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March 29, 2007
How YACHT Became This Week's Biggest Artist In The World
Track Marks: How YACHT Became This Week's Biggest Artist In The World
Idolators perform an autopsy on the latest band burning up the MP3-blogger charts.
Posted by kmikeym at 3:01 PM
Day vs. Universe
by Kelly Clarke
We've been loving the book reviews local science maven and SF (ahem, science fiction) lover Claire Evans has been penning for WW in the past two months.
Even better, just yesterday the smart cookie followed up her recent WW review of local writer Thomas A. Day's epic Grey Moon Over China with a long Q&A with that same author about AI, The Sopranos and why technology doesn't stink enough on her own popular brain-bending blog Universe.
Posted by kmikeym at 2:52 PM
March 16, 2007
Fiona Makes the Metro Section
Congratulations to Fiona who not only got into her first choice but did so while making the front page of the Metro section!
Posted by kmikeym at 1:24 PM
March 15, 2007
The Wild, Seedy West
BY RICHARD SPEER on March 7th, 2007
Walt Whitman eulogized the manifold charms of the open road; Kerouac, Cassady and Kesey sang its praises to their own beat; Nat King Cole got his kicks on Route 66; and Vladimir Nabokov, in Lolita, voiced the seedier undertones of the Western highway: ghost towns, run-down motor lodges and greasy spoons with flickering neon and tapioca meatloaf. Matt McCormick's future so bright at Elizabeth Leach takes us back down this road in projected photographs of desolate roadside scenes culled from the artist's travels. The projections, side by side, fill entire walls. Here, for once, is a show that fills Leach's cavernous front gallery effortlessly. McCormick has a perfect eye for these scenes of faded decadence, which veer hauntingly between tackiness and grandeur.
Posted by kmikeym at 12:35 PM
Visions of Yesterday
by BRIAN LIBBY on March 9, 2007.
For more than a decade, Matt McCormick has been a continuous yet ever-changing presence in Portland's independent film scene. His experimental and documentary works have screened at numerous festivals including Sundance and, earlier this month, the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. McCormick also founded the Portland Documentary and eXperimental ("PDX") Film Festival, which returns for its sixth year in April. And this month brings his first gallery exhibit, "Future So Bright" at Elizabeth Leach Gallery.
(read the rest of the article at OregonLive.com)
Posted by kmikeym at 12:28 PM
Portland Monthly Suspect YACHT
A short blurb in Portland Monthly suspects that Jona is somehow behind the iTunes Essentials: Portland complilation:
The Portland Essentials list on iTunes is hard to find, but our own internet sleuth Josh Berezin dug up the iTunes link: iTunes Essentials: Portland. He adds, "Be sure to click on 'Next Steps' and 'Deep Cuts' to see many, many familiar names."
Posted by kmikeym at 12:01 PM | Comments (1)
March 1, 2007
The Month of Matt
Local Filmmaker Matt McCormick Is Having a Very Busy March
by Chas Bowie
Even by his own hyper-productive standards, experimental filmmaker Matt McCormick is having a busy month.
This First Thursday, March 1, future so bright opens at the formidable Elizabeth Leach Gallery. It's McCormick's first solo art show, featuring a complex new film work accompanied by a series of recent photographs. The lanky local artist won't be on hand for his own opening, though--he's currently in Moscow, where three of his films are being shown at the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. McCormick will be home just in time for his big night at Holocene on Wednesday, March 7, where he'll screen a slightly different version of future so bright and provide a live musical score to the film. After that, he'll get cranking on new music videos for the Shins and YACHT, and oh yeah--wrapping up a solo music album for Marriage Records.
Read the whole article at the Portland Mercury.
Posted by kmikeym at 10:35 AM