Kimiake Higuchi: Pate de Verre
Kimiake Higuchi: Pate de Verre Hardcover, 67 pages, $40 2007, Mitsukoshi Ltd. Available at the Corning Museum of Glass Underneath the Tagliapietra video, in the Corning box, was a slim volume on the...
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Editors and designers are often on opposite sides of the fence. Editors get really ticked off when the art directors reduce the copyspace, while designers fume over extra words messing up their nice...
View ArticleCoralina moooooon, I’m calling…
Tonight I was up for animation (when am I not up for animation?) and the Portland International Film Festival had its last showing of Bill Plympton's Idiots and Angels...so Kat and I headed downtown to...
View ArticleShortening Oscar
Oscars night, and who the heck cares about all those silly, overpriced full-length features (except maybe Slumdog but I'm not going there). Naaaaah, the REAL action is in animation. It's almost...
View ArticleTerry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett has early-onset Alzheimers Disease. He's also one of the most brilliant authors it's been my privilege to read, and in true Terry Pratchett fashion, gave a speech that showed the...
View ArticleMoviola, northwest style
Portland Art Museum is screening new short films by Northwest filmmakers tonight (April 30) and there's one I particularly recommend: Help Wanted, by Teo Guardino. WHERE: NW Film Center at the Whitsell...
View ArticleiPhone as bookphone
Morning chores: Shower, dress, feed and jab the cat, do the litter and breakfast (with a handwash or two in between), make the bed, get at least a quarter of yesterdays' email answered and download a...
View ArticleThe Joy of Coldworking (book)
No, the book's title is not an oxymoron, at least not for author Johnathan Schmuck. The dude actually likes to grind and polish glass, and since his writing gives no sign of mental deficiencies I must...
View ArticleSelling books to Powells
Turning points, paradigm shifts, whatever you want to call them, there are maybe a dozen in my childhood and one was the night Dad bought a huge box of books for a quarter. That small thing started me...
View ArticleOnce, several times
Once is a lovely, lovely little film. Yeah, I may be the last human on the planet to see it (it's three years old, after all), but I was thoroughly charmed by both the movie and the music. And I think...
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