I usually end up spending like $100 at Trader Joe’s. Then, an hour after I get home (and I’ve binged on the peanut butter pretzels, chicken and artichoke empanadas and spiced tortilla chips) it seems like I don’t have anything to eat. Weird. I’m not sure if I think TJ’s beige, but check this out- […]

I should’na left you.

without strong design to step to.
 
Of course you can’t step to this event unless you’re going to be in Portland, but there’s some tangential design ephemera in this post that you could dig. 
The second of the Tokyo Design Symposium that John Jay and PNCA were involved in last year is underfoot at PNCA, […]

You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color–because you don’t want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. - Tibor Kalman, […]

at the risk of setting a precedent, i’m going to review a couple of records. i just made my first few purchases from the itunes music store, after like 2 years of having a mac with itunes. i am admittedly a stubborn vinyl fetishist.

the first purchase was towa tei’s new album, ‘flash‘, which i for […]

 
continuing in the tradition of sharing places that i frequent in portland, but that do not (yet) offer online shopping, there is a store in my neighborhood called office. ceramic panthers and vintage microwave therapy machines mingle with “quality products for the modern worker.” the last thing i bought from office was blaine brownell’s new book transmaterial (princeton architectural […]

 
do you ever consider yourself an astronaut? you should, because we are all astronauts. so speaketh buckminster in his opus, operating manual for spaceship earth. this book explains how the world was run by pirates with ultra-deep intuitition up until wwI, and how computers wrested the power for specialization from us astronauts as far back as the […]

 
I read an email from PICA about an upcoming free lecture in a series hosted by Portland- based artist Harrell Fletcher. The lecture is being given by another Northwest artist, Dan Attoe. I was inspired after reading about Dan Attoe to create a list of artists I currently dig whose work I would buy if I […]