Ira Keller Fountain - Portland 2017
Ira Keller Fountain is Portland's best-kept secret.
Sound Track: Viennese Streams .
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Keller Fountain Park @ Portland downtown
IRA Keller Fountain, Portland, Oregon
Bird's Eye Aerial Productions takes a quick look at one of Portland's pristine parks.
Keller Fountain Park (Portland, OR)
Hanging out at the Keller Fountain Park in Portland, OR.
Keller fountain park in Portland, Oregon.
August 1st 2017.
Ira Keller Waterfall - Portland, Oregon
This fountain is a cool kind of cubic abstraction of waterfalls. There were people wading in some pools near the top when I was there (July 2006).
346 Ira Keller Fountain, SW 3rd
Walking the Ledges at Ira Keller Fountain in Portland
On a hot late Spring day I decided to cool off my feet with a walk on the ledges of Keller Fountain. As long as you don't fall in or off, it's really quite fun! Usually people don't traverse the outside rim, but rather play in the pools of water, or walk along the inner walls.
Portland Fountains
A few of the public fountains in Portland, Oregon
351 Ira Keller Fountain, SW 3rd from SW Market
Keller Fountain Fun
A little slo-mo Iphone video I shot at Keller Fountain Park in downtown Portland, Oregon
Climbing the stairs at Ira Keller Park, Portland
The boys playing at Ira Keller Fountain Park, Portland. This is a really fun park with beautiful fountains. The kids loved playing in the water here.
Keller Fountain vandalized with laundry soap
Someone dumped a container of laundry detergent into the Ira Keller Fountain in downtown Portland, which later had people sopping to shoot photos and plays with the suds.
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Washington Park in Portland, OR
Just a little scouting trip of the Rose Garden and Washington Park here in Portland Oregon.
Bike Hopping in Forecourt Fountain, Portland OR
A friend visiting from Italy and I happened upon these guys enjoying a lazy Autumn Sunday afternoon with their bikes in downtown Portland, Oregon. Ira Keller's Civic Theatre Forecourt Fountain between SW 3rd and 4th, and Market and Clay street. For a much better quality use and display of the fountain, see:
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More on Portland's fountains at:
Ira Keller Fountain
For my shot on Flickr
Keller City Dance
With choreographers Linda K. Johnson, Cydney Wilkes, Linda Austin, and Tere Mathern and writer Randy Gragg.
In 1971, Portland christened a new urban park that The New York Times architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable heralded as the most important urban space since the Renaissance. Called Forecourt Fountain (later renamed Ira Keller Fountain), it was part of a sequence of Portland plazas that combined water, sculptural form, and public space in ways never before attempted in a city. Yet the plazas were merely one outgrowth of the daring experiments in movement, sound, and space being conducted by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin; his wife, the legendary choreographer Anna Halprin; and radical musical composers such as Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Lamont Young, and Morton Subotnick.
Third Angle New Music Ensemble, the Northwests premier presenter of contemporary music, along with some of Portlands most accomplished choreographers, will celebrate the plazas and the artistic milieu from which they emerged. Third Angle will play some of the Minimalist music pioneered by the composers in the Halprins circle as the choreographers explore Anna Halprins philosophy and her intense blend of movement with social and personal consciousness often cited as the beginning of postmodernism in dance.
We were trying to invent new languages of dance, music, and architecture, Lawrence Halprin recalls of the time. So, too, will City Dance attempt a new kind of celebration of architectural and creative heritage.
City Dance is Oregons 2008 American Masterpieces project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission, along with the Portland Development Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, TVA Architects, National Endowment for the Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission,
OREGON '16 (Portland and Florence)
Portland and Florence
- July 4th Weekend
Portland
- Keller Fountain
- Cathedral Park
- Powell Book Store
- Grassa Pasta
- Ruby Jewels Ice Cream
- Blue Star
En Route to Florence
- Cannon Beach
- Haystack Rock
- Neptune's Secret Garden
- Neskowin Beach
- Proposal Rock
- Thor's Well
- Cook's Chasm
- Devil's Punch Bowl
- Driftwood Shores
- Cafe on Hawk Creek
- The Dunes Cafe
Seattle
- Gasworks Park for Fireworks
And chilling in the car...
Song: Oops
Artist: Martin Garrix
Fountain at Portland State University downtown Portland
Morning commute. Fascinating fountain at Portland State University