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 […]
Pin-Me Anniversary Sale and Party
Today, January 11 through Sunday, January 13 Pin Me Apparel (3705 N Mississippi) celebrates its three-year anniversary with a sale of 30-50% off everything in the store with brands like Prairie Underground, Gentle Fawn, modaspia, and Orela Kiely. Saturday night, January 12, from 6-9 PM, they’re throwing a party to celebrate with snacks, drinks and […]
Street Style: A Shot Or Two of Color
Carmen, NW 10th & Couch
Anna Cohen Sample Sale
For those new to the work of lauded Portland-based fashion designer Anna Cohen, you should know that Cohen, who spent formative time working in Italian fashion houses, does a sustainable line of high-fashion daywear of organic cottons, hemp-silk, and was an early adopter of bamboo jersey. It’s crisp, sophisticated, tailored separates and drapey tops and […]
Welcome Back COTR
In praise of this glorious weekend of allatonceness, Darouian’ s to be saluted for tapping into the promise of Art-signalling-Change—a notion that Portland’s energetic and earnest indie-arts spectrum can rightly aspire to—a synergistic impulse that also seems to fuel the best intermedia projects that AudioCinema helps incubate.
Journal of Popular Noise
The Journal of Popular Noise is just such a beautiful object, letterpress printed and folded in its innovative accordian origami (and so-good typography). This, the just-released second volume of the semi-annual audio magazine, contains issues 4-6, 7″ vinyl by Portland’s Copy (!), by Pontius Pilots and Teflon Don.
Brooklyn-based Parsons grad Brian Kalet, whose resume includes […]
Light and Sands
It’s rich, luminous color that makes us consider why art has been so fixated on paint on canvas (painting is dead, not dead, dying, lives) as a means of addressing color when light is so compelling.
