The Pioneer Log, March 18, 2011

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Living Rheum
Student band Living Rheum plays The Sea Shanty as part of the Gathering of the Goof Punx music festival
BY ZIBBY PILLOTE
Arts Editor

Photo of the Week

Margo Conner (12)
Much of Margos photography captures moments of everyday lifesnapshots of chopped vegetables and deserted roads blanketed in snow, strangers gazing into vast equariums and portraits of miniature toys. Everyday or otherwise, what many of her photos have in common is their ability to evoke a sense of profound tranquility, and this particular photograph is of no exception. The hands unusual posture in conformance with the pear it holds is almost meditative, standing against a background free of noise or context. Sure, its just a hand holding a piece of fruit, but with the photos intentional focus and composition, it precisely such simplicity that makes it powerful. NATALIE BAKER
Editor in Chief

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Arts 9

This weekend, Portland honors DIY folk punk with the Gathering of the Goof Punx, which features a slew of local bands. Lewis & Clark band Living Rheum will join the fun Saturday night at The Sea Shanty along with Iraqasaurus, Andrew Link & The Foreman Grilles, Lee Corey Oswald, Angries, Hail Seizures, AUTRY!, Foot Ox and Nymphobraniacs & Company. Living Rheum is made up of Jon Satin (13), Dan Byers (13), Ian Wollman (13), Daniel Nickerson (14), Daniela Jimenez (14), Oshi Wills (14), Ian Griffith (14) and Kyle Moderhak (non-student). The band combines accordion, stand-up bass, brass, violin, banjo, guitar and other elements, creating a unique style of folk punk. For lack of better words, I guess we play folk punk or goof punk or something, whatever it is. We like having fun, having sing-alongs, and I intend to be able to crowd surf during my set at some point its a

ILLUSTRATION BY ZIBBY PILLOTE

BY KEVIN MUHITCH
Staff Writer

Portland in the palm of your hand

For lack of better words, I guess we play folk punk or goof punk or something.
goal of mine, said Satin. Satin started Living Rheum while attending college in South Carolina, and the band has had over 45 members since that time. As of now, the band has a limited amount of music available for listening on last.fm, myspace and bandcamp, but hope to have their first full-length album available for sale at the Goof Punx show. The music is lyrical, fun and definitely catchy. I never want to stop playing music and being part of the DIY and punk community, said Satin. Its a really nurturing community to be in. I couldnt have picked a better one if I even had the choice. The night is bound to be a nonstop goofy folk party. Even with eight bands playing over the course of four hours, your ears wont want a break. Come support your talented peers who, according to Satin, are concerned with friends, not fans. Who needs those? Saturday, Mar. 12, 7 p.m., The Sea Shanty, 2419 N Russet, free.

The Newspace Center for Photography exhibit iPortland features photos exclusively taken on an iPhone.

PHOTO BY ANNIE BOURKE

BY DREW LENIHAN
Staff Writer

The newest artistic tool is now in your pocket; it could be a phone call from your mom or it could be a digital camera. This past week, a new show opened at Newspace Center for Photography called iPortland. The show, which is set to run until Mar. 24, involves the work of eight local photographers, all of whom were given one parameter by the shows curator, photographer Jan Sonnenmair. The sole rule of the show is that only iPhone cameras cam be used. The images found in the gallery

exhibit are surprisingly stunning and look like authentic analog prints. It is as if the photographers were emulating the traditional process while simultaneously taking a huge shortcut in the accessibility and convenience of an iPhone. As a whole, the photos main focus is the photographers families and familiar landmarks around the Rose City. You will notice in the exhibition things you might see every day as you travel through Portland. Structures and details of the everyday now become graphic and mysterious, said Sonnenmair in one press release. This mysterious aesthetic was achieved through the numerous

photography apps that are available for the iPhone, including some of the most popular photo add-ons: Shake-it Photo, Tilt Shift Generator and Hipstamatic. The effect of these apps moves away from the notion that they were effortlessly taken on an iPhone and give them a much more warm and familiar feel. The show succeeds at creating a dialogue about the union of art and communication in the interfaces of modern technology. Whether or not this meshing is successful is up to viewers like you. New Space Center for Photography is at 1632 SE 10th Ave. Visit their website: newspacephoto.org.

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Cassettes, the original purveyor of music trading culture, the precursor to CDs (the rich mans 8-track) and the Internet, allowed people to copy their favorite tunes and easily swap them with their friends. Whether it was a mix or a Grateful Dead bootleg, tapes have been an important part of musical history. While cassettes dont exactly offer audiophile sound quality, the medium has monumental importance. Cassettes gave people the freedom to copy and trade music on their own for the first time, and in turn allowed musicians to cheaply copy and distribute their own music for the first time. Now, nearly 35 years past the initial popularity of cassettes, there is a resurgence of musicians releasing their music on the dead medium. Though some find this medium of recording restrictive, cassettes are tradable, and the lack of a skip button forces the listener to appreciate the work in its full form instead of song by song, something that many are now accustomed to. Portland has placed itself at the height of this resurgence with a wealth of tape labels actively releasing music from all across the spectrum. To start, Eggy Records has been a major center for cassette culture in Portland. Eggys releases are all over the place, spanning from experimental to pop. All Eggy tapes are beautifully issued with silkscreened covers. Stunned Records moved from Long Beach, CA to Portland this past year and has quickly established itself amongst the most important labels in Portland. Featuring dubbed out jammers Edibles, synth-monger High Wolf and the psychedelic experimentations of Plankton Wat, Stunned is helping to document Portlands far out experimental music. Hate music made in studios? Portland has its own tape label dedicated to releasing live recordings. UHU tapes was inspired by an affection for live sound and a frustration with the lack of energy inside of studio made music. UHUs pressings are very small, usually around 50 tapes, so snatch them up whenever you see them. Theyre full of energy and dubbed by hand. The curiously named Karamazov Tapes is a collection of the weird. While most of its bands do not hail from our city, it releases extraordinarily interesting music. Much of it is long form and heavily experimental, often featuring floating synths or swirling dubbed-out saxophone lines. Tapes are a symbol of music trading culture, and lets be honest: when your hard drive dies, what will you ever have to show for those 70,000 songs you downloaded?