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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 [...]

Lucent Dossier’s first night as the house band circus at the Edison goes down tomorrow night.
The Edison is re-introducing and reinventing the spirit of cabaret. Reminiscent of Paris and Berlin of the early 20’s, Wednesday nights the venue is transformed into an exploration of the past — a peek into the decadent, sensuous underbelly [...]

when katie k brought me in to stage manage her fashion show at lucent l’amour 2005 is how this all began. i say the do lab treats experience itself as an artform. 3 years later, it will be a pleasure to experience tomorrow night’s masterpiece.
2005:

2006:

(c) hero & arin ingraham
2008….

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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UPDATE:  PRESALE TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT!!
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
Lumine.Art presents
The Midnight Club
at Bordello Bar
901 East. 1st St.
Los Angeles [...]

If you ain’t never been to the ghetto
Don’t ever come to the ghetto
‘Cause you wouldn’t understand the ghetto
~ Naughty By Nature, “Ghetto Bastard”

used to be that if you were a musician the only way you could get ANY kind of significant distribution for your music was through a record label. cassettes and cds made [...]

and in the same breath as the last post… here’s a plug for the kucoon designs fashion show/party this saturday:
shows are at:
11:30 - kama and caylee
12:15 - kucoon designs

come get your independent fashion fix.
you know you wanna.

i’ll admit right now that this is not what i ought to be writing about.
i’ve been travelling for more of the past month than i’ve been at home, and just coming up with things to write about that i had no time to follow through on. so now that i’ve finally gotten to shower in [...]

this friday i will be part of the Marketing 101 panel at the StartupLA conference, an event “committed to building the startup community in Los Angeles.”
i’m really excited to be a part of it and share my insight, and i’m also excited that the organizers included this panel in the programming. marketing [...]

it’s kind of hard to write a post advocating a sense of balance. it’s easy to get all riled up and energized on preaching some kind of extreme; is it even possible to create a polemic for moderation? i’ve been sitting on this particular post for weeks, unable to summon up the oomph to do [...]