In the wee hours of the night we were tourist. We left off the last stop to avoid looking skeevy in a residential area. This was our take of the Denver Beat Tour. At each stop a page was read from a phone. It seems awkward in the images but at the time added some quick ambiance. We also chose not to take pics at My Brother’s Bar – we couldn’t go out like that without at least a drink. I drove and took pics, my visiting niece and nephew stayed in the frames.
I know a number of goofy, fun creatives that also purport their love of community. All my friends I want to see you enter the Open for Design: Denver Art Museum Community Challenge. Transform an everyday object into something better in your neighborhood and have it displayd in the museum’s first exhibit displaying their visitors’ work.
Submit your design to the museum on Saturday July 28th before 4 pm to have it displayed in the Anschutz Gallery in the Hamilton building beginning August 4th.
I want to see people enter – I know a lot of cool peeps who could enjoy contributing to this. Hello Becky of Denver Craft Ninjas, Sarah of maker night vision, Ted the mad science tech, Terry the community hugger, Mary the felt goddess, Rick the urban homesteader, Kipp the plane jumper, Sarah the DAM member, etc.
There is a twitter chat today 12:30 to 1:30 to discuss this concept with the hash tag #OpenforDesign via @DenverArtMuseum as well as comments via the event’s Facebook page.
I would also be down for a brainstorm session next Tuesday night to go over ideas. Email me if you wanna get together to chat.
One thing you may not know about me… I LOVE donut shops and their cultures. Donuts are cool too but I cannot eat them. I love to look at them and take pictures of them.
Enough about me – The Inventing Room and Two Rivers Coffee are playing at the Table 6 “sandbox” this week for their take on a Donut Shop Pop Up from 6am to 11 am. This will run through Saturday.
I am a big Two Rivers Coffee fan and happy they are in Denver this week. I learned about this little adventure a while ago through their social channels. I picked up a Thika Peaberry (Kenyan coffee) pour-over this morning. I was asked if I wanted a donut and felt like a deer in headlights – um, sure. Someone in my home will eat it.
This is the tale of what a $5 donut looks like… kind of pricey but worth it when one of these culinary experiences pops up once in a blue moon. We picked up an Ian Kleinman Nitrogen Apple Pie molecular masterpiece. I snagged a pic of a friend’s Creme Brulee. I kind of want to snag images of all the donuts they are making here. Maybe the Oink next?
This is a repost of some words I tossed out during the Four Mile Canyon fire of 2010. I was asked to make this public again as Colorado is facing some harrowing devastation (Waldo Canyon Fire, High Park Fire, Flagstaff Fire, etc.). I have so much to add to this but may do that in another post regarding how we use social media in disasters. All I ask is that you don’t clog hashtags will irrelevant information that does not add value to those that need the information. Be safe, follow pre-evac orders and evac orders, play well with others, and think of your neighbors. – Kia (@yosoykia) P.S. I did some time as a wildland firefighter so these are not foreign concepts to me.
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Words, words, words… ever hear of Wittgensteins fallacy of linguistics? We can be meaning the same thing but unless we share a precise language we may not be saying the same things. There may be a lot of confusion with the #boulderfire right now because fire terminology can be pretty damn precise even though it seems like some words mean the same thing.
An example is what does CONTAINMENT mean vs. CONTROLLING?
In wildland firefighting CONTAINMENT is when you are able to establish a physical perimeter around the fire with breaks. The breaks are the areas of cleared space where there is nothing that can burn within them (no fuel loading). So basically you can contain a fire while there are still flames around… the idea is that the flames will not be able to get past the physical barriers of no fuel. In our #boulderfire you may have seen bulldozers leaving wide tracks of dirt in their wake, these are some of the best breaks you can make for containment especially when structures could be in danger. With structures you want wide breaks for optimal containment. If bulldozers cannot make it to a burn area then you will see firefighters tearing everything up to clear as much fuel within breaks.
CONTROLLING a fire is much different in that you want flames to be extinguished. After containment the next firefighting goal is control so that the flames within a contained area are no more.
After containment then controlling the next step is OUT. Within a contained fire area that is controlled there still is a possibility of flare up from hot spots if the right mixture of wind, heat, and dryness persist. Thus even though there may not look to be an active area in a fire it still is not safe to return to unless it is out. At this stage firefighters will comb through the area possibly checking every hole and burned log with the back of their hand for heat. If it is still hot they may put a little water on it and mix a slurry of dirt and mud on it to reduce the oxygen exposure it has to make sure that spot is out. Large areas have to be checked like this to make sure the fire is officially out.
For those who thankfully still have homes to return to where the fire looks like it has passed please be patient until you get official word that the area is OUT. Fire officials are making sure the fire is OUT in these spots as well as entry and exit routes to make sure you are safe. The danger of entering areas before they are declared out is in the possibility of a flare up which is something that none of us want.
Here is a link to some wildland firefighting terminology. I don’t know if all the slang is up there so if you are curious hit me up on twitter as @yosoykia.
Be safe everyone. And still be appreciative of the firefighters working. I went by the reservoir today as the early morning crews were gathering around and they look like they have been worked, but are doing their best.
Nori, rice, almond butter tofu, carrot, broccoli, sesame seeds
DEN > PDX via Southwest 381 Friday 1 June
Trader Joe’s + Creswell Coffee en route to Medford. B and I split a lemon meringue tart.
The next day was Ashland for the farmers market, Lithia Park, donuts, and Ashland Creek.
That afternoon was Crater Lake. Those images are with my DSLR (all these here are via my phone)
On Sunday we prepped for our trip to the coast with Buttercloud breakfast. B loved this spicy strawberry balsamic jam. Pinky out.
Last errand was a stop my dad would have made.
Finally we were ready to make it to the coast including a brief dip into Cali redwoods on way to the 101.
Evening was making + eating dinner, wine, and dominoes.
Today was stormy weather thus mostly hunkered indoors minus a morning and low-tide dusk excursion to the shore.
Tomorrow we’ll play outside in the forests and on the beach with full, happy bellies.
