Let us suppose that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man-made things, including all tools and writing in addition to the useless, beautiful, and poetic things of the world.
–George Kubler (The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things)
January 23 is notable for two things, past and present. Born on this day was Robin “I Want YOU to WANT Me” Zander of Cheap Trick, a man who helped etch the words Live at Budokan into the mainstream lexicon. Presently it’s a good day to wander over to the Cooley Gallery at Reed College and see New and Used, the US debut of photographer Marc Joseph’s large-scale color photographs exploring the vanishing species of independently owned book and record stores that once populated places like Portland and Rockford, Illinois, the home of Cheap Trick.
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POSTED: January 23rd, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »
Organism‘s Gertrude salon goes down at Someday Lounge (125 NW 5th) following the Rigo 23 PSU lecture tonight…approx 9 PM. Tonight’s (sm)art chat is enhanced by improvisational music. Curator/critic Jeff Jahn is threatening to play guitar with Brenden Clenaghen. Alice B. Toklas will do a silent performance piece in absentia. New Deal sponsors.
updated Monday January 22 2007 19:51
POSTED: January 22nd, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »
Tonight Newspace Center for Photography (1632 SE 10th) hosts a screening party for Portland filmmakers Karl Lind and Danielle Lombardi who will soon be representing the PDX film community at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam. The show starts at 8 PM featuring select short works by Karl Lind, including “Disconnected”, which will be showing at Rotterdam, and Danielle Lombardi’s “Lay Down Tracks” (co-directed by Brigid McCaffrey). The party continues with food, drink and dancing to tunes provided by DJ Fakeblood and Radio Maria. $7 suggested donation…funds go to defray the artists travel costs to Rotterdam.
POSTED: January 19th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »
Pinball Publishing is a web of complementary projects that engage the printed word. With their Tenth & Grant line of artisan paper goods created in collaboration with artists (Carson Ellis, Lisa DeJohn…), custom printing and silkscreening, their Bangback record label, and a small literary press, the six-year-old SE Portland business run by Laura and Austin Whipple is a creative wellspring. Laura took time out from her new baby and Pinball (her other baby) to answer the questions of the ultra Q.
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POSTED: January 18th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: ultra Q | TAGS: ultra Q | No Comments »
Say you like your social networking website a bit more focused than the free-for-all that is Myspace. Perhaps a “niche network” or community of self-selected folks who appreciate/engage in DIY interior decorating and home improvement is up your alley? Meet Curbly, the oddly named (but then we got over the oddness of Google and Yahoo, didn’t we?) social networking site that invites you to, “Love where you live.”
Launched only a couple of months ago by Bruno Bornsztein and Ben Moore from Minneapolis, the site is already lively with good ideas and over a thousand members sharing “member-generated content”…in the how-to, inspiration, news sections…there are pleas for help with a messy desk, notes on the perfect hostess gift, numerous mentions of IKEA and this useful little origami project How to Make a Folded-Paper CD Case. And as an exemplar of the Brave New Web many-to-many moment, the site is as bloggy, taggy, and buddy-ish as you’d expect. You might meet a whole new cadre of friends, people who paint their living rooms in stripes or make window blinds out of computer punch cards. Good fun.
updated Tuesday January 16 2007 7:15
POSTED: January 16th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »
