Puppy O’Shaughnessy Remembered
“I had a different name for the guy: leave-em-for-dead O’Shaughnessy.” Check out this mockumentary about a fictional bike messenger in Portland. It was made by Joe Lumbroso, who runs a design and new media firm in San Francisco (it appears he used to live here.) I really dig the performances.
Read MorePortland Custom Bike Builder Jordan Hufnagel
Poking around the internet, as I’m likely to do, I came accross the work of Jared Sourney a photographer, graphic designer, videographer type here in Portland. Among his other works, I enjoyed his documentary-style piece on local bike builder Jordan Hufnagel. This was produced for Level Magazine, formerly a print magazine, now getting a second [...]
Read MoreBruno Castrated In Order to Maximize Quantity of Dollar Bills Garnered by Studio
In a startling move by Universal Studios, they’ve decided to re-cut Bruno in order to get a wider audience in the UK and Ireland. They’ve snipped and spliced so as to achieve the equivalent of our PG-13 rating. Apparently the demand is so ravenous that the studio had no choice but to relent and offer [...]
Read MoreAdam West is “Lookwell” in this 1991 pilot episode from Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel
I’m glad to live in a world where awesomeness can still lurk quietly nearby, only to be discovered through chance occurrences. While on a IMDB vision quest in search of the works of prolific writer/actor Robert Smigel (who among other things, plays Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) I stumbled upon Lookwell, the pilot episode of [...]
Read MoreTrue Blood’s Media World, New Web Only Commercials
My favorite new show of last season, True Blood, is back for season 2 starting this Sunday, June 14th. One of the most charming qualities of the show, and what helps it differentiate itself from other vampire epics, is the way the writers create an alternate world where even the most mundane topics are affected. [...]
Read MorePortland Art Museum Offers Mindfuck Tutorial
The Portland Art Museum recently opened an exhibit called “Virtual Worlds: M.C. Escher and Paradox” which features a gallery filled to the brim with prints and drawings by Maurits Cornelis Escher (his best buds called him Mauk). He was one of the preeminent artists in the Dutch school of mindfuckery and flunked the second grade. [...]
Read MoreFlywheels and Crucifictions, One Crazy Bastard and his “FUCK YOU” ponyshow
This is the second post in our speed-related series “Speed Trials,” I was tipped off to the video on Kottke.org. This piece by Chris Burden takes advantage of a giant, 19th century iron flywheel joined up with a low power motorcycle. As you can see it takes about a minute for Burden to give the [...]
Read MorePodmonsters: Jordan, Jesse, GO! with David Koechner and James Adomian
Let’s reminisce a bit, to a show I attended during the Bridgetown Comedy Festival on April 26th at the Bagdad Theater here in Portland. I’d originally came to the “Monsters of Podcasting” set to check out the live recording of You Look Nice Today. If you are unfamiliar with YLNT, it might be best described [...]
Read MoreMuppet Muppet + More Muppet
The Northwest Film Center knows what the rest of us don’t. They know that in tumultuous times the masses need a rally cry. A man has to step up and remind us how life should be lived. We as a people need a moral compass. And that man should most assuredly be Jim Henson. Before [...]
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