MelDel LLC Designer/Creative entrpreneurMelissa Delzio
melissa@meldel.com
Culture
Ethiopian Inspiration
I recently attended a movie premiere for the film, Ethiopia, Staring Into the Sun put out by Seattle’s Sublime Frequencies. The film by Olivia Wyatt documents her visits with 13 different tribes in Ethiopia. Olivia also documented her trip in Polaroids, on view here. The film captures the music and dance of each tribe, and [...]
California Diary
3.23.2010
Los Angeles – Sunset Boulevard. 1:00pm
74 degrees, nothing but sunshine in all directions.
Just drove past a lonely looking Zorro standing on a street corner.
Ryan, “Is that Zorro waiting for the bus?”
Mel, “Well if he is Zorro why doesn’t he just…”
Ryan, “Zorro doesn’t have any superpowers.”
Mel, “Oh no? Than what exactly is it that he does?”
Ryan, [...]
2009: the Best, and the Worst
Normally, every year I reflect back and report on the favorite things that made my year. This year, I am providing a more well-rounded view and including a worst list. Here it is, the Best and Worst of 2009.
The Best
1. TriMet
OK TriMet, you made the list this year mostly because I used you more than [...]
Snip! Snap! Dragon!
Every year, I tackle the personal challenge of designing a Christmas card to share with friends, family and clients. This year’s Christmas card is actually a postcard that highlights a long forgotten Winter Solstice traditional game called Snapdragon.
I read about this traditional game when researching the subject at the library (yes, the granite building with [...]
Shine a Light
This September, Portland Art Museum hosted a unique event they called Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum, with the stated goal of blurring the boundary between art and life. A typical trip to any institution of art, PAM included, is typically a very structured experience. Visitors pay the admission cost, then quietly maneuver [...]
Faux Celebrities and the art of Nothingness
I encountered “Gambini” out on my normal First Thursday route. It was the last real art gallery extravaganza of summer, and we were busy hopping from gallery to gallery taking in this month’s offerings, casually sipping on our glass of 3-buck-chuck. Gambini was hard to miss with his coke bottle glasses, giant red feathered coat, [...]
So What?!
After eagerly consuming the novel Sometimes a Great Notion (by Eugene resident and bus-painting pioneer, Ken Kesey) and watching the movie, my boyfriend and I were among the first in the door to the Portland Center Stage production of the novel. The play was fantastic and we chose to attend a symposium on the play’s [...]
Easter Weekend
Another spring hits Oregon, and another non-traditional Easter weekend passes. I paused to honor and admire this ardent display of Easter love on NW Everett. These eggs did not hide tucked away in tall grasses, but were strung from the trees like Christmas lights in all their pastel painted glory.
Fanatic Easter displays aside, this was [...]
Rebel code
Im sure Hellen Keller is rolling in her grave. For years we have bought into the stereotype of the blind, being kind, mild-mannered and overcoming obstacles that those of us who are sight-enabled couldn’t imagine. Well no more! Apparently a rebel gang of the blind is leaving their mark on our fair city. Here is [...]
Varieties of artistic experience
I am expanding upon my normal weekend activities and trying out new sources of artistic and cultural absorption. Yes that was me in the back row at the one-man play on Hunter Thompson drinking a PBR. I admit I was waiting in line at 9:00 in the morning on a Saturday for the Seattle Art [...]
The antithesis
There is a small pizza shop on 23rd, where you can find a sinfully delicious slice of greasy NY style pizza for 2.50. The man behind the counter will ring your order in manually on a cash register circa 1930. As you settle in with your slice you notice that the napkin dispenser lectures you [...]
You collective
“But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about [...]
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