The nicely made video below shows just how powerful Nature can be sometimes, or as the kids say, “Damn Nature, You Scary!”

Sandy River Flood from alexandra erickson on Vimeo.

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All the folks here at Peterson’s would like to wish everyone a very happy New Year!

The dawn of a new year, the dawn of new days, across the world, in many different ways.

A gorgeous video put together by egawauemon.

The above video is embedded at 720p. If your bandwidth allows, choose 1080p after you click Play-(see below)

One block east from Peterson’s on Morrison, the former Carl Greve Jewelers Shop at 731 SW Morrison has been given new life and is now a very cool Contemporary Arts Space. We are humbled to have such talent in our proximity.

Shelby Davis & Crystal Schenk

Crystal Schenk and Shelby Davis, are both brilliant Contemporary Artists in my book.

Judge for yourself by checking out the following links.

http://www.crystalschenk.com/

http://arttalkam.blogspot.com/2008/09/shelby-davis.html

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/disjecta-grows-arms/Content?oid=2364020

http://portland2010.disjecta.org/

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Downtown Portland, Or. Tuesday, Nov. 9th, 2010 –

Portland Mayor Sam Adams kick-starts the Holiday Shopping Season in Downtown Portland with an unveiling at ‘Flurry’, one of five ‘Pop-Up’ Shops that will occupy previously vacant properties throughout the Holiday Season. We’re  hoping they have enough success to lay the groundwork in becoming permanent shopping destinations in the downtown retail core.

For more information on Portland’s Pop-Up Shops, CLICK HERE.

All the staff here at Peterson’s wish a hearty welcome to our new neighbors, two of which will be occupying stores on both sides of our Morrison store, Portland Design Collective (902 SW Morrison) and Downtown Artistry (940 SW Morrison) respectively.

Stay tuned for updates, photos, and video of all the exciting new Pop-Up Shops here in Downtown Portland!

Welcome to the neighborhood!

This is absolutely fantastic.

From the CreativeCares website:

CREATIVECARES & DAA JOIN FORCES FOR GOOD

Tue – 31 Aug Written by CreativeCares

CreativeCares and Disability Aid Abroad (DAA) will celebrate their partnership and local presence at an art exhibition and charity benefit at City Hall sponsored by City Commissioner Dan Saltzman on Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 5:30pm. The show will feature an installation of photos from a recent DAA project at the Mehayo Centre for Disabled Youth in Tanzania, as well as the release of the first CreativeCares Photobook from the trip, called “Changing The Face of Disability”. Both the book and the gallery-size photos will be on sale to benefit the CreativeCares mission.

Several local businesses such as Sol De Uco Winery, Red Bull,  & Carafe Restuarant will providing refreshments & Hors d’oeuvres  for the event.

“I hope this can be a night for people from all walks of life to come together and celebrate for a good cause,” said CreativeCares Founder Burk Jackson. “I think everyone will see how storytelling through photography can profoundly impact someone’s life, and that they will want to get involved.” It was that same realization that led Jackson to team up with DAA Founder John Coghlan in the first place. “After [Coghlan] told me about the [Mehayo Centre] and its challenges, I thought it would be a perfect scenario for CreativeCares to help them tell their story,” said Jackson.

Coghlan and Jackson traveled to Tanzania in June to document the lives of the disabled children living at Mehayo, many of whom have been abandoned at its gates due to social stigma. Jackson spent time deeply involved in the lives of the children, and the images he captured there will be on display in the Portland City Hall atrium from October 21st 29th, beginning with the charity benefit Thursday night.

Jackson founded CreativeCares to help non-profits find and use the skills of philanthropic members of the creative community to further their impact. CreativeCares and DAA will continue to work together for social change in Portland and around the world.

Release of Changing the Face of Disability photobook by Burk Jackson

USnaps photobooth

Wine provided by Sol de Uco

Beer provided by Widmer

Refreshments by Red Bull

Light bites by Carafe Bistro

http://www.disabilityaidabroad.org/

http://www.creativecares.org/

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Just for the heck of it, here are 3 FREE things going on in Portland between now and the end of this month.

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FREE MOVIE NIGHTS (thank you pdxpipeline-you guys rock!)

September 24: Portland Art Museum offers free admission on the fourth Friday of every month from 5-8 p.m.

September 29: On the last Wednesday of each month, Ground Kontrol sets all of their video games and pinball tables to FREE play!

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Denmark

directed by Daniel Fickle

music composed by Gideon Freudmann

music performed by Portland Cello Project

Denmark from Mark Smith on Vimeo.

portlandcelloproject.com

twopenguinsproductions.com

Portland Cello Project will be performing on September 11, 2010 during MusicFest NW, 11pm at Mississippi Studios located at 3939 North Mississippi Avenue Portland, OR 97227-1162.

Inspiring this is

PUSH PULL from Landis Fields on Vimeo.

Edit: Vimeo appears to be down at the moment of this writing. (8-12-10) 11 pm P.T.

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from rosefestival.org

Portland Rose Festival

2010 Collector’s Series

Portland Rose Festival Official Wine Sponsor.

To honor this years Portland Rose Festival, Oak Knoll Winery has released their Vintage 2008 Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris Wines.  Oak Knoll Winery has a great reputation amongst wine connoisseurs as evidenced by their many awards. Check out the bling on those wines below!  Peterson’s is proudly offering these fine Oak Knoll wines at all three Peterson’s locations.  We are offering the Pinot Gris for $13.99 a bottle and $18.99 for the Pinot Noir.

Here’s a link to OAK KNOLL WINERY’S website.

Punchin writes a nice article on Oak Knoll & this year’s wine selection at culinarygourmet’s website.

As for the Rose Festival, this year has gotten off to a bit of a wet start, but this is nothing new in the Rose City is it?

We have our fingers crossed that this years Rose Festival doesn’t get too wet or worse yet, have a repeat performance like 62 years ago. Below was the result.

Photo courtesy PortlandOnline

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I guess looking at peoples mugshots will always be popular.

pdxmugshots.com just got in the mix as well, and they’re link to us says we’re fun! Who knew?!

Check out the awesome slideshow by angus mcdiarmid below to see mugshots decades old now.

Here’s one below from 1904 via ancestry.co.uk

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