Yeah…….I’m suffering from super site ADD and I’m actively mucking with the site. Don’t be alarmed.

Next week I’m planning on fleshing out a lot of the changes and also ADDING NEW CONTENT.

“Admire Me With Purpose”, a rolling tour of the Portland Center Stage Armory renovation.

Written by Kathy Budas
Directed by Josh Oakhurst

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- QuickTime (nice)
- YouTube (ehhh…)

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I previously posted a small photo tour of the Armory, here.

More JO SPEC action - hitting it with a greenscreen this time. ???? Details soon.

The bus is extra crowded these days. Today I got on and drifted toward the rear. A waifish 50 yearly-old man hogging two seats in the back sat firmly clutched to his nap sack. I couldn’t help but stare at his eyebrows – they were longer and curlier than any pubic hair ever abandoned on a football stadium urinal cake anywhere. His eyebrows were so long they touched his ears. I’m serious. How does this happen?

Amazing.

He got off at the next stop.

As I took one of his seats, I noticed the grey “sensitive ponytail” woefully tucked up in his baseball cap. He seemed like a nice enough guy.

“What use?” I wonder.

Does he enjoy the soft hair in his face at night? Is this a request of a current girlfriend? A former girlfriend? I get the sense he never takes it down – like its always left in the generic rubber band he keeps it in. If it is always behind his head, what purpose does it serve?

This is not to say that I come from a camp where one’s hair mandates purpose. But dude’s ponytail looks ridiculous. I bet he’s even a well-regarded chap – but simply known as “Sensitive Ponytail Stan,” or something.

Stan, you deserve better.

Guess what kind of mood I’m in? Answer: I’ve got a cold

Despite the foul smell on this bus (and every bus I seem to ride), I know the sickness surrounding me is not the source of my contamination. It was the well-to-do folks I was forced to film over the weekend. Those well-to-do’s and all their self-important generosity.

It was a fund-raising event.

Someone coughed on my stolen chocolate truffle. Maybe it was the champagne glass - I’m not sure.

I wish my face would stop leaking. I feel fine, really.

In a past life, I thought I wanted to be an architect. Then came Advanced Calc and the realization that 95% of all architects design shitty tract housing on the fringes of contemporary sanity. Although I’ve chosen a different and happier career path, I still have this inner aesthetic nerd inside who breaks all environments into the precise LEGO blocks they could be reconstructed with.

This post isn’t really fair because all I’m doing here is showing some photos I took of a beautiful building. There is so much to tell about what I’ve been up to (commerce wise), but honestly, I just feel like a lot of it is trite and boring.

What follows are images of a beautifully LEED restored building which houses Portland Center Stage (Portland, Oregon’s lead theatre company).

Without a doubt, this is one of the coolest built environments I’ve ever stepped foot in. Continuing a Portland staple, the building is as green as it gets - recycled rain water, efficient air distribution, low power use, natural lighting, local materials, low toxicity construction - absolutely fabulous.

In the upcoming months, I hope to show off many more of the cool aspects of this building via moving image (a video tour and history of sorts). The video tour is actually part of my reason for conducting commerce here.

I took all of these pics with a borrowed Nikon D70.