Category: Places and Spaces
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A short tour of small colleges in the Pacific Northwest
My wife, 17-year-old daughter and I toured four colleges in Oregon during her mid-winter break: Reed College, Lewis & Clark College, Linfield College and Willamette University. I wanted to record a few impressions of the different places while the experience is relatively fresh, and decided to post them here, in case they are of use…
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The Community Collage at Trabant: a Proactive Display in a Cafe
We recently deployed a proactive display application at the Trabant Coffee & Chai Lounge in the University District of Seattle. The Community Collage (or CoCo) shows a dynamic collage of content drawn from a pool of photos and quotes uploaded to the CoCo web site by customers and staff. When customers visit the café and…
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A Cloveristic Tasting at Trabant Coffee
I attended my first coffee tasting yesterday, at Trabant Coffee & Chai (the U-District shop). Alexa, one of the baristas at Trabant (at the far left in the photo to the left), led six of us through the multi-sensory educational experience involving words, photos, charts and five different coffees freshly brewed on their Clover machine.…
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James Taylor and Other People’s Music: A Concert Review
James Taylor and his Band of Legends gave a great performance at Chateau Ste. Michelle Monday night. I was particularly impressed with the harmonies provided by his backup vocalists and the rhythm laid down by his bassist, drummer and percussionist, but the entire band was strong … one might even say "legendary". The legendary JT…
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Richie Hazlewood joins Strands Labs Seattle for the summer
Richie Hazlewood arrived a few weeks ago from the School of Informatics at Indiana University to work with us on our next generation proactive display applications this summer. Richie has been working with Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly and others at Indiana on a variety of interesting and relevant projects involving ambient information displays, data mining,…
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The Indigo Girls’ Zoo Tunes Concert
The Indigo Girls gave a concert Sunday night at Woodland Park Zoo's Zoo Tunes 2008 Concert Series that was, note for note, the finest music I've ever seen and heard live. I've attended – and reviewed – a fair number of other great concerts, but all of them have had at least one relative "low…
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Snoop: An Investigation into Possessions, Perceptions, Projections and Personalities
Sam Gosling‘s new book – Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You – blends an engaging and accessible overview of some of the key concepts and research findings in personality psychology and environmental psychology with what amounts to a collection of short detective stories. Snoopology, the art and science of determining “which of your tastes…
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New Faces at Strands Labs Seattle
Yogi and I have recently been joined by some wonderful new people at Strands Labs Seattle, and our new office space has some new surfaces that make it increasingly habitable. Sameer Ahuja, a graduate student intern from Virginia Tech, arrived May 12, and will be spending the summer with us. Sameer has been working with…
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KT Tunstall @ The Moore, Seattle (a concert review)
KT Tunstall and her band of mostly unplugged musicians gave an energetic performance at The Moore Theatre in Seattle last night. The music was drastically fantastic, and her rapport and repartee with the audience was light-hearted and engaging. I first discovered her through spam – one of the weekly emails RealNetworks used to send out…
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Move-in Day for Strands Labs, Seattle
Today we moved into our new office at 4143 University Way NE – right on "the Ave", the heart of Seattle’s University District, and literally a stone’s throw from the University of Washington. View Larger Map We occupy the top floor of a three-story building, with 3400 square feet to grow into, and two (!)…