mass exodus

Well, all I can offer is that Portland is fabulous, with a viable alternative culture and great living conditions, I moved here from SeaTac and have just loved it.

I've been looking for soooo long to buy-in another building like the one I had in San Francisco. Now in LA, I'm seeing downtown finish it's last stages of being a McLoft neighborhood. My current warehouse is the most primitive space you could imagine. And, I'm surround by urban decay and construction. Although we've done lots of temporary spaces project like ambient music in the cold storage building across our alley during its construction, I'm becoming tired of quality building torn down and high-end lofts built before we even have an opportunity to bid on the building.

For Portland, though, I'm not interested in moving. I was just there in late June for two weeks and found myself drawing too many comparisons to SF and LA. Maybe in a few more years I'll soften up to that city--people were constantly complaining about the gentrified Pearl district. Recently, a lot of my friends began talking about buying buildings in the area surrounding my neighborhood (below Little Tokyo in LA). The problem is that the market is so hot, people just want to get in at any costs. It feels like Oakland during that time, but people are fighting here, really fighting to stay in their spaces. I just might give LA a little more time, then.

Yeah, very interesting that location is the longest thread. I have done some public art in Seattle www.forteantimes.com/exclusi...th.shtml

And have wanted to work with SRL for a while. . . But I am in Iraq. They have a lot of neat stuff here, though. . . I got to mess around with a UAV in Baghdad. And flying around on choppers is pretty fun. . .. but not much art to it all. Just death.

Caleb "Shooter" Schaber

You mean...you guys weren't also part of those laboratory experiments a few years back, where they put us in isolation tanks for 6 weeks at a time, with only deer jerky, Starbursts and PBR for sustenance?

hmm...maybe I am in the wrong tribe...

Well, anyone interested in checking out Portland, get in touch, I've got plenty of guest space and I'm sure we can find something to blow up or set on fire!