Mammal

My new band Mammal with Mari Kojima will debut next week at Tokyo Art Beat's 5th Anniversary party at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo.

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Plazm 28 contributor Chris Jordan has amazing, yet horrible, images from his latest series on his website. "These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent," Jordan says. "On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking."

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New Oregon Interview Series: Visual Art

Host Nora Robertson sits down with Michael Brophy, Stephanie Snyder and Dark Horse Comics' Shawna Gore

Collected by the Seattle Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum and Microsoft, Brophy’s work was the subject of a Tacoma Art Museum exhibition, “The Romantic Vision of Michael Brophy”, and appeared in their recent 9th Northwest Biennial. A 2007 Getty Foundation Fellow, Snyder is the director/curator of the Cooley Gallery at Reed and has co-hosted the Back Room discussion series. An editor at Dark Horse since 2003, Gore’s work on the CREEPY Archives and the Herbie Archives hardcover series earned her two 2009 Eisner Awards.

Urban Grind East, 2214 NE Oregon St
Wed, November 11th, 7-8:30 PM, doors open at 6:30, $5 admission.
More info here.

Pictured above: Food Night with Matt Lounsbury, Greg Higgins and Naomi Pomeroy
Photo Credit: Steve Fritz

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Jon Raymond Wins Ken Kesey Award for Fiction - Live Interview on the Air Tomorrow

Literary Arts recently announced its Oregon Book Awards for 2009 and Plazm editor Jon Raymond has won the prestigious Ken Kesey award for fiction. Jon will be on the radio tomorrow on OPB's Think Out Loud at 9am PST, listen live here.

Plazm has signed first edition copies of Livability, Jon's award-winning collection of short stories, as well as signed first edition copies of his first novel, The Half Life.

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And they're suing Bart Simpson, too.

Nope, this doesn't come from The Onion! The Chamber of Commerce is actually, really suing the Yes Men for a prank press conference they managed to pull off. Political theatre: now punishable by lawsuit in the United States of America.

This is the same US Chamber of Commerce that opposes doing anything about climate change and global warning (Nike and Apple recently and very publicly resigned from the organization for this reason).

US Chamber of Commerce: to you I say, "Ptui." And, "I fart in your general direction." And let's throw in a big, good old-fashioned "Fuck you," too.

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Poster Initiative 003 @ PKN Tokyo

I'll be debuting and giving away installment #3 of my Poster Initiative offset-printed poster series at Super Deluxe this Wednesday during my Pecha Kucha Night presentation. The posters are produced in editions of 1,000 and distributed around Tokyo. Not advertising- just free design for the people.

I'll be doing a glib presentation on the "The Year in Review"- a look back over highlight projects for my design studio in 2009.

at SuperDeluxe
1000yen /1 drink
B1F 3-1-25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031
+81 (0)3-5412-0515
http://www.super-deluxe.com

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¡Ensenada!

Ensenada is new typeface I designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico. Available through MyFonts.

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Bangin'

Lorin Brown is pumping out the jammz over at One & Done! A healthy range of projects that span identity, editorial illustration, apparel graphics, and tons more. Worth checkin'!

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New Oregon Interview Series: Food

New Oregon Interview Series Food Night

Host Nora Robertson sits down with Greg Higgins, Naomi Pomeroy and Stumptown's Matt Lounsbury

Urban Grind East, 2214 NE Oregon
Monday, October 26th, 7-8:30 pm, doors open at 6:30, $5 admission

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Pecha Kucha Night Presentations

I have the dubious honor of being the very first Pecha Kucha Night presenter to have a presentation presented online at PKN's new Presentations section of their website, designed by UltraSuperNew. You can listen to me sputter, babble, and throw out half-truths here, as recorded 2+ years ago.

I'll be presenting again this Wednesday, doing my "Year in Review", updating interested folks (and uninterested folks schmoozing over drinks) about what my design studio has been up to in 2009. Come on down!

at SuperDeluxe
1000yen /1 drink
B1F 3-1-25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031
+81 (0)3-5412-0515
http://www.super-deluxe.com

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Old Masters & New Psychedlia Still on View at The Cooley

The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body
Psychedelic Soul: Contemporary Responses to the Masters

Rarely traveled, now is a great opportunity to see a deep collection of master drawings from the Crocker Art Museum.

In a beautiful juxtaposition, curator Stephanie Snyder has included a room of video portraits by Antoine Catala. These works inform one another in a compelling manner, synthesizing the corporeal and the technological.

You can view them in person at the Cooley through December 5. Each installation of this work is unique. If you want to get a sense of the movement and you can't make it to the gallery, check out Antoine's site where some QuickTime movies of the work are posted.

Through December 5, 2009

For more gallery info:
Cooley Gallery @ Reed College
Noon-6 / Tuesday - Sunday

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Liminal: An Examination of Graffiti in Tokyo

I recently self-published a 32 page zine that covers the scope of Tokyo street graffiti to coincide with a lecture I did recently for the Artalking series of contemporary art gatherings in Tokyo.

The zine features an illustrated essay in English about Tokyo graffiti while simultaneously operating as a sort of "birdwatching guide" to help readers identify different graffiti writers' work.

Liminal was printed in an edition of 125 and each is hand-numbered. You can pick one up for $12.00 postpaid (shipping included) via Paypal to ian(at)ianlynam.com or email me.

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Yokoyama Yuichi new book: Baby Boom!

Yokoyama Yuichi's latest book, Baby Boom, is out now. 160 pages of two- and three-color overprinted marker drawing madness. The book is primarily wordless (katakana onomatopoeia sound effects included, however) and an excellent introduction to the work of Japan's leading contemporary avant garde manga artist. Yokoyama's work has been translated into English and published by PictureBox in the U.S. to great acclaim.

