The Weekly No. 005: The Road Less Travelled...

A nice trip to Oregon last week; visited my mom on the Coast, did an event at Control Voltage in Portland, and visited my 90-yr-old grandparents in Eastern Oregon. A lot of driving, but good fun overall.

Side note: while I generally do the requisite things to keep my creative batteries charged, all the usual shit that everyone does, once in a while, a good set of circumstances can give me an extra boost, and that occurred Saturday morning in Portland. I had some time to kill, and the hotel was right next to the Portland Art Museum, so I figured “fuck it, let’s go have a look.” The Portland Art Museum has a relatively small permanent collection, largely given to portraits of overweight Flemish bankers, like most small museums that exist due to the largess of a cattle baron or some such. So most of the museum is given over to temporary exhibits.

The combination of shows at the PDX museum last weekend was really stellar, is all I’m saying. In particular, there was an installation of material studies from Allied Works Architecture that really got my gears turning. Super inspirational. I think I caught it on its last day there, but what a great exhibit. Also, the new collection of graphic art in the basement is well worth a look if you’re in Portland.

Anyhow, I’m changing the schedule on these videos a bit. I’ve moved The Weekly to mid-week, and Tech Time will stay in the weekends. Since those are more popular, I’m going to devote the entire weekend to their creation, and bang out The Weekly during the work week, since it is inherently easier to do.

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