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-It's time now for NARF, Neighborhood Adventure
Ramble with Friends with your host Jed Dunkerley.
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-Hey, I'm Jed.
We are in the South Lake
Union neighborhood and it is quite a day.
This is a neighborhood that changes so fast
that if you haven't
been here in the last month
or even the last week, I guarantee
you'll see something you've never seen before.
Lots of public art, amazing architecture,
a great public space.
Let's go take a look,
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Here in South Lake Union,
you've got a landscape of irony
and that there's very few landholders
that are leasing giant buildings
that they've built to very few tech companies,
and they make these amazing public plazas
filled with really cool art that nobody ever sees.
And the irony of it is that the art usually pays
homage to the way that the land used
to be before the landowners transformed the landscape.
All right, here we are on the Google campus
right here in South Lake Union.
This is a brand new sculpture.
It's called “The Wanderer”
by a local group called SuttonBeresCuller.
It's a big, curvy colored line in an otherwise drab,
rectangular world.
But I think it's an homage to the indigenous sea
serpent population
that used to live in Lake Union.
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Here we are in an innocuous
alley between Yale and Pontius,
between Harrison and Republican.
And look, a sculpture.
This is called “Laundry Strike” by Whiting Tennis.
It's an homage
to the 1917 strike where thousands of female
laundry workers took down the laundry cabal in Seattle,
right here on this very site.
So there's another example of change
rendered real forever in art.
These places are here
waiting for you to come explore them, engage
with them, sit on them, and maybe even hug them.
Here we are on the Amazon campus at the corner of Boren
and Republican, Jenny Heishman’s “Cabin Corners,” a celebration
of what maybe used to be here a long time ago.
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And like I said, South Lake
Union is a pedestrian friendly neighborhood.
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Well, you know,
with all the change is happening in Seattle
these days are leaving you a little disoriented,
you're not the only one.
But the good news is there's a lot of cool
new art and architecture to go out and see,
especially here in the South Lake Union neighborhood.
So find some friends, pick a day and have an adventure.
Thanks for coming.
Till next time, I'll see ya. Happy NARFing.
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