Minh Tran has long been a regular contributor to the pages and pixels of the Merc. I imagine he must go out eight nights a week, specializing as he does in the exploits of pretty party people, and yet he always seems composed and well rested, and supposedly has a day job, too. Some guys just don’t need to sleep I guess. He recently published his vast archives of nightlife shots taken over the past two years. There are about four million of them, which you can peruse in full here, but if you have less than 45 minutes to devote to it, you can also check out an way-abbreviated collection of some of my favorites on MOD.
Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and... More by Marjorie Skinner
God damn it. I fucking HATE how the particularly decadent, transplant, trust fund hipster types like every single person photographed here rob Portland of any individual identity it once had. Any one of these photographs could have been taken by some Vice Magazine douchebag in New York at some loft party after doing a line of coke from the toilet lid. I have been suspecting though that Marjorie Skinner secretly is trying to turn Portland into Manhattan for years though, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised of her affinity for these photos.
Now I feel gross.
Awesome! Let me know when “Art School A-Holes” is out in book form!
Some of y’all are spending WAY too much time at the Yes & No.
I’m so tired of people who have more fun than I have, and I don’t like their choices of style—wait, that’s not at all convincing, hmm, aha! No, THEY LIVE ON TRUST FUNDS (I can just feel it!), and who have come here to ROB our town of its amazing “individual identity.” Thieves in our midst!
It’s hard being competitive.