Tollefson Plaza Conquered: Secrets Revealed

Inspired by the Frost Park take over I rallied team In-Tacoma and we made our way down to the cement deadzone in Downtown Tacoma Called Tollefson Plaza. We decided to hold an experiment to see what would happen if Tollefson Plaza was turned into a real world wiki for a day. (A wiki is website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively.)

With a large bucket of chalk in hand we began to draw in the center. I created the message “imagine.” very large in the center to get people to start thinking about this space and with the period its quite actionable. We then created a defined chalk area with the word “free” around it and a simple task of “Have Fun”.

We were interested to see if people would actually participate.

Leaving the park we came back 2 hours later to find that people were indeed participating and I had to add more chalk for people to use. We did this throughout the entire day.

Conclusion:

• People are ready to use this space
• People do some pretty wild things in this space like, take off there pants and jump in the fountain.
• Over 30 people participated and only one chalk penis
• People that wrote inappropriate things were moderated by others
• Security won’t stop you from chalking
• People created waypoints to help people find things in Tacoma, arrows pointing to the cupcake place for example.

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Frost Park Photos

Feel free to have any of these, let me know what you think

Tonight: Show Hells Kitchen You Want More Hiphop

It is not very often Hells Kitchen puts together a lineup like this:
Can-U & DJ REIGN(253), GRYNCH(206), CANCER RISING!!!(206). If you have wanted to experience a hiphop show but have never made it to one, this is a all ages show that is guaranteed to not let you down. I’ve gotten about 20 emails from people saying they are going to bring like 6 friends each so this is going to fill up really fast. Be there!

Get Familiar with the lineup them:

Cancer Rising

http://www.myspace.com/cancerrising

Grynch & Nphared

http://www.myspace.com/grynchmusic

Can-U & REIGN

http://www.myspace.com/can_u

Photos from Show at the Helm

Saw Peter, Jena, Aaron, Colin, Sarah, Jordan, Maria, James, Deena, Kelly, Ian, Chris, Byron, Sam, Zach.

What did you miss? Well there was music, lots of people standing, some smoking outside, and lots of smiles. Oh yeah the living statue even made an appearance.

Frost Park Friday Meetup Photos

The weather was amazing, people were smiling, salmon on crackers from woody’s were being eaten, “graffiti” was being scrawled on the park sidewalks, everything was documented.

Tacoma help me find this woman

Hello Tacoma, yesterday while walking 6th avenue I met a very kind retired woman who lives in a retirement home not far from Jazzbones. She really wanted her photo taken and she explained to me about a camera she once owned. I complemented her on her beautiful eyes and asked if she was once a model. She told me she was for some friends and that she would love to see these photos. When asked what she was looking at she said, “The Heavens”.

This is where I need your help Tacoma,

The only information I have is that her name is Linda/Lynda and that she is at some retirement place in the area called “Northwest _____”.

I would love to hand deliver her some copies of these photos. Please Help

-In-Tacoma

Cultivating in the Graffiti Garages

Not to long ago you might remember reading about the cover-up of “The Tacoma Graffiti Garages”. Well I’ve been keeping a close eye on them so you don’t have to.

Presenting the new and improved Graffiti Garages:

Previously on In-tacoma

Hotel Murano - Tacoma, gets fished eyed

An extremely wide look at Hotel Murano, in Tacoma Wa

The Hub, Tacoma

So its about 6:00pm here at the hub. You can smell the paint is still drying and this place looks amazing. They added divisions creating 3 or 4 little areas. This was key since it was the death of the St Helens Cafe. The bar can sit about 20 and there is an additional side bar that can sit 7. On tap they have all of the traditional harmon beers and for you hard-a types it looks like I see a bottle of jagermeister, whiskey, Kalua, and some other bottles I can’t read. They have a lot of staff too, just looking around I counted 15, wouldn’t be surprised if there were an additional five hiding in the back.

So far I’m extremely impressed. They have it all, food, beer, and wifi. Its not busy at all either if your worried about coming here because of the crowd don’t be there is lots of seating. (Night painting Chris Sharp)

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Update: The Bartender rocks, he just denied some dude that just got out of jail that tried to use his county check to buy a few beers.