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DANIEL BLUE: MEET RYAN WALLING >>> Ryan Walling is my cousin. He has lived in Tacoma longer than I have. I remember visiting his house on the eastside when I was a kid. Ryan taught the younger cousin boys (me, Mike, and Zac) how to skate on the half
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET JAMES DARDUNGO >>> James Dardungo and I bonded in a tent-awning outside of Bob's Java Jive over a chamomile-laced cigarette. Chamomile is calming and a pleasing mellow aromatic smoke. His friend Potter showed up and I told a Harry Potter joke that made everyone uncomfortable. We first
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET MELANIE CANTARA >>> Melanie Cantara moved here in 2004 to help take care of her mother who has since continued her journey in other forms than our tangible cage. Melanie and I have much in common. I moved back home in 2001 for the same reason.
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET MICAH TUCKER >>> Micah Tucker is a working artist. When I first moved to Tacoma, he was painting huge canvases and hanging them in his friends' apartments. This is perhaps some of the first "art" I was exposed to outside of the graffiti some friends had
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET TAYLOR BUCK >>> I met Taylor Buck at the Warehouse, I think; actually maybe I met her at my house before I moved to the Warehouse. Or maybe I met her in another life when we were brother and sister baby wolves. That's what it feels
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET KELSEY MEDVED >>> Kelsey Medved is the best boogie dancer in the Northwest. Nothing seems to scare her, no dance is too dorky or obtuse, and when she performs them you will feel jealous at her freedom of expression and her obvious skill in kinetic demonstration. Long
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET EVERETT BROTHERS >>> Everett Brothers is an extremely mellow and pleasant fellow. Pictured here enjoying the hell out of himself at Art on the Ave, Everett invited us to his apartment in the Leland where we grilled exotic meats on the barbie whilst sipping a mixture of
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET TOBIN ROPES >>> Tobin Ropes is a modern American Cosimo Medici. The Medici were a powerful and infinitely rich banking family that influenced much of the best periods of Italian art. Without the Medici family; patrons to both Leonardo and Michelangelo, among many other greats, we
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET PRESTON JOHNSON >>> Preston Johnson is my cousin. Well, kind of; our family is complicated. Having no blood relation, we are still somehow related by a marriage that has since been dissolved. Even though I heard many stories of Preston and his brothers growing up, I
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET THE SHIZSICKLE >>> Parked here outside of Supernova Hair and Tattoo, Tha Shizsickle is a pink 1969 mail jeep that has been transformed into the best bad ass mobile ice-cream deployer this side of the Atlantic (that's the whole continent, yo!) Despite fairly priced cream and being
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET RANDY CZERNO >>> Randy Czerno likes to be known as CZ7 verified by the symbol on his paintings. A true artist in every sense of the word, Randy started with sculpture but then ran out of room and has since moved to painting and drawing with pastel
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET PATRICK MEERSMAN >>> Patrick Meersman does not deserve to be given the bird, I just pricked myself on a holly branch and it made a sad face with blood shot eyes. Pat understands, in fact I would say that his understanding is definitive of his character.
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET PAUL SPARKS >>> Paul Sparks is a modern Magi. Having devoted his life to the pursuit of wisdom long ago, Paul lived in the hills of Northeast Tacoma for many years before moving to Downtown and embedding himself into the workings of our diverse urban community.
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET ORLANDO MCCRAY >>> Welcome to Orlando McCray. Orlando is the sort of person who sneers intentionally in your direction because he knows you know that is how he expresses his love. For the first couple of years that I knew Orlando he would speak in a normal
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET PATRICK JOHNSON >>> Patrick Johnson is a man of many facets. Like a baseball-sized diamond, thousands of little geometrical shapes link together to form the surface of flashy brilliant globular glitz. Try burning this one, and I don't even think he is even old enough to
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET MATHEW JOST >>> This Mysterious Sailor is named Mathew Jost. He sails into town every now and again, and we are hopping that he decides to make this his port of origin. Fun to the very last drop, Matt is a sea of energy and debauchery
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET MARY KAY JOHNSON >>> Mary Kay Johnson is an artist in the truest sense of the word. Recently taking the plunge out of the corporate graphic design world of Costco, she is now counting on her wits and intelligence to navigate the strange and beautiful landscape of
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET KERRY MUISE >>> Kerry Muise is the sweetest and most gentle woman in Tacoma. A soft voice and elegant smile wins the heart of every man in the bar. One night at The Monsoon Room I saw three of my friends falling all over themselves in
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET MIKE STASIAK >>> Mike Stasiak is a reasonable man. Pictured here humbly plucking out a beautiful tune at this year's Dear Fest, he will travel back to N.Y.U in the fall where he is seeking a higher education than the one he got already, heyuck'. Any
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Josh Ott is a bassist. He is also an accountant, math is music. There are few musicians out there (Bono excluded) who are as passionate about making a difference with their art. For as long as I have known him (10 years?) Josh has been diligently pursuing his voice