Posted in Misc on Oct 29th, 2007
In July, I posted “Serious restrictions by NYC Mayor’s office on street photography.” Thankfully New York mayor’s office on tuesday will post new rules which basically will allow “people using hand-held equipment, including tripods, to shoot for any length of time on sidewalks and in parks as long as they leave sufficient room for [...]
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Posted in Other Openings on Oct 21st, 2007
Saturday October 20th, Tom Cramer gave a talk about his exhibition, New Work. On the left is Tom pointing to his work “Moon Lake”. It was an interesting talk and he touched on lots of interesting topics. Many artist lectures that I’ve been to lately have not added much to my understanding [...]
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Posted in Music on Oct 20th, 2007
Interpol, so what happened to you? I was completely into all of your shows during your past visits. And now this? It was a pretty good 1 hour set, but honestly the older songs seemed much tighter than the new songs. But probably should start with the ending. Lame. [...]
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Posted in Misc, Music on Oct 19th, 2007
Connections? many, few, or just things I’ve heard about today or doing today. First the very sad news… South African reggae star, Lucky Dube, has been shot dead. This happened when car thieves attacked his car when he was dropping his teenage son and daughter off in a Johannesburg suburb.
I started hearing about [...]
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Posted in Other Openings on Oct 18th, 2007
I was sitting at home poking at my website and a fellow photographer appeared on the TV. on the “The Colbert Report.” none the less. (click to see the video) I think Chris did a nice job and showed various images during the interview. Last year I got an email preview of [...]
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Posted in Misc on Oct 13th, 2007
A new bridge has been proposed by ZGF, as discussed in the PORT blog some of us feel it really may not be strong enough of a design. Jeff Jahn wrote a comment to that entry that he will host a “design off” for alternatives using Google’s sketch up and asked if I could [...]
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Posted in Misc on Oct 10th, 2007
Advertising that looks just like someone’ s fine-art? An artist I know, painter/photographer Gregory Scott has been creating these unique works that combine his paintings with photography and showing them for many years (Catherine Edelman Gallery, photograhers:network 2007, Museum of Contemporary Photography, ArtWorldChicago.com Feb 2006, etc.).
Now I see this from a Travelocity ad [...]
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Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Oct 6th, 2007
First Thursday started at Tom Cramer’s show at Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). You have to see this show out. My favorites were “Moon Lake” and “Aviary” and “Power Plant”. Works like “Moon Lake” and “Golden Dawn” have these wonderful undulations coupled with interesting finer textures and patterns [...]
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I’m have a new 40″x30″ photograph that is part of the “Be Blue (Sky)” group show at Mark Woolley’s new downtown gallery (817 SW 2nd Ave, Portland OR) . This should be fun, I hope to see you there! Here are a couple of tips: First *wear blue clothing* to the opening (seriously, have fun). [...]
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Posted in Art Car, Other Openings on Oct 1st, 2007
First of all, in October, Tom Cramer is having a solo show at the Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). The opening reception is this 1st Thursday 4-Oct from 5-8p. He has been doing some very interesting new work. I’m really looking forward to the show and the opening should [...]
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