Urban Honking

The Flash Choir will perform new work at their upcoming show, on October 11th, at Missisippi Studios, in a special Wordstock collaboration, honoring Oregon’s first poet laureate, William Stafford. “Strangers Together” is a setting of 10 poems by Stafford’s book, Passwords. The songs are composed by Sarah Dougher, best known for her work as a […]

I totally forgot about this, but I discovered this old photo of when Zeloot and I started a T-Shirt line a few years back and never really “went public” with it. I don’t even have copies of any of the shirts myself, but we had fun making them and and screening them on 2nd hand […]

This is an animated music video that I made for the Japanese band iLL.

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Lesque drop a new video from their Summer Tour and a new line. — 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 —

A recent Friday talk by Frank Lantz from the NYU Game Center about the rise of mobile and casual gaming made me suddenly unearth a memory of middle school I’d almost completely lost: the culture of writing and playing games on graphing calculators. These games seemed to emerge suddenly a few weeks after acquiring our […]

It was through the service of that same earth that modeling portraits from clay was first invented by Butades, a potter of Sicyon, at Corinth. He did this owing to his daughter, who was in love with a young man; and she, when he was going abroad, drew in outline on the wall the shadow […]

Well, as the economic situation continues to ratchet up to pants-shitting intensity, as the UC system is completely gutted by corrupt bureaucrats and corporations hell-bent on running our educational system into the ground, as the planet continues to warm and people with automatic weapons continue to insist that they not be allowed health care, as […]

I’m thinking about clowns today. My friend’s friend is doing this amazing project where she has to spend an entire year (I think?) living each week according to the schedule of a friend. This week is my friend’s schedule, and he is forcing her to become a clown. I’ve been following her adventures, which are […]

Imagine a camera, loose in the city, mobile, controlled by the people and connected to the web. It’s in a battle-hardened case, protected from the elements and the various urban predators. It’s heavy, solid metal. But also somehow cutely human-scale: purse dog-sized. You see it skittering down the sidewalk, lurching left and right and forward, […]