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- help with a location in central LA/ WeHo this thurs morning. a cool-looking wall, backdrop for a sit down interview, paid in coffee. ayuda! 3 days ago
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Micah Hahn, on Typography
Made this. Love him. Here’s a link to his website.
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This week’s list: Filmmakers I’m drooling over
Seven Nine (!) filmmakers I am way excited about right now. Michael Medaglia: Because he is about to release his short thriller Kitty Kitty on VODO (look for it on June 10th) and because he has a script he’s shopping … Continue reading
Milton Glaser’s Great Rules For Life
Go check out Milton Glaser’s site, where you can find the essay quoted below in its original context. This came to me from Frank Lentz, via Micah Hahn, and is an excerpt from a talk Glaser gave at AIGA in London on … Continue reading
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Tagged happiness, life, Milton Glaser, rules
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The Date Farmers
I’ve always been a big fan of art collaboratives. As such, Micah Hahn recently introduced me to the work of The Date Farmers. From their site: “Artwork by The Date Farmers echoes Mexican-American heritage rooted in California pop culture. Their … Continue reading
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Tagged appropriated imagery, art, Calexico, Chicano, collaborative, Desert, hand made, The Date Farmers
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Os Gêmeos
Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo are twin brothers from São Paulo in Brazil. Going by the name Os Gêmeos they’ve been painting walls since the 80’s. Some liken them (and their work) to the Rococo painters of yore. I like to think … Continue reading
SOHO & Sebastian Horsley
While I was in graduate school at Central Saint Martins, I worked in a dingy little pub on the corner of Old Compton Street & Charing Cross Road that was fumbingly trying to reinvent itself as a drag cabaret hotspot. … Continue reading
Tobias Wong
Sad news about the design world’s so-called ‘enfant terrible’ Tobias Wong, who died earlier this month at the age of 35. Wong suffered from episodes of sleepwalking, and his long-time partner thinks his apparent suicide was the result of one … Continue reading
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Tagged gold pills, parasomnia pseudo-suicide, smoking mittens, suicide, Tobias Wong
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Zimoun & Pe Lang
Born in Bern, Switzerland, self described ‘auto-ditact’ Zimoun creates sound sculptures and installations using repetitive mechanical movements to create a bigger aural and visual whole– or, conversely, by breaking up a large function into tiny, quantifiable mechanized parts. If you … Continue reading
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Tagged art, mechanical, Pe Lang, sound art, Switzerland, Zimoun
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