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February 27, 2007
Matt McCormick (and Tess!) In Tribune
Filming on empty
Road-tripping artist likes it best when there's no there there
by Joseph Gallivan
Matt McCormick has long been fascinated by abandoned buildings and ghost towns.
In 2005 he was on one of his periodic drives from Portland to Santa Fe, N.M., when he challenged himself to find the town called Santa Claus in Arizona.
"I had these fantastic home movies my grandfather shot in the 1950s with my dad and his younger brother just hanging out, checking it out," he says in a recent interview in his studio on the Willamette River.
To his surprise he found Santa Claus, abandoned and peeling but not yet bulldozed. He filmed the town, then intercut it with his grandfather's footage and mailed a DVD of it to his dad in Maine as a Father's Day present.
"He got really into it," McCormick says with a modest smile.
READ MORE at PortlandTribune.com
Posted by kmikeym at 2:04 PM
February 16, 2007
Guest List by Jona Bechtolt
Each week, Pitchfork asks one of their favorite artists to fill them in on what they've been up to lately: which tracks they can't stop spinning, what books they can't put down, and what new bands they've caught on tour. This week it's Jona Bechtolt of the Blow (and Yacht), who provides an insider's scoop on some new Portland bands, discusses the mystery of Texas' "Marfa Lights", and encourages you to avoid the kids flick Cats and Dogs at all costs. (read it all at Pitchforkmedia.com)
Posted by kmikeym at 6:04 PM
February 13, 2007
Forever Young
Matt Wright and Mike Merrill are featured in the Tribune today! Mike is listed as "The Blogger" and Matt is "The Promoter". The pictures are in the paper but not online, so I took a picture of the picture:
Read the whole article on the Tribune site.
Posted by kmikeym at 1:06 PM | Comments (4)
February 8, 2007
No Rules Rules: World's Honey Owens and Adam Forkner as One
by Adam Gnade
If you look at Adam Forkner and Honey Owens, you could call Forkner's Yume Bitsu and Owens' work with Flags of the Sacred Harp-era Jackie-O Motherfucker their pop periods. Which, I guess, is funny to say, considering neither project was anywhere near pop. That being said, both were accessible enough to make the artist behind them "popular" and brand them with their actions.
I got a hold of Owens and Forkner to see what the good word was. They answered my questions collectively.
Posted by kmikeym at 5:58 PM
The Uncontainable Energy of YACHT
Podington Bear writes up a really nice article about Jona:
YACHT is Jona Bechtolt (Pronounced "John-ah". Born Jonnal of Burns, Oregon if we are to believe his fantastic bio.) He's widely recognized as a laptop mastermind.
If his music isn't enough to blow your mind, consider his mastery of web design evidenced by his regularly updated website brimming with content and his graphic fatherhood of the Urban Honking blogger collective, as well as his video production and comedic acting on display at the popular Ultimate Blogger reality TV spoof.
Read the whole thing on Podington Bear.
Posted by kmikeym at 3:48 PM | Comments (2)