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 […]
ultra Q: Woolly Mammoth Comes To Dinner
Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner is a Portland-based contemporary dance collective that will knock your socks off and back on again. Fresh and smart with a combination of choreographed and structured improvisation, with humor, manic elements, and Tammy Faye eyes, Woolly Mammoth Comes To Dinner—Katie Arrants, Rikki Rothenberg, Kathleen Keogh, and David Rafn (who […]
ultra Q: Jenene Nagy
Jenene Nagy is that rare hybrid who is a force to be reckoned with on all fronts, smart and unerring. She’s an artist whose installations have been among the best Portland has seen at PDX Contemporary Art Window Project, the Portland Modern Window Project, and as part of The Hook Up show at NAAU […]
ultra Q: makelike
You’ve seen identities makelike has designed for Masu, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Entermodal, and now STRUT, but did you know that this Portland-based design studio has also done work for Missoni/Valentino, BabyPhat, Iceberg, and W Hotels? Mary Kysar and Topher Sinkinson (see also: Swallow Press (x2) art collaborative) founded makelike at the […]
ultra Q: Kristan Kennedy
2006 was a good year for Kristan Kennedy. Her work was again in the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum as well as in the Fresh show at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. And Leach, who represents Kennedy, also took her work to Aqua Art in Miami. Meanwhile, as Visual Art Program Director for the […]
ultra Q: E*Rock
Artist, musician, labelist, turntablist, animator, producer, E*Rock is everywhere, multitentacled and multitalented. He runs or co-runs three record labels including Audio Dregs, he’s one-third of the multi-media team Wyld-File, and has done videos for Beck (with Wyld-File), Menomena, and Ratatat. Recent E*Rock projects include a series of digital psychedelic videos you can find our more […]
ultra Q: Laura Whipple
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 […]
ultra Q: Ian Lynam
Ian Lynam’s design work is an integral part of PDX visual culture…even though he’s currently based in Tokyo. You’ll recognize Lynam’s logos for Le Pigeon (and before that Colleen’s), Peripheral Produce, the logotype for Gus Van Sant’s company and next movie, Paranoid Park, and for the PDX Film Fest three years in a row.
Lynam did […]
