A unique shopping event featuring the best vintage dealers from Los Angeles and beyond.
Friday, September 10, 2010 at 6:00pm Cooper Design Space, Los Angeles, CA
Website: http://www.itsacurrentaffair.com
We are pleased to share our recent collaboration on the latest Littledoe lookbooks for their 2010 headpieces and neckpiece collections. Littledoe is a collection of distinct accessories, designed and handmade by Chase Cohl. The lookbooks were photographed by Rylan Perry.
As a first for us, the books were printed on an offset digital press—delivering the high quality of traditional printing (lithography) without requiring a large print run.
To see the full collection, please visit:
littledoeislove.com
Credits: Photography by Rylan Perry, Styling by Chase Cohl, Makeup and Hair: William Lemon, Models: Neal Schofield/Ford Models, Kate Strandmark/Ford Models, Ruby Corley/Major Model Management, Ceara McAuliffe, Special Thanks to: Blake Lee and Carlos Nuñez, Book Design by Jeff Warrington/The Look Partnership. All pieces designed and handmade by Chase Cohl.
The Rooftop at Loft Seven, Downtown Los Angeles
Come enjoy the city lights from the rooftop of Loft Seven
Open House for the Downtown LA Artwalk
This Thursday, June 11, 2009, 6pm – midnight
219 West 7th Street, Historic Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90014
Andy Milonakis and Dirt Nasty at The Purple Lounge for the one year anniversary of Mad Mondays, The Standard Hollywood, 5/12/09
This new disc by friend Christopher Curtis Smith aka Night Control, has recently been released. After hanging out with CCS in Claremont, I just had a lovely trip home on the 210, despite traffic, as the vivid, transformative sound of this album unfolded. It is an atmosphere to inhabit, albeit with post-pop attributes, more than it is a thing to play (so refreshing as musical offerings go these days). It is a benchmark of bold artistic expression unhindered by much of anything; raw and beautiful; intimate, layered and unaffraid of austerity, but wholly inviting.
From the Kill Shaman site: “Mixing ambient and found sounds, electronic drum machines, analog synthesizers, upright pianos, guitars, bass, drums and effects, Night Control bring all that is good in the world onto his first official CD release. Imagine the pop brilliance of David Byrne or Brian Eno mixed with the destructive dirge of analog noise and found sounds all built into a brilliant little package that keeps you tapping your toes. Chaos theory built around tight pop structures is what Night Control does.”
You too can enjoy “Night Control – Death Control” in clandestine fashion, as so far, the album is intentionally available through two outlets: the label, Kill Shaman, and Aquarius Records in San Francisco.
You can have a listen at aquariusrecords.org.
Our friends at Ghettogloss put on a winter formal at the Griffith Park Golf Clubhouse, last week, with a fine musical performance by Rumspringa. Photos by Melissa. Backdrop by Jessica at GG.
There were two exciting technologies released this week that might make your inner geek giggle: Cooliris and the new iTunes.
Cooliris, is a browser plug-in that adds purely visual browsing to enabled websites. Instead of clicking through mundane, slow-loading pages like a Google image search with little thumbnails, Cooliris streamlines entire sites and searches worth of images in a slick 3d interface. It’s image browsing without the web clutter, and it’s actually faster, so you find images you like more easily.
This has potential to increase the stickiness of image-intensive web sites also, as users can really experience product shots, etc. without distraction, easily, with intuitively zooming on the fly.
We’ve enabled the Morphine Generation Fall 08 collection gallery. Install Cooliris (only takes a minute) then check it out here by clicking on the arrow icon (see bottom left).
A few years ago, when the experience of going to a Tower Records store (as well as some indie outposts) sank into the sands of memory, I got weepy for a minute. I wondered what would happen to the importance of album cover artwork in the presence of gigabytes of unromantically stored MP3s. Thankfully, with the introduction of Cover Flow (now an all too-ubiquitous look) Apple secured the future of the album cover and made it more important and enjoyable than ever. The new iTunes release gives the album cover another boost. Looking like they took inspiration from the Columbia House mail order ads of yore, the Album View indexes albums visually by cover, which also beats hunting through the text list view and looks glorious. Now what to do about those stacks of CDs cluttering my office…
