Apparently there were twenty thousand people at Last Thursday on Alberta. With rainy season just around the corner, it’s no doubt this week’s First Thursday in the Pearl District will be equally as busy. Since First Thursday is like heaven on earth for starving artists (because it’s the only day we can look at art […]
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Backfence PDX Returns
Portland’s unrehearsed storytelling social returns next Wednesday, August 13th, with folks such as Adam Arnold and, hell, ME, telling 6-minute yarns on the theme of “true colors.” June’s “summer love” edition was well worth the trip up to Alberta, and this time, it’s being held at Urban Grind on NE 20th and Oregon. Right around […]
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Get Schooled
The Mercury‘s Art Director Mark Searcy (hey, that’s me) is teaching a workshop at the IPRC this Wednesday! Visit www.iprc.org to sign up. Wed Aug 6, 6:30-9pmEffective Self Promotion (on a starving artist budget) Whether you’re an artist, illustrator, designer or photographer, your goal is to be able keep your portfolios from being forgotten once […]
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Great Ideas
I just stumbled across a Flickr pool of cover art from volume III of Penguin’s Great Ideas series. They’re brilliant. Screw “fun” and “drinking” and “hippie music festivals,” these covers make me want to lock myself inside and read all weekend: (via)
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Onstage this Weekend
Ten Tiny Dances at the South Waterfront, tomorrow from 4-7 pm. Ten 4×4 stages located throughout the neighborhood; ten separate performances repeating ten times at fifteen minute intervals. Wander around, check out the stages, check out the new “neighborhood.” Performers include Hand2Mouth, Tere Mathern, Hot Little Hands, and Sojourn Theater. More explainyness here. Speaking of […]
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This Week’s Best of the Flickr Pool
Word on the street is that the Mercury Flickr Pool is the talk of the town. This week we saw… 1) Amazing feats of shirtless texting… 2) How Rollerblades will become cool again… 3) Street art we actually miss when it’s gone…
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Dr. Horrible: Free Again for One Day Only
Today, Hulu.com is offering all three acts of Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible for one day only. If you haven’t seen Dr. Horrible yet… this is your second and final chance to do it for free! According to reports from ComicCon, a loaded Dr. Horrible DVD will soon be hitting shelves. Enjoy.
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Dragon Out, Granite Lanterns In for Old Town
Right now in Old Town, some of the last pieces of a long public art saga are falling into place as artist Brian Goldbloom installs two steel and granite lanterns on the corner of NW 3rd and Flanders. The sculptures were meant to reflect the history of various ethnic groups that have lived in the […]
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Best (Cake) Blog Evah: Cake Wrecks
I love me some cake, but I love the monstrosities at Cake Wrecks more than I could possibly express. They are ugly, offensive and just plain wrong. The best thing about Cake Wrecks (aside from the amazing commentary) is that the cakes were created by “professionals.” Not only have these creations gone screwy on the […]
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Jesse Utt
August’s First Friday on E Burnside (a mere week from today) is setting out to be a good one: in addition to the debut of Sword + Fern as the newest tenant in the 811 building, REDUX is hosting an art opening for recent NYC refugee Jesse Utt: Not just a painter, Utt also makes […]
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More Disjecta
Last night, I went out to Disjecta‘s new North Portland location (8371 N Interstate) to chat with Disjecta director Brian Suereth. Here’s the bullet-points version of what I learned: -Disjecta is located directly across the street from the Kenton/N Denver MAX stop, an easy 15 minutes from the Rose Quarter stop. -They’ve signed a ten-year […]
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This Week’s Best of the Flickr Pool
This week in the Mercury Flickr Pool we saw… 1) What we will miss about film in the aftermath of the digital revolution… 2) A good place to make out with a pirate… 3) The Pussy Wagon on the prowl… Anyone got any photos of Danny Glover somewhere in Portland? Show us “the glove!” What’s […]