We're starting to wonder if this column is going to be overly Katy Perry-related. Whatever. We like to keep it in the fam, whether it's ours or not. This week's pick is the pro-promiscuity ditty, "Cookie Jar", penned by Katy's current boyfriend, Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes. Actually, we're not sure if it's exactly pro-promiscuity, it may be more of an issue regarding dude's complete and utter failure at being monogamous. That's his bad. With Ms. Perry's boner party credentials, we'd be trying to lock it down.
It's only fitting that Tim Barber's overwhelmingly massive online gallery, Tiny Vices, completely blitzes the city of Los Angeles in support of its newest collection of books. Barber has two events planned for the first week of November: a slideshow and Q&A on the 5th at Family Bookstore on North Fairfax, and a RVCA-sponsored exhibition the following day at Hope Gallery in Echo Park. Both events should take on TIny Vice's free-flowing community-focused aesthetic, which pretty much means you'll be seeing tits (live or photographed) at either event. C'mon, dude was the photo editor over at Vice, what else do you expect?.
Admittedly, we give our friends over at siteLA alot of ink. Or pixels. But we like to think they deserve it because they always do cool shit (and we're right, as always). This coming Wednesday, October 29th, they will be having a show at their Silver Lake space with performances by Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron in support of their recently released collaborative album. The show starts at 8PM and is technically free, but they recommend giving an $8 donation. Pay the cash and make sure to bring some tissues, this show may very well veer into an iceberg made of melancholy.
In our newest series of sporadic posts, our contributors show screengrabs of IM conversations about random things that they wanted to talk about, but were to lazy to write another 150 words for. These are meant to be (hopefully) clever and succinct. 'Nuff said.
"We live in the world that's imagined for us," a teacher once told me that. He was right. The world around us is designed. Everything from the screen you're looking at to the media within it, it's all been thought out. If you extend the notion even further it becomes apparent that very few things in our world exist without the presence of some design. We are quite lucky to live in such an age.
Exploring those avenues of design, artist, educator and developer, Daniel Rozin is on the cutting edge. A citizen of New York, Rozin was first trained as an industrial designer. Later in his life, he would begin to apply these skills elsewhere to create masterful interactive displays using a wide range of differing, unconventional materials. His work characteristically tends to quite literally mirror the lives of its viewers. Rozin's pieces are great examples of the fusion of art and technology that is occurring in our contemporary world. Recently, Rozin's work has found a home alongside many other contemporary designers at the Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, in Madrid. His work is featured in an exhibition entitled "Machines and Souls (above)."
Currently, Daniel Rozin is an associate professor at New York University's cutting-edge Interactive Telecommunications Program, he also owns a small software development company called smoothware design. More info about his life and work can be found here: http://www.smoothware.com/danny/
We didn't have cool parents growing up. Well, they were cool but they weren't listening to cool shit. Everyone has friends whose parents introduced them to Zeppelin and Monk and shit like that. We're not those friends. Our parents introduced us to Phil Collins, Gloria Estefan, and the newest subject of Guilty Pleasure of The Week, Rod Stewart. Sure, the guy was hard as fuck with that "Young Turks" shit, but this catchy ode to self-pity preempts, and pretty much set our ears up for, all the emo we listened to as teens. Oh well, this song still gets to us to this day. Too bad the video made the song even softer. Whoops.
We've been lucky enough to have some great teachers in our respective academic careers. When we meet said teachers, we also tend to go a little overboard with the hero worship. Sometimes this applies to teachers whose classes we didn't even take. This is why we're so excited that Paul Jasmin, the fashion photography professor over at Art Center and the mentor for our close friends, is in the new lookbook for Band of Outsiders. Fuck it, he is the lookbook for Band of Outsiders. You have to give it to him, dude knows what to do in front and behind the lens. We hope that we end up kind of like that guy, drinking cognac out of lowballs while rocking bow ties.
