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The Magic Hour: talking to street artist NDA

27 Monday Feb 2017

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art, Lauren Emory, murals, NDA, playwright, street art, theater

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Street Artist NDA and Anthony Alvarado

This is a fun episode, I talk to Street Artist NDA about how he paints his giant murals, the dangers of painting on a 2 story ladder, getting  arrested for your art and much more. I also chat with Portland playwright Lauren Emory about her experience writing and directing her first  play.

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Portland Playwright Lauren Emory and Anthony Alvarado

 

You can download the podcast here:

http://themagichour.libsyn.com/magic-hour-street-artist-nda

I have to warn you, the sound quality on this episode is really crap! We had some technical difficulties with the microphone . . . there is a lot of background noise. But if you can look past that, it’s a super fun episode.

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The How & Why of Zines

06 Friday Jan 2017

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art, creativity, distro, Joshua Amberson, Martha Grover, podcast, portland, The Magic Hour, writing, xray, zines

In this episode I talk to Martha Grover and Joshua James Amberson all about zines. Both Martha and Joshua are seasoned veterans of the Portland zine scene. So listen up young whippersnappers! We talk about how to make& distro zines, why to make zines, and also about the good ol’ days of zines (and Portland) and where things are now in the internet age.

http://themagichour.libsyn.com/episode-6-zines

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Martha Grover

Martha Grover is the author of the zine Somnambulist. And the memoir The End of My Career, available from Perfect Day publishing.

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Joshua James Amberson

Joshua James Amberson is the author of Basic Paper Airplane, The Prince Zine, and he writes for The Portland Mercury.

Weird Visions: the Oil Paintings of Mark Rogers

14 Saturday Mar 2015

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art, Mark Rogers, oil paintings, paintings, ufos. pilgrims

I just had coffee with my old friend Mark Rogers the painter. Afterwards I was looking at some of his artwork from his website, and I got pretty excited about it and wanted to share it here with you guys I think readers of this blog will appreciate his paintings.

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Mark’s work is on display right now at the Pony Club Gallery in Portland and if you have a chance to check it out in person I highly recommend it.

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The internet can’t do justice to how gorgeous these large oil paintings are in person. His current work has an interesting take on the little green men and UFO’s juxtaposing them with the iconography of pilgrims and earlyAmerican Protestant culture.

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This alternative history calls to mind interesting questions and ideas about not only UFO’s but American history, religious iconography, and historical stories. It is art that is both provocative and fun as hell to look at!

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Here is a piece that Mark is currently working on. Mark is an entirely self-taught artist. Which, I think, is the best kind. Too often would be artists (this goes for writers as well as visual artists) have their creativity stifled by too much formal training.

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What is interesting about this juxtaposition of the UFO-ology and the pilgrim characters is it creates a paradoxical vision that ends up being much more interesting than either would be on their own.

A Demonstration in Psychic Summoning

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Mark Rogers is an old friend of mine, we met back in college. But even if I didn’t know him at all I would say this artist is definitely someone to watch, and I am looking forward to where he goes with his strange visions next. (Also I really need to get one of these paintings to hang in my study!)

Van Gogh on Creativity

18 Monday Nov 2013

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art, creativity, Painters, Painting, Van Gogh

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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
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The way to know life is to love many things.

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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Picasso on creativity

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

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art, creativity, Painters, Painting, Picasso, quotes

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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

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Computers are useless, they can only give you answers.

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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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