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--------------------------Long story short, your ball is destroyed on the last hole. We'll be giving away more pairs of tickets to “Smash Putt” this weekend to our Facebook Group(s). Join here if you like free stuff.
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Related: Smash Putt: Portland's Adult Miniature Golf Apocalypse + Win Tickets
Posted by Mike Harper
A dash of Cold War Kids, a touch of Arcade Fire, a handful of Pet Sounds, instrument swapping and a floor tom with table legs (that might just come alive and start dancing), oscillating between punkish energy yell-alongs and a lo-fi indie hits scrawled by synthesizers, AND AND AND's We'll Be Better Off With The Plants won't leave you wanting.
Gaining glowing reviews from the Willamette Week and the Mercury in the wake of their new album, And And And is definitely worth catching live as they ride out this terrific album! Portland indie the way it should be!
And And And's next shows:
April 2 @ Nemo Design Studio
April 9 @ The Parlour
April 29 @ Ash Street Saloon
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Just Another Music Monday: Fanno Creek
Just Another Music Monday: Firs of Prey
Just Another Music Monday: Leviticus Appleton
Just Another Music Monday: Don't Miss Miss Valeri Lopez
Just Another Music Monday: A. King +Â Download
From the large weekend list compiled by Leigh Feldman & supplemented by Pipeline. We have put events in red (blue = linked!) that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.
Reminder: We give out free tickets to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.
Related: Our Portland EVENTSÂ LIST
UPCOMING (just a taste of things to come…) Read the rest of this entry »
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Editor Note: Damien Gilley is participating in PORTLAND2010. His opening (as well as many other artists) take place this Saturday @ the Templeton Building (old Disjecta). More info: portland2010.disjecta.org
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Interview by Hannah Burns & photo by Christine Taylor
You moved to Portland from Las Vegas. What brought you here and how long have you lived here?
I've been here for almost three years. I wanted to move here for nature, actually, and the city was alluring. The taste of water was good when I visited, everything natural seemed right. It had nothing to do with art. And then when I was here I applied to school because I couldn't get a real job.
Can you introduce yourself briefly as an artist?
I'm an artist that deals with drawing as installation, primarily altering space in a way that helps to investigate or propose new perceptions and awareness of space, usually within the built environment.
Take me through a project from the sketchbook to the wall.
I'll take pictures from specific sites and from those sites I will draw in the computer, based off sketches, what I think should go in that site. So I draw over the photographs in Illustrator. This allows me, then, to re-project this image directly from that spot through a video projector and re-create it by hand with masking tape or vinyl tape.
There' no mechanics involved in how it gets on the wall, it's all hand done with a straight edged razor. A lot of the colors I've chosen are specific to the content, not the concept I'm referring to. One of them was white vinyl tape on a blue latex wall, so it really had the feeling of a blueprint. Another was fluorescent yellow on a matte black surface, which had to do with vintage video game graphics.
How do you think about Portland's contemporary art scene? Read the rest of this entry »
Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is reproduced below with some additions by Pipeline. You can get the email and your chance to win hookups for shows and deals by emailing leighfeldman3 @ gmail and asking to join
There are many listings so we have put events in red (blue = linked!) that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.
Reminder: We give out free tickets to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.
Related From Pipeline: Portland Monthly EVENTSÂ LIST
From Leigh Feldman:
Things I'm currently jocking…
Free ish… We have tix here and will be giving away some on on twitter (add @leighfeldman3) to Paul Van Dyk (fri), Marv Ellis & The Platform (sat), Pole Erotica (sat), a VIP booth to Massive (3.27) and tix to the Foundationpdx.com 10 Year Anniversary Street Dance Competition (3.26/3.27)! Wanna win any of them? Forward this email to a friend, have them write us asking to join the group and we'll enter you both in a drawing to win! (These are from Leigh, not Pipeline. Email him to join his list & win: leighfeldman3 @ gmail)
Free music ish… This mix from the dj's of The Foundation 10 Year Anniversary Street Dance Competition (check out Foundationpdx.com for more info!). It's a blend of classic breaks, new broken window jazz, uptempo lounge and rare funk. Definitely recommend and you can check out the full dance festival and competition next weekend at the Bossanova – http://www.mediafire.com/?ynymylujnfe
Awesome Ish… This Sunday/Monday are events for World Water Day. Come to the World Trade Center on Sunday for free coffee, food, a showing of the documentary ‘Flow' and a 3.1 mile fundraiser walk (3.1 miles is the avg distance people in the world w/o clean drinking water walk for clean water access) and on Monday night at the Aladdin Theater there is an amazing line-up of Obo Addy, 3 Leg Torso, Loveness Wesa and the Bantus Band putting on a show to benefit the installation of clean drinking pumps in Tanzania. More info here – http://www.worldwaterdaypdx.com/
Life is a party, everyone is just waiting to be invited.
