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August 16, 2007
Every Little Thing
by Patricia No of UltraPDX
Sarah Meadows has a photo exhibition at Seaplane (827 NW 23rd) right now titled "Every Little Thing" which is a continuation of her work at Mississippi May. You'll know Meadows as she shot "in the morning dear, dearest" for ultra's Point of View section with Holly Stalder, a long time collaborator in photography and fashion.
The pieces for this series were shot using a Mamiya RZ (6×7). Sarah Meadows takes the time to witness moments and objects in the everyday and captures beauty in the mundane. The images are largely still and solemn, painfully intimate, which implies a certain sadness. "I look at the everyday things that sort of break your heart because the moment doesn't last. There's a traffic and environment in people's lives that are ephemeral and fleeting. I don't construct the image, it's something I see and take." She does manipulate the image, however. Many of her photographs are saturated in deep light that definitely creates a mood. She allows the viewer not only a glimpse of a temporary moment that usually goes unappreciated, but reflects the emotion back toward us. To contemplate the beautiful picture of the mundane, we are reminded to look and appreciate a different lens.
Meadows has a photoblog at www.urbanhonking.com/owl, and will have a new website and book finished soon.
Posted by kmikeym at 5:25 PM
August 14, 2007
Shayla's Photos Used on ABC's Nightline
Shayla Hason's photos of Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls are featured on the ABC.com article Camp of Rock Teaches Girls More Than Music, and there is also a pop slideshow of her photos (click on "PHOTOS: I Love Roc and Roll!").
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August 9, 2007
Hot Knives Ride Bikes To Get Beer
Biking and Beer with Hot Knivez This Saturday
If you're not really the Guitar Hero type, here's another (drunker) option for your Saturday: the vegetarian-biking-cooking-podcasting team Hot Knivez will be leading their first biking tour of Los Angeles's best beer stores.
Read the whole entry on LAist.
Get info about the ride from the Hot Knives.
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Willow's Bike!
The movie Feast of Love includes Willow's bicycle!
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August 6, 2007
Fader Posts New YACHT Video
Fader's love affair with YACHT continues! I like how they mention they are seeing some YACHT-backlash " because we talked about him too much."
They post the new video by James Sumner for the song "Women of the World".
Also, in lurking around Jona's press I found the greatest poster ever made for Jona at finchkids.blogspot.com:
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August 3, 2007
Least Bitchy City Blog
Not much beats the optimistic Portland's Future Awesome (urbanhonking.com/portland/). It excitedly anticipates TriMet expansions ("Man, that MAX car looks like it came from the future!" gushed site creator Mike Merrill, gleeful as a little boy) and new legislation ("Now 30 Cents More Awesome" reads the title of Merrill's minimum-wage update). Merrill, 30, explains, "The site is mainly a response to the grumpy old men bloggers (see bojack.org) complaining about the city spending money. I am proud to live in such an exciting city." Merrill's sunnier-than-thou pages will make you forget Portland's often cloudy disposition.
Willamette Week's Best of Portland.
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