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Radical listening at PNCA’s Applied Craft + Design. #y12k #typetuesday (Taken with instagram)
oh my god i love this so much. so much.
the phone stack / thanks niall!
We usually take a pretty hard line against phones at dinner, but a new trick just popped up that gives us hope for the future. It’s called a phone stack, and it’s a buzzing, flashing reminder of every phone-etiquette rule the world seems to have forgotten.
It works like this: as you arrive, each person places their phone facedown in the center of the table. (If you’re feeling theatrical, you can go for a stack like this one, but it’s not required.) As the meal goes on, you’ll hear various texts and emails arriving… and you’ll do absolutely nothing. You’ll face temptation—maybe even a few involuntary reaches toward the middle of the table—but you’ll be bound by the single, all-important rule of the phone stack. Whoever picks up their phone is footing the bill.
This is brilliant.
Rules are meant to be…followed! Kate and I made up a rule-based project / game for Instagram in this new year. We’ve given ourselves a photographic assignment for each day of the work week. We call it #y12k which is meant to indicate the year 2012. Turns out that it literally translates to the Year Twelve Thousand which makes it even more awesome.
Here are the rules:
Monday #mondaycolor
Take a photo of something containing a color. Each week rotates through ROY G. BIV. The first week was Red, this week was Orange (we actually started #y12k the last week of December ‘11), next Monday will be Yellow, and so on.
Tuesday #typetuesday
Photograph some typography that catches your eye.
Wednesday #patternwednesday
Photograph, you know, a pattern.
Thursday #thursdaything
Take a picture of a singular object. It can be anything as long as it’s a self-contained thing and you find it interesting. Tell us about it (this applies to all of them by the way)
Friday #fridayfocus
This one’s about focusing on the media you’re into at the moment. It can be music, movies, tv shows, books. Just take a picture of it and share it with us all.
Here’s what the #y12k collection looks like so far: http://ink361.com/#/photos/tag/y12k
So that’s #y12k for ya. Oh, and you can add your photos to the #y12k pile too. It’s as easy as tagging it.
My buddies Will Bryant and OMFGco put together a cringe inducing, yet AWESOME shirt with a solid, never forget message: HAIL SAFETY! Edition of 30 and proceeds go to the ever awesome ADX!
Help Amit! Let’s do this, Internet!
Amit Gupta was recently diagnosed with Leukemia. He’ll be one step closer to curing it if he can find a genetic match of South Asian descent.
Here’s the best thing you can do to help right now:
If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.
If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event his friends are putting on.
If you know any South Asians (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lanka), please point ‘em to the links above. Thank you.
You can read Amit’s full message here. Please spread the word by reblogging this post.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Thank you, Steve Jobs. Rest in Peace.
Hey wait, I’d be in this group photo too but I had a thing.
Carlie Armstrong worked her lovely photo magic and shot our workspace for her blog work.place. THANK YOU CARLIE!
Sooper excited about our studio-mate Will Bryant’s New York Times Magazine cover this week. Hot dog!
The OCB, Em Space, and ADX have been working in partnership to do something we’ve long dreamt about: produce letterpress wood type. We recently completed our first test type which exceeded our, well my, expectations. The idea is to use modern equipment to clear away the waste wood and use hand finishing to complete each letter. Our test cut has even unexpectedly wound up being included in Wood Type, Evolved: Experimental Letterpress & Relief Printing in the 21st Century, an exhibition curated by April Sheridan and Nick Sherman at Columbia College.
Hot dog! Now onto the next test cuts!
Nicole Lavelle is riding across the country on a bike —a bike made of Alabama bamboo. While she was in Greensboro, AL constructing her ride, she mailed us some ephemera that she found. Apparently the contents of someone’s desk drawer, there are grocery receipts, telephone receipts and other fascinating artifacts from rural Alabama circa 1919.
Amos Kennedy, who’s currently in Italy, discovered this fantastic letterpressed billboard this morning.
And, CB2 collaborated with Amos for a new series of prints.
Go, Amos!
We’re drawing a line in the sand. But you know, it’s sand.
Meeting at work (via Namita at the Museum of Contemporary Craft)Last night I was a contestant in The Amazing Stumptown Spelling Bee presented and hosted by the talented Adam Garcia. The bee, held at the Someday Lounge, began with about thirty (fully grown) spellers. The rules were simple: If you spell it correctly you’re handed a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon and you move onto the next round. Spell it wrong and you’re out.