See you all out and about! Leigh Feldman
Friday, Saturday and Sunday after the break… Read the rest of this entry »
If you did not know by now, there is a temporary miniature golf / art exhibition in on West Burnside. It’s called Smash Putt and it is here for less than a month. It’s a different take on the traditional putt-putt style as there are mazes, buzz saws, golf ball shooting gatling guns and ummm…apparently “roller skating dogs”. Perhaps the best part though, it is adult only and they serve drinks!
Our new Portland Events App for PDX Pipeline is now available for iPhones, Android phones and iPads!
Now, you can have all of the great Portland events from our website in the palm of your hand including Portland smash putt when you’re out on the town.
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Reminder: We give out free tickets to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. We have several pairs to give out for Smash Putt this weekend so join & win if you like free stuff.
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Photo is by K.C. Stimson. You can see more Smash Putt photos on Flickr here.
From Smash Putt:
SMASH PUTT!
Miniature Golf Apocalypse
As of March 12th, Smash Putt has officially assaulted Portland! An interactive art exhibition that defies the ordinary and has no equal, Smash Putt brings a unique twist on miniature golf to provide hours of vivifying exploration and mildly dangerous mechanized frivolity to the masses.
With ball destruction, centripetal actuators, accelerator pads, ball bouncers, moving walls, roller-skating dogs, and secret passages, no golf ball survives the onslaught of Smash Putt! For four short weeks, this new 13-hole course of deviousness and dastardly delights is open to the public in Portland’s Goose Hollow District.
The holes are comprised of drill presses, catapults, spinning objects, vertical mazes, buzz saws, and high velocity air-powered, golf ball shooting gattling guns. Developed by an all-star assembly of artists sprung from asylums across America, Smash Putt is not to be missed. It is an experience like no other!
Two bars service this all-adult rehabilitation of Miniature Golf. Seriously malicious competition is par for the course. Smash Putt is created by The Department of Culture Collective, an organization containing artists, builders, prop masters, and lighting designers from across the country.
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW! The last city was completely sold out. To purchase tickets, visit
www.smashputt.com.
SMASH PUTT, Miniature Golf Apocalypse
www.smashputt.com
1719 West Burnside, Portland, Oregon 97209
Friday, March 19 & Saturday, March 20 6pm – 1:30am
Sunday, March 21 6pm -12am
Friday, March 26 & Saturday, March 27 6pm – 1:30am
Sunday, March 28 6pm ? 12am
Friday, April 2 & Saturday, April 3 6pm – 1:30am
Sunday, April 4 6pm – 12am
21+, $10 – $12, Tickets may be purchased at www.smashputt.com
From our Partners at Abstract Earth Project
SIGNAL PATH:
Download their FREE album C L A S H: http://www.signalpathmusic.com
Signal Path's explosive return to the live electronic circuit began with the FREE release of their 5th album CLASH in the summer of 2009. As a duo, Ryan Burnett (guitar/production) and Damon Metzner (Acoustic Drums) introduced fans to a more bass heavy, dance oriented, and compositionally based live incarnation of the project. Combining elements of glitchhop, dubstep, and roots music, the band has evolved into a powerhouse of genre bending electronic music.
PHUTUREPRIMITIVE LIVE BAND: http://www.phutureprimitive.com
Phutureprimitive is the moniker of Northwest producer and song writer Rain. The Phutureprimitive live experience breathes new life into an already sonically rich and stimulating musical offering, drawing crowds to the dance floor for a primal music experience. Constantly defying convention, the Phutureprimitive sound is not solidly rooted in any single genre nor easily defined, but draws influences from many subgenres including Downtempo , Glitch Hop, Dub, Breaks, Psychedelic Rock, and more.
