I don't know if any of you have made it over to the new Olympic Sculpture Park but it's fantastic and free! These are photos I snapped with my phone so I can't wait to go back with something nicer and get more. If anyone would like to go, let me know. I'd wager it's beautiful at night.

This artist was recommended to me by Ryan Boudinot and Sung Kim. He's supposed to be amazing. It's a shame that I think I missed his show at the Frye...

My friend Sung (user: skim) has highly recommended the Henry Darger show at the Frye. It's on exhibit until October 29th.

Quoted: Henry Darger (1892–1973) was a self-taught reclusive artist who created and inhabited an imaginary world through extensive writings, paintings, and drawings. After Darger’s death, his Chicago neighbor and landlord discovered and made public Darger’s previously unknown volume of work.

Quoted: This solitary artist left behind several diaries and manuscripts including a six-part weather journal, an autobiography in eight volumes, and his 15,000-page illustrated epic, The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal. Accompanied by watercolor paintings and collages, the novel focuses on a band of girls’ heroic efforts to free enslaved children held captive by an army of adults. The novel and its illustrations are whimsical and sinister in their depiction of war and peace and good versus evil.

The Peter Milton mainpage at Davidson Galleries. I want all of these so if you're looking to buy me something and have thousands of dollars to blow, feel free.

The web site for the artists Peter Milton, whose works are represented just downstairs from the Blue Dot offices. I highly recommend checking them out if you get a chance.

Sometimes you just have to remind yourself how lucky you are. I had forgotten some software in our office this weekend and I went to retrieve it. On the way back to my car, an etching in the front window of the Davidson Gallery caught my eye and I went in to discover an amazing set of work by the artist, Peter Milton.

Imagekind looks like a pretty nice service for artists/designers. It's being compared to a Cafepress for wall art.

Quoted: Seattle-based ImageKind, which launched this morning, is a service for creating, buying and selling wall art. The company was incubated ...

Ross and I took a walk up to this coffee shop a few blocks away from Blue Dot headquarters. It's sort of an odd location without much foot traffic but they serve Caffe Vita coffee (pretty darn good), have a beautiful space, wifi, and large works of art. The website states that they're going to start serving beer frin Georgetown Brewery and Rainier soon as well. That's enough to give it the nod to 5-stars for me.

Recommended.

I went to art walk last night. Took some photos.