Portland-based filmmaker Karl Lind is the best kind of maker, the kind we are so lucky to have many of in Portland, who in addition to doing his own projects, makes interesting work in collaboration with non-filmmakers, AND makes time to see that local filmmakers’ work gets seen. Since 2006, he’s been programming the Odds […]
My Own Private Portland (via Paris through a Japanese lens)
is that an Ace Hotel blanket on your chair at “My Own Private Portland,” Takahiro Miyashita’s most recent Paris runway show for his label Number (N)ine?
Tumble
how beautiful it was to see this tumbling aggregation blown by the wind and catching a spectrum’s worth of evening light on the Willamette River
Touch It
Julia Barello’s “Flowers of Rhetoric: Paramythia”
Two jewelry shows open January 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Craft (724 NW Davis).
Where jewelry as craft rather than commodity diverged from the wearable into the contemporary art realm of the conceptual, artists have made fascinating work. But a new show at the Museum is as much about the […]
Designs on Portland at DWR
11th Avenue orange and grey panels photo via: Portland Ground: Pictures of Portland Oregon
Let’s talk. There are few things ultra likes better than considering design (and/or culture) in conversation. So it is that we welcome the launch of Design Within Reach Portland’s bi-monthly architecture and design lecture/conversation series, “Designs on Portland” wherein they […]
Don’t Go
As of April 8, their third anniversary, we will say good-bye to Denwave (811 E Burnside) with regret. Shops come and go, but this is a passing to be noted. Denwave, through its many changes (including the name change from the early “fix gallery” AND their move to then-pioneering location in the now-hopping 811 building […]
Odds and Ends: The Hills Are Alive…
Odds and Ends, the screening series Portland filmmaker Karl Lind curates, is back with Vol. 3 “The Sight and Sound of Music Videos.” It’s a night of independently produced music videos by Portland and international film/video makers for artists like Lederhosen Lucil, Ohmega Watts, Mattress, Arthur and Yu, A Weather, Jean Grae, Plastic Little, Dan […]
Brian Ulrich’s “Thrift” At Quality Pictures
“In 2001 citizens were encouraged to take to the malls to boost the U.S. economy through shopping, thereby equating consumerism with patriotism. The Copia project, a direct response to that […]
