I Have No Idea What I am Doing

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

This is one gorgeous video!

Back when my little sister was in town, I wanted to show her what Portland is like. My friend Audrey called with the perfect offer—paper maiche-ing (how do you spell that?) masks for this video.

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Friends, this is such a fun video. Can’t say I’m a huge Passion Pit fan, but how they shot this video amazes me. They filmed the entire thing–hipsters in tight jeans and black plastic glasses running all over the city, etc–and then printed each and every frame onto paper. Then they layered, tore, and collaged the thing, and re-shot frame by frame, running it together to look like a film again. Wowza.