While in Chicago, the homie Der introduced me to Marco of Golden Age, who besides graciously letting me crash on their floor, gave me an inside peek at this fresh shop.
From their website: "Golden Age is a concept shop that sells publications, music, apparel and other editioned works created by artists. Golden Age makes a statement about an alternative mode of making and selling art; that it can be straightforward, accessible, and moderately priced."
Golden Age
1744 W. 18th Street
Chicago, IL 60608
(312) 850 2574 shopgoldenage.com
Top flick by me; the rest attained from Golden Age.
Chicago looks like this after one too many 312s, with Ride's "Kaleidoscope" ringing in my ears. I'll put up flicks from the straight-edge version on the trip soon.
Leaving for Chicago tomorrow. This video of stars forming by collapse of molecular clouds got me psyched for the trip! Unofficial video for "A Thousand Stars Burst Open" by the Pale Saints here, in case you were wondering...
Got invited to check out Femi Kuti, Santigold and Raphael Saadiq at the Hollywood Bowl over the weekend. As my homie Leon's kids in England would say, it was wicked! Santigold's "Unstoppable" and Femi Kuti's "Day By Day" resonated deeply with me, as did spending the first night of summer breathing in the Hollywood Hills.
Gotta thank the Summer solstice for sending this my way: Awesome use of The Clash's London Calling cassette tape!!! From Iri5'sGhost in the Machine Flickr set.
I linked up with the good people at Little Radio to set up an impromptu (read:last minute) exhibition for last week's Downtown L.A. Art Walk in their Regent Theatre space. Participants included Yem, Kozem, Asylm, and me. Also spotted: A rad shirt by Akuma. Here are some shots, will dig around for more.
Took the new bike out for a spin Friday with Swanky, Cache, and some other Ridazz. We caused a disturbance in the Force, complete with a circle pit at Hollywood and Highland and some serious lecturing by a few of L.A.'s finest.
A while back I came across this on Wallpaper. It made me realize that sometimes all the wrong things can come together to make a perfectly false concept make perfect sense. All you have to do is look at things the right way.
"The students have created a space to inspire informal gatherings of people, in the same way as you would meet spontaneously about town - sitting at the edge of a monument, on a front porch or a flight of stairs. The furniture in the showcase are based on indivdual briefs to create a specific type of furniture. In contrast to what is usually the case in Greenhouse, where many prototypes are for view only, the students have encouraged the visitors to interact with the furniture and the space."
Yeah , I went there. You can now read my nonsense on Twitter as well. As soon as I get a fancy phone I'll be doing it more often. For now, I'll be twittering or whatever its called when I sit at my (cluttered) desk listening to Rock en Español.
Night followed by day in San José: I was geeked that my self-portrait was hangin' next to the dude from Devo, didn't hate on the fixie crowd, found the punkest bar I've ever been to, and stared at a disco ball...
