More from the Oregon travels of PEZ and Joshua Blank as they take “You Can’t Win” to FIFTY24PDX Gallery. First, here is a local arts curator in Salem, Oregon.
Thrift sale.
You Can’t Win San Francisco to Portland, Day 5-6
August 29th, 2010Tags: bike tour, FIFTY24SF Gallery, joshua-blank, pdx, pez, pezo, Portland, San Francisco, upper playground
“You Can’t Win” goes on tour to PDX from San Franciso, via train and bicycle
August 24th, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
Last night, on a platform in Emeryville, California, Upper Playground and The Citrus Report said goodbye to PEZ and Joshua Blank as they embarked on a train and bicycle trip to Portland, Oregon, ending in a new “You Can’t Win” show at FIFTY24PDX Gallery opening September 2nd. So the show is going on a tour, with the FIFTY24SF Gallery in SF show coming down tomorrow.
PEZ and Josh are on the train now headed to the south or Oregon, and then on their bikes for the rest of the excursion. If you live in Oregon and want to say hi, get on the side of the road and wave as they bike by… don’t scare them, they are on a mission. Or maybe just said a hello via Facebook?
Go to UpperPlayground.com for all the photos from the trip so far…
Tags: bike tour, fifty24pdx gallery, from-the-trip, pdx, pezo, photos, south-or-oregon, train
“You Can’t Win” goes on tour to PDX from San Franciso, via train and bicycle
August 24th, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
Last night, on a platform in Emeryville, California, Upper Playground and The Citrus Report said goodbye to PEZ and Joshua Blank as they embarked on a train and bicycle trip to Portland, Oregon, ending in a new “You Can’t Win” show at FIFTY24PDX Gallery opening September 2nd. So the show is going on a tour, with the FIFTY24SF Gallery in SF show coming down tomorrow.
PEZ and Josh are on the train now headed to the south or Oregon, and then on their bikes for the rest of the excursion. If you live in Oregon and want to say hi, get on the side of the road and wave as they bike by… don’t scare them, they are on a mission. Or maybe just said a hello via Facebook?
Go to UpperPlayground.com for all the photos from the trip so far…
Tags: bike tour, bikes, excursion, Facebook, FIFTY24SF Gallery, Graffiti, headlines, oregon, pdx, pezo, Pezoe, south-or-oregon, tour, train, trip
Planes, Trains, and Bicycles: “You Can’t Win” on tour to PDX
August 24th, 2010
Last night, on a platform in Emeryville, California, Upper Playground said goodbye to PEZ and Joshua Blank as they embarked on a train and bicycle trip to Portland, Oregon, ending in a new “You Can’t Win” show at FIFTY24PDX Gallery opening September 2nd. So the show is going on a tour, with the FIFTY24SF Gallery in SF show coming down tomorrow.
PEZ and Josh are on the train now headed to the south or Oregon, and then on their bikes for the rest of the excursion. (They fly home, hence the “Planes” reference in the title).
If you live in Oregon and want to say hi, get on the side of the road and wave as they bike by… don’t scare them, they are on a mission. Or maybe just said a hello via Facebook?
We got a few photos from PEZ and Joshua last night…
Goodbye, Josh.
Reassuring.
Healthy eating on Amtrak.
They must have “found” this….
Herman Hesse for enlightenment…
Not in California anymore… stay tuned to UpperPlayground.com for daily updates from the PEZ and Joshua Blank “You Can’t Win” SF to PDX tour…
Tags: bike tour, fifty24pdx gallery, FIFTY24SF Gallery, Graffiti, joshua-blank, oregon bike trails, pdx, pez, pezo, Pezoe, Portland, San Francisco, sticker artists, tour, train tour, you can't win
Jay Sajko from Upper Playground PDX / SEA
June 22nd, 2010
Here’s a little interview the folks from The Citrus Report posted with Jay Sajko from the Portland and Seattle Upper Playground locations…
TCR: How did your relationship begin with Upper Playground, and how were you able to open a store in Portland, and few years later, in Seattle?
Originally it began with a record/clothing shop in Portland called 360 Vinyl that specialized in the underground music culture and apparel brands that you couldn’t find in the mall or your average run of the mill store. There was an amazing amount of great music in the electronic, dance and hip-hop genres that was coming out in the late ’90s and some great apparel brands that were launching at that time as well. We added the apparel end of things to the shop from the beginning and it made for an interesting shopping experience for customers. Upper Playground was a brand that we carried and supported pretty much from the beginning. I should add that I owned 360 Vinyl and operated it for about 9 years.
Upper Playground approached me in 2006 about opening a flagship store in Portland, which for the brand was going to be its first flagship store outside of San Francisco. About five months later we opened the store. For me it was a no-brainer as far as if it would work. Portland is a young city with a great art community and it likes to do things that aren’t conventional. I knew that Upper Playground would make a perfect match. With me being based in the Northwest and with the success of the Portland location it made sense a few years later to open the Seattle location in 2008. Seattle, like Portland, has a great art community and a diverse group of artists that live there.
TCR: Has the Pacific Northwest responded well to UP? The region-specific graphics are fantastic.
The Northwest has been supportive of UP on so many levels. It makes things so much easier when the community is receptive and gets what you are doing. Yes we’ve been lucky to have some amazing graphics in the stores from some of our favorite UP associated artists. My favorite parts of the stores are the permanent installations… Choe, Saber, Sam Flores, Herbert Baglione, Jeremy Fish, Munk One, Cody Hudson, Will Barras, Nate Van Dyke, Mear One, Morning Breath, Usugrow; the list is long and deep. They have all left behind amazing works inside the retail stores. People trip when they see these.
