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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 Misc on May 23rd, 2008
Yesterday I posted an announcement & a Brooklyn bridge image (click here to see that and links to this weekend’s festivaties). This posting has some images from last night’s 125-year birthday party for the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Impact (a musical group up for an academy award), and Marvin Hamlisch all performed.
Early arrivals got [...]
Posted in Misc on May 22nd, 2008
The 125th year birthday celebration for Brooklyn Bridge starts today, Thursday, May 22.
DUMBO is the place to be for fireworks, new lighting, a Navy flyover, and a free concert. Various events will continue through the weekend.
Bring your picnic and enjoy.
Tonight’s timeline:
6:00pm: Doors open
7:45pm: Concert starts
9:00pm: Fireworks
Brooklyn Philharmonic will play with guest performance by [...]
Posted in Misc on May 16th, 2008
PDN Photo Annual 2008 contest results are now out. I noticed that at least one Portland photographer won an award in the “student work” category, Congrats to Aaron D. Busch!
You can see all of the PDN winners online at:
http://gallery.pdnevents.com/annual2008/
Photographer: Aaron D. Busch
School: Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR
Title: Inescapable
Concept: This [...]
Posted in Misc on May 14th, 2008
Architect Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works spoke Monday night in Portland. I was busy packing for my 2-week trip to New York, so I missed the talk. But several bloggers covered it.
Art Scatter reviews the talk at:
http://www.artscatter.com/general/a-little-brad-cloepfil-wisdom-coming-your-way/#more-217
Portland Architecture ’s Brian Libby reviews the talk at:
http://chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarchitecture/2008/05/cloepfil-plays.html
Posted in Misc on May 7th, 2008
I am opposed to the Orphan Works Act. There is a simple way to let your voice be heard, see: http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/
How the Orphan Works Bills Affects Visual Artists:
H.R. 5889, The Orphan Works Act of 2008, was introduced on April 24, 2008 by House Judiciary Committee Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman Berman of California, full Judiciary [...]
Posted in Misc on Apr 16th, 2008
We met our good friend Rosanne Olson, Seattle photographer, for breakfast in the east village (image: Andrea (left), Rosanne(right)). Rosanne was in New York for a filming of Good Morning America to talk about her new book.
Her book is getting a lot of deserved attention. It is a wonderful book that is called “This [...]
Posted in Misc on Apr 13th, 2008
A good friend Rosanne Olson, Seattle photographer, has a book out that is catching a lot of attention and deserves it. It is a wonderful book that is called “This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes“. It has a photograph of each woman and their stories. It [...]
Posted in Misc on Apr 10th, 2008
This is the view from the tree start to what we call 1.5 bowl at Mt Hood Meadows. Basically it is drop 7 feet, hard right turn (miss the trees) which drops you a total of about 20 feet to the far right (where it gets lighter in the image). I call this great [...]
During the cold war you have been committed if I would have said “…in the future, this crazy Finnish rock band will perform with the full Red Army Choir (Soviet Red Army at that time) and they’ll sing “Sweet Home Alabama” in english together on stage”
Sometimes the past doesn’t give you any clues [...]