Blake Haygood’s paintings are fields of soft washes strewn with shapes that seem almost ready to coalesce into identifiable objects. Walking the line between the organic and the mechanical, Blake commands our attention by presenting us with...
This amazing summertime jam — appropriately titled “In The Summer” — is a spastic ass creation shot on a Canon 7D, featuring a giant globe of a man and rainbow-colored whirling dervishes whirling around anything they could...
Kitties in trees! Kitties with glasses! Kitties playing keyboards! So much adorable I don’t even know how to handle it! Anke Weckmann’s sweet illustrations are pretty much perfect.
It was the perfect setting for the classic food film, It’s Grits: a sweltering 90+ degree Sunday in a big tent, with everyone fanning themselves with their program booklets, in a venue called the Tobacco Warehouse. It felt like being in the...
What else is there left to be said about Teenage Fanclub? They’ve influenced more bands than a porcupine has spines. They’ve changed with the times, evolving past the era of grunge and alternative almost effortlessly. And they still can...
Fuzzy little leftover childhood treasures get a fresh face, fur, and skin when Aida Gamez is done working with their rumpled, crumpled selves. Graphite pencils turn cute things into the type of cute things that are only cute because they’re...
Timothy Karpinski Portland artist Timothy Karpinski is no newcomer to Seattle’s art scene, and First Thursday this month (June 3rd, 2010) marks the date of his solo show at Flatcolor Gallery. On hand will be scores of his delicately paper-cut...
This is just a quick shout out to Portland, Oregon artist Andy Kehoe. Always set against backdrops rich with earthly hues and natural ornamentation, his ambiguous creature friends seem to infest a world that could either be seen as decaying or...