SnowDays Video Benefit
Snowboard Video Event @ Nemo from Austin Will on Vimeo.
Nemo’s own Austin Will and our good pal Nick Lipton of YoBeat put together a sweet little video premier at studio nemo Saturday Nov. 15th. They showed Airblaster’s new film August, Team Thunder’s new movie Gold Country, and Leeward Cinemas’ My Own Two Feet and Isenseven’s “Teenage Love Graffiti.”
With beer courtesy of Nike Snowboarding and Isenseven…it was a great night, no fights, no vomit, tons of new faces, prizes, smiles, and redbull! check out the whole story @ yobeat.
Photographer of the Day
We haven’t posted a “Photographer of the Day” in a while, so it’s about time…
Michele Abeles’ work is a sultry, yet unnerving mixture of monumental nature, empty scenes and portraits. The Yale alum has been praised in recent years for incredible emerging works. The images leave you feeling like you’ve witness memories or echos of what has been, nostalgic and a little forlorn.
Nemo Featured in this month issues of PDN and Print!
Make sure to pick up this month Issue of both Print and PDN. Nemo and two of our employees are featured in Print Magazine for their regional design 08 issue, congrats Garth Weber and Justin Dickau! PDN Magazine did a write up on Nemodesign and Studio Nemo for their current issue. They chatted up Trevor Graves , Chris Hotz and Heather Hanrahan to get the scoop on the global design cult that is Nemo, be sure to pick them up if you see them on the rack! Click ahead to view pages from the mags!
NEMO FIRST FRIDAY ART SHOW “THANKSGIVING”
Thanksgiving
A GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT AND SILENT AUCTION
Thanksgiving is a group photography exhibit/silent auction. The exhibit is a free form salon style show. The photographers’ only direction was to photograph something or someone they are grateful for. Nemo is excited to welcome some incredible photographers who are donating their work in an effort to raise money for the Oregon Food Bank
Please join us for the silent auction, opening night, Friday, November 7th from 6-10pm. Every piece will be auctioned off at affordable prices, allowing people to own a piece of art and raise funds for a great cause at the same time.
Nemo Halloween Photobooth
Jonny Davenport and Jeff T did it again with their amazing photobooth. Check out all the great photos of halloween guests on our Flickr account here
2008 Nemo Halloween party
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- Michael Phelps as Justin Scott
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- Rolly Fingers as Adam
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- Jersey's Finest
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- Clown Down
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- DJ Joel Skool
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- Vana White
2008’s Studionemo’s Halloween extravaganza broke an all time attendance record. DJ Joel Skool, Brandon and Ned mixed the beats and when Thriller hit the airwaves, the crowd was all dancing. Costumes at the Nemo event were amazing and creative. check out the party pictures on our Flickr account.
Smashed for a good cause…. Bid on Ebay
We are selling off TG’s masterpiece, the hammered G10 on Ebay. All proceeds go to Boarding for Breast Cancer. Own a piece of history! click here
The agency for me?
As a photographer I judge agency’s on the works and skills of their selected artists. Santucci & Co who just launched their new site, have some excellent photographers. However, they don’t seem much different than your average agency. Their selection of photographers have a well connected yet individual (artsy) ascetic but not one of them really stands out in my mind as an artist I’d admire. Yet. If i wasn’t living it up here in the heart of Portland and this oasis we call studionemo I’d sign with MS Logan in a heart beat. I am whole heartedly an inspired admirer of every photographer they rep. Santucci & Co falls just short of that edgy and hip agency they undoubtedly aspire to be. I was shocked to see that they aren’t even representing the best photographer on their site. Her name is Flora Hanitijo and she is in the emerging talent section of the site. Check out her personal site shes pretty amazing.
Banksy new work
When I was in NY last, I picked up a book for TG on Banksy’s art. His street art is really amazing, but this newest venture may take the cake. It’s so bizarre!!! The “Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill” is a tiny storefront that opened without notice or fanfare in NY. It has drawn confused crowed to its “animals” displays such as chicken mcnuggets, drinking from a communal bbq sauce, hot dogs under heat lamps in aquariums, and a leopard in a tree. Read more about it at the Wooster Collective or check out the photos and video below…
Happy Birthday Universal Declaration of Human Rights
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cool Hunting’s Seth Brau recently brought the words to life with motion graphics. The Declaration was written by Eleanor Roosevelt 60 years ago. It’s nice to see such an important piece of work reinvigorated by technology. And it’s a nice reminder that leaders of our country were once useful and smart.
Kenny Bloggins is back!
Josh Letchworth has recently revived his blog and it’s worth a read. He also has a great photo submission thing going. Check it out here…
Badass Portrait photo of the day…
A photo of one of my favorite people by one of my favorite photographers, Cass Bird. The bird is the word!
