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Leetspeak, an awesome indie/electro/pop band based out of Seattle, WA & I are working together on fusing art + music! They have have released their debut EP “Alpha” where my art work is their featured cover art. And we hope to work together much more in the future!

The symmetry between their sound and my art was crazy smooth, I was approached by bass player, Bryce Gifford, to maybe do a collabo for their first album cover and the band looked thru my art work to find the piece that resonated most with this album and we could go from there. They really loved the piece unnecessary 3, as is… so I altered it a bit and it worked out perfectly for the cover! Listening to their music has even inspired more developments on the Unnecessary series… their tunes and topics match so much with what I’ve been feeling lately and what that piece represented.

Alpha is a pretty awesome CD and is now available now for free… from their site, http://leetspeakmusic.com/. Just provide your email, give the link to the music, and get added to the Leetspeak mailing list. Physical compact discs and live shows in the Seattle/Tacoma area coming soon…

Tracks 01 You’ll Have My Heart, 04 Wave of The Future, 05 Nothing Left to Say, & 06 Alpha.rmx are my absolute faves!! The whole album is on repeat for me. Enjoy!!

Our first Seattle mural hostel, the City Hostel is alive and well! They had an awesome opening, that I sadly could not attend, on August 14th @ the Belltown Art Walk. I hear it was madness! Luckily the wonderful Bedlam Coffee took some yummy photos of the rooms for us to enjoy!

So you want more?!? You can find videos of the rooms being creatively mastered by the 47 AMAZING Seattle Artists and more juicy goodness on the Hostel Art Collective blog site. Find out more about the City Hostel like rates, reservations, and how to get your hands on some of this amazing original art too! I can’t wait to go pick out my room for my next in-city vacation!

City Hostel Opening (photos via BedlamCoffee's Flickr)

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well, real cookies… um, nooo… but this place on northwest market street in ballard can help you make some. real cooker makers shop here! as you know, i work very closely with food, chefs, and bakers & i was waiting for the bus outside this small little shop and had to go in and check it out!

with everything from sexy 50′s aprons to 6″ lobster cookie cutters… this place carries alot of cookie makin’ stuff. check it out in ballard @ 2211 nortwest market street.

http://www.cookiesinseattle.com/

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IMG_1546, originally uploaded by iheartseattle09.

SoDo :: Starbucks Headquarters, originally uploaded by slightlynorth.

I work right by this Starbucks! In the SoDo hood past downtown Seattle. SlightlyNorth used a Fuji Instax 200 instant camera… it was so shiny I thought it was a magnifier frame of some sort. But those cameras take “Polaroid” instance camera shots, remember those. SlightlyNorth did an awesome job… check out his work on Flickr.

I heart Cairo! It’s one building up from the corner of summit and mercer on the Hill. Like their site describes it’s ‘an ever-evolving arts space open to all kinds of circumstance’. I’ve seen everything from art exhibitions, book release parties, to performances. I also hear they have their our own collection of unique Cairo apparel.

About a week ago… it looked like this…

This bookstore, Bailey Coy Books, on Broadway across from Urban Outfitters, really gets me. I always have to stop and and usually have to buy. Not to mention they are open late!

What I love to see is the windows, they feature monthly reading material… this month we have Women’s Lit and St.Paddy’s Day reading.

Also the bookkeepers are soo knowledgeable, they have shelves and shelves of recommended reading by each employee. And they have clever displays in the store. I love to see creativity exercised in common form.

They also carry moleskins (YES I bought one, well, two)

They have a select of paper, cool artsy greeting cards, wonderful wall posters, and a huge art book section.

And yes, I bought an artbook, A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail by Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman… had to have it!