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Tonight, Core77 is excited to present Zack Dougherty to the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club hosted at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Zack Dougherty: Panoview Imaging “Interactive Photography and the Dynamic Experience”

Tuesday, Feb. 21st
6PM PST
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR, 97209

Zack will be discussing his work with panoramic imagery and the methods behind it. He will be demonstrating the use of his gigapixel photography coupled with interactive interfaces creating new ways to explore and experience digital photography and video. He will also be showing his new works in immersive 360° video. These videos give the user the ability to look where they want in a 360° video environment, creating a new dynamic experience for every person.

Zack Dougherty was born and raised in Mountain View, California. In 2001 he moved to Sacramento where he would study Astronomy and Astrophotography which quickly became his passion and a perfect platform to experiment on. During an excursion to Death Valley to test a robotic Near Earth Object tracking camera, cloudy weather lead him to use the camera to image the terrestrial surroundings. There he discover a new drive for photography and Panoview Imaging was founded shortly after. In September 2011, he moved to Portland to peruse an education in Industrial Design and continue his business in digital imagery.

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Appropriately so for an implement of famous writers, illustrators and composers, the story of the Blackwing pencil possesses an extraordinarily full narrative arc—one complete with mysterious origin, famous fans, slow decline, sad end, a sorrowful afterlife , and rebirth.

The happy ending is yours to share, right now even!… the Palomino Blackwing (soft) and Blackwing 602 (firm) at Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply.

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Hand-Eye Supply is pleased to announce our first catalog, Makers in the Modern Era, enlisting photographer Christine Taylor to document a broad cross section of creatives in the Northwest.

Each portrait displays the subjects in the midst of their real creative environments—dusty workshops, hot kitchens and earthy farmlands—tastefully composed with a nostalgic nod to work crew and shop photos from the ’40s and ’50s.

To give you an additional insight in to the creative lives of each subject, each person included an image in the catalog of a hand-created artifact, be it a sketch, materials list or model that they would regularly use in their specific processes.

The spirit of the Makers in the Modern Era catalog is captured in an essay penned by Core77 contributing writer Willem Van Lancker. His piece heralds the zeitgeist of the contemporary craftsperson and celebrates the marriage of artisanal traditions and new technologies.

Everyone here at Core77 and Hand-Eye Supply is excited about the way the catalog turned out; thanks to all of the makers as well as designer Alex Lin, Willem Van Lancker and photographer Christine Taylor.

The catalogs are available now at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR, and select retailers in New York City. For those of you who can’t make it to either city are invited to sign up for the Hand-Eye Supply e-mail newsletter in order to receive a free copy of “Makers in the Modern Era.”

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Happy Thanksgiving from Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply!!! We have had a great deal of revelry in the past week what with the arrival of the Makers in the Modern Era Catalog and the Hand-Eye Supply x Vanport Outfitters “American Craftsman Apron”. On Friday we had a rocking party down at the store to celebrate, and we thought we’d share some pics to show you how much fun it was.

Don’t worry if you missed out on Friday…there’s no shortage of events on the horizon: Nicholas Everett of the earlier mentioned Vanport Outfitters is swinging by for Curiosity Club on Tuesday November 29th and the excellent Hot One Inch Action button extravaganza is on Thursday December 1st.

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Tonight, Core77 is excited to present Patrick Short, General Manager of Portland ComedySportz, to the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club hosted at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Tuesday, Oct. 25th
6PM PST
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR, 97209

ComedySportz’ Patrick Short has led corporate improv workshops since 1989; with the help of the international Applied Improvisation Network, he’s developed a series of workshops for Design Thinking. Improv theory and practice clearly illuminate the mindsets needed for project and team success. Sample what improv can bring you in a fun, fast-paced hour that just might change how you see everything.

Patrick Short (General Manager, Workshop Designer and Lead Teacher) began with ComedySportz in 1987, as General Manager and performer/teacher for ComedySportz-San Jose. Mr. Short also worked for 13 years in the high-tech industry as a sales consultant and marketer of manufacturing and distribution software solutions. He received the Master of Fine Arts in Stage Direction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986 and is responsible for day-to-day operations of Viewers Like You, LLC. A member of the Applied Improvisation Network, Patrick designs our Corporate Training Workshop Syllabi, wrote the chapters on corporate training for the ComedySportz Manual and still teaches our ComedySportz 101 classes.

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