now is all there is

So, come on iconoclasts, forward!

2010-04-10T18:21:00.000-07:00

History, materialism, monism, positivism,and all the "isms" of this world are old and rusty tools which i don't need or mind anymore. My principle is life, my end is death. I wish to live my life intensely for to embrace my life tragically.

You are waiting for the revolution? My own began a long time ago! When you will be ready (God, what an endless wait!) I won't mind going along with you for awhile. But when you'll stop, I shall continue on my insane and triumphal way toward the great and sublime conquest of the nothing!

Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander, with their wild & virgin thoughts--they who cannot live without planning ever new and dreadful bursts of rebellion!

I shall be among them!

And after me, as before me, there will be those saying to their fellows: "So turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to light; show yourselves!"

Because every person; who, searching his own inwardness, extracts what was mysteriously hidden therein; is a shadow eclipsing any form of society which can exist under the sun!

All societies tremble when the scornful aristocracy of the tramps, the inaccessibles, the uniques, the rulers over the ideal, and the conquerors of the nothing resolutely advances.

So, come on iconoclasts, forward!

"Already the foreboding sky grows dark and silent!"

---Renzo Novatore
Arcola, January, 1920

Botswana Music Guitar

2010-04-04T20:07:00.000-07:00

ECCLESIASTES 11:1

2010-03-25T20:44:00.000-07:00

We must cast our bread
Upon the waters, as the
Ancient preacher said,

Trusting that it may
Amply be restored to us
After many a day.

That old metaphor,
Drawn from rice farming on the
River's flooded shore,

Helps us to believe
That it's no great sin to give,
Hoping to receive.

Therefore I shall throw
Broken bread, this sullen day,
Out across the snow,

Betting crust and crumb
That birds will gather, and that
One more spring will come.

---Richard Wilbur

william eggleston

2010-03-25T16:06:00.001-07:00

white hinterland

2010-03-24T17:29:00.000-07:00

drugs

2010-03-23T18:57:00.000-07:00

Lovin's for Fools

2010-03-22T19:34:00.000-07:00

hard rain

2010-03-21T18:02:00.000-07:00

smile!

2010-03-10T21:03:00.001-08:00

We Two Boys Together Clinging (One The Other Never Leaving)

2010-03-04T15:24:00.000-08:00

We two boys together clinging
One the other never leaving
Up and down the roads going
North and South excursions making
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching
Arm’d and fearless
Eating
Drinking
Sleeping
Loving
No law less than ourselves
Owning
Sailing
Soldiering
Thieving
Threatening
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking,
On the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray
--walt whitman

photo by philip iosca

Have One On Me

2010-03-03T13:19:00.000-08:00

I am real happy that this album has dropped. Winter's reprieve. Best track is "'81". Listen.

movie recommendation

2010-02-28T16:15:00.000-08:00

Nothing Personal from Ireland. Directed by Urzula Antoniak.

M.I.A. does Tom Waits

2008-12-01T21:21:00.001-08:00

FINAL FANTASY

2008-11-24T21:29:00.001-08:00

DIRECTED BY M BLASH

HUNX & HIS PUNX

2008-11-24T21:28:00.000-08:00

DIRECTED BY JUSTIN KELLY

halloween '08

2008-11-24T21:14:00.000-08:00

videos i found on other blogs

2008-11-24T18:23:00.000-08:00

i got a flickr account

2008-09-23T21:12:00.000-07:00

pictures by me

a moveable feast

2008-09-23T20:57:00.000-07:00

cute girls that i know.

Favorite Portland Bands

2008-09-23T20:35:00.000-07:00

root beer & french fry make the fun

Au make the beautiful

he heard it through the grapevine.

2008-09-23T19:22:00.000-07:00

DANIEL LONG HAS GOT A SHOW AT FONTANELLE IN OCTOBER. CHECK IT OUT Y'ALL.

Bjork & Antony

2008-09-23T17:12:00.001-07:00

DNTEL

2008-09-21T08:53:00.001-07:00

i do not endorse mtv but i do endorse portland

2008-07-17T11:42:00.000-07:00

evan harris

2008-07-15T10:22:00.000-07:00

at compound

midori hirose

2008-07-15T09:54:00.000-07:00

at pdx contemporary

work work work

2008-07-15T09:06:00.000-07:00

photo courtesy of natasha figueroa.

