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I did not see coming my emerging dub music fandom, but a radio show on KMHD called Homeward Bound has hooked me. youtu.be/WeZe-aUB6VE?...

Tommy McCook - Jamaica BoleroYouTube video by dubkarlosyoutu.be

The wide shot in the post below occurs right before my all-time favorite moment in Columbo, and its most cinematic: the reflections in Robert Culp's eyeglasses show in flash-forward montage how he will dispose of the body of the woman he has just killed.

Peek-a-boo from Jenny’s activity tent.

On my last Portland Art Museum visit, a handful of works caused me to linger for long stretches of time: paintings by Rothko and Cezanne, as well as photographs by Carleton Watkins. This 1867 shot of the Columbia River, from the Oregon Historical Society archive, is called “Passage of the Dalles.”

It’s happening! The author copies of my book were delivered yesterday. So excited! A moment nine years in the making.

Pleased to see a more upbeat take on present-day downtown Portland, even if the writer does mistakenly refer to Old Town as "Old City." monocle.com/affairs/urba...

Once the US’s kitschy capital in decline, Portland is bouncing backAfter voting to professionalise the Oregon city’s government in 2022, Portlanders are reinvesting in the city with new shops, restaurants...monocle.com

Excited to share my new @orartswatch.org story about painter Mary Henry and the Portland Art Museum's retrospective. I adore her geometric abstractions, which have a kind of spiritual quality. And like a lot of women artists, Henry (1913-2009) arguably didn't get the recognition she deserved.

Mary Henry: Geometry with soul • Oregon ArtsWatchA Portland Art Museum retrospective of the Whidbey Island painter's remarkable 60-year career is an opportunity for rediscovery.www.orartswatch.org

Seriously…five and a half years ago we hit the cat jackpot.

A song from Hiroshi Suzuki's sublime 1976 album Cat just came on the radio, and I'm never not pleased to hear it. I also love how the DJ described the record as "Suzuki basically just went home to Japan for a visit, and jammed with his homies for three days straight." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFmH...

Hiroshi Suzuki-RomanceYouTube video by Cagri Yalcinwww.youtube.com

I’ve been working for weeks on a long article about painter Mary Henry, the subject of a Portland Art Museum retrospective. Her geometric abstractions are so great! A local collector just sent me images of these two paintings he owns, 1997’s Lament for Icarus and 1995’s Gavotte or What.

I knew it.

It’s too broad-brushed an overreaction on my part, yet I have become wary when I see any kind of Instagram or Facebook post with a random person talking in the corner of the frame, their self-filmed comments superimposed over some other existing video, with the borders between videos flickering.

One of my favorite career moments was having lunch with Van Sant at Portland's Byways Cafe to interview him about this movie and Elephant, which had just won Cannes. I remember he ordered a veggie burger.

This is exciting: My September photography exhibit at Weedman Design Partners gallery has been posted online. It features about 30 of the 75 photos from my upcoming book, In Search of Portland: Exploring a Transforming City. Join us for the 9/12 opening! www.weedmandesignpartners.com/gallery/bria...

In Search of Portland by Brian Libby | Weedman Design PartnersA photographic look at a transforming Portland through the lens of journalist Brian Libby, on view at Weedman Design Partners as part of his book launch.www.weedmandesignpartners.com

It was three years ago yesterday that @saralibby.bsky.social and I attended the world track & field championships in Eugene, getting to see early heats involving greats like Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Noah Lyles, plus the men's 1500 final. Such a cool memory, and a great 50th birthday present.

A seven-minute film chronicling a 2004 daytrip I took via Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto and back, nominally for a story interview but really to get my first glimpse of Kyoto’s temples and shrines. Can’t believe it’s been 22 years. vimeo.com/22789675

Japan Series: Nozomi ExpressA daytrip from Tokyo to Kyoto and back on the Nozomi Super Express Shinkanzen bullet train, filmed in 2004vimeo.com

Rewatches basically don’t get any better than this. boxd.it/fk2Pu1

A ★★★★★ review of Point Blank (1967)Rewatching this movie last night, I was more blown away than ever. It starts with the way the narrative eliminates any unnecessary elements, like a series of jump cuts, to the extent it’s willing to k...boxd.it

The Trail Blazers ownership group continues to behave like moving to another city is their preferred outcome, but strategically they've decided to first bully and bluster their way in bad faith through a series of non-negotiations, so they can unfairly blame the city on their way out the door.

It’s already worth the read just learning that Point Blank’s cinematographer, Philip Lathrop, was the camera operator for the iconic 12-minute crane shot that opens Touch of Evil by Orson Welles.

Any Cibo Matto fans left out there? I revisited this second album on a recent car trip and since then have been replaying it often. Always a bit surprised that I reach for this over their debut, produced by the great Mitchell Froom and also excellent. But Stereo Type A just has a fun bounce to it.