Belltown Benttag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1745172008-10-09T16:28:09-07:00The view from 98121TypePadLine of sighttag:typepad.com,2003:post-567877052008-10-09T16:28:09-07:002008-10-09T16:28:09-07:00Some time has passed since the Bent considered Mountains, murmurations, and Mortimer to tell a story about European starlings. Right around the time we further mangled alliteration with Luke and Linnæus in an attempt to better describe clouds, or not....Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2008/10/line-of-sight.htmlBuddy's viewtag:typepad.com,2003:post-466949062008-03-06T18:22:12-08:002008-03-06T18:22:12-08:00It was Buddy Catlett day in Seattle two weeks ago - February 21st, 2008. I was at City Hall to recognize Buddy, along with my friend Robert Wade, and to celebrate all he means to the city's jazz history and...Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2008/03/buddys-view.htmlLionel Loueke: long trip, short staytag:typepad.com,2003:post-374213482007-08-07T15:53:55-07:002007-08-07T15:53:55-07:00I'm always fascinated by the paths which lead musicians to my neighborhood jazz club. Born in Benin, West Africa, Gilles Lionel Loueke moved to Côte d'Ivoire to attend the National Institute of Art and study music for four years. He...Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2007/08/lionel-loueke-l.htmlSilas makes his pointtag:typepad.com,2003:post-364643202007-07-14T12:51:16-07:002007-07-14T12:51:16-07:00I'm still thinking about John Szarkowski, and his gifts to the world of photography. Especially his notion that photographers are pointers. They want to show you what they saw, asynchronously. First, capture the moment. Then, find the memory in the...Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2007/07/silas-proves-th.htmlThank you Mr. Szarkowskitag:typepad.com,2003:post-363379322007-07-10T22:22:07-07:002007-07-10T22:22:07-07:00Photographers see things. We walk around with invisible brackets before our eyes, constantly framing most anything which falls within our view. We are consciously aware of patterns and lines defined by light and dark, color and texture, physical objects and...Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2007/07/thank-you-mr-sz.htmlHave a nice yesterdaytag:typepad.com,2003:post-353443082007-06-14T17:15:55-07:002007-06-14T17:15:55-07:00Looking out the window this afternoon brought the pleasant reminder that this upcoming weekend presents one of the Bent's favorite opportunities to go back in time. The unmistakable lines, the perfect pace, the gentle roll of the bow wake, and...Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2007/06/have_a_nice_yes.htmlA Saturday Double-Headertag:typepad.com,2003:post-343721102007-05-22T15:57:48-07:002007-05-22T15:57:48-07:00Double-headers don't come around every weekend. And if you've going to see one, you pretty much know what you're in store for. But Saturday, about 2 miles north of trackside Safeco Field, and several hours before the Mariners hit the...Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2007/05/a_saturday_doub.htmlUnfamiliar territorytag:typepad.com,2003:post-335852582007-05-02T14:17:09-07:002007-05-02T14:17:09-07:00Just as Edward found himself checking out his strange, stylized and fantasized fifties suburban setting, so did a handful (well, four fingers worth) of newer world photobloggers, including the Bent's resident shooter. We all (Edward and the four of us)...Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2007/05/unfamiliar_terr.htmlWomen of the worldtag:typepad.com,2003:post-335505442007-05-01T17:32:41-07:002007-05-01T17:32:41-07:00The world of music is an extraordinarily large place. It is populated by talented individuals who, as musicians, come from faraway places - like Ouidah, Benin, or Hamamatsu, Japan. They develop their musical voices in many more places, like Paris...Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2007/05/women_of_the_wo.htmlA plane runs through ittag:typepad.com,2003:post-319601982007-03-23T13:59:24-07:002007-03-23T13:59:24-07:00It's been over thirty years since an admiring audience watched Alexander Calder complete the painting of his abstract design on a Braniff jet at the 1975 Paris Air Show. But almost every week you can see a Boeing jet fuselage...Bruce Moorehttp://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2007/03/its_been_over_t.html