I wish there was more I could do to help is a work by artist Tori Abernathy opening tonight. America is anxious. We have prima face reason to be. But we also have a press-media that magnifies and falsely frames those reasons. I wish there was more I could do to help is here to help, in commenting on the situation from a creative viewpoint. Abernathy is one of Portland's finest experimental curators and operates in the social practice realm for her personal work. At the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite Littman Gallery, PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway 4PM-7
Cheyenne Sawyer opens a poppy show of etchings tonight. She is a tattoo artist at Atlas. Several Mississippi outlets are also launching a second Thursday art opening schedule. That includes Good, Paxton Gate, Black Wagon, Optik and Mississippi Chiropractic. At Albina Press, 4637 N. Albina Ave x Blandena Map 6PM-8
Paradoxically paired with the anxiety show is the Portland drone fly-in. These are the smiley, good drones though.
The Portland-Hood River area is drone central. Several major drone manufacturers are homed here producing maybe a half billion dollars worth of war drones yearly. The dream is a much larger domestic drone ecosystem and there is an effort underway to open up a large area of Eastern Oregon for test flights. Eventually we will work out regulations to prevent drones and commercial aircraft from colliding, drones colliding, and deal with drones and birds colliding. Only then will we realize the dream of autonomous fast food delivery to every home with drones.
Seriously, I have seen some beautiful video shot from quadracopters. See the shot from 1:23-1:29 in Finding Portland. And one person's drone is another's model airplane.
Portland's DIY drone builders and experimenters get together monthly to compare notes and coordinate radio control frequencies. Many of their drones have built from kits or customized. So they are probably a smart group of interesting people.
PDXdrones fly-in at Washington High School SE Stark and 12th 6PM-9
