{"id":207,"date":"2012-07-23T05:21:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T05:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2012-12-09T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T21:30:11","slug":"its-summer-take-the-top-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"It’s Summer, take that Top Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

And I’m not talking about a convertible here, although I’m a big fan of those little Italian jobs they call Spiders<\/a>.\u00a0 Nope, for this one, it’s time to throw a little attention over to the NW Film Center<\/a> and a small problem.\u00a0 Well, a “small” problem that’s become a big problem.<\/p>\n

Top Down<\/a> – know it?\u00a0 It’s fantastic.<\/p>\n

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Safe to say most of us VFX’ers are film fanatics.\u00a0 For the self-professed “filmies,” NW Film Center runs screenings each summer (once the weather rolls around to “guaranteed sun”) on the rooftop parking deck of the Hotel Deluxe<\/a>, which in and of itself will make you feel like you stepped into a 1950’s Hollywood film set (and we all love it’s magnetic Driftwood bar).\u00a0 But let’s not sugar coat this – we’re not exactly talking Hollywood glamour today.\u00a0 Never mind our Hollywood district, this is Portland after all.\u00a0 This is throw-a-blanket-down and rough-it-under-the-setting-sun type fun.<\/p>\n

The programming of Top Down is 2nd to none and I’m not afraid to dish kudos to whoever is behind it.\u00a0 I’ve caught everything from a Johnny Cash kidnapping joint<\/a> to lost Jackie Chan kung fu flicks to b-movie horror films at Top Down.\u00a0 Even the occasional cult 80’s films seem impeccably timed, in that “haven’t seen that one in forever, let’s go!” sort of way.\u00a0 Doesn’t hurt that there’s always great food and beer on tap, and a band kicks the night off.\u00a0 Tossing down your jacket and staking out your chairs and then heading up top to grab a beer, check the band, and just take in the view makes this something special.<\/p>\n

Top Down has been slowly but surely gaining momentum all these years and now it’s time to get serious.\u00a0 We know it, they know it, everyone knows it.\u00a0 Top Down needs a new screen.<\/p>\n

With your help, they’ll make the jump to a 20′ screen (up from the old 12 footer).<\/p>\n

Toss a little something their way, won’t you?\u00a0 They like the kind that folds, but’ll take the kind that jingles.\u00a0 And you were going to hit it this summer anyway, right?\u00a0 Why not pay it forward?<\/a>\u00a0 (Ok, cheesy movie reference but c’mon, after all, it did feature the St John’s bridge and at least Haley Osment has kept it mostly together, the one mugshot <\/a>aside)<\/p>\n

In the name of all that doesn’t suck, support the Top Down cause over on Kickstarter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And I’m not talking about a convertible here, although I’m a big fan of those little Italian jobs they call Spiders.\u00a0 Nope, for this one, it’s time to throw a little attention over to the NW Film Center and a small problem.\u00a0 Well, a “small” problem that’s become a big problem. Top Down – know… Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-filmie","tag-pdxclusive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Cfrz-3l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}