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April 22, 2007
Locally Famous: Dave's Killer Bread
Check out more about Dave's Killer Bread.
(see also Carrot Top on LGF)
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April 19, 2007
Net Benefit
From stage, YACHT--Jona Bechtolt's one-man band--chanted, "If you say it out loud, you can make it happen!" The flashing, fluorescent video screen that served as backdrop to his set drew a comment from curator Nick Hallett: "I have friends who call this 'seizure art.' They wouldn't be caught dead at this. They're 'upstanding'--you know, book deals and the like."
-Dawn Chan for Artforum.com
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April 10, 2007
Blog Roundup
March 19th: Susan Beal and AC Dickson's wedding profiled on Offbeat Wedding.
April 4th: YACHT won over Brooklyn Vegan at SXSW.
April 8th: Emily Berezin's grocery bag dress mentioned on Magpie & Cake's blog.
April 8th: Y.A.C.H.T. has the magic beat according to Not On The Guestlist.
Posted by kmikeym at 11:39 AM
April 9, 2007
Matt McCormick Directs Shin Video
Food Chain directs another Shins video
Another high-profile music video from the local film production company Food Chain Films will premiere Tuesday in the United Kingdom.
The video, for the song "Australia," is from the third album of the popular rock band The Shins. The U.S. release for the video will be announced soon.
The Portland-based company's work on a music video for The Decemberists, another popular band, debuted in January. This is the second video Food Chain has directed for The Shins.
Both bands are based in Portland.
Food Chain directs commercials and music videos for various organizations. It has worked with BestBuy.com, the Oregon Lottery and Portland General Electric.
Matt McCormick, who has also worked with well-known bands like Sleater-Kinney, directed the video.
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April 5, 2007
Sarah Meadows' Is Slithery
The Dead Science
Crepuscule With the Dead Science EP
"Sarah Meadows' three photographs for the packaging are just as slithery: Are the gender-indeterminate people that they depict dead in the woods, or just lying down?"
Posted by kmikeym at 5:13 PM
April 2, 2007
Meta: Claire on YACHT
YACHT
Free booze, glad-handling suits, and hot tub nights - no it's not a Bret Easton Ellis novel, it's the one-man Portland band on the road at SXSW
by Claire Evans
We're in Austin, at the most important conference in the music business, and Jona Bechtolt has just kicked his microphone.
Actually, three bars into "So Post All 'Em," his set's opener, he's thrown his microphone haplessly into the air, caught it, executed a couple of worrisome "skip-it" moves over the swinging mic cord, then kicked it across the ground. The sound guy seems visibly shaken: this must be his first encounter with the leapfrogging blitzkrieg that is a YACHT show.
More at Venuszine.com.
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Matt McCormick at Elizabeth Leach Gallery
by Jeff Jahn
It's the last day of Matt McCormick's Future So Bright at Elizabeth Leach Gallery and the show has spurred a lot of private discussions I'd like to air here.
The videos were initially shot on a 16mm hand cranked Bolex and have this wonderful color saturation, but they picked up some artifacts when scanned into digital. The melange is a kind of purgatory moment in media, mimicking the temporal structures the images depict. At first the digital artifacts bothered me as it obscured the subtle rustling of the grass in front of an old mining building in the single channel video "Western Edge." In other cases the digital artifacts were impossible to distinguish between heat waves in front of an abandoned building. I both liked and felt cheated by the ambiguity. Does this need a higher resolution scan? Would that ruin it? What if the single channel video "Western Edge" were even bigger and shown by itself?
Read more at PORT.
Posted by kmikeym at 10:41 AM
Seekers of True Stories Unite
"For a different slant, there's the Portland Documentary and Experimental Festival in Oregon, where experimental filmmakers and documentarians will mingle with one another (and with audiences) to trade ideas and push the boundaries of both genres."
Posted by kmikeym at 10:27 AM
in the morning dear, dearest
via ULTRA
by Lisa Radon
Designer, photographer, and co-owner of Seaplane, Holly Stalder turned her camera on her spring collection for our latest photo story, "in the morning dear, dearest." It's a collaboration between Stalder and model and photographer Sarah Meadows who shared time behind the camera, and longtime Stalder/Seaplane model Krystal South. The shoot only scratches the surface of Stalder's sweet exuberance this spring, with dotted Swiss and variations on eyelet in ruffled little dresses and tops. Go to Seaplane (827 NW 23rd) to see in particular one puff-sleeved shift in an oversized white eyelet and another, fantastically subversive in black. But first, come see.
Posted by kmikeym at 10:09 AM
April 1, 2007
An Internet Revolution
Hop on the Blog Bandwagonby Kristen Thiel for PDX Magazine
"When I feel mean, I think, 'If you have something to say, why aren't you blogging? And if you don't have anything to say, why are you talking to me?'" says Mike Merrill of urbanhonking.com, a collection of 50 active bloggers posting everything from writing to visual art and music to movies. "You don't need a reason to blog, you need a reason not to blog," he adds. Urban Honking began as a web magazine, but according to the site, getting people to write articles was difficult. "The blog phenomenon started and breathed new life into UrHo," explains Merrill.
Mike Merrill (urbanhonking.com) reflects on his site's work: "By documenting so much... you can really see the progress and changes that were made. I think that is a huge motivational tool. By being able to see the past growth you can dream of future growth, and that is very, very exciting!"
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