Urban Honking

Some summer reading.I made myself a poster based upon the following quote by Vaneigem. “We are moving toward the end of the exploitation of nature, of work, of trade, of predation, of separation from the self, of sacrifice, of guilt, of the forsaking of happiness, of the fetishizing of money, of power, of hierarchy, of […]

The Temporary Services/Half Letter Press blog recently highlighted the work of Javier Rodrigo, an educator and art researcher with an interest in artist groups and collective action. Rodrigo and his colleagues recently published a 12 page PDF of the pedagogical methods of various artist groups.

“Self-Referential” from Audio Dregs Recordings on Vimeo. This is the video loop I did for the big video show that Peter Burr curated earlier this year at Gallery Homeland as part of the PDX Film Fest (sorry, Pete I’m spacing the name now), with a new soundtrack that I recorded the other day. Hold down […]

Portland loves art… and using talk and art as an excuse to do our actual favorite things: eat and drink. So! Portland Stock steps in with a lovely idea. Artists send in proposals for a “grant,”which is on display at the dinner. Diners vote on which proposal ought to be funded — out of the […]

I got the finished version of this album cover today, something I designed for Sack & Blumm on Berlin’s Staubgold label. It’s a bit of a return to my 2002 “Conscious” style design, working with more abstract, high contrast sketchy automatic drawings, with lots of negative space, a bit formal expressionist and a bit anti-formal. […]

I just had the realization that the majority of people who use “I don’t have a crystal ball…” to start a sentence are total dicks. On a totally unrelated note, we went to this waterpark a couple weeks ago when we visited my parents in Ontario(Oregon). The water park was super duper awesome. So much […]

You can now pay to use this web application to create your own representative company avatar/online personality to talk to folks in Japanese while visiting your website. Bizarro- especially the Actionscript head wobble and weird facial distortion when they talk. Thanks to Yuki Kameguchi for the tip! — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — […]

I recently watched this great movie again. And it is a great movie. From the early 80s featuring a young Laura Dern and Diane Lane and various punk rock notables such as Fee Waybill of the Tubes, Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols. Perhaps where the band name “The White Stripes” originates? […]