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Portland, OR based sites

All are also listed elsewhere in Eyes Open



The Bear Deluxe - Orlo's magazine, "Exploring Environmental Issues throught the Creative Arts."

KBOO Community Radio - independent unaffiliated community radio in Portland, OR.

MediaThink - The Northwest Media Literary Center, Portland, OR

Oregon Follow the Money - Non partisan. Analysis of political funding. Who is getting? Who is giving? Who is benefitting?

The Portland Alliance - Monthly alternative newspaper.

Portland Indymedia - very freqeuntly updated.

Portland News Watch - "Where the corporate news media are on trial every day! TV News: What Local Stations Don't Want You to Know!"

Portland Peaceful Response Coalition - Anti-war organization formed after 9/11.

Philosophers Seed - "you get the whole story; good, bad or ugly we want you to be able to make informed decisions." Portland Cable Access shows.




Independent Publishers



AK Press and Distribution - co-operative wholly owned by its members. Radical books and other materials.

Pluto Press - independent publishers of Chomsky, Rowbotham, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Fanon, Foster, Boal, George, Shahak, Gramsci, Pilger, Marable, Herman and hooks, and others.

More links soon.

Creative Sites


ArtNetWeb - "A network of people and projects investigating new media in the practice of art."

brittle-bones.com - gallery and flash site

cmart.design.ru - incredible gallery and flash site

Church of Subgenius - "Pull the wool over your eyes and believe in Bob"

destroyrockcity.com - 100 drawings in 100 days
Detritus - "It's what's left after something has been used up...the cyber-equivalent of musical "B"-sides."

endsound.com - Flash storytelling

evilpupil.com - gallery and flash site

Get Your War On - political cartoons - very intense!

halfempty.com - gallery and showcase

homestarrunner.com - humorous animation showcase

Illegal Art - Public works that inspire self reflection in relation to social issues and encourage public participation.

magicrobot.org - Flash movies

Make your own Bush Speech - homorous interactive flash site.

ndroid.com - fantastic graphics, inventive structure

Orlo Wild and Free and The Bear Deluxe - Orlo's magazine, "Exploring Environmental Issues throught the Creative Arts."

rhizome.org - lots of links to net art

superbad.com - a journey into contemporary dada

requiemforadream.com - a flash site that subverts one's expectations

Thundergulch - "...provides new forms of interaction between artists, audiences, and emerging technologies...in recognition of the role that artists and technologists have historically played at the forefront of innovation."

Totse - Hacking, anarchy, politics, religion, fiction, science.

users.rcn.com/napier.interport/main.html - a personal site, artfully done

Voice Yourself - An animated meditation on why things are the way they are. Very powerful!

What I did in the War - Wearables and paraphenalia for progressives

Winston Smith - Montage Art

zgraf.com - graffitti art gallery

zthing.com - humorous animated responses to current events