Category Archives: Opinion

September 12th, Last Art Party At TBA!

WITHBRONZELIGHT ASYLUMMATRIMONY, WEED WOLF, DJ YETI, DJ lADYFINGERS, AND MORE!AT THE WORKS—SE STARK + 14th— $8, PICA MEMBERS, $10 GENERAL — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are … Continue reading

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Cris Bruch Gets Down at Leach

Chris Bruch’s show is invigorating and shows an almost supernatural ability to combine various materials and techniques.  He combines materials like fiberglass, epoxy, and pigment in clever and innovative ways, making sculptures that look like giant meteors or half human, … Continue reading

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Edition Nord New Release

The latest from the amazing Tokyo-based independent art publisher edition nord, a selection of work by Tadashi Kawamata. box:198mm x 150mm / 64 cards in color / poster: b/w, 786mm x 537mmEdition of 1000 each Photographs and Text by Tadashi … Continue reading

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Thunderbitch Opens August 5

“Thunderbitch: Women Designers in Northwest Rock 1966–2010,” opens August 5 in Seattle at Tether Design Gallery, 323 Occidental Ave S., Seattle, WA 98104, The opening runs 5-8pm, with live music by Barbara Ireland + Stone Gossard and Visqueen, plus an … Continue reading

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Graphic Brings It Home: No One Knows Where All That Money Went

The Department of Defense is unable to account for the use of $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion it spent on reconstruction in Iraq. From the GOOD blog. They claim their source, which we haven’t checked, is none other than … Continue reading

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Animals, Cannibals, & 3 Leg Torso

Just who are these instrument-wielding miscreants, and what exactly do they want with you? Well, I assume they want your money, because their CD release show isn’t free. But these dudes are smart enough that they could’ve become Wall Street … Continue reading

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New Oregon receives grant to help fund Plazm #30

The next issue of Plazm is in full production mode, thanks in part to a grant our new parent organization, New Oregon Arts & Letters, received from RACC. The Plazm 30 theme is rebirth. If you have an idea for … Continue reading

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Modulor

Eli Carrico updates and gives up the goods! — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: www.neworegon.org —

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Web Designing

New interview with Chris Palmieri, Craig Mod and myself in Web Designing. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: … Continue reading

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Crowdsourcing: Death to Creative Professionals?

Bob Garfield is a writer who used Crowdspring to get a cheap book design made. Then he found his own type of work being shunted to cheap labor. Now he’s worried. We all should be. Change is inevitable, so perhaps … Continue reading

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