“Keep Portland Weird” is about supporting local Portland area businesses because they make Portland a unique place to live.
Read about “A Day in Portland”, by Terry Currier, President of Music Millennium, Burnside Records, and Burnside Distribution.
The Winter “Chill” has definitely arrived.
The creative minds over at CMD Agency have released a CD of Winter “chill” music. It features recordings (found sounds) from all over the Portland area, including The Saturday Market, The Timberline Lodge, The Grotto, Zoolights, The Christmas Tree lighting at Pioneer Courthouse Square, and others.
You can stream it, download it, or they’ll even send you a free cd.
Check it out here.
Q: How do you get the glass into the furnace?
A:This particular furnace is filled by shoveling it in. Paper bags are filled with solid chunks of glass and then those bags are shoveled in one at a time. The furnace is over 2200 degrees so the paper bag instantly catches fire and burns away. The glass chunks melt into molten glass in a big pot inside the furnace.
Q: What kind of glass is it?
A: It is a glass that is specially formulated for glassblowing.
Glass Blowers Local 503, a group of glass blowers from the Portland area joined together and re-opened the hot shop in the Artisans Village at the Oregon State Fair for the first time in 4 years. Check out an article in the Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon here. The members of Glass Blowers Local 503 are Elin Caughley, Zoe Bacon, Matt Clark, Lucy Blue Berger, and Jo-anna Horn.
Good music is what you need. Here’s some of what’s been keeping time for the creations at Elm City Hot Glass. Some of these artists are independent, including some locals from New Haven, Connecticut and Portland, Oregon.
Photo by L. Stahly
To see some photos of Elm City Hot Glass artist, Jo-anna Horn, making a vase, look here.
Photos by Sonny Johnson.
At 11,237 feet, Mt. Hood is the tallest mountain in Oregon. It is 45 miles east-southeast of Portland, Oregon and popular with skiers, snowboarders, hikers, and climbers.
Check out photos taken and submitted by some folks who live to enjoy the mountain. There are some snowboarding shots taken at Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort (Photos submitted by: Shannon Reddoch, Laura Davis, Matt Davis, and Brian Walsh). Pictures submitted by Steve Bernal document his climb up the Leuthold Couloir Route to the summit of Mt. Hood. There are also a few photos taken on hikes on the mountain including the lower part of Multnomah Falls. At 620 ft, Multnomah Falls is the second highest year round waterfall in the United States and Oregon’s #1 public destination.
Check out all the photos here.
