Leaning Mess: the first single from Portland band Hausu
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‘It’s like if four 19-year-old Japanese kids who really like 1980s/1990s American rock n’ roll formed a band.’ This is how a friend of mine described the band Hausu to me. Despite hailing from Portland, Oregon, there is a definite Eastern presence in the quartet’s music. Combine that with sad tales about missing home and [...]
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News photographs with out-of-context captions
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Portland-based creative director Ian Collins adds out-of-context captions to news pictures, completely giving these a new, fun spin. These are silly, and they completely make our day too.
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US city metro maps given geeky Super Mario 3 makeover
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Dave Delisle, who confesses to ‘post all kinds of ideas, usually of the geeky variety’ for fun, has meted out the Super Mario 3 treatment to rapid transit maps of eight US cities, including Atlanta, Portland and Washington DC. These are super cool creations.
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Mr & Mrs Smith: a stylish getaway in Portland
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Portland, on the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, is shaping up as the new Seattle/Melbourne, with its passion for indie music, coffee and cycling. Oregon’s low-rise, river-bestriding capital has long taken a creative approach to city planning, ensuring its heritage architecture remains pristine and independent stores, arts spaces, bars and cafés flourish. For a stylish getaway, [...]
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Asheville Blog: an east coast, online version of Portlandia
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Asheville is a ridiculous little Appalachian Mountain town in Western North Carolina. This website is a hilarious on-going compilation of gifs specific to life there. This site reminds me of the show Portlandia; you don’t have to live there to be in on the joke. Anyone who’s ever spent time in a hip oasis town [...]
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The Deer Lodge: Portland’s only bar, recording studio, and live venue
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The Deer Lodge to me is Portland, Oregon, in a nutshell. It is a cultish DIY collective as much as one man’s home. That man’s home is your honky-tonk. There’s a recording studio in the basement; I did the first Drunken Prayer record there. They have a covered stage in the backyard for summer shows, [...]
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Mr & Mrs Smith tell us what to do in Portland
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Portland, on the United States’ Pacific Northwest coast, is shaping up as the new Seattle/Melbourne, with its passion for indie music, coffee and cycling. Oregon’s low-rise, river-bestriding capital has long taken a creative approach to city planning, ensuring its heritage architecture remains pristine and independent stores, arts spaces, bars and cafés flourish. Nicknamed Stumptown for [...]
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Interview with Shawn Petersen ahead of Semi-Permanent Portland
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If you haven’t already checked out our chats with Holly Wales and GMunk ahead of their appearances at Semi-Permanent Portland then you’ve been missing out. We caught up with amazing designer and Portland local Shawn Petersen ahead of his appearance at Semi-Permanent to talk the digital age, Rolling Stone, and all things Portland. LAEM: As [...]
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Interview with GMunk ahead of Semi Permanent Portland
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First participating in Semi Permanent in Sydney in 2004, Bradley Munkowitz (a.k.a. GMunk) knows his stuff. After a long and illustrious career as everything from an interior designer to a creative lecturer, he’s now speaking at Semi Permanent in Portland. We caught up with GMunk before the event to talk holographs, lectures and everything Semi [...]
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Illustrator Holly Wales to speak at Semi-Permanent Portland
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Holly Wales is certainly one of the most talented illustrator’s that I’ve come across. Based in the UK and harbouring a great eye for colourful and playful pieces, we caught up with Holly before her appearance at Semi-Permanent in Portland. LAEM: You talk about your work as controlled chaos. What does this mean to you? [...]
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Brenna Murphy: futuristic and holographic art
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‘The future is already here; it’s just not very evenly distributed’ (William Gibson). That quote comes to mind each time I visit Brenna Murphy’s ever-changing website. The Portland-based artist always seems to be a couple of steps ahead of the game. Her otherworldly hologram-like puzzles of marbelized baroque mandalas form an intertwining ecosystem that seems so near and yet so remote. Her art manages to spark an excitement of trying to discover and access her dense and rich digital environments, which I haven’t felt for a long time. Perhaps in a few years from now I’ll understand it. Until then, I remain amazed.
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Tibetan Fox Clothing: new fashion out of Portland
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Portland’s Tibetan Fox Clothing delivers an ever-growing selection of t-shirt designs based on stylish graphics and visual puns, with the added bonus of custom t-shirt and design color choices (shirts are made to order in person at the store).
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New paintings by Chris Valkov
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Chris Valkov is an artist here in Portland making unique work with the precision of a computer. Employing One Shot enamel as his medium, his meticulous arrangements take on a super clean look. Something about the work seems to be familiar yet completely fresh.
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Add N to (x): music by Buckminster Fuller
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Add N to (x) – Avant Hard. This record is kind of like if punk was made with synths, except it doesn’t really sound like punk. All of their records are great, but this one just totally kills it. It’s worth checking out their video for Plug Me In, as well – it’s pretty much the definition of NSFW [watch below]. They split up about 10 years ago and I feel like they left a big gap in music that has yet to be filled.
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The Book of Mormon Missionary Positions
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Portland-based photographer, Neil DaCosta, and art director, Sara Philips, include no personal political commentary with their new series, The Book of Mormon Missionary Positions. Their intention in juxtaposing a frighteningly antiquated excerpt from the Latter Day Saints handbook, condemning sex between anyone other than a married man and woman, with images of two men looking very much like stereotypical Mormon missionaries demonstrating sexual positions, is clear enough. If you can stop laughing.
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