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An Aquarium of Ideas – Port of Portland

The Port of Portland is awesome!

Even if we don’t realize it, the Port of Portland plays a huge role in every Portlanders life. In short, they help make things move.

Ever wonder how your french fries got from a farm in Idaho onto your plate? Or why our airport is ranked as one of the Best in the Nation? Or ever wonder about who directs all the barges cruising the river? Yep, the Port helps make that happen.

Well, not only are they lovely people that help our beautiful city run, they also care about artists and art. They recently asked some NW artists to create pieces for their new headquarters (which also happens to be one of six U.S. structures recognized as the world’s most high-tech green buildings). These pieces ranged from enormous movable metal sculptures to traditional woodcarvings. And we were fortunate enough to make a short film about it. Very inspirational.

Enjoy.

Port of Portland Artist Video

Sockeye and Live Wire! Radio Team up
to Completely Change the Internet

Cheryl VanClacken just may be the most annoying talk show host this world has ever known. She’s a bad listener, she has terrible hair, and is prone to near-psychotic outbursts. But other than that, she’s adorable! And she KNOWS SAVINGS!

Hosted by Perky Portland Dealhound Cheryl VanClacken, P.U.P. is the first-ever Internet morning program devoted entirely to the savings found in the Portland Perks Coupon Book! And get this! The 1st Episode’s guest is none other than singer/songwriter/rockstar/playright/actress/multi-hyphenate STORM LARGE!

It took a collective total of exactly 300 cups of coffee for the folks at Sockeye (that’s us) and LiveWire! Radio (that’s Courtenay Hameister and bunch of other super-talented people) to come up with PERK UP, PORTLAND!, the latest Internet sensation produced for a good friend of ours named Travel Portland.

And the fans have spoken, and they give Ms. Large glowing reviews for her first-ever appearance on an Internet show devoted to Portland Perks.

Pick up your Portland Perks package today!

Chinese New Year at Lan Su

We recently took a short jaunt down to the Lan Su Chinese Garden. And what did we find? Dr. Ed Yang of the NW Art Academy entertaining with music and calligraphy. His playing ability somehow combines tranquil and upbeat notes into a catchy tune. So we recorded it, natch.

Dr. Yang is just one part of the festivities in the Gardens during Chinese New Year 2010. The whole event culminates in their annual Lantern Viewing on Sunday night. It’s a finale of finales, including hundreds of floating lights. See you there!

-Andrew

Sockeye Creative + Chelsea Cain

EQUALS FUN.

For our latest video series here at Sockeye, we joined so many forces it would make Luke Skywalker jealous. Novelists, musicians, performers and actors all came together in the name of supporting Portland. First up, New York Times Bestselling author Chelsea Cain. She recently completed “Evil At Heart”, the third book in her Heart series of thriller novels (available at Powells Books and on Kindle). Chelsea can now add Screen Actor to her resume.

Photography by Cory Tepper. More imagery can be blinked at here.

Also Made in Oregon.

–by Mike Byrne

The Governor’s Office of Film and Television works hard to ensure that at least three movies a year are shot outside of Vancouver BC. To their credit, some dang good flicks have been shot right here in Oregon; The General, One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest, Drugstore Cowboy, Film Geek, and a couple more.

But let’s be honest, the respectable titles are few and far between. It’s the aggressively mediocre to balls-out shiteous that pay the Mircrobrew tab. For every Dead Man that people will admit to there are five or ten Frozen Assets that kept people off the bread lines. Let’s spill a 40 for the fallen PAs and celebrate the locally shot stinkbomb.

Where better to start than Brain Smasher… A Love Story (1993)? Shot in Portland under the working title “Sam and Ed,” this is the cinematic nugget in which Andrew Dice Clay and Teri Hatcher get chased all over downtown Portland by robed Shaolin Monks on dirt bikes. As imdb reviewer sxct from Connecticut puts it “This is the campiest movie you will ever see. It is so bad that it is hysterical.”
Find it for $1.99 in a used VHS bin and watch it on a VCR with tracking problems.