TJ Norris, Our Man in UB

Your busy lives go on, but the Ultimate Blogger contest, conducted by the Portland-based gentlemen who bring you UrbanHonking, has been boiled down to its final four contestants. The UB contest involves challenges, immunity, voting…we haven’t exactly been following that closely, BUT they seem to be having fun.

The Existential Media kids sincerity is cute, and G Rad are heavy hitters, but we’re rooting for Portland artist and curator, TJ Norris. Norris has curated some of the more important visual art shows in recent memory in Portland as well as making powerful, complex, conceptual work. He is also an arts writer and sometimes blogger.

But forget all that. What happens when a serious artist takes off his serious hat and puts on…a wig? This. Did we mention Gianni Versace, LaToya, and Sandra Bernhard?