. - ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ - kurt cobain was a great songwriter, with this ability to scream... almost in tunekilled you ♪ ♪ i'm not gonna crack ♪ - nirvana gave the record industry a wake-up call and said, "here is your new audidience. "so, s start lookiking for the peopople "with the clothes with the holes in the knees. "and you better run to those clubs to buy up the next one." - i would go to clubs and see bands like cat butt, and bands s like screaeaming tr, and d it was such a refefreshing chchane from the competitive, sort of la, hollywood '80s. and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. - one e of the bigiggest mumusic biz ststories theseses is the so-called "rain city renaissance," with the emergence of noisy, punk-metal, grunge rock: bands like soundgarden, nirvana, alice in chains, and pearl jam, from seattle, washington. - ♪ i'm feeling ♪ ♪ i'm feeling outshined ♪ ♪ o outshined,, outshihined ♪ ♪ o outshined ♪ - why don'n't you tellll me the e biggest mimisconceptioion about the so-called seattle music scenes. - everybody's a grunge band. - all these bands that actually so

cobain of the band nirvana. >> i moved into this house and kurt lived behind and i shared the wall,play his songs through the wall. seeing them play, there was this strong connection in this house. ♪ cat: after deciding to become a full time artist, mcclure began experimenting with paper cutting. she self-publishing her first book "apple" for children in 1996. >> i found that making art was a more calming way to communicate. i am singing my songs, but there is a child in the lap in a home, and it's ultimately like, that's where i want to sing my songs. they call these x-acto knives, but they're not really exact. they have this, you know, a mind of their own sometimes. cat: on a recent morning, i joined mcclure at her desk as she worked on a piece that might end up in a future calendar. >> this was this one morning where i was swimming and i had my arms in front of me. the way that the water was making my arms, they were all squiggled. they were no longer solid even though i knew they were solid. cat: how do you know where to cut to make the image reveal itself? >> i don't. you just