Look!: Bottlecap Art at Vendetta Portland

Look!: Bottlecap Art at Vendetta
Portland

Though cocktails are our beverage of choice, living in Portland (aka “Beervana”) means that we’ve grown to love a good brew. But whatever to do with all those bottlecaps? See how one local haunt put them to artistic use after the jump.

8-11-08 Caps 2.jpg We spotted this collage de caps at N. Portland’s Vendetta. As many times as we’ve been there, we were surprised that we hadn’t noticed it before, but once we started looking, we just couldn’t stop.

8-11-08 Caps 1.jpg Up close, it was a paean to Oregon beers; we spotted yellow and lime caps from Full Sail, orange and black from Widmer Brothers and green from Rogue Ales. All together, we can see a woman, though – to be entirely honest – we’re not exactly sure who it is. Your guess?

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Nice. I'm also a huge fan of the beer bottle cap wall outside at Brooklyn's Barcade. I'm sure a better search around flickr would yield some closer and more detailed shots, but here's a nice whole-piece pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8885668@N02/1465474354/

posted by kleptacular on August 12th 2008 at 12:01pm
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Wow. That's really quite awesome.

posted by liseah on August 12th 2008 at 12:20pm
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Oooh, maybe someone reading this can help me- a long time ago (a few years, i think) I saw a photo in an interiors magazine of a house that had a piece of bottlecap artwork in it- it was a detail of the Birth of Venus...I've been trying to find it ever since and am obviously goggling the wrong thing, because nothing is coming up...anyone remember what I'm talking about??

posted by maggieann on August 12th 2008 at 12:26pm
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Ah, New Belgium, how I miss thee. Undergrad in Fort Collins, CO got me hooked, but it's not to be found in Michigan. I hear they distribute in Chicago. Fat Tire is easy to find, but Sunshine Wheat eludes me. Anyone know of liquor stores in the Chicago area that carry Sunshine Wheat? I would definitely make the drive to the windy city if I knew I could get a couple cases.

posted by shayshay213 on August 12th 2008 at 12:55pm
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i think its the virgin mother.
"where can i get one of those neckalces with the gold t on it?"

posted by antimatt on August 12th 2008 at 1:15pm
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errr.. maybe a lady from a klimpt painting?
probably the virgin mother though.

posted by antimatt on August 12th 2008 at 1:16pm
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Is is Katherine Hepburn? If you wanna see Johnny Cash and more: http://randallstatler.com/

posted by jmcquary on August 12th 2008 at 3:22pm
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