Full of Pryde this Thursday at Floating World

Portlanders, when you are out and about for First Thursday, check out Floating World's benefit show.
From Jason, Owner of FW: My good friend Douglas E. Sherwood (Oni Press) proposed a tribute showbased around his favorite X-Men character, Kitty Pryde. His own personal
experiences with having hemophilia his entire life also inspired him to make the show a fundraiser for the Hemophilia Treatment Center at OHSU. So we’ve asked dozens of comic artists, graphic designers, and illustrators to do their rendition of Kitty Pryde for this May’s First Thursday show. We’ll have original artwork and prints for sale and 100% of the proceeds go the the HTC.

Preview more of the artwork here: http://fullofpryde.blogspot.com/

LISTING INFORMATION:

WHO: Over 70 artists including: Bryan Lee O’Malley, Farel Dalrymple,
Nathan Fox, Vasilis Lolos, Jeffrey Brown, Tom Neely, Brandon Graham, Corey
Lewis, Zack Soto and more!

WHAT: Kitty Pryde tribute show, fundraiser for Oregon Hemphilia Treatment
Center

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FPO

The Under Consideration crew have launched a brand spanking new project. More in their words:

FPO is a new blog dedicated to both the visual stimulus and the detailing of the development and production of printed matter: Annual reports, books, business cards, stationery suites, collateral materials, posters, packaging and anything else where ink meets substrate. A subject matter we know, love and understand. A process that, despite numerous eulogies, is still alive. Perhaps even more lively than ever as designers are tasked with producing their designs under tighter budgets and pressing concerns about the environment. By focusing on print work, we know that we will have an endless array of work to showcase as it rolls of the presses and by creating very detailed project overviews and sharing the production details of each project we can actually establish a source of both inspiration and education.

The name of the blog is, of course, inspired by the decades-old tradition of labeling images, illustration and/or text that are not ready to print yet as FPO, "For Placement Only." The play on words was very straightforward: Our blog will be only… for… print, so we named it For Print Only, "FPO."

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This month at the Launchpad Gallery

There's a great installation up at the Launchpad Gallery in SE:

Well Finished
A Mixed-Media Installation by
Micki Skudlarczyk
on view May 1st - 31st, 2009
Launch Pad Gallery
534 SE OAK ST
Portland, OR 97214

From the Launchpad owner, Ben Pink:

Micki Skudlarczyk's initial proposal was to exhibit a large ceramic work to be completed during her residency in Mexico last fall; her residency directed her work in a new direction, towards actually using the flesh and skin her ceramic pieces have long mimicked. Though she was unable to transport the finished works (viewable here) back from Mexico due to Customs regulations, she felt compelled to continue her exploration of natural materials with her installation at Launch Pad.

Consequently, there is no ceramic in the gallery this month, and nothing to buy or sell; instead, it is our pleasure to offer you a thought-provoking and ephemeral installation that explores life, death and the complicated issues that surround our relationship with the animals that we eat.

The Well Finished installation utilizes steel, wood, concrete and the caul fat (or mesentery) of over 70 different pigs. The material has been salted and preserved and has a translucent, lacy appearance; it's very beautiful and very fragile.

More info can be found here.

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Tokyo Art beat tee shirt

My new shirt for Tokyo Art Beat is now available in their shop. The elusive custom green and pink colorway pictured above is available only at Beams T in Japan.

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PDX Fest 2009!

Once again, PDX Fest is serving up a full smorgasbord of alternative cinema, so get ready to dive in!

Up ahead we have five full days of jam-packed cinematic fun featuring a whole mess of visiting artists, video installations, live performances, filmmaker workshops, rockin’ parties and of course, the excellent experimental and documentary films and videos that you have come to expect from PDX Fest!

We are honored to be opening the festival with a tribute to one of cinema’s all-time greats, Bruce Conner, who passed away last summer. Join us as we celebrate the life and work of this immensely influential cinematic innovator with a rare screening of selected 16mm films from throughout his career.

PDX Fest offers a huge warm welcome to our two featured guests this year – Peggy Ahwesh and Ben Coonley! On Thursday, Ben will present a playful, interactive program of his video and new media work, featuring an existential cat, a talking pony, a PowerPoint lecture and 3D glasses! Peggy will be presenting a mini-retrospective of selections from her vast body of work including some of her early Super 8 films as well as her more recent ventures into the digital realm. In addition to these very special programs, both Ben and Peggy will be offering super fun, super affordable filmmaker workshops over the weekend.

As always, PDX Fest will be featuring a number of new films screening in Portland for the first time as well as a whole gang of visiting artists. We are very excited to present Brett Gaylor’s documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto, which tackles the tricky subject of copyright in the age of the internet through the work of mash-up artist Girl Talk and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig. We are thrilled to welcome the amazing Deborah Stratman back to PDX Fest for a closing night screening of her stunning new 16mm feature, O’er The Land, which has been wowing audiences from Sundance to Rotterdam this year. Lee Anne Schmitt will be presenting her lovely 16mm documentary feature, California Company Town, which explores the history of the golden state’s boomtowns. Jennifer Montgomery will also be on hand to introduce her new experimental feature, Deliver, which is an all women remake of Deliverance. Plus, new work from Michael Gitlin, Shana Moulton, Sam Green, Adele Horne, Ben Rivers, Jennet Thomas and many, many more!

Location

Unless otherwise noted, all festival screenings take place at:
The Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St, Portland, OR.

 

Tickets

$7 General Admission
$40 Festival Pass (good for admission to all festival events, must be present at least 10 minutes before screening to ensure seating)

Tickets and passes will be available at The Clinton Street Theater Box Office, which will open a half hour before the first screening of the day. No advance tickets. Tickets available for sale the day of show only. Some shows will sell out and we suggest arriving at least 15 minutes early to purchase tickets. The Clinton Street Theater Box Office accepts cash only.

 

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