Jocelyn Marsh wearing headdress by Tiffa Novoa. Image: Brion Topolski, 2005 Right now all across America there is a feather shortage. In April, The Billings Gazette reported: Jewelry-makers and hairstylists have been snatching up the premium chicken feathers used in standby trout-fly patterns, creating a sudden run on a market that’s ill-prepared for significant fluctuations [...]
In April 2007, Italian Vogue featured an editorial spread by photographer Steven Meisel, entitled “The Greatest Show On Earth,” which featured members of L.A. circus troupe, Lucent Dossier: The current, September 2009, issue of Italian Vogue features an editorial spread by Steven Meisel entitled “Performance,” and involving a gaggle of cross-dressed models done up in [...]
Been missing in action over here cuz I’ve been working on the site launch and onsale for The Do LaB’s first event of 2009: I’m stoked on the event. It’s unlike anything the Do LaB has ever done before. We’re closing down a street and throwing a block party style music festival in Downtown L.A. [...]
Britney Spears has a new album out today, and guess what it’s called: That’s right! Britney Spears’ new album is called Circus, and this is incredibly interesting to me. Once upon a time, I used to be the production manager for a circus called Lucent Dossier– This troupe is actually part of a whole larger [...]
Downtown and upscale meet underground–not figuratively, I mean, the actual venue itself is below ground level. Lucent nights at the Edison made the LA Times Guide section: Berlin in the 1920s. London in the swinging ’60s. Los Angeles in 2008? Believe it: seductive and wild nights are right here in L.A., if you know where [...]
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 [...]
The Do LaB’s longtime friends and collaborators Shrine and TukTuk (who built the wonderful trash teahouse at LIB this year) are the masterminds behind Basura Sagrada, the team building the 2008 Temple at Burning Man, and the name for the temple itself. This Thursday at DNA Lounge in San Frnacisco they will be hosting a [...]
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