Funny shit

2008-07-14T08:56:00.000-07:00

craigslist

andrea, my cowrker

Halcyon Days

2008-07-08T09:22:00.000-07:00

When i get around to making this book, these are some of the folk that will be in it...

josh kermiet

meg peterson

midori hirosi

drawing party

a neighbor of mine

2008-06-23T17:22:00.000-07:00

keegan wenkman volunteers at the IPRC. i see him every monday when i'm volunteering at reading frenzy. he is real nice and his work is kind of inspiring.

OVERKILL

2008-06-23T16:56:00.000-07:00

i went to this last year and it was fun and there was actually some good stuff.

Also, JÁCE GÁCE has good beer and yum waffles.

last minute....

2008-06-23T16:28:00.000-07:00

Join the whole PICA Staff including Artistic Director Mark Russell and Learn more about the 2008 Time-Based Art Festival. Bring two or more friends who are new to PICA and be entered for a chance to win four tickets to a show at Doug Fir, plus a $50 gift certificate to the Doug Fir Restaurant and Lounge. A portion of all food and drink sales- including 100% of the sales of the special Full Sail PICA Pint- will benefit Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s artistic programming. The more you drink to summer, the more it helps make the world safe for contemporary art!

Low Brow Lounge
1036 NW Hoyt St
Portland OR 97209

June 24, 2008
5-9pm
Free Admission
21+ Only

Latest movie I seen.

2008-06-19T19:28:00.000-07:00

it got a good soundtrack too.

Sarah G! What it be?!?

2008-06-19T19:16:00.000-07:00

she's cool

santogold

2008-06-19T18:58:00.001-07:00

miss meadows

2008-06-19T18:53:00.000-07:00

i'm kind of a fan

2008-06-18T17:22:00.002-07:00

Timothy Karpinski

Sophisticated Menagerie

2008-06-18T16:08:00.000-07:00

Paintings by
Ryan Berkeley

Artist Recepition THURSDAY, JULY 3rd, 6PM

Mother nature never looked so dapper. These well-dressed, well-to-do critters have stories to tell and places to be. Fashion, family, hard work, and play are all paramount themes in the lives of this urban animal kingdom.

Ryan Berkley is an illustrator from Portland, Oregon. He designs for Monsieur T, and Portland Super Crafty.

Pluggin' Reading Frenzy...

candid, right?

2008-06-18T09:38:00.000-07:00

thanks treva.

my friend meg (peterson)

2008-06-16T18:14:00.000-07:00

Signals II

Signals I

Cloud Stack

Roger Ballen

2008-06-16T17:46:00.000-07:00

Place of the Upside Down

Partytime

This guy recently had a show at Quality Pictures. It's pretty bleak stuff but i am into the compositions. The setting is supposedly an abandoned institution in Johannesburg, South Africa and the series is of its tenants.

more stuff here

Jockum Nordstrom

2008-06-16T17:26:00.000-07:00

Petting Zoo

2008-06-11T08:22:00.001-07:00

Julie Morstad

2008-06-04T11:50:00.000-07:00

a poem i like

2008-06-02T18:42:00.000-07:00

fable

by dean young

He was bending her over the table
then he had to write something down
about airplanes.
Her own compliant demesne
was full of leopards,
partly accounting for their happiness.
She could finish what he partly said.
A giant cherry on a giant spoon
held forth across a snowy field.
Another sculpture calls it a crow,
is how a crow might see itself
if it was good at algebra
instead of another symbol of death.
If she adjusts the shower
she becomes a rainbow
and he's always wanted to sleep with a rainbow
but if you become a rainbow
you'd better know how to stop being a rainbow
if you expect to get anything done.
More than strawberries, more than doo wop
he loved her to distraction. Funny phrase,
as if love wasn't the whole point
so distraction from what?
They each knew one suicide
but never had them over to dinner the same night.
They each had a scar through an eyebrow.
Her mother those last months
screamed when anyone tried to wash her hands.
They met by accident, both avoiding
the pool party, separate wattages
becoming one luminosity,
separate epicenters one adagio.
So that's how they got on the ark,
skeletons dancing together.