What is it?!?! StudioNemo recives a surprise from Nate Silverstein.
Nate Silverstein is a Nemo alum and was an assistant to Trevor Graves back in the day. While I have met him once before when he visited nemo, I don’t really know Nate well enough to tell you something interesting about him. So I enlisted the help of my co-worker Kari Rowe who has known and worked with Nate since Nemo’s early days, this is what she had to say. ” Nate? He is a crazy motherf*#@*r. He’s one of the most creative people I’ve met. He recently moved back to Portland from NY with his girlfriend… Oh! I guess when he was in NY he took a break from photography and started taping pens to the bottoms of canes and would draw pictures with it. (uncontrollable laughter)” With that being said, Nate dropped off a surprise the other day. He gave Nemo a copy of three photo books that he published. Very interesting imagery and original presentation for each series. The books include: Deep Freeze, Mary Please, and Polaroid IV.
p.s. Along with the packaging looking like Nate skinned a muppet, one of the books comes packaged in a faux bag of grass… Genius!
Nate Silverstein from alex mertz on Vimeo.
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First Friday Nemo Art Show
We are so excited to have Nemo’s own Shauna Haider showing this month. Her blog Nubbytwiglet.com says it all. She’s sleek, smart, talented, dark and driven. You’ll love her and her work. Come by and check her out this Friday, October 3rd, at 1875 SE Belmont from 6pm to 10pm.
Photo Diary…
Photographer Theodora Allen does interesting photo diaries of people she knows and places she visits. It’s a great way to document feelings and experiences beyond words. They’re quite beautiful. Enjoy!
Solid Gold Prom! Party with a purpose.
Put on your 80s gear and come dance with us this saturday! RSVP to careyg@nemodesign.com!
And some video for your pleasure…
I was able to sneak a little video in. Enjoy! -hh
THE WEEPING SONG from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Love Letter by Nick Cave from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Goldmine Shithouse in SF
A good friend of Nemo’s, Mr. Jonny Fenix, is a part time collaborator in the art collective Goldmine Shithouse. They get together once in a while and spend a week or two in a debaucherous art-making mode, then have an exhibit. Their latest exhibit, Russian Reduction, happened last week in SF and it sounds like it went very well. Enjoy the pictures and watch the making of Carny Hands.
The Continental Crawler… part 3
They’re almost here….
The Continental Crawler: Episode Three from Michael Cogliantry on Vimeo.
I love, love, love, the cheese curd taste test!
Photographer of the day….
Ofer Wolberger is a photographer out of New York and a great blogger (read Horses Think). I really like his work. He has beautiful cityscapes, but I mostly like his work because of his portrayal of spacial relations. Hi work interestingly portrays an object in relation to another object, or in relation to its particular placement, and occasionally he will encorporate a person into his work and the gesticulate towards their place within a space. The work goes beyond place though, it’s a portrayal of the object or person in relation to nature, power, etc. Not necessarily as a dichotomy, but showing multiple relations that exist within one frame. Check him out here….
Glass Candy at StudioNemo…
M-Eyes took these beautiful photos of Glass Candy at the Studio.
While you were sleeping by Plain T
Things got sweet last night at Nemo Design when Glass Candy made a special appearance on stage in Studio Nemo. Ida No and Johnny Jewel rocked a crowd of nearly 300 sweaty Portlanders till late in the night, and stayed after to dance. Here are a few pics of what went down, the rest of the party shots are soon to come, so stay tuned!
Lucky you…
So, here’s a little secret (maybe not too much of a secret)… I’m a big nerd. I am into psychoanalytic theory, in particular, trauma and affect theory. I have to say it comes in very handy as a lens with which to view the art and photography I write about on this site. And, if you’re a nerd like me and you’re in the UK right now, you are in luck! You have just a few short days to get to the Camden Arts Centre to view the infamous Chantal Ackerman’s latest installations. She is showing To Walk Next to one’s shoelaces in an Empty Fridge (2004), that she created based on her grandmother’s diaries of the holocaust. What interests me most about this work is her ability to simultaneously present the cathartic telling and witnessing of that traumatic experience in the same frame. She does this by splitting the frame and in one she and her mother read the diary at the kitchen table, while in the other, a reenactment of what they are reading occurs. Visually it represents the fracture that occurs in the psyche after a traumatic experience and on a deeper level, how it effects the generations to come.
Now that’s growth
One of our many radical clients, Skull Candy received a well earned write up in this months Inc. magazine! They are number 31 of the 500 fastest growing private companies this year! Skull Candy’s bread and butter is audio head phones, but their market definitely focuses on the action sports world, and they sponsor a number of pro riders. Participating in our clients success weather large or small is always what we are after. Congrats Skull Candy!