I have a small stack of them available for $35 postpaid (shipping included worldwide) for those that might be interested. Hit me up at ian(at)ianlynam.com if you are interested- that's my Paypal account ID, as well, should you want to go direct.

Super-duper-rad modular Japanese typography, awesome printing, and a rarity in the States for a while.

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Chinese Box

Wherein a small town architecture critic makes a sojourn to the "Asian city" and discovers that size matters....

We recently posted this article to the Plazm magazine web site by Randy Gragg with photography by Susan Suebert. Original article appeared in the out-of-print / sold out edition of Plazm #23.

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Great archive of Pelican covers

Dozens and dozens of classic Pelican covers can be found on the Things Magazine web site. Categorized by decade with decent resolution scans. Fantastic to see these all in one place.

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Home Movie Day: Portland

"I make home movies
therefore I am.
I am, therefore
I make home movies."

~Jonas Mekas, Walden (1969)

As a film programmer, my one hard and fast rule was to actually watch anything before screening it. A lot of movies sound really great on paper and are really crap on the screen. This Sunday, we're going to take that one little rule, fold it up like a paper airplane, and toss it out the window.

Home Movie Day is an international celebration of the art of amateur movie-making on 8mm and 16mm film. Whether it's footage of grandma blowing out candles at her 80th birthday party or a cops-and-robbers movie made by grade-school kids, this is an opportunity to share, preserve and celebrate old films.

For this event, community members are encouraged to bring their home movies for inspection and potential exhibition. Local film experts, along with archivists from the University of Oregon Libraries, will assess the physical condition of the film before projecting movies for viewing. They will also offer advice on how to best preserve and protect these film formats from damage.

The enduring success of Home Movie Day lies in the thrill of uncovering original film footage of places, people and events -- both familiar and strange -- that may have rested unseen in household closets for decades. At a 2006 Home Movie Day event in New Haven, Connecticut, amateur film maker Robbins Barstow shared his 1956 travelogue "Disneyland Dream," which captured his family's visit to the Magic Kingdom in its first year of operation. Also captured in the background is a fleeting glimpse of future comedian Steve Martin selling guidebooks in a top hat and striped pink shirt. See the clip below for a preview.

Screenings and education will take place on Sunday, Oct. 18, from noon to 5 p.m. at the UO Portland's White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St. Admission is free.

~Michael Neault

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Sarah Gottesdiener on Plazm Thread

Now is an excellent time to purchase a subscription to Plazm Thread. Check out this great shirt! Six colors of cascading triangles on a V-neck of course. Limited edition, available through subscription only.

Also, this is the last chance to enter your name in a drawing to receive a Plazm Collector's Set. Drawing will be among Plazm Thread subscribers only through November 1.

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Content09

This October, How We Develop’s debut event, CONTENT, will premier at the Ace Hotel in Portland, OR. This event is designed, in its curation of talent and selection of venue, to harness and highlight the individuality stemming from the independent fashion community.

For this inaugural CONTENT event, 38 of Portland’s finest independent clothing and accessory designers will inhabit 28 rooms on the 2nd floor of the Ace Hotel. Attendees will explore at their leisure while enjoying live music, libations, art installations and more, extending into the adjacent Cleaners event space.

Learn more about it HERE.

***UPDATE***
Watch the promo video HERE.

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Graphical Musical Compositions

Caleb Deupree of Néojapanisme's staff blog files a lovely report on Takemitsu Tōru, an experimental musician and composer who created his own graphical system of musical notation, beautiful designs rather than the traditional 10-bar staff familiar to traditional Western players. In one score, "Each sheet is printed in different colors and is cut from the middle of one edge to the center of the circle, so that the sheets can be overlaid to create unique configurations for each performance." Toru worked in collaboration with designer Sugiura Kōhei collaborated with Tōru as well. More at Néojapanisme.

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Design Habits for the Future: Act, Collaborate, Do Meaningful Things

That's the title of my talk this week at the UCDA conference in Seattle. Come on over if you are in town.

Every day, each of us makes thousands of choices to make our businesses more competitive and our design work more effective. But do they sustain us as designers, as a culture, and as a planet? How can we develop proficient and relevant design habits that make meaning, make money, and make a difference?

UCDA Design Conference, Seattle
Tuesday, Otober 6, 3:15 pm
More info: http://ucda.com/conference.lasso

Photo above, getting kicked out of Times Square during an art action in March '09.

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Flash Choir meets William Stafford

The Flash Choir will perform new work at their upcoming show, on October 11th, at Missisippi Studios, in a special Wordstock collaboration, honoring Oregon’s first poet laureate, William Stafford. "Strangers Together" is a setting of 10 poems by Stafford's book, Passwords. The songs are composed by Sarah Dougher, best known for her work as a solo folk-rock artist and music label owner, and are performed by the Flash Choir.

The Flash Choir was founded in July 2007 in the service of the PICA’s TBA Festival, and it's on-going manifestation is led by Sarah Dougher and Pat Janowski. The choir is free, open to all, and specializes in collaborative pieces and singing for public events. The choir has shared the stage with PInk Martini, the Portland Cello Project, and more. They have performed in chapels, in public squares, at rock festivals, concert halls, and dive bars.

This project engages the work of Stafford, exploring in particular themes of human connection to animals and the divine, as well as human connection with other humans. Most experience poetry sitting, silently, reading. The choral rendition of these words in a public space will create an opportunity for communal listening, and most certainly a new way of hearing and understanding the work of Oregon's first Poet Laureate.

Sunday, Oct 11 3:00pm

Visit Mississippi Studios for more information on tickets
Online sales end at 12pm on show day. Limited tickets available at the door.

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Come Skate With Us

Lesque drop a new video from their Summer Tour and a new line.

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