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PDX Pop-Ups Shops Grand Opening

We would like to invite you to stop by the new PDX Pop-Ups shops this Thursday evening November 12th at 5PM for their grand openings. Mayor Sam Adams will be on hand at 5PM for brief remarks and ribbon cutting. As part of the Downtown Retail Strategy, Portland Business Alliance, Portland Development Commission, Downtown Marketing [...]

The Life of a Creative

Animal Collective: My Girls

Check out the fantastic new video from Animal Collective for their song My Girls. Animal Collective is a music collective of avant-garde musicians originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). They are on the Domino Recording Company out of [...]

Mark McKnight: Visionary Photographer

One of the great things about working at Vizwerks, is how as a staff we constantly share and talk about the work of our favorite visual artists.  I’ve recently become very interested in the sublime, visionary work of photographer Mark Mcknight. In fact, I think he is my favorite photographer. McKnight is a Los Angeles [...]

Tower Records Documentary Planned

Via the Sacramento Bee.  The late, great Tower Records is subject of a documentary film by actor and Sacramento native Colin Hanks. MTV News has the scoop, saying Hanks, son of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks, has done some preliminary interviews and filming for the biopic. The news is confirmed by Tower Founder Russ Solomon, who [...]

Platform 12 at London’s Royal College of Art

The folks at Wallpaper like to keep a close eye on the creative happenings over at London’s Royal College of Art, a British institution and one of the leading design schools in the world. Recently, they published a gallery of images from a recent crop of graduates from Platform 12, part of the Design Products [...]

Fwis Project: Book Covers Blog

The guys at Fwis are always up to something interesting.  They do all sorts of great design, however, really love when they get to do a book cover project.  They have an amazing blog with a plethora of interesting book covers from around the world.  It’s probably the most comprehensive book cover blog you’ll come [...]

Fjord Collective is Changing Photography

Fjord is one of the coolest photography projects I’ve stumbled upon. Their project showcases the photography of young, up-and-coming photographers. The drastic shift in the way work is being presented today has become especially noticeable in the more technologically adept generation. Fjord’s goal is to bring together a collection of notable photographers from the internet [...]

Völuspá at the Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn

Völuspá, curated by Grant Willing and Alana Celii, focuses on the themes of magic, otherworldliness, secrets and nostalgia is showing at the Bond Street Gallery in Brooklyn. A freshing take on contemporary art.  The show reminds me of the Supernatural project curated by Arnold J. Kemp for PICA’s Time Based Art Festival in 2007.

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