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The art scene in Seattle is booming in an unexpected neighborhood, the industrial heart of south Seattle’s Georgetown district. South of the endless skyscrapers of the financial district, an artistic mecca is blossoming amid the old warehouses and factories, home to dozens of artists, galleries, and indie craftspeople.
Nestled between airfields and train-tracks, highways and waterways, Georgetown has been steadily transforming for years into Seattle’s premier arts district. The area overflows with everything from independent breweries to sculpture studios, from tattoo parlors to art schools, all revolving around each other to create an artistic center in south Seattle. Home to the once a month art festival, Georgetown’s “Art Attack!”, Georgetown is the living and breathing core of Seattle’s new artistic community.
Georgetown has become a rapidly growing center for the marginalia of Seattle. That which does not easily fit into other corners of the city, the communities which could not exist in the wealthy or conservative corners of Seattle have found a home in Georgetown. Here is a community devoted to marginalia, to the endless intricacies and details that make a world class city like Seattle alive and vibrant, the brilliant artists and chefs, writers and brewers, designers and musicians. That which fits outside of the status quo.
“Georgetown is an entirely welcoming community, a place where I can walk right out my door and have an interesting conversation with anyone I run into on the sidewalk” says local Georgetown artist Steve Ouch “My next door neighbor is a sculptor, and there is an art school operating right over my head. Across the street there’s an artisan brewery, and a community run coffee shop. It seems like everyone here is completely devoted to doing what they love, and that makes the community better for all of us.”
Georgetown as a community has had a long and stories history. Before being annexed by Seattle in 1910, it was known as a saloon town, famous for it’s loose laws and horse racing, causing one Seattle preacher to call Georgetown the “cesspool of Seattle”. The success of Boeing and the Rainier Brewery breathed life in Georgetown, making it one of the northwest’s biggest success stories, a thriving industrial center. However, Economic hard times and job losses have changed the face of Georgetown, and the low rents and amazing buildings have drawn artists from across the northwest to this unique intellectual oasis.
That is what Georgetown is, then, a homeland between railroad tracks and syscrapers for Seattle’s dispossessed, the artistic van guard of the northwest, the place where marginalia truly takes center stage. An area full of contradictions, but as full of beauty, love, and integrity as any in the nation.
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Posted in Painting · July 21st, 2010 · Comments (0)
My name is Joe babika , As a Mentor interior house painter and self proclaimed master artist of my painting profession, there are some life lessons I want to share with you. There are many skills young fathers should teach their sons as they mature. What comes to mind as a matter of fact is how to fix problems with the family car; changing a tire, oil and windshield wipers.
Traditionally I speak of the relationship between father and son, but this article also applies to fathers and daughters. Being able to be a “handy-man” around the house is a valuable skill for young adults to acquire so that when they are really mature adults with their own homes and apartments , so that they are not at a loss when it comes to fixing and refurbishing projects. I highly recommend teaching your children about painting. Yes, even painting has longevity in the lifetime of a person. How many times have you had to choose a paint; and what type, what color, what brushes or perhaps not even brushes simply the choice of wallpaper may resolve the issue. And what if this young home owner had no time or skill to complete a major home project? Under what criteria would they use to hire a skilled painter to do the job if they themselves have never painted anything in their lives? The riddle is equal to buying a brand new car, of course, you are accompanied by one of your parents or friend who has owned several cars in the past and knows what questions to ask and what issues to explore with the car’s features. It is the same way with hiring a painter, one must know something about painting or you could be a victim to price inflation, agreeing to the wrong recommended colors, or worse yet the wrong faux finish for your home’s lifestyle. What fathers should do is always request the “assistance” of their children when doing simple projects like the staining of wood surfaces, wall papering, painting and or dry-wall.
These are very important skills to at least attempt to engrain in the minds of young adults, because they are the future custodians of inherited property passed down from their parents to them. As I have seen in my 30 plus years of craftsmanship is that often the second generation is bewildered with basic home refurbishing and of course, painting. Whereas their Baby-boomer parents were accustomed to performing all the house hold renovations—major and minor—their adult children however are completely lost. There is one plus the younger generation has over their parents—the internet. The young home owners are able to research on the internet all of the possibilities of interior home painting to be found in our great state of Ohio. Often, my business babika Painting Inc, is contacted by the adult children of these Boomer parents who are requesting a unique faux paint finish for their childhood homes. I take fatherly pride in showing young homeowners how I perform my trade, the type of brushes and tools we use and sometimes I’ll even give a mini-lesson in proper brush stroke for virgin home painters. We here at babika Painting Inc take great pride in educating our home and business owners, we don’t “talk at you” or “strong arm” you like other a mature painters into choosing the wrong paint for the wrong surfaces. We share our experience with you from every brush stroke and from the very depths of our soul, painting is our way of life and it is a skill that has been passed down from our fathers to you.
There is no relationship more precious than family and secondly the relationship between family and the home they live in. I want that you spend your precious family time teaching not just your sons but also your daughters basic “home” skills that can carry with them into their adult lives when they become mature and responsible to become the custodian of your present home. At that future date Babika Painting Inc., will be waiting for their phone call to help take care of that childhood home.
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Posted in Painting · April 30th, 2010 · Comments (0)