If you’re in LA…
Our friend and incredible artist, Jonny Fenix is showing in LA. The opening was last Saturday at the 6th street warehouse. Maybe you can still see his work alongside work by Shepard Fairey, Travis Millard, Jason Lee, Tobin Yelland and many more…
Kevin Pearce Injury Update
NBC’s Tom Brokaw visits the family of Kevin Pearce, he talks with KP’s amazing family about his olympic dreams, snowboaarding and the severe head injury he sustained during his training. It will be a long road to full recovery for our dear friend but we have confidence he will make it. Our thoughts are with you KP! Get better soon!
Photo By Kari Rowe
Cole’s exploding!
Our awesome friend, Cole Barash, has done it again. I am impressed, not only by his amazing photography, but also by his ever evolving level of production. Cole has never been one to shy away from BIG ideas. At 21, he is simply the best snowboard photographer shooting. I think he’s ready to break that mold, now. Enjoy this behind the scenes video from his latest antics… (at my home mountain, none the less)
The future of design…
The future of design lies in an incredibly smart woman Neri Oxman. Her education led her from a degree in medicine, to a degree from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before enrolling in the PhD program in design computation at MIT. Her work focuses on “living-synthetic constructions.” It is the fusion of art, science, and biology, creating useful objects that respond like living organisms. MoMA, exhibited a series of hive-like sculptures that respond to light, heat, and weight behaving living tissue. These sculptures could be the beginning of green building in the future. Oxman’s dream is to create a design studio full of scientists who think of science like art.
I Am Snowboarding – PORTLAND
Jan. 08, 2010
Nemo welcomes the Jeff Anderson Memorial show “I Am Snowboarding” to Portland! Over 500 friends came to view the art and listen to DJ JOELSKOOL and snowboard legends, Jamie Lynn’s band, Kandi Coded.
CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE ON FLICKR.
THE ART
Snowboarding being the youngest of the core sports (surf, skate,snow) the maturation of the art has prgressed in this show to strat to play along side the older siblings. Mark Gonzales has grown from a pro skateboarder to being a contemporary artist. Snowboarding artist are getting there. Mike Parillo’s sophistication with his strokes, Michael Jager has been part of the XBox brand building, and Kevin Zacher has branched out of snowboarding to having commercial success as a photographer. I look forward to where Ryno, Lenhardt and Haynes will take their craft.
THE COMMUNITY
Jeff’’s be gone for 7 years now and many of the folks in the space never had the pleasure of meeting him. The early memorials of Jeff were with close family and friends. What is so interesting is how the positive energy of that groups love and sincere missing their friend has resonated for years and even into other countries. “Newsweek” writer Ken Auchincloss calls this “event grief,” in which “emotion is the glue that fastens people to an event played out in the papers or on television. Emotions of this sort hardly count as feelings at all; they’re a form of participation. They’re like screams at a pop concert, which don’t signify love or even admiration but just exuberance at being part of the show.” In our often-isolating society, joining others to mourn for a stranger helps people feel connected, part of a larger community and a simple reason for being.
There was a honest sense of community that resonated in the studio, in a small way, bonded the group, just for a few hours. Carpe diem.
THE GODFATHER
I am SNOWBOARDING at studionemo
Kari and Todd prepare the Jeff Anderson show
Jan. 08, 2010
In honor of Jeff’s 30th birthday and to raise money for the JLA Memorial Fund, a group of world-renowned photographers and artists, friends of Jeff and of snowboarding have come together to create a unparalleled body of work titled, I AM SNOWBOARDING. View and purchase prints CLICK HERE!
One photographer is paired with one artist to create an original 30” x 40” piece. A photo of Jeff, shot by the photographer, has been enlarged onto archival canvas upon which the artist paints or uses any medium to create a unique collaborative work.
The resulting pieces are one of a kind, the partnerships formed in this project a tribute to the depth of the snowboarding, skateboarding and art communities. Portland’s got its pride with contributions from Jeff Curtes, Tim Zimmerman, Chris Brunkhart, Matt Donahue, Chris Owen, and Trevor Graves.
Photographer – Artist
Danny Zapalac – Bryan Iguchi
Cheyenne Ellis – Matty Thompson
Chris Brunkhart – Matt Donahue
Jane Baer – Mark Gonzales
Tim Zimmerman – Mike Parillo
Jared Eberhardt – Michael Jager
Jane Baer – Jamie Lynn
Billy Anderson – RYNo
Shem Roose – Scott Lenhardt
Patrice Miller – Dustin del Giudice
Jeff Curtes – Nick Russian
Todd Hazeltine – 2jaws
Ryan Boyes – Ben Brough
Dean “Blotto” Gray – Shane Charlebois
Jane Baer – Devon Weniger
Stan Evans – Robert “Sticky” Shaw
Jamie Mosberg – Jojo Whitmarsh
Trevor Graves – Adam Haynes
Chris Owen – Tyler Lepore
MMSA/Steven Brown – Stormriders crew
Billy Anderson – Jamie Heinrich
Kevin Zacher – Ethan Anderson
Nemo Tours are the BEST
PSU’s Graphic Design class will be gracing Nemo’s halls again this year and boy are they excited. I guess we will need to step it up…
HAPPY NEW YEAR
We welcome 2010 and promise to have regular and rad posts. Hope you all have a fruitful year.
xoxo
Team Nemo
Behind the Scene with Cole Barash
Cole Barash on location at Mammoth
Nemo on ESPN
ESPN tapped Bryce Kanights for an interview recently. In addition to the interview they contacted Nemo for our rad “A day with Bryce Kanights” videos that our own Austin Will put together. Check out the article here. Good work crew!
