Snow, check. Ocean, check. Volcanoes… Well, mountains, and they are better because they don’t ever attack anyone with toxic gas and molten rock, right?
The checklist is why this photo is taken from the most familiar viewpoint in Seattle (I checked with Miles on Twitter and she confirmed) – it’s favored because it crowds in a lot of must-see items in one place: the volcano, the Space Needle, Elliott Bay, Puget Sound, the downtown skyline…a chunk of the Cascades, ferries, Blake island, Gehry’s EMP (which I think is butt-ugly), the Arena, West Seattle, the two stadia, the Wheel, much of the harbor…etc.
Snow. Mountains. Volcano (extinct). Ocean. River. Estuary. Active (very) earthquake fault system (visible if you know where to look). That’s just our local environment. The joy, and curse, of New Zealand is living on an active tectonic plate boundary. Seattle look really pretty.
I’d never heard of the EMP so had a look at some images. I know that art and architecture are subjective and very much in the eye of the beholder but I absolutely agree with Ophelia’s assessment. What a butt-ugly building.
I quite like (via photos) Gehry’s Bilbao museum – I like the way it gleams among the older buildings. But the EMP just looks like a junk pile, especially from up here. (The viewpoint is about a ten minute walk from here, less if I hustle.)
Nice!
My part of the world, lovely as it is, is sadly deficient in oceans and volcanoes. Desperately low on snow, too.
We have snow, but no ocean, and no volcanoes. In fact, we’re as far from the ocean as you can get before you get closer to the other ocean.
We have snow and oceans, but no volcanoes. Between us we have the full set.
Snow, check. Ocean, check. Volcanoes… Well, mountains, and they are better because they don’t ever attack anyone with toxic gas and molten rock, right?
The checklist is why this photo is taken from the most familiar viewpoint in Seattle (I checked with Miles on Twitter and she confirmed) – it’s favored because it crowds in a lot of must-see items in one place: the volcano, the Space Needle, Elliott Bay, Puget Sound, the downtown skyline…a chunk of the Cascades, ferries, Blake island, Gehry’s EMP (which I think is butt-ugly), the Arena, West Seattle, the two stadia, the Wheel, much of the harbor…etc.
Snow. Mountains. Volcano (extinct). Ocean. River. Estuary. Active (very) earthquake fault system (visible if you know where to look). That’s just our local environment. The joy, and curse, of New Zealand is living on an active tectonic plate boundary. Seattle look really pretty.
The volcano in this local photo is dormant but not extinct, I believe. Would be way too exciting if it woke up.
I’d never heard of the EMP so had a look at some images. I know that art and architecture are subjective and very much in the eye of the beholder but I absolutely agree with Ophelia’s assessment. What a butt-ugly building.
We have a fortran.
I quite like (via photos) Gehry’s Bilbao museum – I like the way it gleams among the older buildings. But the EMP just looks like a junk pile, especially from up here. (The viewpoint is about a ten minute walk from here, less if I hustle.)