Shary Boyle

2008-06-02T18:39:00.000-07:00

sharyboyle.com

new friend

2008-06-02T17:30:00.000-07:00

this is a piece by my new friend Daniel Long. I was over at his house the other day and he showed me some of his work. i was impressed.

Raymond Pettibon

2008-06-02T15:23:00.000-07:00

UNTITLED (A Sea of Grinding
Tectonic Plates...)

DUST

2008-04-19T18:05:00.000-07:00

Julia Blackburn is awesome. Seriously, this girl is sweet as fuck. I am super happy to know her. She is in the upcoming Mercury fashion show. I like how this stuff looks.

Pulled from the Mercury:
Designer Julia Blackburn (whose day job is as an art director for Wieden + Kennedy) is interested in telling a story with the pieces that constitute her line, Dust. Whether it be unusual mixes of colors and patterns, the image of a tattered ballerina costume, or highly textural meditations rendered in fabric, the pieces are memorable and meaningful, often revealing the process through exposed seams and threads, and viscerally evocative through ripped and hand-dyed fabrics. Dust is available by commission: dustclothing@gmail.com.

Pictures taken by Jeremy Pelley.

Den of Hearts

2008-04-07T16:50:00.000-07:00

My friend Justin Kelly is a film maker. He is from San Francisco. Right now he is in Portland for two months workin' on a movie(not his). Dude is the sweetest and his work is specialty. Check this video he did for Gravy Train(who are also rad and i got to meet when they were in town a couple of weeks ago). Yay Justin!!!

FIRST THURSDAY

2008-03-31T08:26:00.000-07:00

so good!

Artists Nicholas Gurewitch and Tony Millionaire are brought together for one exciting exhibition. On April 3rd, 2008 Floating World Comics, Dark Horse Comics & Stumptown Comics Fest are proud to present the art of Gurewitch’s Perry Bible Fellowship and Millionaire’s Sock Monkey. Both comic strips have been featured in alternative weekly newspapers all over the world and are collected in book form by Dark Horse Comics.

Original art will be available for view and sale from both artists. Gurewitch will also be producing dozens of oversized prints of his favorite Perry Bible Fellowship strips which will also be on display and available for sale. The art opening is on First Thursday, April 3rd. Nicholas will appear in person on Last Thursday, April 24th at the store from 7-9PM.

COCO!!!

2008-03-03T16:42:00.000-08:00

I'm really excited about my girl Coco doin' her thing in New York. She has recently been making jewelry for Heatherette and its been featured in MISSBEHAVE.

check out her website

SHOUT OUTS!!!

2008-02-04T10:40:00.000-08:00

I live in Portland. I work for the ACE HOTEL. I read the Mercury.

taken from The Mercury's CUTE ALERT! of the Week : Tokyo Edition

Who: Takahiro Miyashita, Designer of Japanese label Number (N)ine
Where: The Menswear Fall 2008 Show in Paris
This past week in Paris, Japanese label Number (N)ine debuted their Fall 2008 Collection, titled My Own Private Portland. Miyashita’s love of all things Portland, including Gus Van Sant and early 90’s grunge clichés, were romanticized and updated to create comfortable yet sophisticated looks for Fall. The collection included plaid shirts, beaten-up boots, corduroy jackets, fringed moccasins and gloves, letterman jockwear, and distressed leather coats with leather-covered buttons. Everthing about the show, from the dark garage setting that Miyashita found in the Bastille, to the ACE Hotel blankets he gave the audience to keep them warm, demonstrated a loving nod to Portland and the effortless, unpretentious style that exists here.

Sad but Good

2008-02-04T09:44:00.000-08:00

I just read this one and it is really good. Here is a description of the story:

Ghost Stories follows the lives and relationship of brothers Lou and Vince Lebeuf over the course of nearly seven decades. In this volume, eldest brother Lou, now a deaf and lonely man, lives out his final days on his farm full of guilt and regret for the decisions he made that tore his family apart. From their childhood on the farm, to Toronto in the 1950’s (where they both played professional hockey), Lou revisits his life, a silent observer haunted by his own memories.

