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Posted by Kristen Imes

Plugging Plugs: De La Soul Comes To Portland

De La Soul is a mammoth among old-school classics, having fathered the styles of all your favorite hip hop acts and helped catapult the careers of Prince Paul, Mos Def, and A Tribe Called…blah, blah, blah. The best kept secret about De La is that they're still at the peak of their talents. Not to disenfranchise their earlier, masterful work, but these D.A.I.S.Y.'s have risen way taller than 3 feet high. If their more recent joints are lacking any of that late ‘80's innovation, it's only because then they were integral in creating no less than a fresh art form. Now they get to play with it. (Buy Tickets here)

Perhaps indicating their ability to stay abreast of current currents, the guys who revolutionized how you can spin LPs haven't released an official one in five years. Instead, they've been in the mixtape trenches expanding styles with the likes of A-Trak and Madlib. Check out this year's Are You In? record and get reminded why cats like Simian Mobile Disco and Justice pay homage to hiphop (and it's not just because people used to dance and have fun to it – think Afrika Bambaataa and digital samples), via a single-track recording interspersed with some boom bap joints to sate the purist's break beat habit. And the rhymes.

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Posted by Kristen Imes

This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?

Let's be honest, people making asses out of themselves is funny. And people tripping really hard on psychedelic substances is (often) even more hilarious. Brody Condon's Without Sun, is an edited collection of "found performances" of individuals on drugs collected from the Internet to create a seamless 15 minute pseudo-narrative video emphasizing their "projection of self” into visionary worlds. Without Sun, named after Chris Maker's video, San Soleil, picks up where Marker left off, by exploring how these psychedelic adventures question memory and perception while examining the effects of current participatory media and technology on culture.

Related: Portland EVENTS LISTINGS

Brody Condon | Without Sun
Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. 8:00 pm — 10:30 pm (Opening Reception)
Friday, Sept. 04 — Sunday, Sept 13 . Every Day, 12 – 6:30 pm
Thurday, Sept 17 — Sunday, Oct 18 . Thurs – Fri . 12:00 pm – 6:30 pm; Sat – Sun . 12:00 pm — 4:00 pm

THE WORKS at Washington High School
531 SE 14th Ave.
Portland OR 97214

A few weeks back, Rick Turoczy of Silicon Florist & I were talking about growing difficulty in reaching info we wanted on twitter. Rick used the description “fire hose of information”. Both of us use many resources to dig through that info and find useful info for ourselves and readers.

Because I know that everyone can't spend time and energy doing the same thing, I have lately been using twitter accounts and tags to organize a bit such as #pdxjobs @pdxevents @pdxpics @pdxeats @pdxdrinks @pdxbeer@pdxbikes @firstthursday @lastthursday @pdxfree and of course, choose your zone: @sepdx @nepdx @swpdx @nwpdx @northpdx.

There are some other great tags out there such as #TBA09, #inpdx, #ontappdx #pdxart #pdxmusic. Here is a roundup of people using these tags today.

TBA Festival (#TBA09)

If you can't follow tags & only accounts, we are retweeting from @pdxTBA since somebody has the @TBA09 account for his band

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  PDXartscene: RT @TributeGallery: For #TBA09 info make sure you are all following @p_i_c_a @pdxTBA @MercTBA & #Hashtagging … #PDXart

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  MercTBA:
  @grantbutler Covering TBA on Twitter is going to be FUN. #TBA09

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  gmpdx: Realizing that #TBA09 is first TBA with Twitter as a really useful tool…some things will never be the same. Very few tweeted last year.

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  WKEntertainment: @CIMTB Look for the episode soon. For now, we're gearing up (and staying all night) to cover #TBA09.

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  p_i_c_a: #TBA09 preview from @wweek hits newsstands today – grab a copy: http://bit.ly/kvod8

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  lisaradon: art snacks RT @P_I_C_A: Best vending machines ever at THE WORKS http://twitpic.com/g62k5 #tba09 #pdxart

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  alisonhallett: If you're interested in TBA updates, follow @MercTBA. Our arts team will be tweeting throughout the festival. About tacos, mostly. #TBA09

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  PDXCulture:
  AAAAAAAAART!! y'all [TBA09 Info http://bit.ly/eMX7D

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  lisaradon: @MercTBA does roundup of tweeps and blogs covering @P_I_C_A 's #tba09 this year: http://bit.ly/oO3MN

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Austin shot a bit of Starfucker a few months back for us with the Pipeline Flip & did a pretty good job considering the device and mass of people. Deelay Ceelay played earlier, but they use some serious fog machines and the Flip can't overcome that so you'll need to see them in person.

Lucky for you, you CAN see the show again this Friday at Doug Fir. This is tour kickoff for both bands, so it's sure to be a good one. Also, there are two shows including a rare 'all ages'! All ages show at 5PM & and 21+ show at 9PM.

————-Related Info from PDX Pipeline

• Portland People: Interview With Chris Lael Larson of Deelay Ceelay
• Portland EVENTS LIST
• Portland Videos

Posted by Dan Wheeler

I don't know art but I know what I like and there's nothing I like better than nothing. Noted nothingist, Olaf Gambini, travels to Portland to take in the art scene and local color at this month's First Thursday. He'll touchdown on NW Everett between 6th and 7th sometime after 7:00 PM. Reported he's interested in checking out Virtuoso Studios, Igloo Arts and Anka Gallery.

Curious onlookers are sure to get a good show. Especially if their tastes run towards the absurd.

From the press release:

Gambini was once a rising young star in the art world. He gained notoriety in the 1960s for his bold new approach to abstract expressionism, which he dubbed “nothingism”. But his budding career was cut short when in 1968 Andy Warhol was shot.

On Thursday, September 3rd, Gambini and his entourage will be attending Portland's next 1st Thursday, the monthly art gallery tour that takes place in Portland's Pearl district. This promises to be the best night to see Gambini in person…

——————-Related Posts and Info:

• First Thursday in Portland
• Portland EVENTS LIST
• First Thursday on Twitter (@firstthursday)

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Photo by Christine Taylor, Interview By Hannah Piper Burns

Chris Lael Larson is truly a jack-of-all trades. Juggling collaborations with his musical project, Deelay Ceelay, commercial work in both video and print, and an art practice, he is a fixture in the Portland arts scene. Recently, he and I met at Backspace, and as twilight fell over Old Town, we discussed process, inspiration, and his upcoming photo show at Igloo Gallery.

Chris Lael Larson will be showing “Photos and Photo Animations” at Igloo Gallery, opening September 3rd at 6 pm. He and his band, Deelay Ceelay, will be on tour with fellow Portland prodigies, Starfucker, this fall.

Music is really essential to a lot of your work, and the themes of harmony and unification and rhythm are so present. I know you’re doing a lot of stills in the show and I’m wondering, do you try to bring that musical element into stills somehow?

I think I’m still trying to figure out what that tie-through is. I feel like taking a photograph is kind of like doing graphic design or abstract painting in real time, in the real world. Rarely do I ever have a set idea. I just shoot for an exploration. When you’re finding things and compositions you come across, in a lot of ways it’s a much more passive medium. And maybe one skill is obviously looking and being a more active viewer, but also knowing the places to go to find those moments.

Would you call the photographs a visual diary?

Very much so. I’ve always gone through periods off and on where I try to journal because I feel like it’s a really good exercise and I develop ideas so much better, and I’m pressing myself to make it part of both my visual my music practice. I feel like they’re my way of keeping track of my own story, visually. In shooting these photographs I never thought that I would show them, and so I Read the rest of this entry »