It’s an exciting time to be a Death Grips fan. Just under a year after the release of their avant-thrashing, cyber-punk double album The Powers That B, the infamous trio have announced a new album in the works titled, Bottomless Pit and just shared “Hot Head,” the fiery new song expected to be on this album. What are …
Author Archives: Estevan Munoz
What is Love.
What is Love is a short experimental video, aural-optical excursion into several anonymous figures’ thoughts on the grand topic of Love. Please enjoy this token of appreciation for the people in our lives on this holiday season. May we celebrate what has been given to us. Estevan thanks KP, RW, and the facilities of Portland Community Media. THRU …
A Bizarre Holiday
The Cinema Project screened two hyper-hypnotic and abstract films last weekend — the aural-optical dreamy kaleidoscopic Chumlum and the similarly psychedelic, dissociating yet relatively graspable Christmas on Earth. It was an off-beat celebration of the season, as both proved to be exemplary works for the volunteer-driven film collective which continues to unwrap the genre of avant-garde cinema for anyone …
Smooth and Jazzy Sonics
Photo Credit: Amani Wade Listening to Swap Meet Vol. 2, released this month on Proximal Records. For a mixtape described as the result of “sketches, procrastinations, accidents and lazy afternoons,” by producers Wake and Sahy Uhns of Proximal Records, Swap Meet Vol. 2 is a surprisingly potent and satisfying collection of eclectic beats from start to finish. …
Ominous Om´s and Hellish Horseheads
You know you’ve found yourself at an absurdly deranged theater show when during the performance you begin silently scribbling to yourself the following; …
Waiting for, well, Whatever You Want to Be…
Death comes to us all. Tragically, for some, that dreaded expiration date is sooner than later. However low this indefatigable cloud of doom hangs over our life journey is irrelevant because there is a bright, guiding North star shining through for humanity. We, as individuals, posses a certain level of control over our lives. That …
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Astronaut Austin
Astronaut Austin was in over his head. He didn’t quite know it at the time, as his ethereal and cosmological voyage was just beginning, but to see this fresh-faced, possibly-pretentious young man consciously enter a reality where it would unknowingly but unapologetically question any and all realities, it was frankly heartbreaking and even a bit …
Reflections of Donovan M. Smith
Young creative entrepreneur talks about his provocative clothing line and his hometown of Portland. The first time I met Donovan Mickey Smith was on a late-night Tri-Met city bus heading north to Lombard Street. Before him and I got to talking, I dropped in on a conversation he was having with a fellow passenger, an …
Obsession with The Master
How I discovered film and its American guru. My first exposure to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson occurred when I was in 7th grade, although I did not actually see one. It was at the local dollar theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a beloved spot, but tragically financially challenged. My brother Nicholas went to see …