A member of our crack investigation team.
The Portland Orbit currently obsesses over homemade signs, independent cinema and TV, art cars, murals, outsider art and other and additional forms of creative expression in and around the Portland, OR area. The Portland Orbit makes every effort to post weekly. We’re continually working up content along with the occasional breaking news as it happens.
Down the Rabbit Hole
I’ve realized more and more that I make an effort to direct people to other sources. Just recently I discovered some commercials created for car dealer Scott Thomason that were mind-blowing because they seemed to skirt the line of decency in a time when it wasn’t as common to be doing that. I don’t pretend to know it all but I enjoy the idea of pointing people in the direction of other information when I can.
An Unscientific Portland Orbit Most Read Posts Top Ten
(Updated Weekly)
- A Message of Mystery: Graffiti Abuse
- The Trophy Wife
- The Kennedy Files: A Mysterious Memorial…
- Paint Paul
- Toyz in the Hood
- Creepy Stairs, Not Stares
- Transmission Troubles: A Space Taxi Fundraiser
- The Louie Files: The Seaside Riots
- The Ghost Bike of Killingsworth
- The Louie Files: The Greatest Moment in Rock and Roll History
David Craig is the author and chief photographer for the Portland Orbit. He’s an English major, award winning film maker and sometime independent video producer.
YouTube video channel link here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCaQO2Dd0yzPEe43n5NQ3Mw
Journalism and writing achievements:
Spent most of his high school journalism class analyzing Ernie Bushmiller’s comic strip Nancy.
Worked on his student newspaper, the Collgiate Times at Virginia Tech covering stories on the Ugly Man On Campus competition, the university bus system lost and found and bathroom graffiti on and around campus.
Contributed to fanzines most notably Mole magazine, highlights included interviewing the Baltimore Glass Man using a “hidden radio mic” and having a brief run-in with members of the band L7.
Ran a record and cassette label in the 90’s called Nut Music. Duties included rock poster design, writing press releases and a quarterly newsletter.
Wrote songs, recorded and performed under the stage name George Willard in the 90’s. Read Sherwood Anderson’s book Winesburg, Ohio.
Produced 17 episodes in 4 years of a documentary based public access show called Odds and Ends in Fairfax, Virginia. Found it necessary to write the occasional narration and tons of interview questions.
Worked in education and government television, eventually directing Clark County meetings and hearings.
Has completed a feature length screen play!
Planning to release a chapbook of rejected song lyrics that read like poetry.
Origins Explained
Here’s a blog post that outlines the origins of the Portland Orbit:
https://portlandorbit.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/the-portlands-orbits-100th-post-whats-in-a-name/
Comments:
I’m new to the publicity game. I’m opening myself up to all kinds of feedback such as this:
That Reddit, tough crowd!
Some cool stuff that Phil wrote can be found here:
http://twelvety.com/blog/kenton-audio-walk-portland-oregon
From a Facebook comment:
What transplant wrote that article?

Not actually from Iowa.
On the “set” of Pretty/Creepy, a documentary short. Here I am preparing to interview director Bryan Hiltner. Bryan took the photo and documented me mid-blab while warming up to get him blabbing.
Another bad selfie.
An ungodly mess of a selfie!
DAVID CRAIG HAS TAKEN
THE PLEDGE. HAVE YOU?
A Pledge to Prevent Nuclear Escalation
(Place your hand over your heart.)
I, your name here, pledge to no longer consider making nuclear weapons, use nuclear weapons in any shape or form or proliferate the ones that have already been made.
OUR SOMETIME CONTRIBUTORS:
Copy Editor: Ronna Craig
Minister of Propaganda and Art Direction: Will Simmons
Narrator for the Portland Orbit Report: Chan
Graphics Consultant: Andy “Poppa” Capp
Fact Checker: Position unfilled
Researcher: Position unfilled
Can’t decide Zombie/Juggalo?
Just found your site…Love the photos of Skinner house on Sumner….if you are looking for other strange houses and art cars contact me.
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Impressive list of exploits and credentials. Especially the juggalo/zombie look!
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I could not get the make up right either way so it turned into a hybrid.
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Hi, Dave– fun to see your blog–hadn’t realize Will stole his gambit from you. Somehow found self going back to the Pittsburgh version (oh, yes–’twas due to Will’s technical cousin Jake [adopted son of my cousin Kathleen Craig & her U-Va husband] and Jake’s family’s recent move to Pittsburgh. So I thought–how better to get to know the real Pittsburgh via a real Orbiter. In the course of which I discovered Will wasn’t the first. Like what I’ve seen of yours so far. So glad you 2 stayed friends.
‘Nuf for now. Will’s Mom & former Humanities prof,
Nancy
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Will has taken the gambit and run with it. I’m really impressed with his content. Like a true academic’s kid he includes footnotes too!
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