Local avant-garde and experimental film organization Cinema Project needs new digs. Via a press release sent our way yesterday: The lease on Cinema Project’s donated office space was abruptly canceled. We need a replacement space immediately. As in the past, we are seeking a lessee generous enough to donate space or steeply discount our lease […]
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Click-Ability
Mark Searcy (the Mercury‘s previous art director) made this rad little website that mimics the effect of image searching. It’s like going down a water slide made of pictures! It’s called This Blog Taken. Give it a try! Mark uploads new pictures daily (to insure it never gets boring). You’ve got to admit the site’s […]
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Courtney Taylor Taylor’s Graphic Novel; Floating World’s Animation Fest
Mercury (Mercury) overlord Courtney Taylor Taylor wrote a graphic novel. It’s called One Model Nation, and it’s about some sort of alternate-reality Germany, and the release party is scheduled for Dec 5 at Floating World Comics. In attendance: artist Jim Rugg, Mike Allred (who drew the Dandys in Red Rocket 7), and “Donovan Leitch Jr,” […]
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HulaHub Launches
Box Offices Tickets just launched a new “social networking service for the arts” called HulaHub, which aims to “help organizations connect and interact with audiences and others in their community to create new synergies.” First of all, I’d like to extend a sincere a request that new media purveyors dispense with the bullshit language around […]
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Experiment No. 1
Mercy Studios (537 SE Ash #25) is the new, communal 2,000sf studio of Andy Lifschutz, Janeane Marie, and Nialls Fallon, jewelry designer, apparel designer, and artist respectively. This Friday, starting at 6 pm, they’re breaking in the space with a grand opening party, “Experiement No. 1,” and I’m already looking forward to “Experiment No. 2” […]
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Jim Lommasson’s Oaks Park Pentimento
Jim Lommasson Recently I checked out Oaks Park Pentimento, a photo exhibit by Jim Lommasson which documents paintings that were found on the carousel at Oaks Amusement Park, circa 1982. To summarize the show’s press release: In 1912, “German and Italian immigrants” painted the carousel with “Edwardian-era scenes.” Then in 1944, two brothers from Washington […]
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Artsy Goings On
Dioscuri Part II from David Klein on Vimeo. At the Woods, the folks behind the documentary podcast series Destination DIY present an evening of music and skill sharing—the event promises “live demonstrations and interviews about how to make radio, how to make a terrarium and how to make bacon,” as well as a silent auction […]
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Weekend Visual Art Picks
Augustine Kofie Hey guys, aside from tonight’s openings at Sequential Art and the Street Roots show at Albina Community Bank, there are a ton of visual art happenings this weekend. Here are some of them, broken up by day for your ease of use, and posted after the jump. Thursday: FrogFaith Media Group Gallery (1216 […]
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Tonight, Throwing Bones at Sequential Art
Tony Morgan The other day I got a copy of Throwing Bones in the mail— it’s a book of short stories written by Anthony Alvarado and illustrated by Tony Morgan of Gunbaby Graphics. I cracked it open, saw the above image, and began reading the accompanying story, “The Penis,” which starts with the brief declarative, […]
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Portraits of Street Roots Vendors on Display
If you’re heading down to First Thursday tonight, check out the Street Roots sponsored show at Albina Community Bank (430 NW 10th Ave). The paper for “those who can’t afford free speech” teamed up with local photographers to take portraits of its homeless vendors. The photos I’ve seen are pretty powerful stuff and, besides that, […]
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This Week’s Mercury Arts Section
BENJAMIN YOUNG’S Material Affair BOOKS: Local “dark fiction” publisher Underland releases Jeff VanderMeer’s fantasy/noir Finch, about malevolent fungi that will invade your brain and kill you. I can’t think of anything to say about Augsten Burroughs’ new book that isn’t a lame David Sedaris joke. So. Our review of the Christmas-themed story collection You Better […]
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Portland’s Finest Performance Artists* at the Mercury‘s Halloween Party
In addition to music from Red Fang and the Bugs (“metal,” I’m told), the Mercury’s Halloween party at the Doug Fir tomorrow will feature short performances from some of Portland’s most exciting companies:Hand2Mouth, Action/Adventure Theater, and tEEth, Hand2Mouth Theater‘s family-themed show Everyone Who Looks Like You has been in development for a while now—tomorrow’s a […]