All Things Ordinary
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12:13 PM
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Plazm Thread Launches with Alien Abduction Theme
Join plazm thread, our new t-shirt of the month club with BuyOlympia. Six incredible original designs delivered to your door, once a month, for just $99. Whenever a month passes? That shirt goes out of print, period. It's gone. So get 'em while they're fresh: truly limited edition Plazm Thread t-shirts. We're kicking off with a special alien abduction theme, designed by Art Chantry. See www.plazmthread.com.
Labels: limited edition, plazm thread, Silkscreen, t-shirts
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7:00 PM
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Yasmeen Ayyashi - Formless
Former Plazm intern Yasmeen Ayyashi has a solo exhibition exploring the form, or formlessness of an identity. The interactive installation is comprised of print, sculpture, and sound. Opening Wednesday, April 29, 2009 in an abandonded factory reborn as a womb.
Near Abdoun Circle, Jordan. See map below or call 0777-846-597 for more information. Yasmeen will begin posting soon to the Plazm blog on cultural and graphic observations from her home in Jordan.
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12:18 PM
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Friday, April 24, 2009
It's Our Thing
Tokyo/Osaka-based clothing line It's Our Thing have a new collection out, as well as deep discounts on some products.
Micke is a crazy-awesome DJ and has been cataloging his interest in music culture over at the blog, as well.
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12:33 AM
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Plazm in Portland
If you are local, you can purchase Plazm at these fine establishments (new to hosting us):
Local 35
&
Sword and Fern
&
Nationale.
Even if you own the latest copy of Plazm (of course you do), it is worth going to each of these stores to check out their amazing, unique wares. Support your local businesses!
(We are also carried at the incredible Floating World Comics, Rich's Cigar Store, In Other Words, and of course Powell's--both downtown and Hawthorne locations.)
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4:55 PM
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The Cardboard Cobbler
A folk-singer, tupperware slinger, and all-round queer icon, Phranc also makes quirky art out of the most mundane material: cardboard. She makes moustaches, hearts, and the hilarious Phancy Pants Air Freshner. See her creations here. It is inspiring to see what a little ingenuity can do.
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3:58 PM
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The Great Design RIp-Off
Is it fair for global corporations to ask designers to create spec work on the promise of recognition and a potentially small payday? That appears to be what is happening on a mass scale. Doubleday posted a logo contest for a new Chuck Palahnuiuk project on Crowdspring, netting pages of responses. What happens to your work once you submit it? Who decides the outcome? And does the "client" need to select any of the choices? Where is the meaningful dialog between client and designer? As Wooster Collective points out, the majority of these competitions require artists to hand over all rights to their work, without compensation and regardless of if they are a lucky winner. From the April 12, 2009 Wooster post:
The Italian fashion brand Ellesse just launched a design competition called CREATE TENNIS ART in celebration of their 50th anniversary. The competition has a grand prize of €4,500.
And here's bullet point #6 in the Terms and Conditions.
6. Ellesse shall own the entire copyright and all other rights in and to all of the entries to the Competition. By entering the Competition, entrants irrevocably grant and assign to Ellesse all rights in their entries and agree specifically to Ellesse's unrestricted use of the same for Ellesse's own purposes in all activities including, without limitation, marketing, promotion, distribution and sale worldwide as Ellesse sees fit, without any further payment or acknowledgement to the entrants. All copyright, intellectual property rights and all other proprietary rights whether now known or in the future created shall vest in Ellesse which it shall be solely entitled to register or otherwise protect at its own expense. By entering this Competition, you irrevocably assign to Ellesse all right, title and interest in and to all such intellectual property rights. You will co-operate fully in obtaining such registrations or other protection and shall execute such documents as Ellesse requires in order to give effect to this paragraph.Know your rights.
Labels: graphic design
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10:04 AM
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Art Show at Fresh Pot
About 30 very very affordable works (unearthed from my basement,
mostly), are on sale right now at the Fresh Pot, on Mississippi in
North Portland (4001 N. Mississippi). These cute sailors are taken but more friends remain.
A bunch are works that Olivia Edith Fuente and I made together as
Spirit Palace Studios. More are just slightly mortifying paintings of
my own, from the past, that I just wanted to try to give to a good
home.
They start at $20, and most stop at about $75. Would love it if you
came on down, checked them out, and considered taking a colorful 2-D
baby home...we spend that much on booze, jeans, and brunch sometimes,
why not art? I do custom stuff as well.
Labels: art, art tag sale, sarah gottesdiener
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12:00 PM
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Handmade Nation This Weekend
This DIY focused, DIY-made is coming to Portland tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. If you go to the screening tonight, you'll get some Plazm swag!All the info you need is here.A Portland Mercury Article about the film is here.
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10:46 AM
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