I made it three rounds. The first word I got was “freight.” Nailed it. Second round: “perspiration.” No problem. Third round: “laryngitis.” Ouch. Spelling it “laringitis” sent me packing. Being the nerd I am I had to look it up later. Turns out it stems from the larynx and therefore has a “y” in it. Ok then, now I know.
The goal for next month’s bee: go more than three rounds. See ya there.
Hat tip to the Alamo Drafthouse for turning a negative into a positive with this video. NSFW
(via @DuaneKing)
Heads up: The OCB (Office of Clifton Burt) headquarters is now located at ADX.
ADX is a soon-to-open workspace nestled into the bosom of Portland’s southeastern quadrant. The building, an old plastics factory, is full of tools, saws, a laser cutter, a CNC router, a planer, welding apparatus, an industrial sewing machine, and almost anything else you can think of. And…it has desk-spaces which is where the OCB is bivouacked.
The sign out front says ADX is “Building a community of thinkers and makers.” And there’s a hell of a lot of it going on. I can’t even keep up with the level of activity around here. Right now in the next room, the saws are rollin’ on Core 77’s parade float, a bunch of people are prepping for an upcoming gallery show, and some dude just rolled out of here on a cargo bike he made out of plywood. It sounds like every machine in the building is going at once, and surprisingly it’s not loud, it’s invigorating.
I recognize the irony of the think-make-think guy working in a place that’s building a community of thinkers and makers. It’s enough thinking and making to make you projectile vomit.
This Friday is the grand opening. There’s gonna be pizza from Sizzle Pie and kombucha on tap; probably some beers or whatever too. So, stop by and say hi.
Here’s the clip of me in Portlandia.
The setup for this scene is that we’re at a film festival and have just watched a terrible movie. The filmmakers are then invited to the stage.
I’m at the 1:04 mark.
This weekend we opened the show Boomshakalaka: A Celebration of the Portland Trail Blazers at Land Gallery. A few months ago, I put the call out to my favorite designers, photographers, illustrators, and makers in town to make new work around the subject of the Blazers. The show’s participants did just that, making original work for this show that knocked my socks off as well as the socks all of the people who showed up to witness firsthand the spectacle that we created.
“Never mind how dismal and injurious a season it’s been, Portland stands beside their Trail Blazers with a loyalty so great it can only truly be expressed in art.” —Portland Mercury
“Land Gallery mounts the invigoratingly entitled Boomshakalaka: A Show Celebrating the Portland Trail Blazers. Thirty artists, designers, illustrators and photographers contribute their unique takes—some serious, others irreverent—on the athletic and civic phenomenon the Blazers have become.” —Willamette Week
We even got a little holler in People Magazine. Haha, weird!
A HUGE THANKS goes out to the all of the show’s participants:
Susan Beal & Andrew Dickson Drew Bell Ryan & Lucy Berkley Kate Bingaman-Burt Will Bryant Frank Chimero Jeremy Okai Davis Justin Flood Adam Garcia Anthony Georgis Meg Hunt Aaron James Ward Jenkins Always With Honor Nicole Lavelle
Sarah Baugh Adam Moser OMFG Co. JS / BS
Aaron Rayburn Driscoll Reid Amy Ruppel Ben Vickery Ian Whitmore Lloyd Winter & Matthew CarrollThe Blazers themselves helped out the show by building up a 6 game winning streak and thereby being anointed by the New York Times as “the NBA’s hottest team” on the day of the Boomshakalaka opening. Thank you, BLAZERS. (and please stop trying to trade away Andre Miller).
Check out images of the work and the show’s opening at Pat Castaldo’s flickr set or Always With Honor’s flickr. I’ll have a flickr set of my own posted once I get back over to the gallery to get images of the work.
Boomshakalaka is up through March 13th at Land Gallery, stop by and see the show.
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The image at the top is Bildy Warholton, a screenprint from the those unfuckwithable guys at OMFG Co.:
Yahoo! @cliftonburt posted a sneak peek! Boomshakalaka First Look (by Clifton Burt)
BOOMSHAKLAKA opens this Friday at Land.
Above:1a. Ward Jenkins, 1b. Nicole Lavelle & Sarah Baugh, 1c. Meg Hunt, 2a. Kate Bingaman-Burt, 2b. Drew Bell, 2c. Anthony Georgis, 3a. Tyler Lang
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