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I met Bradley Bergey in Seattle where we worked together for two years at the Children’s Institute for Learning Differences on Mercer Island.

Around the same time, we each moved from Seattle to different parts of the world : I moved to Alaska and he moved to Mexico City. Over the next 4-5 years, we visited each other regular and I had the good fortune of watching him evolve from a naturally gifted painter into a focused and even more talented artist.

To boot, he’s an amazing educator, the kind of teacher I’m jealous his students get to have. World-traveled, intuitive, imaginative, playful and wise beyond his years - he’s a bona fide compliment to the practice.

Recently, Bergey was featured in Art and Letter, a monthly webzine focused on Architecture, Art and Design.

You can read the interview in its entirety here, if you likey.

He’s our pal and we’re very proud of him : )

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from wikipedia :

The first patent for a compact epicyclic hub gear was granted in 1895. This was a 2-speed but was not commercially successful. In 1896 William Reilly of Salford, England patented a broadly similar 2-speed hub which went into production in 1898 as ‘The Hub’. It was a great success, remaining in production for a decade. It rapidly established the practicality of compact epicylic hub gears.

By 1902 Reilly had designed a 3-speed hub gear. He parted company with the manufacturer of ‘The Hub’ but had signed away to them the intellectual rights to his future gear designs. To circumvent this problem, the patents for Reilly’s 3-speed were obtained in the name of his colleague, James Archer. Meanwhile, well-known English journalist and inventor Henry Sturmey had also invented a 3-speed hub. In 1903 Frank Bowden, head of the Raleigh Cycle Company, formed The Three-Speed Gear Syndicate, having obtained the rights to both the Reilly/Archer and Sturmey 3-speeds. Reilly’s hub went into production as the first Sturmey Archer 3-speed.[5]

In 1902 Mikael Pedersen (who also produced the Dursley Pedersen bicycle) patented a 3-speed hub gear and this was produced in 1903. This was said to be based on the “counter shaft” principle but was arguably an unusual epicylic gear, in which a second sun was used in place of an annulus.

By 1909 there were 14 different 3-speed hub gears on the British market.

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Pollee and I recently returned from our old neighborhood in Juneau, Alaska for our pals’ [Jorden and Bret] wedding.

Juneau saw some of its finest weather that week and a pod of humpbacks graced us with their presence all weekend.

This is the best clip of them all - as a few of us stood on the shore at Adlersheim these beauties hung out in the bay at the closest range many of us have ever witnessed - the end of the clip shows Topaz standing within mere feet as they swim by.

Thanks, Ryan, for having your digi with you!

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Pollee and i hadn’t yet been to see a movie in a theater in 2008.

How suhweeet that we waited…

Last night, we drove out to see The Dark Knight at IMAX.

Easily thee best action-hero movie made so far.

It topped $400 million last week. Will it beat Titanic’s $600 mil?

At $14.50 a ticket, it’s not cheap to see a flick at IMAX but totally worth it, especially considering tix to regular, non-6-story-high-screen-theaters are $10. It truly was an EXPERIENCE.

Ledger’s role will be huge shoes to fill in the next one but, all told, the film was one of the greatest ever IMO.

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