social-creature

My friends over at Skin.Graft Designs just discovered some way shady thief has been blatantly recreating exact replicas of their original clothing designs and selling them on Second Life.
Skin.Graft Designs Originals:

Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs:

Skin.Graft Designs Originals:

Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs:

This is the first I’ve ever heard of anything like this, though I’m getting the feeling it [...]

A quick little break in the travelling silence just to mention that Post-War Trade, the “democratic future of merchandising” dreamed up by Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls, and produced by Katie Kay–indisputably two of the savviest, sassiest lasses I know, whom it was my pleasure to introduce a few years back–is now, finally, up [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

a few weeks ago allan amato opened up his studio to take portraits of all his friends, and this is what i got for stopping by:

which doesn’t even look like a portrait of me, so much as a peice of art that allan made and i just happen to be one of the colors he [...]

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 [...]