Alex Knost is one of the most influential surfers these days, has ridden the comp. circuit seeing little point in them. So recently he has been doing this thing in Newport Beach and is just happening to be changing the way we all look at surfing.
He is also in the band The Japanese Motors which are very surf/beach cultured sound and based out of Costa Mesa. It also happens that Costa Mesa has this awesome club called Avalon Bar which we hit up last friday.Ye, check it for sure if your in the area.
Jeremy Scott has his new line out, Opulence and the pieces definitely reflect that. Each piece reflects luxury items including the use of credit cards, Rolls-Royce, personal librarys, grandfather clocks, fur animal print and so on.
Jeremy Scott attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn he established his label in Paris before returning to America. Celebs love his creative, comical and sometimes flamboyant patterns, some who have been known to wear his creations are Paris Hilton, Madonna, Lindsay Lohan, Kanye West and his good friends Cory Kennedy and the Ed Banger Crew.
I finally got a hold of some of the looks Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is doing for H&M. They are classically a “Comme des Garçons” look however it seems less technical than her Comme des Garçons or Comme des Garçons Homme lines. I got a chance to attend the CDG Gorilla store in Downtown LA and it was nothing less than amazing, the interior design was very modern, mechanical post modern-ish. The walls were while ceramic tiles with brushed stainless steel clothings racks with vintage instruments and shelvings. There also seemed to be shopping cart installations raising 20 ft in height in the middle of the store. Also be noted Dover Court Market is also associated with CDG.
I have been meaning to blog about the designer Steve Alan but have never really got around to it. While strolling around Venice we headed down Abbot Kenney in Venice Beach we came across Steve Alan store. Steve Alan’s store resembled the A.P.C. flagship store in SoHo NYC. It had a rustic cabin coziness. The colors were natural and earthly with unfinished hardwood all while keeping a slight influence of a “beach house”.
Steve Alan is located:
1601 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
310-452-3413
One of the standout aspect of Steve Alan’s designs are the wonderful tailoring and unique but simplistic choice of textiles
Yesterday we were strolling down Robertson the other day shopping and living the dream in LA and sure enough the paparazzi were in full force chasing peeps and taking photos of the famous doing everyday things when they all started booking it to the gas station taking super photos. Sure enough it was Sienna Miller filling up her car. I found photos of the event on z17online.com so check them. On Robertson we checked Kitson, WeSc among others.
Keep up to date here with more photos of LA and my super adventures involving Siggraph, LA, Beverly Hilly, Santa Monica, NewPort beach and everything else fun.
Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. In the early 1990’s a loose-knit group of like minded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the “establishment” art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture. Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on the telling of personal stories…speaking to themes of what happens when the outside becomes “in” as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today’s youth.
Being inspired by SoCal’s skate culture Comme des Garçons’ Gorilla store in LA which opened in Febuary has done a commemorative / inspirational kinda deal with designing the graphics for 3 LMTD EDition decks. There were only 100 made costing $80, considerably VERY reasonable for a pro deck X CDG design .
The CDG LA store is located 125 West 4th Street Suite #106 LA Tel. 1 213 626 6606.
An update on Emocapsule.com, with great news our group has been ACCEPTED to take part in SIGGRAPH 2008 being hosted in LA. We will be presenting the week of August 11 - 15 at Los Angeles Convention Centre. This is big news, for those unaware as to what SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) is a Internation Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactivity Techniques which is being hosted at the LA Convention Center during August 11 - 15 2008. In 2005 25 000 people attended the conference, this is something to be pumped about being accepted to.
EmoCapsule is a study of interactivity. Participants influence the installation by inputting their emotions at emocapsule.com. The website provides users with emotional statistics and trends based on frequency, location, and weather information collected. The installation is dynamically updated to reflect the dominant emotional mood.
Visitors interact with the current emotional state of the EmoCapsule installation - depicted through sound, text, and colour. Participants move and catch emotion words using their own silhouette and other objects. Participants make loud noises, triggering the installation to emit reactive sounds and display new words. These form a sort of conversation between the user and the installation space.
So if you will please check out Emocapsule.com and or the SIGGRAPH website. With Love JSHAW and the EmoCapsule Team
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