A Place in the Forest

My fellow passengers:

A large black woman, her hair short dreads. Wearing black t-shirt layered with green vest with jenin jacket. Brown socks with sandals. She's reading a technical manual.

An elderly woman with pixie haircut, sky blue northface coat, open, with two layers of thin sweaters, over a bloase. And a hand knit scarf. Yoga pants. Brightly colored knit socks with sandels. Her eyes look at nothing.

A muscular white man in his late 20s, tightly stretched blue t-shirt with ironic text, blue jeans with rolled and ironed cuffs, scuffed leather ankle boots.

And so on. About 2 dozen people, a mix of white, hispanic, asian, native, and black.

All wearing relaxed layers, mostly in subdoed earth tones, water resistant sport wear, comfortable shoes. Lots of dyed hair in subdued colors, crazy tights, nose rings on office workers, and hoodies. There is not a bit sunlight tanned skin in sight.

If I didn't already know I was in Seattle, inside the city proper, one look at this crowd would tell me where I was.

This is pretty cool. As you mouse around, it will tell you the names of all the Seattle neighborhoods. And then as you drill down, the names off all the shops.

(gakked from intrepid_reason)

I just watched the first episode of "Criminal Minds".

The setting was supposed to be Seattle.

I couldn't quite tell if it actually was or not. The heavy rain and the people scurrying around under umbrallas certainly failed the verisimilitude test. The helicopter lookdown shot at the beginning didn't look familiar. The view of the bridge in the distance at the end might or might not have been the Ballard Bridge or the Fremont Bridge. I *think* the entrance to the King County government building was the real thing.

The maps he was reviewing were of Seattle. In fact, either one of the victim's homes or one of the body dumps (it was hard to tell, as the map was panning around) was actually just a few miles to the south of me.

Does anyone know how much of it was shot "on location", if any?