Compound X Shwood Party Recap

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Last Saturday Compound had a release party for their

collaboration with Shwood Eyewear. Naturally, the B.O.P. was on the scene. No

party pics this time around, in the B.O.P’s advanced age we’ve grown up. Oh yes

we have (or dudes keep staring into the camera--WTF it's a camera dude).
The colab (which can be found here).







Aside from the collaboration, Compound and Shwood commissioned

some dope local artists to show their take on wooden eye wear.
Jason Graham







Ren Sakuarai (my fav, mostly  ‘cause, you know, it’s a great conversation

starter hanging of your neck from a pair of Croakies).










Tyler Griffin







Martin Ontiveros









Zach Johnsen







Blaine Fontana (killer wood burning on the arms)







Eric Singer











Shwood's timeline from conception to present.













Sadly the Kanye stunna shades never dropped…(maybe they’ll

QS’em if they get enough fan mail).

A Drive Thru Japan: 1st Thursday August

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Don't forget to stop by Compound this evening to celebrate the monthly PDX holiday that is 1st Thursday. This months installation is:

Survival Drive : Uncovering present-day Japan through a 131 day, 34,033km journey.

"Survival Drive is the incredible journey taken by two artists to document the present-day of Japan. Travelling by car, painter Reijiro Mochizuki (a.k.a. Rei) and photographer Shouichiro Fukuda (a.k.a. Hooky) spent 131 days crossing the country, clocking up 34,033km in the process. Reijiro Mochizki and Souichiro Fukuda undertook this immense journey across Japan creating a series of sketches and photographs of the things they encountered along the way. For this book, we carefully selected the best of their work, along with maps of journey, photos of recording devices, and extracts from their blog."



See you there . . . and don't forget to FIX it up afterwards at Someday Lounge.

Recap soon . . .

-The B.O.P.

TAN AIR YEEZY LAUNCH!

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I went out on Thursday and interviewed the people who were waiting in line over two days for the 3rd release of the Nike Air Yeezy's. The first two people had been there from 4pm on Wednesday and waited until today at 12pm to get their pairs!

This can barely compare to Atlanta though, where the SHOE GAME documented the folks waiting for over a week there. Check it here after watching the video...



-Keith

FIRST THURSDAY: May Line Up

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Who's gonna be there?

COMPOUND GALLERY



Hecklewood Gallery


-Keith

FIRST THURSDAY: APRIL Line Up

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You know the deal! Show up around 8pm at either Hecklewood or Compound get free drinks then walk down to the other and do it again!!!!

First Up: Compound



Here's what Compound Gallery had to say....

Ippei Gyoubu was born in Osaka Japan in 1974. He graduated from the Kobe Art Institute and started his career as a character designer at a computer gaming company. His first major project was designing characters for the entire cast of the game "Cool Cool Toon" and worked on other various projects for 4 years. In 2001 he started his own independent studio and since then has worked with various clients such as Adidas, Nike, Sony, JR, Coca-Cola, Playstation, Sega, Konami, Lotte, Disney just to name a few. His creations were interpreted into video games, animation, apparel design and 3-D model figures.

He is currently working on a few animation and movie character design projects as well as his new 10" figure "Jet Girl" coming out under Wonder-Wall this year.

He currently lives in Tokyo Japan.

Next up: Hecklewood (ooh da PBR be flowin)



Here is a sneak peek @Jeff Proctor working his magic on the wall at Hecklewood!!!



B There.

-Keith

FIRST THURSDAY: MARCH

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ENJOY SOME KILLER ART AND ALWAYS FREE ADULT DRINKS!

Two must sees tonight include the shows at Compound and Hecklewood. The first show at Compound will feature live art from Japanese artists Imaone, Tenga, and Shohei, who will make your mouth water for more art after seeing what they can do with a brush and a spraycan!



The next show is at Hecklewood and features....well lets hear it from Sam Hecklewood himself...

"our next exhibition is ditching color all together and embracing the gray scale. We’ve teamed up with Monsieur T once again, and like the Wood Pushers show, Quentin has put together another great roster of art talent."

1st Thursday Nov '08

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We present you with the usual coverage of one of our favorite reasons excuses to make Fridays the least productive day of the week . . . 1st Thursday. This is a little over a week old but the exhibits should still be up ?

Support your local streetwear boutiques...

1st stop over to check up on Mikey @ Hecklewood









Then on to Compound









Then we stumbled to The Fix where it was a blur of Pacifico and indecent proposals from some PSU ladies.

Don't think I've made it in early on Friday morning following a 1st Thursday . . .gotta love free PBR!

See you in December!

-Cam

Go Party In Tokyo...

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Because we have an international audience -- just thought you'd like to know of an event taking place this Thursday. Brought to you by Portland's Compound Gallery, Tanner Goods and many more.

In Tokyo.


We won't be able to make it 'cause we'll be busy picking Keith up at the airport and spending the next 3 days hearing about his trip.

-Nick

Be There.

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info@compoundgallery.com to RSVP.

Or you can swing on by the Hecklewood or Compound locations and pick up an entry ticket there.




-Nick