Evo – Southwall Mural

Evo Southwall Mural at Night

The south wall of Evo currently is full of eyes and faces with “K2” sprinkled about. On the east end of the wall there is a horned dude with sunglasses and a nasty set of teeth.

Evo Southwall Mural During the Day

The Whale Wins – Whaleboats

Saw these Kyler Martz “whaleboats” outside of The Whale Wins restaurant.

Left: Whale Wins Whaleboat; Right: Whale Wins Squid – Lighthouse?

Left: Whaleboat; Right: The Whale Wins Wall

The Whale Wins Wall at Night

The Beatles - Abbey Road Album Cover Spoofs

The Beatles Abbey Road album features one of the most famous and imitated album covers in recording history. Here are a few we collected over the years:

Row 1: Red Hot Chili Peppers, The, Abbey Road EP [1988], Sesame Street, Sesame Road [1993], New York City, Soulful Road [1974]

Row 2: The King Singers, The Beatles Connection [1988], Classiks on Toys, Snoopy's Beatles [1995], Paul McCartney, Paul is Live [1993]

Row 3: Booker T & the MGs, McLemore Avenue [1970], Pickin' on the Beatles [1994], Floyd Domino, Baby Road [1989]

For many more parodies of the Beatles Abbey Road cover, see http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/abbey-road-parodies/.

For another nine parodies of this album cover, see The Beatles - Abbey Road Cover Spoofs (part 2).

Binomen Art - Brassica

Left: Brassica in Red Cabbage; Right: Shredding Red Cabbage

In this Binomen Art piece, we spell out “Brassica” using red/purple cabbage – Brassica oleracea. B. oleracea is part of the Brassicaceae (Cabbage) family. The B. oleracea species includes many of our common foods like cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, kale, and others. How can this be? It is because these vegetables we know by the same genus and species name are subspecies. B. oleracea has seven groups of subspecies of which cabbage is under the Capitata Group. All subspecies of B. oleracea came from the wild cabbage. There is a wonderful article on The Botanist in the Kitchen site called The extraordinary diversity of Brassica oleracea. In the article, the author explains how the very different looking vegetables arise from emphasizing different aspects of the plant body. For example, the leafy B. oleracea vegetables, like kale and collard greens, have been domesticated to emphasize the leaves. B. oleracea like cabbage have been domesticated to emphasize the terminal bud – hence one big head. The cut up cabbage went into a wonderful batch of sauerkraut like this one from a few months ago.

Left: Sauerkraut Overflow; Right: Shredded Red Cabbage

Lo Fi Performance Gallery Mural

We stopped by the Lo Fi space to see if anything was up with the “mural” wall. The golden owl is gone, replaced by a stylized “Lo Fi”.

KEXP Mural

KEXP (90.3 FM) is a public radio station in Seattle featuring primarily alternative rock. The KEXP studio moved to its current location, 113 Dexter Avenue North, in 2001. The mural photos are of the west side of the building. The mural’s theme is stacked speakers against a Seattle skyline.