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Yoav

I already posted this on Facebook but for those who didn’t see it - I wanted to share how much noise one guy can make with a guitar and an amp. Thanks to Adam Flick for turning me on to this artist.

Pressplane closes $1.7 million Series A financing led by Second Avenue Partners!

Pressplane is the latest company to be hatched by us here at Curious Office and we are pleased to announce the closing of our funding today!

Our $1.7 million Series A financing was led by Second Avenue Partners but we have a roster of other great investors:

Mika Salmi (MTV President / AtomFilms founder)
Rich Barton (Founder, Expedia / Zillow)
Erik Blachford (former Expedia CEO)
Andy Liu (BuddyTV)
Alex Algard (Founder, Whitepages)
Geoff Entress (Madrona)
Andy Sack
Adrian Hanauer (MLS Soccer, Curious Office co-founder)
John Cunningham
Dough Rowan (former Corbis CEO)

Unfortunately, I can’t say exactly what we are working on but I can say it is another “buy and sell marketplace” like our last company (Imagekind) but more around designers and creative content serving businesses. We’re obviously not competing with our new Imagekind owners (CafePress) but we are able to take what we learned from Imagekind and apply much of it to this new initiative.

Mika Salmi at MTV joins Mike Slade from Second Avenue on our board and we can be found diligently working away in these offices on 911 Western which we share with Wishpot.com Come by and say hi sometime!

View more photos here.

Old Seattle motels

There are several “vintage” motels along Highway 99 in Seattle. I decided to pull over and take a few pictures but there are dozens more and I’ll try to take more over the coming year. I like old motels. Photographing them. Not staying in them.

Great design for a great message

Nice job red cross:

Serious coffee art

I was working at El Diablo coffee in my beloved Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle and couldn’t help but notice how seriously they take that devil/diablo stuff. Pretty cool. Serious coffee art.

• Rainbows

  

  Rainbows. I made these images around the Seattle area in 2007.

• Vanishing America

  

  Images signage and architecture from America's yesteryear.

• Friends from Monaco

  

  Dear friends from Monaco visited Seattle and we joined other friends for morning brunch.

• Cadillac

  

  Old cars. I love all cars but this old cadillac got my attention, almost as if it days from expiration.

• Old stamps

  

  Old European stamps Someone game me a tin of old stamps. I loved the look of them and decided to scan a few to share.