Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Shepard Fairey: Clean Energy For America
Shepard Fairey never fails to bring powerful messages to the public through beautifully simple images. I admire his intelligence, his talent, and his unrelenting approach to art and politics.http://obeygiant.com/prints/power-up-windmill
Mandrake to Super 8
I love Los Angeles in the Summer time...This Saturday one of my favorite bars, The Mandrake, is hosting an opening for artist Scott Benzel which starts at 7.00PM. Since the Mandrake knows that you need to lube yourself up for the occasion, they offer a pretty radical happy hour: $2 off cocktails, $5 PBRs w/ a shot of whiskey to wash it down, or a $5 Tecate w/ a shot of Tequila if you're feeling So Cal.
But it doesn't end there...
Less than two miles down the road Flux is hosting Super 8 which also begins at 7.00PM ending at 10.00PM
'The Flux Super 8 is the first annual showcase that celebrates eight of the most exciting and emerging filmmakers, video artists, and design collectives from around the world. The inaugural Flux Super 8 will launch with a show at the Scion Installation Gallery in Culver City. The artists will develop site-specific installations created exclusively for or premiering for the first time in Los Angeles for the exhibition.
The Flux Super 8 are: The Blackheart Gang (Cape Town, South Africa); Max Erdenberger (Portland, USA); Saam Farahmand (London, UK); Sophie Gateau (Paris, France); Miwa Matreyek (Los Angeles, USA); Terri Timely (San Francisco, USA); United Visual Artists (UVA) (London, UK); YesYesNo (Amsterdam, NL + New York, NY).'
I know what I'm doing this Saturday
Maleen Neel Rings
The street ring designed by Maleen Neel allows you to mix and match a variety of candy colored stones to your hearts desire...I'm way into it as life really is all about having choices. The band itself comes in two designs that look great side by side.Monday, August 10, 2009
Project H Design
We champion industrial design as a tool to address social issues, a vehicle for global life improvement, and a catalyst for individual and community empowerment. Using a scalable local-to global model for all projects, design fellows and volunteers in 6 US and 3 international chapters work to create systems and solutions for the developing world, homelessness, education, foster care, health care, and more.We are a global coalition of hundreds of designers worldwide. We work with, not for, organizations, enterprises, communities, and individuals. We provide enabling, sustainable, meaningful, and efficient design solutions.
http://www.projecthdesign.org/
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
MIA: Jimmy (Adja)
This MIA song 'Jimmy' is great especially because it's originally a part of the soundtrack to an old Bollywood film called Disco Dancer, a film that I really enjoyed. Makes MIA's version that much more fun...And the original from Disco Dancer!!! I Love It! Death by Electric Guitar!
Following the Money: Billboard Company Lobbyists Speak Out Against New Sign Ordinance, Deliver for L.A. City Election Campaigns
According to... http://banbillboardblight.org/?p=2457A predictable sight at the seven public meetings held to date on the new city sign ordinance has been billboard company lobbyists at the speakers’ podium, all arguing that the proposed ban on digital signs and the limitations on the height and size of billboards and other signs will impede business activity and cost jobs. While they have offered scant evidence to support these predictions, one thing is clear. The process of revising the sign ordinance has provided plenty of employment for lobbying firms that have also raised significant amounts of money for the campaign coffers of city politicians.
For example, the four largest billboard companies in the city-Clear Channel Outdoor, CBS Outdoor, Van Wagner, and Lamar Advertising, paid $217,000 to lobbying firms in 2008 and the first quarter of 2009, according to reports filed with the City Ethics Commission. The biggest spender was Van Wagner, a New York City based company that has supergraphic signs in L.A. in addition to conventional billboards. Van Wagner, one of a number of companies that have sued the city to block enforcement of a ban on those supergraphics, paid lobbying firm Cerrell & Associates $90,124 in 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.
Other lobbying payments made during that time period were: CBS Outdoor to Afriat Consulting Group, $71,127; Clear Channel Outdoor to Urban Solutions, $36,281; and Lamar Advertising to Ken Spiker & Associates, $20,000. In addition, the California Sign Association, whose membership includes those companies, paid $18,000 to the lobbying firm, Arnie Berghoff & Associates.
Those same lobbying firms also helped bankroll 2009 election campaigns through fundraising for candidates for city attorney, city controller, and the city council.
According to Ethics Commission reports, a total of $173,900 was raised for candidates, although it should be noted that the above lobbying firms have a variety of clients in addition to the sign companies. The most favored recipient of this largesse was City Councilman Ed Reyes, who was given $26,450 for his re-election campaign against token opposition. Reyes is chairman of the council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee, which conducted hearings on the new sign ordinance...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Afro Funke 6 Year Anniversary
Ok folks....so this is it...our Afro Funke' 6 Year Anniversary is THIS Thursday. We have spared no expense to put together an amazing line up. Please come out early (doors @ 8pm!) and pre-sale is recommended for the no-wait list (and $5 discount.) Jeremy, Cary, Rocky, Glenn, Tatiana, and Jordan can't wait to celebrate with you.Thank YOU for 6 beautiful years.....here is to many more!!
$15 / $10 advance
Thursday June 11 (9pm–2am)
Zanzibar (1301 5th St)
310.451.2221
Thursday June 11 (9pm–2am)
Zanzibar (1301 5th St)
310.451.2221
Nosaj Thing 'Drift' Record Release Party
http://www.myspace.com/nosajthing$10
Wednesday June 10 @ 10pm
The Airliner: 2419 N Broadway
323.221.0771
Wednesday June 10 @ 10pm
The Airliner: 2419 N Broadway
323.221.0771
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