Newsletter – December 2008
New Work
By giving experiences, and not physical gifts, Seattle residents can support local businesses and help the environment. The Waste Free "Experience Finder" allows the gift giver to answer a series of questions to determine the right experience for the gift recipient. Design Commission created the concept, built the site in Flash, and developed the back-end logic.
First Thursday | December 4th | 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Design Commission Gallery presents Sky Castles, a showcase of installation and print media by Clara Sims. This exhibition features Clara's colorful and fantastical illustrations that show off her graphic collage style. Sky Castles opens tomorrow evening, stop by anytime between 5pm and 9pm.
This month, the Crew at Design Commission was summoned by our resident developer, Parker Ault, to set our iTunes to "shuffle all" and list the first 12 songs in a designated, quite possibly embarrassing, shuffle folder. The kicker: No cheating. Some of us were caught red-handed with some rather revealing tunes. Read on for a glimpse into everyone's top 12. We stand before you stripped of our coolness. Some of us might actually be musical dweebs.
Dave: Got out lucky...for the most part. Either he’s got a sweet little playlist of lullabies for emotional solace tucked away, or his darling daughter, Chloe, has something to do with his Album of Celtic Lullabies by Tudur Morgan.
Jay: Folks, we’ve got some winners here — Linkin Park and Goldie. Contrary to popular belief, Jay may be designing up in the loft while head-bobbing to Goldie’s Celine Dion-esque falsettos and Linkin Park's super godawful lyrics.
Peter: Managed to get away relatively unscathed, though we did get a fairly heavy dose of weird in his top 12. The Soft Pink Truth, for instance, is not something that can be accurately described in 50 words or less, so click on the Quicktime file, and prepare yourselves.
Nicole: We can’t say we were surprised. Someone was bound to get an Elliot Smith hit in their top 12. It seems Seattle is still holding a steadfast white-knuckled grip on emo music’s golden boy.
Zlata: An eclectic atmospheric collection of Norwegian techno and Seattle’s brooding Nirvana. It was bound to happen.
Parker: Actually has a song genre called ninjatune. YES! NINJAS! Right. Anyway. Lucky us, we've got the perfect substitute if we run out of lullabies: Ancient Church Singing of Byzantine Georgia and Rus. Whew.
Stephanie: Coming in with the worst combo yet, Big Weenie by Eminem and Damien Rice, a musical transition painful enough to go down in the record books as “Ear drums will revolt, burst, melt, ooze and likely turn mutinous! You’ll be thankful to never hear ever again.”
Jessica: We’ve got Yoko Ono! Frank Sinatra! And The White Stripes? Well, what can we say? We’ve got nothing on this. Other than the glaringly obvious, Yoko Ono?
Jay: Folks, we’ve got some winners here — Linkin Park and Goldie. Contrary to popular belief, Jay may be designing up in the loft while head-bobbing to Goldie’s Celine Dion-esque falsettos and Linkin Park's super godawful lyrics.
Peter: Managed to get away relatively unscathed, though we did get a fairly heavy dose of weird in his top 12. The Soft Pink Truth, for instance, is not something that can be accurately described in 50 words or less, so click on the Quicktime file, and prepare yourselves.
Nicole: We can’t say we were surprised. Someone was bound to get an Elliot Smith hit in their top 12. It seems Seattle is still holding a steadfast white-knuckled grip on emo music’s golden boy.
Zlata: An eclectic atmospheric collection of Norwegian techno and Seattle’s brooding Nirvana. It was bound to happen.
Parker: Actually has a song genre called ninjatune. YES! NINJAS! Right. Anyway. Lucky us, we've got the perfect substitute if we run out of lullabies: Ancient Church Singing of Byzantine Georgia and Rus. Whew.
Stephanie: Coming in with the worst combo yet, Big Weenie by Eminem and Damien Rice, a musical transition painful enough to go down in the record books as “Ear drums will revolt, burst, melt, ooze and likely turn mutinous! You’ll be thankful to never hear ever again.”
Jessica: We’ve got Yoko Ono! Frank Sinatra! And The White Stripes? Well, what can we say? We’ve got nothing on this. Other than the glaringly obvious, Yoko Ono?
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We wish you a holly jolly holiday season!
— The crew at DC
P.S. Don’t forget to partake in the yummy seasonal beverages. (Ahem, we mean the coffee and egg nog, of course. Who said anything about holiday ale?)
— The crew at DC
P.S. Don’t forget to partake in the yummy seasonal beverages. (Ahem, we mean the coffee and egg nog, of course. Who said anything about holiday ale?)
DC Loves
What we've been into lately
David:
Total Madness
Peter:
Adrian Tomine
Zlata:
The Cool Hunter
Stephanie:
Reel Rock Tour
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Seattle, Washington
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Phone: 206.223.7709
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