Urban Honking

As an employee of Oregon’s largest university, I am enmeshed in a bureaucratic machine both monstrous and humorous. I interact with administrative assistants in a similar position to mine throughout the university system on a daily basis. For a show called The Incidental Person, currently up at Apex Art in NYC, I’ve collected phrases from […]

BACKGROUND Kenton, a neighborhood in North Portland, was a company town built by the Swift Meat Packing Company in 1911. The area is most famous for the large statue of Paul Bunyan. The industrial past of Kenton has created a legacy of surrounding warehouses and autobody shops. “Downtown” Kenton is a stretch of about four […]

I’m suddenly reading about architecture. What happened was, I read two issues of the New Yorker back to back and was struck by two extremely subtle things that suddenly leapt out at me like terrible dark panthers and got me thinking about how weird and quiet and complicated male chauvinism has become in this country. […]

I’ll be exhibiting a number of illustrations drawn for the recent Blunt Mechanic CD on Barsuk Records on February 13th at the Sakura Gallery in Nakameguro. The exhibition is an all-day art party and exhibition, running from noon until 10pm. Sakura GalleryMeguro-kuNakameguro 2-5-28 1FTel. 03-6277-2100 Supported by Niigata Beer, Chazymo, Aroma Tea Ale, and Mooring […]

For Methods of Motion last week, our assignment was to create a storyboard for a character animation. Using all that we’ve been learning about giving personality to characters through their motion (especially the 12 basic principles of animation) we were supposed to outline a short, simple scene that would introduce a character. I decided to […]

Back in 1997 Plazm curated a 32-page coloring book featuring a great range of artists from Raymond Pettibon to Kay Slusarenko. A full list of contributors is below. The coloring book was originally inserted into each issue of Plazm 16, we had a release party with giant blowups of each of the pages in the […]

My latest print project, a double poster set called “Poster Initiative 004A” will debut at Grasshut in Portland, Oregon in the show “Staying Put”. The show opens tomorrow, February 6. The show is a collection of prints from folks such as Yellena James, Tim Biskup, Scrappers, Chris Johanson, APAK, Mauro Gatti, Shawn Wolfe, The Little […]

This is the current working draft of the “People” game my team is working on for Big Games. The Prisoner’s Dilemma seeks to see if a group of prisoners can stick together long enough to pull off a daring prison break. In the process, they’ll have to hold out against the crafty warden who works […]

ART PARTY AT BRANXFEB 5th, 9-2, $5, 320 SE 2nd Avenue Portland Live music: Tara Jane O’Neill and Marisa AndersonDJs: Yeti (Mike McGonigal), Permanent Wave, and Gottesfinger (Sarah Gottesdiener) Visuals/installation: Melanie Valera a.k.a. Tender ForeverDance/performance: Get Me Bodied — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine […]

Steve and I have started a podcast called The Bright Future of Tobacco. We just posted our first episode, titled The Weakness In Our Value Chain Was The Quality Of Our Core Product, and I have a few show notes for anyone who wants to follow up on what we discuss. The Domino’s Pizza Pizza […]