Sockeye Dog Show
–by Jen Stevenson
This is Mette, one of our designers. She likes to design beautiful things. Things like small paper dog shows. Continue reading…
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Travel Portland!
–by James Westby
We here at Sockeye love the Rose City. We heart Stumptown. We think that Rip City equals AWESOME. Bridgetown rules the earth, says us.
Sorry– that was annoying. But–
…the clearly MAD CRUSH we have on our hometown of Portland, OR has at long last been condensed, filtered, compressed, encapsulated, if you will– into this 4-minute sales video for our awesome, forward-thinking client TRAVEL PORTLAND (formerly POVA– bonus points if you know the acronym!). Sure, the video covers some of the PDX classics like Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Powell’s Books, but when was the last time you saw a Portland video featuring seriously high-speed bicycling through Ladd’s Addition, or the owner of Hopworks balancing on a beer keg logger-style? Uh-huh, didn’t think so.
Try not to GASP as you check out the time-lapse photography of the Chinese Garden! And the visual splendor of the Sokol Blosser Winery! Or the man near the end of the video REALLY enjoying his potato chips!
All your local favorites are shown here– the Pearl District, PSU Farmer’s Market, Pumpkin Ridge Golf Course, and of course all the beloved sights on SE 82nd Avenue (hee hee kidding). In addition, we feature side trips to such nearby destinations as the gorgeous (pun intended!) Columbia River Gorge, the breathtaking Oregon Coast, and the very tall and imposing Mt. Hood.
With music by local artists March Fourth Marching Band and Poddington Bear, it is our hope that this video will make the WHOLE WORLD want to move to Portland.
Oh, wait… um… uh…
Here, watch!
Mourning the Tonkin Angels
-by Rob Wees
What was it, ten years that the angelic tonkin cupids and their bare bottoms graced the side of the building on SW Washington and 3rd? I remember the first time I crossed the Morrison bridge in 1998 and saw the angelic wallscape. It’s one of the most visible non-architectural landmarks in the city. Other than that sexy Parking on Broadway sign, of course. I remember that well, too.
While out on a shoot with Andy Batt for Albertina Kerr (for their Army of Angels campaign, coincidentally), I looked up to the heavens and saw the old mural being painted over. Good, I thought. There’s only room for one Angel themed campaign in this city. And it’s gonna be mine!
Shout outs to Bill, James, Laura, Heather, Pete and all the other fine folks who worked on the campaign with me!
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.