Urban Honking

I’ve been following two different threads of discussion regarding the Creative Time Summit “Revolutions in Public Practice” that took place in NYC a week or so ago. The summit was a one-day conference where 35 different artists gave 30 minute presentations about their work at the NY Public Library. The discussions I’ve been following are […]

Not a great start. Down $5 as I only picked 2 of the 5 correct. I am now up $15 on 50 games. New Jersey 68 @ Charlotte (-7) 79 – Steve New Orleans 111 (-3) @ New York 117 – Steve Houston 113 @ Utah (-8) 96 – Mike Memphis 116 @ Sacramento (-1) […]

Steve’s week of picks comes to a close, and Sunday night I won 4 of the 7 games, with one push, putting me up $20 on the week. Results (Steve is bolded): Orlando 125 @ Toronto 116 (-5.5): MIKE New Orleans 87 at Boston 97 (-11.5): STEVE Chicago 97 @ Miami 95 (-4): STEVE Portland […]

The biggest lead of the week is mine! I am up a grand $10 after 38 games of professional basketball. A total of $195 has been bet s far, and I’m up $10. The Results: New Jersey 104 @ Washington 123 (-5) – STEVE Charlotte 79 @ Cleveland 90 (-14.5) – STEVE Philadelphia 119 (-2) […]

My new band Mammal with Mari Kojima will debut next week at Tokyo Art Beat’s 5th Anniversary party at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo. — 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 —

Plazm 28 contributor Chris Jordan has amazing, yet horrible, images from his latest series on his website. “These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent,” Jordan says. “On this diet of human trash, every year tens […]

Host Nora Robertson sits down with Michael Brophy, Stephanie Snyder and Dark Horse Comics’ Shawna Gore Collected by the Seattle Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum and Microsoft, Brophy’s work was the subject of a Tacoma Art Museum exhibition, “The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy”, and appeared in their recent 9th Northwest Biennial. A 2007 […]

Literary Arts recently announced its Oregon Book Awards for 2009 and Plazm editor Jon Raymond has won the prestigious Ken Kesey award for fiction. Jon will be on the radio tomorrow on OPB’s Think Out Loud at 9am PST, listen live here. Plazm has signed first edition copies of Livability, Jon’s award-winning collection of short […]

Nope, this doesn’t come from The Onion! The Chamber of Commerce is actually, really suing the Yes Men for a prank press conference they managed to pull off. Political theatre: now punishable by lawsuit in the United States of America. This is the same US Chamber of Commerce that opposes doing anything about climate change […]

I’ll be debuting and giving away installment #3 of my Poster Initiative offset-printed poster series at Super Deluxe this Wednesday during my Pecha Kucha Night presentation. The posters are produced in editions of 1,000 and distributed around Tokyo. Not advertising- just free design for the people. I’ll be doing a glib presentation on the “The […]