Joshua Berger, art director of Plazm magazine, was in a bike accident in Portland eleven days ago. He has been in trauma wards at hospital ever since, and is making steady improvements. However, he has sustained considerable Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) that will likely take months of recovery. Perhaps years.

Please keep Josh and our family in your thoughts, wishes, prayers, meditations, whatever it is you’re into. We’ll update this site with more info and ways to get involved, and send things out on the Plazm newsletter (sign up at plazm.com top of page) & facebook page.

Visiting is still very limited. We’ll let you know as things kind of open up for more visitors.

With love to all the amazing friends & collaborators Josh has out there,

Tiffany
(josh’s wife / plazm co editor / etc.)

Image: Josh working on his Collateral Damage ongoing art piece at Place. At some point he’ll be able to tell me the photo credit.

Free ice cream launch and history lesson brought to you by Junior Ambassador (a.k.a. Rudy Speerschneider) this Thursday from 6-8 PM. Speerschneider is known for his work in a collective project(s) known as Mostlandia, which appeared at TBA and did many interesting things around Portland.

For the current occasion, on-demand art book builder Publication Studio has chronicled the life of the no longer extant/newly legendary Junior Ambassador’s Food Cart in a 400-odd-page album of surveys, to do lists, sales sheets, love & friendship indexes, journal notes, recipes, menus, fliers, drawings, emails, maps, photographs, poems, forms, business plans and thank you’s, now on U.S. tour as an installation with The People’s Biennial.

The big book and the latest batch of no-two-scoops-alike Universe Ice Cream are to be released in tandem under the last of the summer sun. Says Speerschneider of the homespun ice cream he continues craft despite the shuttering of his cart, “First, and most recently, it is: ‘A Portal to Mostlandia’…and still: ‘The Official Dish of Mostlandia’…and always ‘the “Oldest and most Famous frozen treat provisioner in Mostlandia’ oh, and it’s ‘Sweet Awesome’ too.”

Says Speerschneider of Mostlandia, “It was founded by the four members of the arts group the M.O.S.T. on the floor of our friend’s apartment, and after much map making, meetings, citizens and portal spectrometry, has come to be referred to, in one way or another, as: ‘a psycho-geological fantastical place, not-place place…when it’s not a matter of where, but how…it is nowhere, and now here.'”

Psychedelic sweets, tender moments, music, honoring the past, daydreaming of the future: September 22nd 6-8 @ the old cart spot on the grassy lot at 4734 N. Albina in Portland, Oregon. Free pints of Universe Ice Cream for buyers of the book. —Elizabeth Pusack