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Skin.Graft Presents:

Some very dear friends of mine, and some very fabulous clothing designs of theirs.
This Sunday July, 20th
2 - 7 pm
at Skin.Graft HQ:
639 S. Spring St., Studio 4C
Los Angeles, CA. 90014
Ps. Skin.Graft is DEEEEEEP in the design process for their upcoming collection, and this will be the last LA appearance of their current collection. Stuff [...]

In Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between Who We Are and What We Buy, Rob Walker talks about “underground brands”–lifestyle symbols created by independent entrepreneurs. In fact, I actually think it’s easier to think of underground brands as “independent brands,” (cuz what does “underground” really mean, anyway?) much like independent music:
In popular music, independent music, [...]

Just came across a great article in Fast Company about Obscura last night. Many of the Do LaB’s collaborators and friends from the El Circo collective work with this San Francisco multimedia design lab that Fast Company likens to “an alternate universe dreamed up by someone who’s been mainlining Pixy Stix.”
[Obscura] create[s] visual spaces and [...]

Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
- Andy Warhol

It is totally disconcerting to discover a book that pretty much compiles your insights and articulates them back to you. Buying In: The Secret Dialogue [...]

“Is The Tipping Point Toast?” asks the recent FastCompany article in which researcher duncan watts talks about his findings (and their less than exuberant reception) that expose the billion dollars a year marketers spend targeting “influentials” as a waste of money.
i am constantly repeating the phrase that “we buy the brands and products that we [...]

work with an event creations company, and you too will end up producing an event:

it is a pleasure to announce that i will be leading a workshop on february 9th in los angeles to help creative professionals make more effective websites.

musicians, artists, and creative entreprenuers in general tend to share the same requirements for [...]

it used to be that the only way to sell music was on completely useless crap. like weird tape, or dumb plastic discs, or even clunkier vinyl discs. whatever it was, it was something that served absolutely no other utilitarian or aesthetic purpose than simply to host music. then, of course, digital media came along [...]

LA…. it’s been too long…. we shouldn’t have left you without a dope beat to step to….
and so, after an absence of over a year (our last LA event was in october of 2006!) the do lab returns once again to throw down in epic style with Lucent L’amour 2008:

all the info & tickets [...]

now that new year’s eve is over, you’re thinking about what you’re doing with the first weekend of 2008.
i’ll tell you what….

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Sunday, January 6, 2008
Lumine.Art presents
The Midnight Club
at Bordello Bar
901 East. 1st St.
Los Angeles [...]

you know, i didn’t even used to care about the music industry. i could vibe on its culturally-relevant aspects, but the industry of the music industry was never all that interesting to me. it was always just this thing…over there. somewhere else. the concert industry, which i have been involved with for a while, is [...]