http://www.artscatter.com a Portland-centric arts and culture blog Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:30:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first post-Labor Day weekend is upon us, meaning the arts Big Time has begun in Portland. Which reminds us once and for all of our limitations: We simply can't do everything. A&E's Fall Arts Guide will give you a good idea of what's coming up and some guidance about ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/scatter-looks-at-its-schedule/ OK, let's just put a few cards on the table: There is a certain variety of reality television show that can be practically irresistible to Art Scatter, at least its lesser precincts. Bravo's Project Runway," on which younger or youngish or young-in-spirit fashion designers compete each week for exposure, of ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/scatters-project-runway-infatuation/ I'm not sure why I'm so fascinated by the problems of classical music. Possibly it's just that it's hard not to root for an art form that seems to be running so against the drift of the culture itself. I say seems not to waffle but to suggest that ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/classical-music-and-the-portland-cello-project/ "While you’re catching up on weekend papers," our blogging compatriot Mighty Toy Cannon of Culture Shock writes, "I’d be interested in your comments on the Oregonian editorial regarding the renovation of the Schnitz and the possible enclosure of the Main Street Plaza (Saturday, August 30)." As Mighty Toy points out, ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/a-bridge-too-far-connecting-portlands-performance-halls/ So here it is just hours before Labor Day (to be celebrated by much of America by a trip to the mall, where many people will be working for minimum wage or a skoosh over it) and this corner of Art Scatter is thinking about a few things. Such as Josh ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/pre-labor-day-scatter-red-shoes-hot-peppers-art-scams/ Nose pressed to the glass, we watch mist clouds roll wetly off the Pacific onto the beach and when we get to the point of exposing our own flesh to the elements -- mostly water in various incarnations and sand -- we remark that this feels like the memory of ... http://www.artscatter.com/visual-art/beach-scatter-final-chapter/ Walter Benjamin is the prophet of Scrounge Scatter. The German critic of things broken, Benjamin embodies the true spirit of Modernism. Susan Sontag quipped that his essays end just before they self-destruct. But not before I’m lulled to sleep, usually. He’s the philosopher in search of an interpreter who will ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/ur-scatter-primal-scatter-walter-benjamin-on-the-prowl/ I wouldn't say that Art Scatter is totally obsessed with spelling. We don't employ a battalion of copyeditors to check our posts, after all, and I'm sure that strange letters pop up in strange places in the words we type sometimes. And we prefer some spellings, like "copyeditors," that ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/i-spelled-it-my-way-the-future-of-spelling/ As we suggested earlier, some of Art Scatter is at the beach, and on the first nice day at the beach, what do we do? Why, we build a sandcastle, that's what. Well, actually, we critique previously built sandcastles, do archaeological digs around sandcastle ruins and ponder the sandcastles we ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/beach-scatter-sandcastles-under-construction/ The miracle (or the curse, depending on your point of view) of the Internet tubes is that they extend to the Oregon coast, and so, it is possible to share one's vacation slides with the universe almost in real time. Not only that, it is possible to post from ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/beach-scatter-j-austen-e-jelinek-m-mouse/