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“imagine having that sensual cold-weather look all the time”

Well! It finally has come true, my dream that was born roughly in 1998. It all started when just kidding. The Most Exciting Boring Story Ever Told If you don’t like boring stories, then don’t read this!!!! This is the story of how I finally got my PhD, and it is a thrilling adventure tale […]

We’re working on the second Allison dinner I and need a place to keep these notes handy. Just registered allisonsupperclub.com, but there is nothing up there yet. Pietro Belluschi: Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 — February 14, 1994) was an American architect, a leader of the Modern Movement in architecture, and was responsible for the […]

I’m reading a book about how to become more food-independent, in terms of taking ourselves off the mega agri-business teat and supporting local farmers and learning how to can our own green beans and stuff. This book (Sharon Astyk’s “Independence Days”) tends to swing a bit toward the “omg apocalypse survivalist” side of things, which […]

Plazm editor Jon Raymond and Plazm contributing writer Emily Chenoweth appear live and on local NPR this Saturday night, on LiveWire. Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki, will also be interviewed. As the LiveWire people say: JON RAYMOND – Writer of MEEK’S CUTOFF, a film starring Michelle Williams, Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano and directed […]

Plazm editor Jon Raymond will lecture about his work!The public is invited (it’s free, tell your friends)Monday April 4th, 7:30pm Sharp! Shattuck Hall Annexat the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are […]

Daniel Long’s work will be up for one more week at our Mississippi shop. Come and take it all in over a cappuccino and a brioche.

…or it can save the world. So says Jane Savage, product director and design leader in Nike’s Sustainable Business + Innovation division, where she works to develop a sustainable design ethos across the Nike brand. Read more in the Spring 2011 issue of INNOVATION, the quarterly publication of the Industrial Designers Society of America, or […]

In its three inaugural years, The Dill Pickle Club has brought us Oregon History Comics, a guided tour of Portland’s public works projects, field trips to African American public art projects, and a host of other happenings. This spring, in partnership with and Publication Studio, a local “experiment in sustainable publication,” the young club presents […]

Just returned from a week in Atlanta, GA and Chapel Hill, NC. We arrived and Curt took us to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History for martinis and IMAX where we ran into a dance party. Finding good coffee is getting easier and easier in Atlanta. I no longer need to bring Stumptown for Curt. […]