What we have here in Portland is a bunch of not-quite-overlapping creative communities operating on a fairly high level, but somewhat in isolation from one another.
There's nothing quite like a behind closed doors briefing at a busy tradeshow like IFA. Creative wasn't quite ready to take its new D5 Air out onto the showroom floor just yet, but the company did let us take a sneak peak at the thing in a small testing room room.
All across America powerful Schumpeterian gales of technological creative destruction, along with acute aftershocks from the 2008 financial crisis, are radically and quite literally altering the physical landscape of this nation.