Andy Batt’s Portraits Of The World Famous March Fourth Marching Band.
Nemo Design presents Andy Batt’s Portraits of The World Famous March Fourth Marching Band photography exhibit opening on Friday, April 04, 2008. Please join us on April 4th from 6PM - 10PM for the opening. Beer and wine will be available. The show will then run through Tuesday, April 28, 2008 at Nemo Design: 1875 SE Belmont Street in Portland, OR.
Andy Batt first photographed the March Fourth Marching Band for Portland Monthly in 2006. Over the past couple years, Batt has done portraiture work of the band, emphasizing their unique personalities and graphic qualities. Batt has chosen 70 of his black and white portraits to display for the show.Andy Batt is a commercial photographer whose work centers around people photography - quirky lifestyle work and moody action photography of athletes and dancers. Andy graduated from the Rochester Instituted of Technology with a BFA in photography, and has been in the commercial photography world ever since. Andy has been featured in Communication Arts and STEP Inside Design Magazines, awarded for his photography by PDN and the International Photography Awards competition, has been interviewed for articles for Rangefinder Magazine, Photo Media, & the National ASMP Bulletin. Andy is currently Co-President of the ASMP Oregon chapter, and is a member of EP.
March Fourth will be doing a three-month run at the newly refurbished Bossanova Ballroom on the first Friday of April, May, and June. They will appear with special guest bands, performers, and DJs to create an unforgettable bonanza of fun. March Fourth will be donating the proceeds of each show to benefit some of their favorite organizations, projects, and bands.
What: A night with 500+ friends - and soon-to-be-your-new friends..
Where: Nemo Design Warehouse, Belmont St, Portland, Or.
When: Saturday, March 22nd. Doors at 8:00PM, runs v. late
Price: Free with your stacks of social caché…
Drinks: Yes, 21+ only please
Who: Your 33 Black Angels, DJ Izm and Easter Egg
Why: Why not?
RSVP: yes, you must as this event is invite-only. Send an email to mailto:careyg@nemodesign.com by noon on MARCH 21st and let us know if it is for yourself or for you plus a guest. Your name will then be on the door and your social cash account will have some extra pennies in it.
In 2007 we had many fun parties and this is the first in a series of events and parties for 2008. For more details about Nemo Design and our location visit our Facebook Group
Yr 33 Black Angels press blurbs -
Limited-Edition Pleasure
This spring, the New York band Your 33 Black Angels quietly released one of this year’s treasures: Lonely Street (no label), in a numbered vinyl-only edition of 250 (I’ve got number nineteen). The LP is worth the hunt for its pop-wise rattle (Pavement with a case of the Strokes) and singer Josh Westfal’s resemblance, in dry, frank voice and cautious optimism, to another local institution: Lou Reed on the Velvet Underground’s fourth album, Loaded. By David Fricke - Rolling Stone.
A few things you should know about Your 33 Black Angels: (1) They hail from Brooklyn; don’t confuse ’em with Austin’s Black Angels. (2) They are nominally “indie rock,” but with a twist, because, for every quirky Pavement-y twist or lo-fi GBV-ism, there’s a corresponding Velvet Underground choogle and burst of Yo La Tengo luminosity—in fact, songwriter Josh Westfal’s fragile-but-friendly vocals recall YLT’s Ira Kaplan’s. (3) From strummy/twangy “This Is the Road…” and gangly power-popper “Once I Dreamed the Future” to the twisted, Ween-like funk of “Sue” and the outrageous geek anthemry of “Psycho on Your Side” there’s not a wasted—or repeated—move here. (4) Y33BA initially released Lonely Street last spring in a ridiculously limited vinyl edition of 250; only much later did they think to have CDs manufactured to meet the growing demand. (5) Lonely Street was the only 2007 release for which HARP personally called up the band and pleaded for a review copy—such was the street buzz on it. Guess what? That buzz was dead-on. By Fred Mills - Harp Magazine
If we all had but half the energy and the guest list grabbing ability of Nilina we’d have twice the content on the Portland blogs. Hit up her Flickr site for more SXSW photo love….
Alan Singley and the Pants Machine perfome “Highway of Our Minds”
The Someday Lounge and Backspace Presents A Benefit for Basic Rights Oregon featuring:
ALAN SINGLEY AND PANTS MACHINE
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN
SWIM SWAM SWUM
THE VONNEGUTS
PALO VERDE and
GREGORY MILES HARRIS
HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD
HEY LOVER
WORLD’S GREATEST GHOSTS
SLEEPYHEAD
DIRTY MITTENS and
ALMOST NEARLY
Someday Lounge is 21+, Backspace = ALL AGES
7pm, $7-$12 sliding scale at the door
Founded in 1996, Basic Rights Oregon (BRO) is the state’s chief advocacy, education and political organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. With twelve full time staff plus a contract lobbyist, three offices around the state, more than 10,000 active contributors and 5,000 active volunteers, Basic Rights Oregon is a formidable force in Oregon. BRO has built a diverse movement made up of GLBT folks, straight-allies, rural and urban Oregonians, business leaders, clergy, elected officials, educators, parents and more as well as coalition partners in labor, healthcare, reproductive choice, civil liberties and racial justice organizations. The organization and Oregon’s LGBT community have a history of waging large-scale statewide ballot measure campaigns. We beat back anti-gay ballot measures in 1992, 1994 and 2000. And in 2004, Oregon came the closest of any state to defeating a marriage amendment.
