we got spirit, how bout you

a look back at a month undiscovered online

okay, so what has been missed. thanksgiving!!!!!!!!! there was pie, and potatoes, red wine, and grappa. there has been football and new tires, the troubadour, the pinkberry. an all-girls holiday party (not drinking until after xmas, so that was interesting. i love girly cocktails. i believe the girltail of the night was titled a "sugar plum fairy." who wouldn't want to toast with one of those?)

Also: I have a beef with LA hipsters at the moment. I got invited to a Christmas sweater party. Apparently, so did everyone else in the city because not one of the 3 boroughs and 10 stores I traveled to had a sweater left that would suit my ironic needs. Thank god for a real 80s woman, my friend Coco's Mother, who supplied me with a killer faded poinsettia sweatshirt. I like to think I won something at that party. I was also informed that the reason  the entirety of LA County is so called "hipster" is because they started it. Thank god I'm going home to Maine for Christmas. Where the lining of your levi's are flannel plaid to keep out the cold. (i <3 llbean)

california's progressive education

My friend Coco invited me to an elves faire. Having just bought an iphone, with no previous experience using T9 word, I mistakenly texted back: "slaves feast?"

(On a slightly crass side note: I typed in "oooooooooooh" and T9 suggested "pooped.")

I've thrown the haggis during the Scottish Highland Festival, twirled the ribbon wands at Renaissance Fairs, and now I can say I've seen John C. Reilly get down with his folk-singing self at The Waldorf School of Altadena's Elves Faire.

Not only were there millions of garden gnomes on the grounds, there were kids. Tons and tons of kids. Not only that: they were happy kids. I found this bizarre. What normal kids love school?

Maybe it's that I had found myself at a progressive learning environment that throws a hippy-dippy celebration decorated like a lord of the rings playground.

I was quite happy. The air was cool and crisp, the vegan ketchup was pink and actually made of beets, and there were tons and tons of baked goods. Including the best cupcake I've ever had: It was a dark-chocolate gluten free concoction that cost me three tickets.

Oh, how could I forget to mention that I'd found about 15 free tickets. Finders keepers you sweet little waldorf twits.

And because I've just realized I managed to exclude most of the children from my photographs, here's one just to prove that in fact they were there and not in my head:

And who doesn't want to watch a 5-year old's attempts at jousting over and over and over and over......

Here's the poor kid's third try:

reflections on brian eno

i grew up with the understanding that eno was a music god, once dressing up as roxy music eno with a cardboard synth tied around my neck and a velvet suit. researching my next film project, i came across his video art, and i have to give credit to this zeus of "video painting"

A link to his 14 Video Paintings (1981 & 1984)


some inspirational stills:

the Ann Arbor film festival is also coming to LA! The 16mm showing will be on Sunday at the Egyptian theatre. An old professor of my mine, Rob Todd, from Emerson has a film in the festival and I suggest taking a look. More information and tickets at lafilmforum

liquid light projections

2 days previous to this day, this glorious Friday in which I will see Harry Potter, my bosses asked me to research and perform some liquid light show projections.

after running around in search of mineral oil, an oil soluble dye (I came up with candle dye cause i had one of those great moments where the lightbulb stays on), and this crazy set of neon food coloring, i went to work with the crew. the 1960s came alive....kinda. my dad texted me telling me to get a xmas tree rotating light to make the glass spin. i had no idea what the hell that even was.







there will be much more of this to come in my life. let's say it's a calling. working on an idea for a super8 film about a west coast liquid sunset. we shall see.

Oh, and of course, more pics on flickr

hip static

I have just blessed myself with the gift of the iPhone4. I also downloaded the hipstamatic app and will be blessing the general audience of this blog with the ability to look at some of my faves



Oh yeah baby, it's hip static

creepy laughing dolls at work

so, moving from bad karaoke to failblog to this on the youtube chain of events.........



never been so happy to be an adult

monday reds

First off, let me just announce the flickr account is underway and filling up. More Brewery/POSSIBLE photos:

And because of my love for pinkberry, I'm dedicating an album to my experiences with fro-yo:

Friday: Michelle Macedo played a killer set in Pasadena. Check out her album Flags and Boxes. This girl is seriously talented. I took the photo for her single, Collect My Thoughts,  looky-looky:

These were some alternates:

Saturday: Walked around the Americana at Brand. Its goddamn Disney land for adults. stationary stores, woman pushing strollers that contain their mini yap dogs, aggressive kiosk attendants, frank sinatra mysteriously playing from every corner, and a fountain alluding to the ultimate adult playground: Vegas. Went with my friend Daniel whose harsh gab makes me giggle. Example: "That girl needs to take care of that 'stache. I can see it through my friggin sunglasses." We ate pinkberry then......Cheesecake Factory. Other than the fact they serve water out of disgusting plastic beer mugs....not bad. I wonder where the servers all find their white pants. Gentrification: check+

Sunday: Brunch @ Tart near the Grove. Good food, hot waiter.

Football Sunday with the Pats vs. Steelers game. Was served oysters on the half shell, crawfish boil, and crazy good guacamole. Never celebrated Americana in such a fashionable way.

Dunes and Best Coast @ Troubadour. Love that venue except that it highlights the hipster aspects of my interests. ive never seen so much indian spirit holding plaid in one place

now back to work......

if i could be this badass

while stalking filmmaker Harmony Korine across de interweb, I came across his short film for Proenza Shouler.

This is what I'm talking about Los Angeles!! Where do I find you?

Some Screen Shots:

Reminds me of both early 90s Perry Ellis campaigns and Věra Chytilová's Daisies.....