2780.Maybe agitprop history might have been a bit different:

2779.Here in Zinelandia producing zines is second nature; a little-known section of the municipal code stats that you have to either be creating one or planning one or you have to move to Gresham.Fortunately, the Zine Police will let you off if you just say you

2778.Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily imply an endorsement of the Jefferson Smith for Portland Mayor campaign, though I do understand that he's a pretty nice and smart guy.It's my extreme joy (seriously) and a thrill besides to announce that I've

2776.No monthly contracts? Infinite battery life, you say? Read in bright sunlight?Well, hell's bells, sign me the tintype up!

2775.The aphoristic guide to appreciating Oregon weather … if you don't like it, wait five minutes, it'll change … has its counterpart in marketing now.Who would have thought it would be JCPenney?

2774.This just over the transom: word has wafted our way that DC Comics (noted that "DC" no longer is considered an initialism meaning Detective Comics, so the corporate name isn't Detective Comics Comics, even though that's how my brain is going to parse it for a while)

2773.Your tax dollars at work, Multnomah County (but not yours, Clackamas … just sayin') Just announced via email: the Sellwood Bridge project's webcam.

2772.The strangest search terms cause hits here. Witness:

2771.Wanting to practice some photoshop, I found a tutorial that used layer styles, gradient overlay, and, oddly, inner glow to produce this:

2770.Well, not all of them. Actually, life in the Willamette Valley outside of Portland is a very east-side/west-side thing; the side of the river you live on divides us from them. In Marion County,  which to me has always been the heartland of the valley (as

2769.Chip Kelly, the U of O's head football coach, loves his work.Or does he have sights set higher? Say, the NFL?Oh, wait one … I guess h

2768.This is the way serious typographers roll, yo.Matthew Butterick, the mind behind the blog Typography for Lawyers, has a … gentle problem … with the recent film Mission:Impossible - Ghost Protocol.Inapt typography is not unc

2767.This via Designm.Ag on the Smashing Network, is a quick list of the 26 free downloadable PSDs the author has seen over 2011.There's some good stuff there. I like these because one of the better ways to keep learnin

2766.Note here that I said Blighty, not blight, which is a whole 'nother issue around here.In the UK's The Guardian, writer Tom Dyckhoff has nominated his own Five Best Places To Live. Portland's number one, followed by the St. Pauli district of Hambur

2765.Cool: the graphic treatment of American history as a series of iconized, stress-typed graphic art 'cartoons'.It's called The Momentus Project. And here's a slice of the election of 2000:

2764.In my case that would include the fact that I'm married already; I suspect The Wife™might object.Of the rest, I must say the one that resonates the most is 19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica. It's only coincidental that 19

2763.Just heard the news that Powell's Books is going to have something called an Espresso Book Machine installed at the flagship store.You've heard of Print-on-Demand, of course. This machine - if I read the story right - will allow you to go on

2762.The downside to a Willamette Valley snowfall is that, more often than not, the very next thing is a warm mass of air, the freezing levels go up, and rain falls. What this means is that, after a strong snowfall which pretty much paralyzes the region, high water comes and does the

2761.This design is both warm and cool …

2760.There are sopapillas moving through Congrefs right now. STOP THEM BEFORE ITS TOO LATE, or before Congrefs eats up all the good ones. They are delicious, but must be stopped before we become a flanocracy. Though I loves me some flan, too.

2759.The past day of protest may or may not have had anything to do with the new reluctance on the Congrefs's part. But some of the rules have seemed to have changed: A thing that was a sure thing is still a possible thing, but not a sure thing anymore.

2758.I don't like to be too far away from my art supplies, as a rule. You usually have to put down the pencil/paper/paint/what-have-you to at least pick up the fork/knife/spoon/what-have-you. With this cute set of pencil-shaped salt-n-pepper mills, you at least won't be far away from

2757.Good news, fellow Tintin fans! As far as I'm concerned (and I'm sure I'll get no disagreement here), a rerelease of the Tintin stories has been a needful thing for far too long. I just found, via Facebook, that several Tintin albums are getting the graphic-novel treatment and wil

2755.Just found this nifty Adobe Illustrator pen tool tutorial that's just a basic exercise that I wanted to share. It's pretty simple. It involves downloading an Illustrator document, opening it, and simply following the instructions in the document.

2754.As it turns out, I'm just not smart enough to block out this entire blog, and even though I'm not the most popular destination of the Intertubez (I've kinda made my peace with this (no, I haven't)) eventually there comes a time when you do have to say something.

2753.The Wife™ has many wishes and dreams. One of them was to have our tiki torches burning during a snowfall.

2753.Is he in the Rosswalk?

2752.For a Photoshop ad spread, a design studio, Bates141 Jakarta, created a diorama-like Photoshop screen … or, as they have it, sweded (after the ad-hoc movies created by the video shop in Be Kind Rewind):

2751.… we give you Photoshop CS3 Cook Extended, which will revolutionize the way you see the kitchen. And Photoshop. And cookies.We don't know if it's been upgraded since CS3, but if it is, you'll hear it here first, unless you here it somewhere else first.

2750.… well, we could, if we gained several hundred feet in elevation.With the approaching snowstorm promising wintry hell for those 500 feet and up and wintry heck below (from this we coin that Oregonized term wintry mix) we naturally wondered how far abou