What have our friends been up to????
Just and update on some Studio Nemo friends…
Michael Cogliantry graced the cover of Reader’s Digest. Doesn’t get any better than national coverage holding the word dumbest in your hands… So FUNNY!
Also, he’s been working very hard on his Continental Crawler episodes. Somebody sponsor this man!!! If you haven’t seen them, here is one of my favorites…
The Continental Crawler – Episode 3 from Michael Cogliantry on Vimeo.
The lovely Ms. Danielle Levitt recently joined the ranks on twitter. Which, call my old fashioned, I can’t stand (twitter that is)- but, her posts make me laugh and laugh and laugh!
Benji Wagner made a pretty movie for a small handmade bicycle company here in Portland. Enjoy!
Signal Cycles Cyclocross from Benji Wagner on Vimeo.
Photographer Pieter Hugo
The work of Pieter Hugo’s series….RWANDA 2004: VESTIGES OF A GENOCIDE is a collection of haunting images that will stick with you for a lifetime. He shows the heartache, pain and brutality of the genocide without showing the unberible gruesome blood and terror. His images leave the mind to gather the facts we know and make the images stick with us all on a heartwrenching individual level.
Proud to present….
Here at Studio Nemo we are proud, proud, proud to present the work we’ve been doing over the summer months. I travelled with an amazing crew of Nemo, Nike and Selby folks to NYC, New Jersey, Duluth, Tahiti, Florida and Georgia to capture this year’s Nike 6.0 apparel campaign on film. Todd Selby has incredible style and was great at getting Nike 6.0’s athletes to take us deeper into their everyday lives. Thank you to everyone who was involved. Check out The Selby and his post about the shoots. It’s amazing- Videos, interviews and photos from all the athletes.
Think Thank Premiere
Think Thank you Mertzy for the video!
Think Thank’s “Cool Story” Seattle Premiere from alex mertz on Vimeo.
Art show tonight! Don’t miss it!
The unbelievable duo that is N + A will exhibit their installations and launch their latest books this evening at Nemo Design. Come by, have a drink and be amazed.
MFNW is amazing!
If you haven’t already partaken of the festivities the past two days, start now and don’t stop! MFNW is killing it. I saw one of the best shows of my life last night. The Dirty Three played an amazing show. I’m convinced that Warren Ellis, Jim White, and Mick Turner are the holy trinity. It was incredible. I didn’t have my camera so I’m going to share some lovely photos from Green Man blog that capture the ball of energy that is Warren Ellis.
Tonight Pink Mountaintops!!!!!!!!!! I won’t forget the camera.
Nemo Gallery Shows Trending Rock Art
Two of our lovely artists from previous show are featuring their work on album covers this month!
Jonny Fenix, lent not only the name of his art show (Time for Lions), but his talented hand to the new Stars of Track and Field album and website.
And…
Justin Vernon, best known as Bon Iver, has a new side project called Volcano Choir (that’s fantastic!) and the cover of that album features artwork by last September’s artist Adrienne Deboer.
Both are really fantastic! Great job guys.
It Might Get Loud, In theaters now!
On a lighter note than this morning’s post….for those of us who love guitar and guys who rip on them!
Conceived by producer Thomas Tull, Guggenheim’s It Might Get Loud follows three legends of the electric guitar—Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), The Edge (U2), and Jack White (White Stripes, The Raconteurs)—concentrating on their personal stories and how each developed their own unique style.
A little bit of fashion
When i was little i used to dream of the day i would shoot glamorous fashion photos and show the world true beauty, forcing my sisters into what ever outfit i deemed worthy of my next shoot. By the age of 16 i realized what i was looking at and aspiring to create was in fact a collaboration of fabricated body shapes, eating disorders and serious airbrushing.
But sometimes what we know isn’t real makes us even a little more interested. I’ve been perusing some fashion photos and found some I actually wanted to share!
Crystal Sewage
The site English Russia has some amazing photos of crystals, stalactites and stalagmites growing in the sewers there. Beautiful, disgusting, crazy and fantastic all at once. Vodka does wondrous things. 
First Friday Art Show- Rooted in Stars and Magic
Come by this first friday from 6-10 pm and have a drink with us while we enjoy being Rooted in Stars and Magic. Jesse Reno’s abundance of work will fill the halls.
101 Billionaires
I received my new copy of Aperture today and was struck by a series of photographs the presented from Rob Hornstra. The series precipitated from a an article the Dutch photographer read about Russia’s super rich. Horstra traveled to the peripheral towns untouched by such proseperity and explored the limited choices most people in Russia are facing. His rich work captures tensions between past and present amongst a crumbling nationalist landscape.