Jared Milam
Jared Milam is a designer living here in Portland whose work I have seen all over the place without realizing it was all coming from him. His Kilkenny logos are SO DELICIOUS, makes me just want to smack my lips. He is skilled enough, however to flip it around and switch styles with his identity for “id”—a branding strategy that kills when it comes to the variety of business cards he allows. I’m pretty sure some instructors have used some of these as examples... Read More
H.M.C.S. Vancouver
I LOVE Canada. I will not hold it in anymore. I have Canadian pride. You guys are awesome. Great politics, you take care of the least of yours, you elect aboriginal peoples & immigrants into leadership, you have an incredible landscape far more epic than ours, and you still have territories and forts. So imagine my delight when I saw Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Vancouver parked near the studio, in the brown waters of the Willamette! My family and I took a tour this... Read More
Marina Abramovic—stare you to death
Marina Abramovic’s three month long staring contest is over. In the end she spent 700 hours staring into the faces of strangers in the Museum of Modern Art. Celebrities, artists, tourists, brothers, monks, humans. She sat in her chair during the operating hours of the museum every day from open to close for three months. She did not eat or use the restroom at this time. Simultaneously, a retrospective of her past performance art pieces were performed by a group that she... Read More
Miniseum—Spaced out in Bavaria
This is a collection of images that represents how I feel today—each image links back to its source where I found it, it would be a shame not to give credit to those who archive such things for us to trifle through (an hopefully it will provide you with a couple new resources as well). So this is a Miniseum, get it? The following miniseums will be longer, so this is just a lil start, a lil baby step. I am so spaced out in Bavaria right now it’s not even funny. Its mostly... Read More
Skatebeard by Mr. Bingo
Alright Mr. Bingo, you are officially the master of the pen. They were right to call you that. Or, as HuntingLodge.no calls you, “the guv’nor.” Mr. Bingo was kind enough to share his in-process bearding of the skate deck, which is just as cool as the finished product. I feel like I’d hang all five in my home, the partial-bearded decks being so interesting in the way the hair trails off at the bottom. That is one biblical beard! And to think of someone... Read More
Starman, 1984
Starman is a movie not too many folks talk about or even know about. It was my dad’s favorite, in fact in his younger years my dad even looked like Jeff Bridges did in this film—red flannel shirts, playful careless hair, and as always, Carharts. Jeff Bridges was nominated for best actor after this film came out in 1984, and Karen Allen also does a great job as co-lead. I’ve loved her since that opening drinking scene from Raiders of the Lost Arc, from 1981. Starman... Read More