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Posted in Main, Music, Ponderings on Jul 1st, 2008
Last November, I read a NYT article that said that Freud and psychoanalysis form a key part of humanities teaching, while in those same universities his teachings are virtually extinct in psychology courses. Read Patricia Cohen’s article “Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department”
In the day, I took enough psychology [...]
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
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 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 Other Openings on May 28th, 2008
Monday we attended the Henry Moore exhibit called “Moore in America” at the New York Botanical Garden nybg.org (Bronx River Parkway and Fordham Road, the Bronx) (718) 817-8700.
It opened last Saturday and continues through 2-Nov. After New York it heads to the Atlanta Botanical Garden for the winter.
The show has 18 of Henry Moore’s [...]
Posted in Other Openings on May 12th, 2008
Lie back in the video lounge that TJ Norris has crafted for us to experience an endless city. Let the soundtrack by Christen Renou allow your thoughts to flow. The endless/seemless looping of two image channels on the ceiling provide impulses of the images of a moving city. Feel the fact that [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Other Openings on May 11th, 2008
This month 23 Sandy Gallery hosts the national juried show “Resurrection”, which is called a New Look at Old Photographic Processes. This is a well-curated show (Laura Moya, director of PhotoLucida) especially given the wide range of subjects and the many types of antiquarian processes used.
This lead image in this blog is by Jan [...]
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 1st Thurs Photos on May 2nd, 2008
There were many shows to look at this First Thursday and it was a wonderful warm evening to walk around Portland. Amanda Wojick had several sculptures and other works on display at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (17 NW 9th, Portland OR).
I particularly like the sculpture “Among” which was a connected stack of polystyrene. “Among” [...]