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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           NEMO Presents: Portland Looking Up -Artwork by Chris Donnelly

Join us Friday, August 7, 2009 for the opening reception of Portland Looking Up – featuring the paintings and carvings of artist Chris Donnelly.

Portland Looking Up will highlight Chris Donnelly’s work of paintings and carvings. The exhibit will focus on Donnelly’s travels through Portland, where he became captivated by the shapes of the industrial water towers, and their contrast to the neighborhoods below.

Discovering Portland by bicycle last summer, Chris noticed the shapes quietly looming overhead. Like floating ships or low-tech space ships at rest just above the neighborhoods, these water towers have a presence. As if monuments from a bygone era, they fade into the landscape despite their size and visibility. These giant vessels venerate our most precious resource. The striking blue sky of Portland summer provides the backdrop for these strong shapes. While strong and industrial looking, their round shapes and patina create a friendly character. Painting these pictures helped Chris get to know Portland.

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(l to r) @adognamedpants @pampelmoose @motorcoatdave – pic:Cathy Cheney | Portland Business Journal

The Portland Business Journal ran an article today about the head-to-head that the Portland Advertising Federation and their Rosey Awards show is having with the the Noseys, a non-federated, creative community inspired subversive start-up. The Noseys campaign began on Twitter and has been supported solely by the local creative community that objected to the Rosey Awards’ ‘talking smack’ campaign.

The Noseys is a clear example of how ‘owning the message’ online will always be a difficult task. In this case the PAF president, Jerry Ketel of local ad firm Leopold Ketel, embraced the subversive nature of the Noseys campaign and immediately embraced it. The Noseys viral campaign has now moved beyond the web as this article shows.

Synopsis – No money, grassroots, community support, Flickr and Twitter = Nosey Awards

@noseyawards @adognamedpants @motorcoatdave @pampelmoose

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“Facing the Future” as delivered by HRH The Prince of Wales, St James’s Palace State Apartments, London

From the Who, How, Now series, Bonus parts four and five.

Bryce Kanights shares memories from his early days skating with San Francisco crew the Sick Boys, his first years at Thrasher Magazine, and what skateboarding is to him.

Bryce Kanights- Bonus- Part 4 from Nemo Entertainment on Vimeo.

Bryce Kanights explains his passion and dedication to skateboarding, shares his time capsule of magazines and memories.

Bryce Kanights- Bonus- Part 5 from Nemo Entertainment on Vimeo.

Part three from the Who, How, Now series.  Bryce Kanights takes his dog to the park, then meets up with Chet Childress to skate.

Bryce Kanights- Part 3 of 3 from Nemo Entertainment on Vimeo.

From the Official Google Blog:

Introducing the Google Chrome OS
7/07/2009 09:37:00 PM
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.

We have a lot of work to do, and we’re definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision. We’re excited for what’s to come and we hope you are too. Stay tuned for more updates in the fall and have a great summer.

Posted by Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, Engineering Director