http://www.artscatter.com a Portland-centric arts and culture blog Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:39:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On this very day two years ago -- on February 8, 2008 -- a fine strapping lad was loosed upon the world, and immediately started yawping. Yes, its name was Art Scatter, and it was born right here in river city: in Puddletown, Oregon, brave bubble of liberality, Do It ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/my-fellow-scatterers-the-state-of-the-blog/ As you may have noticed, here at Art Scatter we’ve been stressing out lately about the way we look. We were feeling … frumpy. We wanted something fresh, something new, and came up with three possible visual themes to replace Artsemerging, the theme we’ve been using since the blog began ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/art-scatters-new-look-we-have-a-winner/ Here's a story about the playwright Horton Foote, told by his daughter Daisy Foote and reprinted in the program for Profile Theatre's new production of his play The Carpetbagger's Children, which opened Saturday night: A few years ago a playwright friend and I were having dinner with my father. My friend ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/watching-paint-dry-taking-my-foote-out-of-my-mouth/ Mr. Scatter understands an American football match of some importance is to take place this very afternoon. Squadrons from the midsized cities of Indianapolis, Indiana, and New Orleans, Louisiana will battle it out on a field called a gridiron to claim rights of municipal supremacy for the coming year. All very ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/a-gay-old-time-on-super-globe-sunday/ Thanks to Charles Noble, maestro of the terrific blog Noble Viola, and music writer extraordinaire Brett Campbell, for teaching Mr. Scatter how to take a screenshot on his Mac. (It's easy!) This allows us to show you samples of how Art Scatter would look using the Web themes Veryplaintext 3.0 ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/art-scatter-redesign-a-look-at-the-candidates/ Try as he might, Mr. Scatter can't figure out a good way to let you look at the three redesign possibilities we're considering for Art Scatter. Regulars Brett and Charles have both asked for such a thing, and it's not just a reasonable request, it's a no-brainer. Unfortunately Mr. Scatter's brain ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/art-scatter-new-looks-a-fuzzy-stab-at-comparison/ Chatting with a friend in the lobby of Keller Auditorium during halftime of Portland Opera's Cosi fan Tutte on Friday night, Mr. Scatter became aware of a controversy he hadn't realized existed. "Audiences tend to love this production," my friend, an exceptionally knowledgeable follower of the opera world, sighed. "And critics ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/this-cosi-is-a-farce-you-got-a-problem-with-that/ Call us vain, but here at Art Scatter World Headquarters we're still obsessing over the way we look. Does this typeface go with our headline style? Should we go Friday casual, sober-suited, country corduroy or maybe uptown funk? Do we want to look reliable, or available, or maybe flirtatious but with ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/art-scatters-new-look-variation-3/ Today in Scatterville we're taken with Dwight Garner's review in the New York Times of Tony Hoagland's new book of poetry, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty. For one thing, that's just a terrific title, even better than the review's zinger of a headline (based on a quoted poem set ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/friday-link-discovering-updike-country-in-verse/ As regular readers know, here at Art Scatter World Headquarters we're contemplating a visual overhaul. A facelift, if you will. A little cosmetic plastic surgery to bring the fresh bloom of youth back to our chubby literary cheeks. After an online lifetime of presenting ourselves in the guise of the Artsemerging Web ... http://www.artscatter.com/general/art-scatters-new-look-variation-2/