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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 decidedly [...]

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. It’s [...]

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 Circus performance subculture that [...]

It’s gonna likely be a little quiet here for a coupla weeks as I am heading out to Boston today to spend some time with the fam. Then it’s off to New York, where at All Points West Music Festival The Do LaB will be turning this:

into this:

I’ll be in NY from August 4-10, and [...]

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 to look.
Bi-monthly [...]

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 [...]

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 fundraiser [...]

in real life, this was one of the most unbelievable views i’d ever seen.

Lightning in a Bottle is in a week, and i have no time to write anything else, but check out this issue of the Artist Network. it’s all about stories so that’ll absolutely keep you entertained in the meantime. i will get back to having time to be more insightful after may 28th.
thank you to [...]