09:00 PM : Miniature Golf Designed by Artists @ Holocene

Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.

Once a year artists and designers bend their creative minds around miniature golf. They fill Holocene with putting greens and all manner of cleverness to make golf holes with crazy ramps, chutes, funhouse mirrors and blinky lights. This year's holes include:

"Blowhole: The Hole" something about teeing off a surfboard into the hole which is the mouth of a whale. Except the whale hole mouth is moving! Once you sink the hole, the ball is blown from the whale's blowhole. By WK12.4

The "Labyrinth" requires friends to play. Tee off into a labyrnth maze. Your friends then tilt the maze to navigate the ball to the hole. They have to avoid spots on the maze where the ball drops from play. It's just like the hand held puzzle from childhood days of infinite time. Designed by Dave Selden and friends - The Minotards.

"Fancy" requires interactions with actors in play. Sort of performance art golf except you are in the performance. Luckily this all happens behind the curtains. Just like theater life world. By Lightbox Studio.

"Gnomes in Candyland" transforms the course into candyland. Whether candyland is the ultimate cradle to cradle sustainability strategy remains to be seen. Perhaps the course will be available to be eaten after day two, which might not be too bad since it is created by Pix Patisserie's Team Decadence.

"Superturboawesome" is always welcome, especially since this hole reference summer fun's skating, biking and the like. From Team Leisure Package - graphic designers Tom O'Toole and Ada Mayer.

"A Night at the Palms" involves navigating two floors of the Palms Motel, avoiding palm trees and whatever happens in the motel's rooms. By Flight 64, a coop printmaking studio. Press play!

"Destination Rampage" maybe recreates a life with the flying superpower. To score you need to dodge trees, rubble and "purple ponies" (?) then jump a ramp over the city. Home is where the hole is. By Team Monkey Punch (Anna Troupe and friends).

"The Mystery Hole" is not the mythical Gold Beach roadside attraction, but a devilish trap of optical illusions. Pass through the rabbit hole's shrinking corridor into a tiny village to the hole. By Team Half & Half, Cyrus Smith.

"Skee-Ball", the game you can never win at the Rose Festival's "fun center" is the inspiration for this hole by Omen (aka Nemo Design).

"FusGolf"TM requires running fusball paddles. Hopefully your "friends" are not running defense! By Elise Bartow and Daryl Freier.

"Virtual" is a game of electonically generated environments. Very Aeon Flux. By Alphonse Swinehart and Second Story Design.

"Pirate Golf" had to be. Dutch pirates in this case, navigating Holland's canals and windmills. By The Portland Radio Authority.

"Fleshtone" a performace hole by Portland's own costumed electro performers. Very steamy, surely. By "it's getting hot in here" Fleshtone

Players - You - vote for champion holes in categories Best Action, Most Artistic, Greatest Technical Achievement, Hole I Most Want To Take Home With Me (odds on Fleshtone?), and the most mega ultra uber awesome Best in Show, the designers of which win $500 cash money! So play early and play often.

Get your game on, those funny pencils and golf clubs are provided for 2 nights October 24 and 25! Tuesday 9-late and Wednesday 2PM - late. Holocene $6