Black Orpheus

Performed by Matt Dahlberg & James Hill at Uke Fest 2010 - Dusty Strings, Seattle, WA. LINK: Youtube

Billie Jean

James Hill performs at Uke Fest 2010 - Dusty Strings, Seattle, WA. LINK: Youtube

Mike Starr of Alice in Chains dead at 44

"Mike Starr, top center, with the original Alice in Chains lineup in 1990"
​Mike Starr, original bassist and co-founder of the Seattle-based grunge band Alice in Chains, died today at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was 44 years old.

Unfortunately, Starr had been publicly battling with drug addiction for the past few years. He appeared on the VH1 reality show Celebrity Rehab last year, which detailed his battle with heroin addiction and subsequent treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center. The last time he appeared on the show, he was celebrating six months, seven days of sobriety.

Then, on February 18 of this year, Starr was arrested in Salt Lake City for felony possession of a controlled substance (six Xanax and six Opana, according to police).

Before playing in Alice in Chains, Starr cut his teeth in the Seattle scene as the bassist for Diamond Lie, a band he shared with his eventual AIC bandmates Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney. They invited Cantrell's roommate, Layne Staley, to join the band, morphing into Alice in Chains in the early '90s. The group was signed to Columbia Records and rose to prominence as part of the burgeoning grunge scene in Seattle. Starr's bass playing can be heard on Alice in Chain's full-lengths Facelift and Sap, as well as the Dirt EP.

Starr left Alice in Chains in 1993, a decision he told Celebrity Rehab was fueled by a growing drug addiction problem. LINK

Teen rises to fame channeling Johnny Cash

Discovered singing on a Seattle street, Vince Mira, 15, is a somewhat shy kid who looks uncomfortable during a TV interview. But when he steps up to the microphone to sing Johnny Cash's classic "Ring of Fire," the result is downright spooky. He performs the song in this Good Morning America segment. LINK

As the summary says, this is really spooky. The Legends voice goes on.

Road trip to Mt. Hood - Windows

We followed skiers and snowboarders from Seattle on their trip to the slopes and see how they stay entertained with the help from Windows 7, Windows Live, Windows Phone 7 and Kinect for Xbox 360. LINK: Youtube

Discover the new Windows Phone 7 at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone...

See how you can enjoy your entertainment everywhere at http://www.zune.net/en-US/

Everything you need to know to get started with Kinect: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/kinect

Tour of PopCap Games

An inside look at the creative and colorful third floor of PopCap Games' office in downtown Seattle. You'll see doggie doors on conference rooms, idea rooms and much more. LINK: Toutube

Seattle Quake

December 06, 2007
Seattle sits on the type of ground that would amplify the effects of an earthquake. Scientists can't offer a firm prediction when the next one will happen...only the certainty that it will. LINK: Youtube

Snow Leopard KITTENS!

Cute baby snow leopard kittens, Gobi (male) and Batu (female) explore the outdoor exhibit at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo for the first time with their mother, Helen. They are now on view at the zoo, along with male Tom, and female Nadia.
Produced by Ryan Hawk. LINK: Youtube
Music available: http://bit.ly/2VMJcp

Short film about 1962 World's Fair in Seattle

From the wonderful Prelinger Archives on Archive.org, a teen couple "romps through the futuristic landscape of the Seattle World's Fair, centered in the Bell System pavilion." LINK: Boingboing

Huge Mona Lisa Back Tattoo is Painfully Artistic

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is one of the most popular artworks in History, and it is not surprising people trying to imitate it in one form or another, but this huge Back Tattoo seems like a really painful way to show your love for art.

Tattoo artist HeadOvMetal has posted this Mona Lisa back tattoo from the Seattle Tattoo convention of 1995. Even though it is a tattoo, it is still amazing that such detail, effort and patience was spent on recreating the historical masterpiece. LINK

Cautious Cubs Chirp Like Birds

Zookeepers Deanna Ramirez and Pat Owen weigh and check a male and female snow leopard cub born in Seattle at Woodland Park Zoo on on May 25, 2009. Four weeks of age in the video.
Produced by Ryan Hawk. LINK, Via: Youtube

Ephemerology - Seattle Night Visions

A collection of movement and color from dusk and evening light around Seattle.

Music is by a band called Tryad that can be found on Jamendo. LINK: Vimeo

Ephemerology - Seattle Night Visions

Ephemerology - Seattle Night Visions from Edvard Brun on Vimeo.

Vintage Japanese robot gallery

Wired's posted a photo gallery from the new show of vintage Japanese robots opening at the Sci Fi Museum in Seattle.

Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots for decades.

The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle will exhibit toys from Geismar's collection in Robots: A Designer's Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels through Oct. 26. The vintage robots on display reflect Geismar's trained eye. "I've really restricted myself to ones that appealed to me as interesting, imaginative designs," he says.

Link, Via: Boingboing