Unusual Life

McLeod Residence, a Seattle art gallery in Belltown, has a cool private lounge for members and is open Thursday through Saturday for special events and cocktails. It’s always a surprise what you’ll find next in this gallery located in an old apartment building across the street from Roq la Rue.

The latest gew-gaw is the McLeod Mirror, based on a gizmo first developed for the Nokia store in Hong Kong. The artists developed a processing-based software application that took the input from a webcam and assembled a mosaic of the image from the webcam, using a series of pre-stored images, text, and previous input from the webcam.

At McLeod Residence, they developed a similar mirror and wrote code to capture the images from the previous viewers into the mirror to reinforce the community aspect of the McLeod Residence’s private bar. When gazing into the mirror, you see a realtime reflection made from 1000′s of thumbnail images. You can see your fellow club members in the mirror, reminding you that you are part of a like-minded community.

McLeod Residence on MySpace

Are the residents called Fuckers?

What are the mothers called?

What would you be learning at the Fucking High School?

Does the Fucking Hospital help you with anything else?

Please forward this to all your friends who know nothing about this Fucking town.

Welcome to Austria from Snopes

Fucking, Austria on Google Sight-Seeing (Why bother seeing the world for real?)

Brits steal signs from Fucking, Austria (The Register)

Just in from Steve Bard: Amid all the 787 roll-out hoopla last weekend, perhaps the coolest event went unnoticed. On Saturday night, Boeing had all of the 787 airline representatives at an event at the Museum of Flight. At 7:07 PM, an Omega Air Refueling Services 707 landed in front of the crowd (after taking off from Paine Field in Everrett). At 7:17, an AirTran 717 landed. This continued until 8:17 when an Air France 777-300ER landed. In the end, the 707, 717, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, and 777 were lined up nose-to-tail on the taxiway. It is the first time Boeing has had every 7-series airplane in the same place (not counting the 787, which couldn’t make the flight, of course).
Also visible in the picture are various aircraft at the Museum of Flight, including the Concorde, Air Force 1, etc.

Thousands Welcome the 787 Dreamliner

Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of “The Simpsons” fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.

Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in the U.S. will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.

It’s all part of a campaign to hype the July 27 opening of “The Simpsons Movie,” the big-screen debut for the long-running television cartoon, which loves to lampoon 7-Eleven as a store that sells all kinds of unhealthy snacks and is run by a man with a thick Indian accent, our friend Apu.

Says Bobbi Merkel, an advertising agency executive with 7-Eleven’s advertising agency Freshworks, “It shows they get the joke.”

7-Elevens Become Simpsons ‘Kwik-E-Marts’