Fine Art Photography www.bradcarlile.com
Posted in Other Openings on May 12th, 2008
Lie back in the video lounge that TJ Norris has crafted for us to experience an endless city. Let the soundtrack by Christen Renou allow your thoughts to flow. The endless/seemless looping of two image channels on the ceiling provide impulses of the images of a moving city. Feel the fact that most of our [...]
Posted in Music on Apr 1st, 2008
Friday night started off at Portland restaurant the “Rocket”, it is one of a growing number of Portland restaurants that really feature fresh and local food on the menu. Just how local and fresh? In this 4th floor restaurant all you have to do is look up and imagine. Not only do you get great [...]
Posted in Misc on Dec 2nd, 2007
Great weather in the northwest to take two days off from anything serious and just ski. Today started with 14″ of new overnight and continued by adding 8″ during the day! Yesterday had a foot of new as well! Yeah HAH! I was skiing with my buddy Dave. Years before we met with both saw [...]
Last Saturnite was the “HOWL” and it was great fun. Lots of great people everywhere wandered the 3 main stages both indoor and out, five bars. Yeah it worked. Lots of great music. A Great Party- thanks all! The Creepy Canopy Area: Joshua Lee 9-10:30p (Space Time Forgot, PDX) Manoj 10:30-12a (Your Mom, PDX) Rithma [...]
Posted in Music on Oct 20th, 2007
Interpol, so what happened to you? I was completely into all of your shows during your past visits. And now this? It was a pretty good 1 hour set, but honestly the older songs seemed much tighter than the new songs. But probably should start with the ending. Lame. 10 minutes after the set and [...]
Connections? many, few, or just things I’ve heard about today or doing today. First the very sad news… South African reggae star, Lucky Dube, has been shot dead. This happened when car thieves attacked his car when he was dropping his teenage son and daughter off in a Johannesburg suburb. I started hearing about Lucky [...]
Posted in Music on Sep 26th, 2007
This past weekend I saw two bands. Some might be wondering why the posts on music when I talk a lot about art. I think there is a deep connection. In fact after this week’s posting on the band “Battles” one of my friends told me that he understand’s why I like Battles, “Their music [...]
Posted in Music on Sep 24th, 2007
I have Battles new CD “Mirrored” on heavy rotation, they are doing some interesting things. I’m finding a lot of people around here aren’t familiar with this New York band, but get ready Portland… 2-Nov at Hawthorne Theater (1507 SE 39th, ticketswest) Battles plays “Atlas” on “Mirrored” album lots of interesting repeating musical images. They’ve [...]
Posted in Music on Sep 18th, 2007
In May I mentioned a new documentary called “Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten” which opened in the UK this spring. It has now crossing the pond and is sheduled to open in the US on 2-Nov. Don’t know where yet… “Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten” a Julian Temple film, was released in UK [...]
Posted in Music on Aug 7th, 2007
This weekend in three different restaurants and bars around Portland I heard Helio Sequence playing. How cool is that. I went to their Myspace page, where they mention a big fall tour and a release. I can’t wait for more…