Urban Honking

Somehow I never saw the wonderful “Cocktail,” the 1988 Roger Donaldson film in which Tom Cruise plays a saucy bartender (Gary: “Oh, Roger Donaldson!” Me: “Who’s Roger Donaldson?” Gary: “NOBODY.”). In my memory of the poster of the film, the entire film is just Tom Cruise and another guy throwing bottles around and singing and […]

You can get it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropophone/id376771022?mt=8# Create your own minimalist melodies with this exciting new app. Based on Lullatone’s album “Little Songs About Raindrops,” this app allows you to make songs that sound like drips and drops falling on a tiny orchestra of instruments.

In the spirit of Portland’s funky Pedalpalooza, which features a slew of zany bike rides/parades/parties, it makes sense to hold one of the biggest tight-pants-parades on the Oregon Bicycle Racing calendar. The Cirque du Cycling’s first outing was in 2008 and the race has become one of the few chances for Portlanders to experience bike […]

Inning 1: Weathertude! So it turns out that there might be baseball life in Portland after all. Summer flashed its brightest smile of the year on Saturday and Portlanders responded with its best crowd that I have seen all year at PGE Park. Evidently Portland residents prefer their baseball without 77 inches of rain and […]

I just got to the part in my nighttime history book that is about outdoor lighting. Everyone was agitating for outdoor lighting! Come on, you assholes, it’s the 16th century, why can’t we get some lanterns strung up here and there so that I might walk safely to my physician’s home at night without being […]

New issue of IDEA on newsstands now! featuring: Critical MassCompiled by Ian Lynam + Idea magazine A 100-page inquiry into contemporary critical practices in graphic design featuring: Mark Owens, Zak Kyes, Jon Sueda, Brian Roettinger, Daniel Eatock, Scott Ponik, Michael Worthington, Yasmin Khan, and Metahaven. The feature includes two new lengthy essays: Subterranean Modernism: A Critical […]

New issue of IDEA on newsstands now! featuring: Critical MassCompiled by Ian Lynam + Idea magazine A 100-page inquiry into contemporary critical practices in graphic design featuring: Mark Owens, Zak Kyes, Jon Sueda, Brian Roettinger, Daniel Eatock, Scott Ponik, Michael Worthington, Yasmin Khan, and Metahaven. The feature includes two new lengthy essays: Subterranean Modernism: A Critical […]

New typeface release from Wordshape/MyFonts: Cooper Black Condensed is a less wide, but not squished variation on Cooper Black. The history of this typeface: Cooper Black, the most famous and successful of Oswald Cooper’s type designs was released in 1920, following a year of development fleshing out the weight of the typeface and filling out […]

New typeface release from Wordshape/MyFonts: Cooper Black Condensed is a less wide, but not squished variation on Cooper Black. The history of this typeface: Cooper Black, the most famous and successful of Oswald Cooper’s type designs was released in 1920, following a year of development fleshing out the weight of the typeface and filling out […]

Curses, Movable Type and your auto-publishing glitch. What I meant to say in the previous fake entry: Kathleen Hanna’s Julie Ruin T-Shirt contest has been killing me, so lodged-in-the-mold many of the designs have been. Reminds me of the staid body politics themes of 60% of the new works hallowed in the (important) feminist wing […]