Opinion
ROTFLOL: “The Peace Tape”
Light and Sound
story Julianne Escobedo Shepherd (from The Fader blog) With Paper Rad, Jacob Ciocci has been jamming our brains with recessive pop culture memories and post-adolescent-acquired ADD for a hot minute now, not to mention helping to redefine art for the YouTube generation. “The Peace Tape,” though, feels like he’s topped himself in the rapidly firing […]
The New $100
Money Blog
Great video highlighting the new changes in store for the $100 bill. And this great techno jam about trust and relationships:
Spend to Save: Privacy at the Expense of Coupons?
PLAZM
An article on digital coupons appeared in Friday’s New York Times detailing some of the data that is embedded in the coupons one might download from online retailers. The coupons look normal enough but their bar codes can contain large amounts of data, including identification about you, the customer, your internet address, Facebook page information, […]
Jon Raymond reads from Livability on VanityFair.com
PLAZM
Have a listen to the Vanity Fair podcast “Writers Reading featuring Plazm editor Jon Raymond. When his childhood friend’s sick father asked for help, Daryl was reluctant. But in the end, he made it his mission to find Benny. He searched the old neighborhood, but barely recognized the place, what with all the new condos […]
The Portland Friendship Society
KmikeyM
The PFS has not made much progress. We mailed out five surveys and wrote about three letters to people, but there has been no strategic plan put in place. The scope of this operation was to last one year and then report back to the shareholders for approval for another year of activity. With the […]
Idea Magazine issue #340: Forms of Practice
PLAZM
New feature for Idea Magazine issue #340 called _Forms of Practice_, interviewing young designers. This issue of Idea comes with a bonus satellite publication containing interviews with all of the designers and design studios featured in English and Japanese. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm […]
Shameless Self-Promotion
The Guns In My Life
I have already mentioned–and most of you already know–that I play music under then name mbilly. I started making a record two and half years ago and finally it is finished and ready to be released. I’m having a release show this coming Friday at Mississippi Studios where I will be joined by my good […]
Ambulance Video Design Process and Animatic
The old broken Ideas For Dozens
For the last five weeks or so, I’ve been working on stop motion video for the song Ambulance by TV On The Radio. I started it for the stop motion assignment for Methods of Motion, have continued it on through the After Effects assignment, and will be pressing on work with it through the rest […]
Portland on Portland: Image + Word
PLAZM
Artist/curator Nan Curtis, filmmaker/architecture critic Brian Libby and writer Floyd Skloot with host Nora Robertson dig into how Portland’s identity is reflected in art locally and to the outside world. The New Oregon Interview Series joins the White Stag Block Talk in exploring Portland’s evolving creative culture and how it is in conversation with other […]
Announcing: Dreem Street (Street Wear)
Light and Sound
Hitting the “streets” now is a new line, called Dreem Street; which is a hand flawed, fashion-esque, wearable print collaborative project by Matthew Chambers and E*Rock. They sold a collaborative painting to one of Matt’s collectors and decided to spend the profits on a big pile of blank shirts. As soon as they realized how […]