Category Archives: Opinion

Flying home on 9/11.10 This year, my route home from residency in Vermont took me to the skies on the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Last year, my route home was on 9/12, metaphorically the … Continue reading →

I’ve always loved the line from the song Signs by Five Man Electrical Band, “…So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign…”. That’s what we did when we created Plazm. I … Continue reading →

Yay us! From the front page of the art/living section: Plazm’s transfusion gives the art and culture ‘zine new money, new energy Barry Johnson / Special to The Oregonian The new Plazm magazine is the heftiest yet, almost 180 pages … Continue reading →

Photo credit: Craig Sietsma “Narrative and pictures are the core of the artistic project these days,” Art Spiegelman told moderator Joe Sacco in front of a hushed crowd at PNCA recently. Part of PNCA’s Focus Week, the evening was held … Continue reading →

I became interested in the history of Oregon’s wolf bounty—a sanctioned act to eradicate—kill off—the wolf population to make way for ranching—while reading and teaching Molly Gloss’s The Jump-Off Creek. I’d just moved to Redmond, a farm town in Central … Continue reading →

In December 1994, I resigned as Managing Editor of Plazm to attend graduate school to become a teacher. Two reasons: 1) I’d wanted to teach since I was in the second grade; 2) we still weren’t making money publishing Plazm, … Continue reading →

Well, lookee who’s Kickstarter’s Project of the Day! It’s our print bill fundraiser campaign. We’re doing well, but we still need your help and we have loads of excellent rewards for our donors. Including new rewards that weren’t there a … Continue reading →

Plazm editor Jon Raymond and Plazm contributing writer Emily Chenoweth appear live and on local NPR this Saturday night, on LiveWire. Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki, will also be interviewed. As the LiveWire people say: JON RAYMOND – Writer … Continue reading →

…or it can save the world. So says Jane Savage, product director and design leader in Nike’s Sustainable Business + Innovation division, where she works to develop a sustainable design ethos across the Nike brand. Read more in the Spring … Continue reading →

In its three inaugural years, The Dill Pickle Club has brought us Oregon History Comics, a guided tour of Portland’s public works projects, field trips to African American public art projects, and a host of other happenings. This spring, in … Continue reading →