Wednesday September 26, 2007
07:00 PM : Old Time Relijun CD Release Party @ The Artistery
Music Flyered by steve
Old Time Relijun!
This Wednesday, Sept. 26, there is their album release party at
The Artistery, 4315 SE Division St., Portland, Oregon, 7:00 PM
w/ Cex Fuxx (members of Yellow Swans) and Bryce Panic
admission price includes a copy of the new album Catharsis in Crisis [KLP184] on either LP or CD
$6 or $12 with CD/LP
08:00 PM : just be there @ Ace Hotel
Hanging Out Flyered by Rob W.
I was lucky to participate in a beautiful intimate class "Using Global Media" in the dining room of renaissance man Mathew Stadler. His book filled house, glowing woodstove, shy cats, awesome guests and tasty potlucks were the perfect complement to deep lively discussions on creating creative networks, in person and virtual, by the exchange of gifts and relation, worldwide.
One of our crew, Sarah Gottesdiener, is a renaissance woman, and musician - her band the Gay Deceivers, is just off performing at PICA's TBA. (The band story is sweet too.) Sarah is putting all of her global media skills to this event and it shows!
The party celebrates the release of PLAZM#29.
29 explores the theme of collective memory.
It includes art from Sue Coe, Art Chantry, Storm Tharp, Todd Haynes. It has interviews with JD Samson, Yoko Ono, and Jessica Jackson Hutchins. 29 contains writing from Robert Mackey and Domenick Ammirati. There is a PDX musical memory map documenting 30 years of independent music. Also a taxonomy of meth labs and thoughts on the End of War. More stuff too. I'll put all of the exclamation points for all of that here: !!!!!!!!! 29 you can buy and read anytime, and will be on sale at a discount tonight.
The night includes mad dancing to DJ BJ, DJ Linoleum, and DJ Girlfriends.
Fueled by Saint Cupcake, New Deal Vodka, New Belgium Brewing and Guayaki Yerba Maté.
With art by David Eckard, Art Chantry, Storm Tharp, Kristan Kennedy, Philip Iosca, Sam Gould, Horatio Law, Matthew Stadler, and others. It's themed "the end of war" and the art will be auctioned to benefit Veterans for Peace. Amen.
Wow music by Evolutionary Jass Band, Hooliganship, and Glass Candy.
Film by Vanessa Renwick.
Ok I'll put some more exclamation points here: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.plazm.com
http://www.plazm.com/news
http://www.myspace.com/plazmrocks
At the Ace Hotel. Corner 10th and SW Stark. $3. all ages. Doors 8PM, bands 9.
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08:07 PM : PLAZM RELEASE PARTY
Flyered by daniel
Plazm Magazine excavates collective memory with a massive new issue and September 26 release party.
PORTLAND, ORE. -- "To hell with the new."
So begins the newest issue of Plazm, the Pacific Northwest's premier art, culture, and design magazine. Plazm's largest issue ever clocks in at 160 pages of photography, art, and interviews featuring Yoko Ono, Art Chantry, Sue Coe, Storm Tharp, Todd Haynes, and JD Samson (formerly of Le Tigre), among many others. A release party is set for September 26 at Portland's Ace Hotel, with bands, DJ's, and an "End of War" art exhibit and sale benefiting Veterans For Peace.
Plazm #29 delves into our culture's collective memory, from a collectible poster of Portland's DIY music history to previously unpublished photographs of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, unearthed by image archivist Thomas Robinson. Paintings of Bob Dylan by Todd Haynes, director of Far from Heaven, Velvet Goldmine, and the Dylan biopic I'm Not There, are published here for the first time. Yoko Ono says the flag-waving days of the '60s should be behind us, while Andrew Hultkrans traces ominous similarities between the Nixon administration and current politics.
"This isn't about nostalgia," says Tiffany Lee Brown, a co-editor with Jon Raymond and art director Joshua Berger. "This issue of Plazm is about what's happening now. We're taking stock of the past to make sense of the present."
Current life in Iraq, in the States, and in Portland are represented in photography by Robbie McLaren, Daniel Peterson, and by unembedded photojournalists in Iraq. Seripop's mind-blowing psychedelic poster designs make a splash along with new fiction from Domenick Ammirati. Curator Stephanie Snyder engages artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins in conversation, and Sarah Gottesdiener talks art, music, and queer culture with JD Samson. One section asks designers, writers, and performance artists to address the idea of "The End of War," with pieces by Alex Lilly, Marvin Bell, Rebeca Méndez and Adam Eeuwens, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Jamie McMurry, among others.
"Plazm is an independent magazine filled with the voices of designers and artists speaking their minds within the vast media monopoly that surrounds us," says Berger, a co-founder of the publication at its inception in 1991. "By doing this, I believe we have the power to change the world."
The Plazm #29 Release Party
The new Plazm will be unveiled on September 26th at the Ace Hotel (1022 SW Stark St., Portland). It is expected to be a blast, with performances from Evolutionary Jass Band, Hooliganship, and Glass Candy, and a Vanessa Renwick film screening. The End of War art exhibit and sale features works on paper by artists such as David Eckard, Art Chantry, Storm Tharp, Kristan Kennedy, Philip Iosca, Horatio Law, and more, benefiting Veterans for Peace.
DJ BJ, DJ Linoleum, and DJ Girlfriends will keep the dance floor moving, and Saint Cupcakes will bring on the treats. The cost is $3, and all ages are welcome. Doors open at 8:00 PM, and bands start at 9:00 PM. The party is sponsored by New Deal Vodka, New Belgium Brewing, Guayaki Yerba Maté, and Phoenix Media.
About Plazm
Founded in 1991 by Portland artists as a creative resource, today Plazm is an award-winning design firm. The annual Plazm magazine publishes challenging and innovative art, design, cultural, and literary works and is distributed worldwide. The design studio tells compelling stories, works toward social and environmental change, and builds solid brands by creating magazines, web sites, event spaces, books, advertising, and retail experiences. Clients include Nike, LucasFilms, ESPN, Skylab Architecture, Cooley Gallery, and Portland Center Stage.
Plazm was listed in 1997 in ID magazine as one of the world's 40 most influential design firms and has been featured in numerous publications and award shows including the 100 show, AIGA national show, the Art Director's Club, Eye, Communication Arts, Graphis, and IDEA. The studio's depth of experience in editorial design is showcased in the Plazm-authored XXX: The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design (Rockport, 2004, with writer Sarah Dougher), which won a gold medal at the Portland Design Festival. Plazm received the Creative Resistance award from Adbusters in 2001.
The magazine's complete catalog is included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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PARTY: Sept 26, Ace Hotel on SW Stark & 10th in downtown Portland, bands and DJ's (Glass Candy, Hooliganship, Evolutionary Jass Band, more), cheap, all ages, plus art benefiting Veterans for Peace. Please do come.
For Immediate Release
September 14th, 2007