim (aka DJ Dewey Decibel) and my (or should I say Radio Flyer) other life... our life on the streets. This is our tale of a cross country ride (well, across the 45-mile circumference of the San Juan island) we took with our gang (two of our friends, Jonny and Leslie) on our Harleys (actually the Mopeds we rented from Sally's) .
Hang on tight, this is going to be a wild ride.

The day started out with a 7am meeting at our driver Leslie's place. You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to be a member of Hell's Angels. We drove an hour north to catch a fairy over to the island. On the way over, we applied the markings of our rebelious nature (stick-on tattoos: skulls and crossbones, barbed wire...the works)
When we got there we picked up our moped rentals (complete with helmet and a cute little orange flag propped up in the back as to draw attention to our bad-ness). The rest of the day was spent riding around the island to various attractions. There are a few historical sights (Brittish and US camps where troops camped out for 12 years while trying to figure out who would get the land, battle never ensued), a lavender field, classic car show, Orca whale watching, hiking, and tons of beautiful scenery.

Hitting speeds as high as 38mph, this was not your mother's vacation!
We headed back that evening. It was a day well spent.

Bikers don't do diamonds. The symbol of our love has been stitched into the skin of our fingers...at least until we wash our hands.