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Apr. 11, 2008 at 12:52am
A Rain Free Frost Park Friday Today
Zero Percent Change of Rain For Frost Park Friday at noon.
 by jcbetty on 4/11/2008 @ 6:47am | figures, Tacoma's first sunny Frost Park day in like, forever, and I'm off to Dallas.... Bah, anyway! --Have fun without me, and save me a cookie :D |
 by izenmania on 4/11/2008 @ 8:14am | Zero Percent Change of Rain
Come now, Erik... this is Washington. There's ALWAYS a chance. |
 by KevinFreitas on 4/11/2008 @ 8:32am | Looks like RR plans to bring it at noon today. Via the TacomaArt listserv:
ATTENTION COWARDS! the best CARTOONIST, RR ANDERSON challenges YOU to a sidewalk chalk sketch-off this FRIDAY at DEAD NOON, in DOWNTOWN TACOMA. FIRST EVER EVENT OF IT'S KIND ON THE PLANET! challengers for the title of "BEST ILLUSTRATOR IN THE UNIVERSE OF TACOMA" will be determined, awarded & enjoyed until next friday's... TAKE BACK THE PARK CHALK CHALLENGE. * Place bets! * free chalk sticks (as supplies last) * each challenge subject will be spontaneously crowd-sourced to 'keep it honest' * Witness Unbridled , fast chalk creationist art * Pretend the god you believe in will help you win! * See Rival Designer firm employees huddle in fear! "You cannot possibly beat me, I'm just to good at art" - RR Anderson 2008 
Sadly, I cannot attend due to my New Tacoma Award nomination stealing me away over the noon hour. Enjoy and I'm sure some fellow SiteCraftingers will be on-hand for the challenge. Enjoy all! |
 by thriceallamerican on 4/11/2008 @ 9:02am | The chalk picture is priceless. |
 by Steph DeRosa on 4/11/2008 @ 11:24am | All you creative dudes slay me. |
 by Mandiferous on 4/11/2008 @ 11:27am | That SHIRT is priceless. |
 by Erik on 4/11/2008 @ 11:57am | Blue sky and sunny at Frost Park! "You cannot possibly beat me, I'm just to good at art" - RR I needs a "ringer" to win this thing but don't have enough time to round one up. |
by Erik on 4/11/2008 @ 1:49pm | Wow. What a nice sunny event in Frost Park. RR Anderson's chalk art challenge worked out pretty well.       More pictures at: www.flickr.com/photos/tacoma-urbanist/ Who won the chalk art contest? |
 by AP on 4/11/2008 @ 1:50pm | So the winner has yet to be determined in the sidewalk chalk contest? Good talks to be had all over Frost Park today - nice meeting those of you I hadn't met prior. Patricia, thanks again for the great chat. |
by Erik on 4/11/2008 @ 2:01pm | Additional pictures from Sherry: Here, RR Anderson struggles for his life against an unknown late arriving artist. After RR leaves, she brings out colored chalk.   |
 by NineInchNachos on 4/11/2008 @ 2:07pm | seriously though thanks to everyone who came down to the BETA version of the Friday Lunchhour Chalk Competition.. I will concede this: Mistakes were Made. Unfortunately you enter into a spontaneous sidewalk chalk art competition with the supplies/spelling on hand and not the supplies/spelling YOU WISH you had.
we’re conducting a survey and hiring an out of town consulting firm so Next week we’ll be back with.. 1. assigned/numbered sidewalk sections for competitors 2. a greater supply of sidewalk chalk (bring your own if you’re worried about it even) 3. rigid adherence to the abstract concept of time. see you next week |
 by intacoma on 4/11/2008 @ 2:31pm | Good seeing you all,
Adam if your reading this the url for that video service is called vimeo, here are a few videos I've put up there vimeo.com/intacoma/videos |
 by Adam the Alien on 4/12/2008 @ 12:18am | Hah. I am, in fact, reading this (for once - I've been avoiding this "reading" thing, it seems). I'm having some technical frustrations at the moment, but should have both today's video and the one from the snow a few weeks ago up soonish (if not before I go to sleep, then within 24 hours). I'll give vimeo a try sometime in the next few days, when I have more time - in the meantime, I'm working at growing a larger subscriber base on YouTube, so making sure I get uploaded there takes priority. |
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