It’s Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s annual Time Based Arts festival again, and I’m blogging for what I think is my 5th year. As far as contemporary art is concerned, PICA effectively raised me. They started comping tickets out to Kirsten before I even graduated college, and have given me a free pass almost ever since in exchange for blogging. This year, they took over an old school as the visual arts and late night show venue, and it’s gorgeous.
Here’s my first blog on the experimental film Crock, which I warn you, is a bit vulgar.
iPhone in hand, I’ve been taking some pictures. Here’s two and a video, more soon.
The Sugar Shack, created with on site materials found in the closed school.
Local artist Ethan Rose's synchronized music boxes
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I have to admit, Dali just doesn’t hit me hard. The one thing that I saw and immediately felt was the Lobster Telephone at the Tate a few years ago. It’s one of Dali’s sillier works (I dislike his gore) of a black rotary telephone with a plastic lobster glued across the handset. It’s hilarious. I think about it all the time when new techy gadgets are released.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=02b5cfa3-83c7-4312-a4a6-296f7eeb5bc3)
Kris Hase describes herself as, “an interactive media/marketing strategist/designer/developer/producer/content provider and artist” To organize her 
I am super into it–but be advised that he’s just getting started again so there’s a gap as you go through the archives. Primarily, I like these comics because I can read them and think about printing them out and coloring them in, and secondarily, because not a lot happens. It’s a simple, anti-comics style (no superheros here, just a guy sweeping). Maybe I’ll print, color, then film them and make a video a la Passion Pit (see last post). Ha.