© Chase Jarvis

I wish I got his name and email, but a friend and I met a gentleman at the Shiro Sushi bar (the only place I’ve seen serve you up live shrimp–poor little guys) this afternoon who’s here interviewing with Amazon.com.  They put him up at a hotel on Pine Street which is certainly a great place to give someone an idea of what Seattle was like.  After joking about his wife being the decision maker and his retort of, “what?” he later admitted that his wife is in fact the one calling the shots.  Apparently, she prefers D.C.  So, my friend and I filled up his tool box with ammunition about our natural beauty, teriyaki chicken, the variety of restaurants, teriyaki chicken, the array of events that take place in the summer, teriyaki chicken, and the list goes on and on and on. I wish I had this video in my back pocket.

Here’s a short vid of a Seattleight and photographer named Chase Jarvis discussing a new Seattle project of his.  What chase is doing, is collecting a list of 100 people in Seattle that are not the Bill Gates and the Paul Allens, but those who really “drive the culture” in Seattle.  Jarvis describes the individuals as various artists and cultural figures we know as our DJ’s, graffiti artists, scientists, those who organize restaurant tours, hopefully the teriyaki cooks on 2nd & Pike, etc.  A truly unique style of art by highlighting those who are artistic in a not so ordinarily recognized way.

Anyway wish I had this handy.