TOPSHELF is the SHITTT!!!!

This one is good also.

i like polaroids

2008-02-03T08:18:00.000-08:00

i found these here: plrds.com

Check this disturbing ish out.

2008-02-02T12:39:00.000-08:00

SUPERTRASH!!!!

2008-02-02T09:13:00.000-08:00

Crap Hound #7

2008-02-02T08:28:00.000-08:00

I've been volunteering at Reading Frenzy for about a year now. Its a sweet gig and a good change from my 9 to 5. Its an independent bookstore in downtown Portland that sells magazines, zines, fiction, non-fiction, art books, alt comics and it hosts art shows monthly. Chloe Eudaly owns and runs it. She just released a new issue of Crap Hound. Here's some info about it:

Debuting in 1994, Crap Hound became a favorite of both zine readers and publishers, and has received enthusiastic reviews from sources including The New York Times Magazine, RE/Search Books, the American Institute Graphic Arts, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Crap Hound #7: Church & State. This is the first all new issue of Crap Hound in nine years! Featuring 96 pages of glorious religious and patriotic imagery! Despite the nearly decade stretch between new issues, editor Sean Tejaratchi has been dutifully culling the choicest hight-contrast art, lovingly lifted from vintage catalogs, advertising, obscure books, and found ephemera.

Here are some interviews with Sean and reviews of previous issues:

Crap Hound #5 on Boing Boing
Crap Hound #5 on PingMag
Crap Hound #5 on Portland Mercury
Crap Hound #6 on Powell's Books
Crap Hound #6 on Low Inertia
Crap Hound #6 on Boing Boing

Stop by and say hi if yer in the neighborhood. I'm there on Monday afternoons.

Patricia No and my mustache

2008-01-28T10:54:00.000-08:00

i love me some Patty No. Check out her blogs:

http://nopatricia.blogspot.com

http://www.eitherthedrapes.blogspot.com/

MIDORI HIROSE!!!

2008-01-28T08:11:00.000-08:00

Portland awesomeness!!!

90's Nostalgia

2008-01-28T07:31:00.000-08:00

I was listening to this song heavily recently...still relevant to me over 10 years later...

gettin geeky with it

2008-01-27T08:57:00.000-08:00

i saw this last night and totally dug it. My roommates saw it before me and said it started out well but towards the end got dumb. I went into the movie expecting the dumbness but it never occurred. It was super scary and the hand-held camera succeeded into convincing me that it was "reality". Godzilla meets Blair Witch with some post 9/11 panic. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

get your geek on

2008-01-22T14:40:00.000-08:00

Shot of a Space Shuttle launch as seen from the International Space Station.

2008-01-20T08:06:00.000-08:00

miss sarah meadows

2008-01-19T10:44:00.000-08:00

i love her and her stuff. here's more: http://www.urbanhonking.com/owl/

STRAIGHT TO HELL

2008-01-14T08:08:00.001-08:00

Boyd McDonald (1925 - 1993) was a columnist, journalist, and the creator and editor of the longrunning pornographic fanzine "Straight To Hell", also known as "The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts". McDonald compiled first person descriptions of sexual encounters submitted by readers, gave them mock- journalistic, slyly ironic titles ("Priest Dies- Story Won't", "Sports Special: Football Pro Takes Dick"), and intercut them with his acerbic political commentary and cultural criticism, producing an archive of subterranean and illict encounters which fuse functional pornographic narrative with social history. His magazines have been anthologized by Gay Sunshine Press, and "Straight to Hell" is still being published.

(this entry taken from: brainwashed.com/matmos/discog/ole677.html)

recent distractions

2008-01-13T08:44:00.001-08:00

the new issue of Fantastic Man

Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories

LULA Magazine

R.D. Burman: a Bollywood Legend

There Will Be Blood

i like these photos

2007-12-08T11:44:00.000-08:00

this is where i found them: http://bradtroemel.com/Homepage/archive.html