Ride the Veins

Climb on your bike and meet us for a drink in the Central Eastside.

Portland has grown and changed over the decades, as cities will. But the Portland we love persists. We wanted to capture a version of it that locals would recognize, circa 2024. A summer afternoon. Getting outside, and getting together with friends.

Ten years earlier as part of a public art project here called “Orange Lining,” more than 100 fragments of text were stamped into the sidewalk along the path of TriMet's MAX Orange Line. All of text had been written and submitted for consideration by local residents.

Rosie, an art director at Sheepscot Creative and the cyclist in our short film, has on several occasions pedaled past “Knit the city bones / ride the veins.”

“What if we call the film ‘Ride the Veins?’” she suggested.

That sounded perfect.