My friend Courtney was visiting from Detroit recently. I fell in love with her ‘61 Chevy.

Thought I would also include some pictures of the most handsome dog in the world.

Wink

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Tender Loving Empire gave 30+ Artists trucker hats to modify and embellish at will. Come see the fun, wearable art they came up with. Showing all through July at the Tender Loving Empire store in Portland. Show opens on July 1st (with an awesome fun first Thursday event) and runs through the end of the month!

412 SW 10th Ave
Portland, OR 97205
Opening Reception on July 1st from 6-10pm

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Check out Mike’s website www:http://paperprescriptions.com

Mike Kabler on The Programme

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Hello friends and neighbors,

As many of you know, I have just completed my first year at PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art). Next thing you know they will send a man to the moon!
It’s been a long, exhausting year but I’m eager to share with you my latest ideas about art.
I have a fun concept for a show. I will be presenting 20 new works. The pieces will start at $5. with each piece increasing in price by $5. increments. $5., $10., $15., $20, etc. with the most expensive piece in the show at $100. It’s a great opportunity for me to work out some new ideas for my September show at Someone Gallery (more on that later) and for y’all to pick up some awesome, inexpensive Mona Superhero originals!
Please join me at my favorite coffee shop Wired (2190 W Burnside, Portland, OR 97210) on Friday, June 4th 5-8pm. I look forward to seeing you!
I would also like to invite you to a unique art show and fundraising event to benefit
The ReBuilding Center. The event will feature a one of a kind piece by legendary
NW woodcarver LeRoy Setziol. In honor of this piece, 100 local artists (including yours truly) will be turning ReBuilding Center doors into works of art that will be auctioned at the event. Save the date and tell your friends! Saturday, June 19th 6-10pm at The Bison Building (419 NE Tenth Ave., Portland, OR 97232).
There will be local, organic food from Abby’s Table, live music, raffles, ReFind furniture, silent auction and other random entertainment. Hope to see you there!

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March 2 through March 25 at the Screaming Sky Gallery (1416 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR). Opening reception from 6-9pm Friday, March 4th.
A group show featuring five artists from PNCA; Anthony Hudson, Kathryn Knowlton, Morgan Murphey, Ashley Reather and Mona Superhero. In art school, time is your enemy. Deadlines loom ominously over the heads of student artists; our sleeping schedules warp, in turn twisting us into caffeinated, art-making zombies. The present becomes a battleground where we banish completed pieces to the past without a minute’s relief to stave off a new rush of incoming work. We are told to forget our pasts and the now-antiquated styles into which we’ve grown so that we may move forward into a new realm of artistic growth and true individuality. And when only one out of one-hundred students is said to make it in his or her chosen field, the future becomes even more uncertain – and exciting – than the already-chaotic present.
We are the future, but how do we fit into it? Future Was Here explores the past, present, and futures of five student artists, however we interpret each intertwining phase. We aim to offer our audience insight into the growth of not only artists but human beings, showcasing the universal experience of what it means to be a person inextricably caught in the vast and mutable web of time itself.

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Launch Pad Gallery & Portland City Art team up once again to bring you the Love Show, a huge open-call show about love of all types and shades, from romance to bromance, heart-ache to heartless to heartwarming, mysterious, delirious, deleterious, disappearing and reappearing, cheering, jeering and sneering- this show has room for your love or lack there of, because it’s not all pink hearts, chocolate and doilies. We’re honored to present the show at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center, where we will be sharing the love by collecting cans of food for the Oregon Food Bank at the opening and throughout month and donating 10% of our bar sales to American Red Cross Haiti Disaster Relief. We hope to see you there!
Opening reception for The Love Show is on Friday, February 12, 2010 at 7:00 pm. The show ends Friday, March 12, 2010 at 11:00 pm Free! All Ages! Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SE Washington East Portland, OR

Also this month:
There will be an opening reception for the Hey Girl at The Parlor Gallery on Saturday, February 6th from 7-11. 717 Cookman Ave., Asbury Park, NJ, 07712. (732) 869-0606. http://www.parlor-gallery.com Come experience the beauty and power of the Fairer Sex as portrayed by these amazing artists: Jason Kronenwald, Mona Superhero, Alison Brady, Pete Pederson, Ray Sell, Shawn Bishop -Leo, Kevin Peterson, Charmaine Olivia, Lisa Alisa, Maiko Sembokuya, Jeff Schaller, Billy Chuck, Porkchop and Charlie Owens.
As goddesses, seductresses, saints, sinners, and muses, the female has been a recurring subject in art for millennia. All of the artists in our new show create women in different media, ranging from tape to collage to paint to even bubblegum!

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A couple of reviews of my debut dj performance last night. Thank you to Alan Osborn, the mysterious person who left the note and everyone who came out.

“YOU’LL NEVER DJ IN THIS TOWN AGAIN!”

I can tell you the EXACT moment I fell in love with Mona Superhero. It was when she passed out bottles of bubble blowers (y’know, those little plastic bottles of soap that kids blow bubbles with) to the customers sitting around the rack at the Magic Gardens, then she went on stage and struck a pose from Botechelli’s, VENUS RISING and just stood there motionless while all these guys blew bubbles at her. I couldn’t tell you the name of the aria she was playing, but I do know art when I see it and this was sheer fucking genius; brilliant! At that moment I converted to being a huge Mona fan (and this is coming from someone who used to check the schedule and avoid going in the club when she worked because of her annoying attitude) and have followed her career ever since. So when I heard she was having her “DJ Debut” at Berbatis on Saturday I had to go check this out.

That being said, I was absolutely dreading the thought of being “The Weirdo Old Guy” at a dance club (hey, let’s see how cool YOU are at 47). I mean, even after taking away the icky-ness factor of being 47 and hanging around a bunch of club kids, the fact remains that I just don’t cotton to that techno stuff. But at the same time I knew that if I didn’t go I’d never forgive myself, so I took the MAX downtown knowing it was going to take a lot of alcohol to handle this scene and I didn’t need to be driving.

I got to the club before they opened and hung out for a while at the bar waiting for Mona to show up, but when 10:00 rolled around she still wasn’t there and some guy was setting up his sound check in the DJ booth. I asked the bartender if tonight was the night for Mona to DJ and she said, “Mona’s next door.” I didn’t understand and said, “Next door, but this is Berbati’s, isn’t it?” She said, “Next door, Mona’s not in the club, she’s DJ’ing the restaurant.” “THE WHAT?”, was all I could say. Sure enough, I go through the bar and tucked away in the front of the restaurant was Miss Mona (”Dressed in the height of fashion, O’ my brothers”) and concentrating feverishly on her laptop. The music started and almost instantly a bunch of lame-o’s with faux hawks and cheap cans of beer lined up to make requests, but Mona just shook her head and mouthed the words, “I don’t do requests”, and kept on dancin’ while keeping one eye on her computer screen.

Mona seemed to be having a lot of fun, and the people there were drinking their drinks and having a good time. I snapped a couple of pictures and said my goodbyes and left not knowing whether I’d ever see Mo’ again (we don’t exactly travel in the same circles). On the long, cold walk to the MAX line I thought about this town, this Portland, and how it attracts creative types of every stripe. This town, with its old brick and fucking endless rain, its dirty river and its ugly bridges. This town, built as it is on top of 150-years of shit and fornication. I thought about Portland, and I thought about Mona. Marcus Aurelius wrote, “If you’ve seen the present then you’ve seen everything - as it’s been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.” And I think that’s a fitting metaphor for Mona; she was cool back then, she’s cool now, and may it always be thus.

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