Dan Deacon’s Dope Ass Ride

Dan Deacon’s Dope Ass Ride

Check out Dan Deacon‘s tour bus. It’s an old schoolbus modified to run off of two fuel systems, diesel and vegetable oil. I had a couple of friends in Eugene who did a very similar conversion to a 24-foot Grumman bread truck so they could go on tour. It’s a ton of work, and an [...]

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Portland Custom Bike Builder Jordan Hufnagel

Portland 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 [...]

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Two Blitzen Trapper Cuts from the Sound of Young America at the Bridgetown Comedy Fest

Two Blitzen Trapper Cuts from the Sound of Young America at the Bridgetown Comedy Fest

Two months back I posted a video from the Bridgetown Comedy Festival featuring a live recording of the podcast Jordan Jesse Go. Well today I was poking around on Jesse Thorn’s Vimeo account and found another fantastic clip of Blitzen Trapper playing a couple of songs at the Bagdad Theater. Thorn is an overachieving American [...]

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‘Alive in Joburg’ Lays the Groundwork for Starter-kit Cinema

‘Alive in Joburg’ Lays the Groundwork for Starter-kit Cinema

I just saw director Neill Blomkamp‘s District 9 yesterday and like most movies I pretty much knew what to expect going in. To the extent you want to save your purity for District 9 you really don’t wan’t to watch this next clip, the 6-minute short film “Alive in Joburg.” If you know anything about [...]

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The Dimes and the Penny Jam visit St. Cupcake

The Dimes and the Penny Jam visit St. Cupcake

Episode 25 of our Portland music video series The Penny Jam with the Dimes is out now! The gentleman from the band don’t normally wear British military uniforms but in a stroke of good luck we caught them on the same day they had done some promotional photography and they already had the costumes. The [...]

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Califunya Episode 4 – The Key to My Happiness

Califunya Episode 4 – The Key to My Happiness

Check out episode 4 of Califunya, where the girls finds a giant key to happiness. Califunya is one of the series from Wieden and Kennedy Entertainment It’s the most experimental of the group, with a sparse and confidently weird style…

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Experimental Dental School Featured on Dig for Fire

Experimental Dental School Featured on Dig for Fire

The Portland experimental rock duo Experimental Dental School was recently featured on Dig For Fire, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite music series. This was shot in New York while XDS was on a 6-week tour with Deerhoof. Here is a quote from the video: “Greg from Deerhoof, he’s worked on a couple [...]

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The Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson Defiantly Ventures Deeper Into His Own Style

The Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson Defiantly Ventures Deeper Into His Own Style

With the release Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer he simultaneously released a declaration of commitment to his own vision. In recent years (first with The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou then more-so with The Darjeeling Limited) the critical establishment has began to sway against Anderson. The same  style he forged and developed with [...]

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Humpday gets Mumblecore

Humpday gets Mumblecore

Over the past near-decade a film movement dubbed “mumblecore” has sprouted out from the nooks and crannies of independent film.  It gets its name from the rambling mumble of real life moments. The defining trait is a naturalistic approach to character. Digital cameras. Non-actors. Typically the films are heavy on conversational-improvisation and deal almost-exclusively with [...]

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