9 Essential Resources for Portland Artists

look but don't artBasi­cally, Port­land is over­run with artists and cre­ative types, which is great, because it really deep­ens the cul­ture of our city!  Not so great for the cre­atives how­ever, who fight to find a niche, noto­ri­ety, or sim­ply a wall to hang their work […]

The Story of Bottled Water

From the ani­ma­tors who brought us The Meatrix, Store Wars, and The Story of Stuff, comes a new chap­ter in The Story of Stuff saga: The Story of Bot­tled Water.

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If you haven’t already watched the 20-minute long “Story of Stuff” you should.  It’s pretty good, and the pay­off in […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Decem­ber 30th through February 2nd:

Send a FAX by E-mail –

Yes, thats right. SEND a FAX by EMAIL! No reg­is­tra­tion, no cost. Just fol­low the easy instruc­tions on the page. I love this, it’s like the blu-ray ver­sion of […]

What I'm Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from August 31st through September 4th:helvetireader

Hel­ve­tireader –

Do you love Hel­vetica? I mean, how does one love a type-face. Hel­vetica isn’t about the font really, it’s about an aes­thetic. An […]

Merlin Mann Lays It Out: Get Started!

hotdogsladies_tweetI con­tinue to find Mr. Mann’s talks on the busi­ness of doing cre­ative things thought-provoking and (yes, at times) inspir­ing.  He is of course talk­ing to a con­tem­po­rary gen­er­a­tion of what he refers to as knowledge-workers, so the audi­ence for this stuff is lim­ited.  But his […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from August 23rd through August 31st:

Type­dia: A Shared Ency­clo­pe­dia of Typefaces –

a lovely resource for font and fonty info. I just brushed up on my type anatomy lingo.

Finan­cial Soft­ware for Linux | freshmeat.net –

A super-concise run­down on what’s what with financial […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from July 18th through July 26th:

wnybac1Hype­r­ion Books –Free down­load of Free. Chris Anderson’s new book about the emer­gence of free con­tent and how the world can (needs to) adapt to our new free […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from June 9th through June 11th:

Ecotrust Food & Farms — Farm to School –

Want to know what kinds of amaz­ing food poli­cies are being con­sid­ered in the Ore­gon leg­is­la­ture? Ecotrust breaks it all down for you. Let’s hear it for HB2800!!

Omnivore’s […]