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Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jun 28th, 2008
This Saturday, Quality Pictures (916 NW Hoyt, Portland, OR) hosted a talk by Chas Bowie entitled “Before there was Ballen”. This was the closing event for the show “Roger Ballen: Photographs” at Quality Pictures.
Chas talked about the Ballen’s and how his work builds on a myriad of photographic traditions. Chas approached [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 11th, 2008
Photographs have been tampered throughout photographic history. I created the phrase “Taking out the Trotsky” to describe removal of people through manipulation. Stalin had teams of people removing all evidence of Trotsky and others he disagreed with from photographs and writings.
Scientific American has a slide show called “Digital Forensics: Photo Tampering Throughout History“, [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 11th, 2008
Finally! cross-platform Web browser(Firefox) to support color management and use your custom display profile to display images. Safari has been doing this on the Mac, but now Windows users and of course all FireFox users can also have color-management. I’ve been a big supporter of Firefox and Thunderbird for years and promoting [...]
Posted in Music on Jun 7th, 2008
Portland’s own Derby played at the Wonder Ballroom this past Friday night. This show was a CD Release party for Derby’s “Posters Fade” CD.
I first came across Derby at two different shows at the Doug Fir (including the FirFest) and really liked their sound. At that time I said, “These local boys really [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jun 6th, 2008
I started off June First Thursday at Eric Franklin’s show at the Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). Eric’s new show is called “Bifurcations”.
Eric’s organic glass sculptures, are filled with a variety of noble gases, give them a a different soft yet surreal bioluminescent glow. Without touching, try hovering your hands [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos on Jun 4th, 2008
Eric Franklin with have an First Thursday opening this week
at the Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). Eric’s new show is called “Bifurcations”.
Eric’s organic glass sculptures, are filled with a variety of noble gases, give them a a different soft yet surreal bioluminescent glow. Without touching, try hovering your hands over [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 3rd, 2008
About ten years ago while recovering from the flu (which I only get about every ten years) I was dragged by friends to see the Poetry Slam national competition in Portland. It was a great night. One of the poets performing was Taylor Mali. This past weekend, I ran across these two [...]
Posted in Ponderings on Jun 2nd, 2008
Evolution of the eye - It is not irreducibly complex
The National Center for Science Education has a youtube video about the evolution of eye. This shows the key flaws with intelligent design’s irreducible complexity argument for the eye.
Two of my personal arguments against intelligent design are the relatively poor design of the human knee [...]
Posted in Music on Jun 2nd, 2008
The Long Blondes are a 5-piece art-rock band from Sheffield England. They played at the Doug Fir this past Saturday night in Portland Oregon.
Lead singer Kate Jackson strutted out …
…then kicked our butts.
The band refers to their music as “glamorous punk.”
They have a new CD out titled “Couples.” Many of their songs dig [...]