News: Noteworthy
Mithun’s Band The Mediocres Going International?
04.30.2010 Mithun, Noteworthy
OLÁ AQUI É RON DOS MEDIOCRES E VOCÊ OUVE ROCK HISTÓRIA NA CRUZEIRO FM. [translates to: "hi, here is Ron The Mediocres and you are hearing Rock Historia on Cruzeiro FM"]
Mithun’s in-house band, The Mediocres, isn’t exactly a house hold name in the rock-n-roll world, but international exposure might not be that far away. Ron van der Veen, drummer and manager for the band, received an email last month from a radio disc jockey in Sorocaba, Brazil, requesting an interview. Ary Andrade is the producer and DJ of a popular radio show on Cruzeiro.FM called "Rock Historia". Transcript follows.
Threshold mentioned in The Stranger
04.30.2010 Noteworthy, Threshold
Artist Ellen Ziegler’s current exhibit at Mithun’s Seattle office was noticed recently by The Stranger.
Ellen Ziegler’s ambitious drawing series evokes the visual and auditory hallucinations that occur during the period between waking and sleeping, known as the “hypnopompic state”.
Drawings are made on asphalt roofing paper (tar paper) with metallic pigments and other media. The smell of tar evokes for Ziegler the primeval ooze of the La Brea Tar Pits in her native Los Angeles, where dinosaur bones continue to be excavated. This underground source of fossils, fuel and prehistory is analogous to the upwelling of images from the unconscious mind.
Great Green Places Video Collection
01.05.2010 Noteworthy
The National Building Museum recently posted a video series called A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Green Public Spaces on their website and at its conclusion invited the public at large to respond with videos of their own by posting to the Vimeo group Your Great Green Places.
What makes great public spaces work? And what makes some public spaces “greener” than others? The National Building Museum’s Great Green Places video series looks at the specific elements that make certain public spaces so successful.
There are 11 videos as of this writing, including Mithun’s Taylor 28 project video. Check them out!
Mithun Volunteer Day at Clarke Beach
08.10.2009 Noteworthy
Last Thursday, August 6th, a few Mithunees joined EarthCorps' efforts to help restore Clarke Beach on Mercer Island. A total of 92 volunteers (15 adults and 77 youth) removed 17,993 sq ft. of invasive species: including blackberry, ivy, holly, and cherry laurel. The groups included Mithun, individuals and three youth organizations--YMCA, Voices, and Footprints. This effort prepared the area for planting of native trees and understory (shrubs and ground cover) in the fall to build a healthy forest that is more resistant to invasives in the future, and to create an overall a healthier habitat. There's another volunteer opportunity coming up on Saturday, August 22nd if you want to join in!
View the photos on EarthCorp1's Flickr set: 8/6 Mithun Clarke Beach volunteer event .
High Point Celebrates Rental Housing Completion
04.20.2009 Noteworthy
On Tuesday, April 21st at 5pm, Seattle Housing Authority will celebrate the completion of all rental housing at the High Point community.
"This is a very significant milestone for us," remarked [SHA] Project Manager Tom Phillips. "To see this rental housing near completion fulfills one of our important goals for this award-winning green community."
Good Urban Planning Fights Fat
04.08.2009 Noteworthy
A recent Canadian study finds that people whose neighborhoods includes stores that front directly onto a sidewalk — rather than those where a parking lot separates the store from the sidewalk — were half as likely to be overweight as those living in neighborhoods without sidewalk-front stores. Continue reading at The Vancouver Sun.
AIA Scholarship Winner to Study Seawalls Abroad
03.10.2009 Noteworthy
Cristina Bump, Associate AIA at Mithun, won AIA Seattle's first ever Emerging Professionals Travel Scholarship. Cristina proposed a study of innovative seawall designs in Australia and Canada that are beneficial to marine life. Her interest was prompted by Seattle's plans to replace the viaduct with a tunnel, which will require a seawall. Cristina sees this moment as a significant opportunity for Seattle really to build a more sustainable future. She will follow up with partners at the University of Washington, City of Seattle and US Army Corps of Engineers to develop a series of recommendations for the City...