Urban Honking

  Place Gallery has been a vital and important part of the Portland creative community for a number of years. I have appreciated not only the diversity of the programming, but the location as well. I had the honor of installing my work there a couple of years ago as well.   They are losing […]

I had a very nice lunch earlier this week with Marty Neumeier. I thoroughly enjoyed our wide-ranging philosophical conversation. Marty was talking about semiotics and symbols. How the way we communicate today, everything has become a symbol for something larger. The topic reminded me of an idea I had a while back—actually the idea came to […]

It’s what Rio-based rap trio Pearls Negras used to be called, in their nascent stages, in 2012, after they met at drama school and formed a crew: Mari, Jeni, Alice. They lost a member—Andressa, Alice’s sister, who decided she didn’t want to rap—but they kept at it, and did what all teen girls do, which […]

Note: As part of an independent study this semester at the MIT Media Lab on game design, I’ve begun blogging about games here:playedgame.tumblr.com. I’ll ocassionally cross-post more developed pieces like this one, but feel free to follow that Tumblr if you’d to read more of my writing about games. Like their coin-op arcade ancestors, today’s […]

  I have just read an essay on the subject of science fiction that I found both spectacularly wrong-headed and completely astute. It was published in 1953, in Harper’s Bazaar, by the Hungarian-American author Arthur Koestler, about whose oeuvre I have zero prior knowledge. Because I can’t find the essay reproduced anywhere online, I hope […]

It’s easy to understand why The Journey of Natty Gann is not up there in the Disney girl-movies canon; a tough tween tomboy who smokes and fights and mudders “shit” makes her way across Depression-era America train-hopping solo from Chicago to Washington State to find her quasi-Communist labor-organizer single-father of a dad, until she be […]

This weather is no joke! It is literally not a joke. It all started on Thursday when many inches of snow suddenly fell upon our temperate city. We, being more accustomed to rain, all went to New Seasons at once, where everyone looked to be purchasing the ingredients for mac and cheese, along with beer. […]

This Saturday at noon Plazm Art Director Joshua Berger and co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown will be interviewed on OPB’s State of Wonder program with April Baer. OPB will be having a love-fest this week in honor of Valentine’s Day. There are two other couples featured on the program, talking about balancing their work and their […]

When Josh called to tell me he wanted me to come over and watch this with him, my first thought was “no thank you.” My second thought was “wait, what?” and my third thought was “ok.” Full disclosure of my multifaceted subject position: – I think billionaires should be put into prison and horse-whipped daily […]

A lot A LOT has been going on. Franklin got horribly sick and we went to the vet ER 3 times and it was awful. He took so many pills and had so many tests and was in so much pain. Finally they put him on steroids and he got immediately better (on Day 9. […]