THE CROWN ROOM
205 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR
9pm / 21+ / Tickets $10 Advance — $12 Door
Tickets & Info – www.abstractearthproject.com
Posted by Kimberly Gehl
3rd Annual POW Fest | March 18-21
This weekend the Portland Women's Film Festival returns to the Hollywood Theatre with a 4-day showcase of short and feature films made by women, filmmaker panels, and film industry networking events.
PDX Pipeline recently had a chance to talk with POW Fest's Executive Director, Tara L. Johnson-Medinger, about this year's festival:
PDX Pipeline: What's new about this year's POW Fest?
Tara: We have returned to our original format with more events, more films and more filmmakers! We will showcase 44 films starting Thursday March 18th with our Locals Showcase! This 21+ event is FREE and will feature several home-grown filmmakers. Friday night is our Documentary focus night, Saturday is a day full of film including animated shorts, documentaries and narrative showcases and ending in some great features as well as the always fun (and sometimes shocking) Rated “M” For Mature Shorts Showcase. Sunday we bring back POW Fest Family Day and will host a Mother + Daughter screening (appropriate for 13+)
Bridgetown Comedy Festival announced it's new site and 2010 lineup yesterday. It's a good one including: Maria Bamford (video below), Scott Adsit (30 Rock), Danny Pudi (Community), TIM MEADOWS, and about 75 more. There will be over 100 by the time the festival arrives.
Check out all the performers here and you will recognize many of them from Comedy Central and other late night show appearances.
Being involved with a site such as this, I experience a lot of entertainment Portland. Bridgetown Comedy Fest is one of the best events we have. We are truly lucky to have Andy Wood & Kim Brady to put this on. Not only is it a big party for Portlanders, it's a big party for the comedians. They are out walking around Hawthorne checking out each other acts, drinking beers, and just having a good time. I spoke with many of them last year and they were loving the event and our city. Even if you are not someone who goes out comedy regularly (or ever), you should experience this event as it is a really unique event for Portland and a fantastic time.
To Win Tickets: We are giving away 2 full festival passes this week. Read the rest of this entry »
Update: 2011 Portland Farmer’s Market Open This Weekend
While you are looking for Portland events this weekend, the best might be the return of The Portland Farmers Market to the park blocks. This year it has doubled in size, stretching from SW Montgomery Street to SW Hall Street. Starting in June, they are also opening markets in Pioneer Courthouse Square (on Mondays) and on NW 23rd Ave.
Here is some low-quality streaming video walk-through (jailbroke iPhone video) last year at the opening. We’ll try to make a nicer video walk through this weekend.
Excerpts from their opening announcement (PDF):
Portland Farmers Market…announced the opening of two new farmers’ market locations as well as the expansion of the Portland Farmers Market — Saturday at PSU. Beginning this summer, the organization will launch and operate farmers markets at Pioneer Courthouse Square and NWÂ 23rd Avenue. The Saturday PSU market will stretch from SW Montgomery Street to SW Hall Street, doubling the footprint of the popular market….
The Portland Farmers Market — Saturday at PSU, set to open for its 19th season on Saturday, March 20, 2010 — the first day of spring — will expand to include the block directly south of its existing location.
Although the Saturday PSU farmers’ market location will double in size, the staff doesn’t plan to double the number of vendor booths. Instead, vendor booths will line up along the perimeter of the South Park Blocks, eliminating the majority of the inner ring of vendors’ stalls formerly packed into the previous market footprint. Already ranked as one of the world’s best farmers’ markets, the expansion will allow the more than 170 vendors and 16,000 shoppers more space to shop for farm-fresh produce, baked goods, meats, cheeses, seafood and more.
Portland’s Living Room Will Become Portland’s Kitchen and Dining Room
Starting the first day of summer, the Rose City’s living room will transform into Portland Farmers Market at Pioneer Courthouse Square, made possible by Portland’s own Alpha Broadcasting. Every Monday from June 21 to October 25, 2010, more than 32 local farmers and food artisans will take root in the heart of downtown Portland from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The more than 26,000 people passing by the Square every Monday will be able enjoy lunch and shop for dinner for 19 consecutive weeks.
Several pictures from last year’s Farmers Market opening after the break… Read the rest of this entry »
