Babe Rainbow
Skull4brains strikes again!
This time close to home, with a musician from Vancouver, BC, just up the road. Ben and I were sitting in my living room watching these videos with our mouthes agape. We looked like total mouth-breathers.
Haunting, cinematic, northwestern. Bonus: brilliantly filmed sequences.
Popcommon audio clip:
Shaved full video:
The Shaved video incites so much memory from my last 27 years spent in the northwest! It captures the creep, the dank, and pretty much what most rocks and trees look like outside of the urban environment here. I can practically smell it. The cave scene not so much. After watching the vid I now know why Skull4Brains tagged it as “the trees got even.” Oh tragic humor, you are so sweet.
Great work, Babe Rainbow!
From Stereogum:
Vancouver’s Cameron Reed, aka Babe Rainbow, builds eerie, bump-in-the-night electronic landscapes he files under “surf-step.” The compositions are chilly and atmospheric, but maintain momentum despite the fractures: Think SALEM, Norwegian hypnotist SVARTE GREINER, a disembodied Fever Ray/Knife.
Website (awesome, btw)
Tweed riders galore
What a rabbit hole!
Originally I was digging really hard for the next installment of Flickr Group Love to be based on capturing what it is to be a logger. During the dig, the internet (father fate) lead me to Kit Crenshaw’s photostream, which has this set that basically captures the idea of Portland.
So to Kit, father fate, and your gorgeous photographs of the spirit of Portlandia.
Tweed Ride started in January of this year, and will be an annual tradition. I have a tweed vest that would be perfect for this day! I’ve been wanting to get a Flying Pigeon bike for ages, so I’ll need one of those to go with my vest.
Full set | Mercury article on Tweed Ride
Stephen Tamiesie
Stephen Tamiesie is a Portland-based photographer and artist. I find a sense of humor laced throughout his work, coupled with some incredible composition and craft. His exploration of place establishes a colorful narrative that still leaves some storytelling to happen in the mind of the viewer. So that’s called talent.
In 2009 his exploration of the Salton Sea was featured in idPure, a Swiss mag of design & visual creation, and his photographs look incredible in their layout!
Group love – flirty Russians
Phase 3! (ok let’s stop counting)
1400+ Russian postcards. I love Russia. I love postcards. Good thing there is a Flickr group called Russia on Postcards!
And here are my two absolute favorites.
I hope I don’t have to explain myself. But I will.
The frame on this first one is just so. intense. And the sparkling horses, I just can’t tear my eyes away.
I bet that horse’s name is Spirit, or perhaps Shimmeree?
Patrick Long Tote Bags
//image via Willamette Week
On a recent trip to Canoe in downtown Portland I ran across these tote bags and have been lusting after them ever since. They’re designed by Patrick Long who is a Portland designer I was unfamiliar with up until now. Here’s what the product page on Canoe’s website has to say about it:
Portland designer Patrick Long drew inspiration from classic tool bags to create these locally sewn totes that bear the name ‘Chester Wallace’ -a combination of the designer’s grandfather’s names. Constructed of heavy weight cotton canvas, each tote features a reinforced bottom for long term durability. The nylon handles and removable shoulder strap add versatility as well as a certain nautical flair. One exterior and two interior pockets complete the all-purpose, unisex design. Water resistant fabric–brush to clean only.
My birthday is coming up….just sayin’.