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[meme] ZehnKatzen's Weekly Winners #6: Some Pictures Of Mission Mill
2008-02-10 22:07:00
1352. For another in our occasional series in the grand madness that is Sarcastic Mom's Weekly Winners, we have some more Oregon history for you.
The Mission Mill Museum in Salem. To those in the know, it's a place to visit that documents some of the loci of the history of modern Oregon, which only started about 200 years ago (Oregon, historically speaking, from the viewpoint of Western and Anglocentric civilization – as a modern State of the Union – is excruciatingly young. Even compared to the East Coast, we're still in diapers).
The museum, located just east of downtown Salem along 12th St, SE, near Willamette University and the State Capitol group, is a small campus of buildings, some of which were always there, and some which were moved in. The Jason Lee house, the oldest frame house still standing in Oregon, is one which was moved in:
The house is made of four smaller apartments within, occupied by Lee and by American Methodist pioneers, some of whose names (such as Judso ...
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[pdx_bloggers] Bill's Stopped Back Hereabouts
2008-02-10 13:10:00
1350. The Portland Freelancer's begun to post again.
Not so much teh_funnay as teh_truth.
Just as witty as ever tho.
Tags: The Portland Freelancer, pdx_blogs, poli_talk, Bill McDonald
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[liff, marital_arts] How We Poor Folks Celebrate Valentines
2008-02-09 23:21:00
1348. By submitting a request for free valentine in The Merc.
Yes, there's smoochy-talk. Get over it.
PS: Merc, please publish my ad. You know I love you too.
Tags: Portland Mercury, The Wife, Marital Blitz, Marital Arts
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[art] The Year of Stan, day 39
2008-02-09 22:24:00
366 Days of Creativity - Day 39 Originally uploaded by dinglemunch 1347. Ah, so those stories I hear of the legendary "Sixth Sister" were right!They laughed at me then.They won't laugh at me now.Well, actually they will, they'll just find another reason to do it ... but, vindication, sweet vindication! ...
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[ad_design] Equifax: The Creepy-Ass Disembodied Eye Of Personal Finance
2008-02-09 21:17:00
1346. Frames from a recent web Flash banner ad:
So, Equifax will keep me safe and secure by keeping an eye on my credit. Great.
Do they have anything for anxiety?
When I said I wanted to keep an eye on my credit, I didn't mean with an actual disembodied eye. Gaaaah!
Will the eye personally send me the email alerts? What the 7734 is it going to type with? Aaaah, the eye!
Tags: equifax, web ad design, flash ad design, weird ad design, weird ads
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[logo_design] The Three Stages of Wickes Furniture
2008-02-09 20:26:00
1345. Safe to say this caught a lot of us by surprise (clicky the illo at right to embiggen if you could be so kind, thankyou!).
Not nececelery, mind, that Wickes had hit a rough patch – that was public knowledge. What was a surprise (unless you were some kind of insider) was that Wickes was so close to its end. Now, it's might be winding everything up and going away.
On the Portland Housing Blog the proprietor made the remark "We won't be hearing 'It's a Wickes House' anymore". Of course, since I try to pay attention to logo evolution, I noted that that wasn't quite the case (it's germane to the housing discussion because Clint8200 correctly noted that it's due to the slow housing market – this is one of those ripples that are spreading throughout the economy now that so many fewer people can get loans for houses now). Actually, Wickes moved off the "It's A Wickes House" campaign already.
Sometime during the last year, they began promoting "The New Wickes" with a change ...
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[art] A Look Into A Graphic Novelist's Sketchbook - In The Public Domain
2008-02-08 11:53:00
1342. One thing I find incredibly thrilling and inspiring is getting a look through another artist's sketchbook. There's the thrill of behind the scenes, of seeing the man behind the curtain, the vicarious thrill of being allowed to see something that you wouldn't otherwise be able to see.
Brian Wood is famous for the graphic novel Channel Zero. When I heard that he was offering a 17MB download of a work he's calling Public Domain ... sketches, character studies, found art and photographs, short stories ... everything that informed him in making the story, but had not yet made it into print.
The real thrill is seeing the "what went into" and the unfinished test sketches and drawings. Sometimes, the best art is 'undone'.
There's a great amount of found stuff, as I menched, but one which really caught my eye was apparently taken from a subversive flyer tacked to a 'phone pole in NY, one which even some (well, probably a great many) people in Portland can even rela ...
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[art] The Year of Stan, Day 38
2008-02-08 11:52:00
366 Days of Creativity - Day 38
Originally uploaded by dinglemunch 1342. This, of course, is in a sad, sad, alternate universe where Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were never invented.
I shudder at the thought, myself. ...
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[art] The Year of Stan, Day 37
2008-02-08 11:47:00
366 Days of Creativity - Day 37 Originally uploaded by dinglemunch 1341. On the upside, he's tailor-made for those interviews where you can't see the people's faces 'cause they're all squarey.(Critquity: nice detail - check the shadow on the pillow and the bed behind poor Brett. And, okay Stan ... who is that in the picture on the bedside stand? Kinda looks like Chris Kattan). ...
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[bloggage] 500 And Counting ...
2008-02-07 09:29:00
1339. As ofthe time of this posting, I'm 500 hits away from 40,000.
It would be so cool if I could gather 500 hits in a day ...
Tags: bloggage, Samuel John Klein, ZehnKatzen, Without You I'm Nothing
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