Urban Honking

This weekend I visited a community garden in downtown Seattle called the Belltown P Patch. I had heard about this via a publication called Belltown Paradise compiled by Brett Bloom. Brett works with a woman named Ava Bromberg on a project called “In the Field” whose work, in their own words, begins by looking at, […]

On April 25, I volunteered at the Oregon League of Conservation Voters Annual Dinner for the Environment. The Oregon League of Conservation Voters is a non-partisan organization with a simple mission: Educate voters about how their legislators vote on the environment and to hold these legislators accountable. This year, over 850 people attended the dinner, […]

I mean, considering there is a flyer. Sheesh. Something MAGICAL is about to happen.

First: Sarah came back from Beirut to get her computer fixed. She had files of work on the hard drive she needed and to access it there, they said, it would take maybe two months…. maybe three. So she traveled to NY, to the Apple store. Then she flew back to Beirut and there was […]

Shelby and I had a great conversation about defining collaboration during the post-lecture dinner we had on Monday. He has been thinking a lot about collaboration because he has been working with friends and family to co-create his MFA thesis and made the astute suggestion that I post some of the reading I’m doing on […]

By far, my favorite exhibit in NYC was to the International Center of Photography to see Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art. This show was recommended to Varinthorn by Julio Morales during his visit to Portland. I’m paraphrasing, but Julio suggested to V that in his opinion, Okwui Enwezor, the curator of […]

If you have never listened to Faded Radio, this last one on Friday was our best banter ever. If you don’t like music, we start talking at 55:. But you should listen to all of it cause there are some good songs. That Sizzla shit is jamming.