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January 17, 2006
Adam Forkner, you crazy sonofabitch, I salute you
By Adam Gnade of the Portland Mercury:
Adam Forkner, you crazy sonofabitch, I salute you. Send me your address and I'll mail you gift baskets of fruit and bottles of Babycham, and singing telegrams because your set at Vision and Hearing knocked me over like a rake to the face. Your new project White Rainbow is outstanding and trippy and made me think of Santana, light shows, and San Francisco in '67 -- all of which I was too young to catch the first time around, but got a good atavistic echo of it on Saturday night. Next morning, I listened to side one of your old band Yume Bitsu's Golden Vessyl of Sound for three fucking hours and stared out into the gray-ass day lost in mantric drone and haze.
Posted by kmikeym at 6:01 PM | Comments (1)
January 9, 2006
Hip, new Grand Rapids Web site is a houseparty online
By Tricia Woolfenden of The Grand Rapids Press:
The UrbanHonking.com site in Portland ... which take online social interaction to a new level, served as inspiration.
Mike Merrill, 28, of Portland, Oregon, is a co-creator of UrbanHonking.com (UrHo) an interactive Web site on which G-RAD is heavily based. Merrill and other UrHo crew acted as mentors to Schaafsma and Wietor during G-RAD's launch.
"I think UrHo (and G-RAD) are really unique online communities because of the way they differ from MySpace or Friendster," Merrill said via in an interview.
"Those are places that anyone can join, and it's sort of the real life equivalent of a giant rock show. Sure, there is a sort of community sense there, but it's not like UrHo and G-RAD, which I think is more like a house party or a potluck."
Specialized networking sites such as G-RAD and UrHo could become a more common way for people to stay in contact. Merrill views it as an easy way to accomplish goals.
"I think publishing your thoughts and photos on the Web is where things are headed. If I meet someone with no Web presence, I am usually surprised," Merrill said. "That is such an easy first step in organizing or sharing the things you care about. I'd say it's almost essential ... It's asynchronous, so people in different time zones or with different schedules can still be involved."
Posted by kmikeym at 10:13 AM