Made this yesterday. My first attempt at a video for music on iMovie. It's just not the same as Final Cut Pro, but I'm no pro.

LB Boutiques: Imonni

Store Imonni (2106 E 4th St)

Model Yoshi Sudarso

Photos Me

With less than 30 minutes, we had to make do with doodoo (circumstances).

THIRD THURSDAY MIXTAPE

Third Thursday by cubtrina

Pre-Thanksgiving mix

1. Star Slinger – Family Friend
2. The 88 – Coming Home
3. Tokyo Police Club – Favourite Food
4. Little Dragon – Ritual Union
5. Nina Simone – Feeling Good
6. The Cranberries – Ode to My Family
7. Joy Division – Ceremony (live)
8. Amon Tobin – Easy Muffin
9. Teebs – Cook, Clean, Pay the Rent
10. Madvillain – Meat Grinder
11. Poolside – Harvest Moon (Neil Young cover)
12. ABBA – Thank You For the Music
13. The Byrds – Times They Are A Changin’
14. GOBBLE GOBBLE – Where Is My Mind? (Pixies Blasphemy)

“Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.” — Sarah Bernhardt

I haven't been this happy for this amount of time. It's the timing of everything leading up to 11|11|11, or so I'd like to think. Even as the Ethics at the Beach speaker on speed said, it's all about your thinking. If deception works, then so be it. It's that little push we need in life.

Then again, I think it has more to do with my environment. Ironically, the people around me have finally found their own happiness from within. It kind of rolls over to me.

My life is crazier than any blog I post, but it's good to downplay things. I don't need to talk about the weird coincidences and blessings in life, since I have a secret email account where I archive all the synchronicities. It usually starts with a screenshoot or photo with an explanation, like on this thing!

But how weird! Someone who hasn't talked to me in so long decided to IM me just now, saying how he wants to give up on life. I hope he positively copes with the madness that life hands to us. I usually deal with my troubles through arts and craps, like that random collage of quirky beings I cut up from science.

Albert Einstein said, "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

I'm not being progressive with this song choice, seeing how it's about people who aren't fun-loving, but it really reflects the unintentional downers who must be left behind with the times:

Refinery29 horoscope is spot on for Gemini:

It’s been a long time since you’ve felt this good, so revel in it. You have a lot to be thankful for.

Yet today my professor said how he used to write horoscopes at a newspaper and how trivial it was.

Lengthy Black Dress (Part 1)

Photos from Planet Blues, Bullett Magazine, Lust for Life, American Gold, IDLM, etc.

Q&A with terrarium jewelry designers

A 2010 interview with industrial and interior designer Hafsteinn Juliusson

How do you phonetically pronounce your name?

It would be something like this for English speakers: Hafstaidn Youliusson.

What is your occupation?

Design director at HAF

How would you describe your design concepts from the edible Slim Chips to the exhibition on wheels?

They are lighthearted and fun with an important message.

How are the Growing Project's concept and physical items themselves being kept alive?

It's up to the owner of the jewelry to take care of the plants, and to replace them once they die. [Growing Jewelry] itself is all about reconnecting people with nature and embracing your own nature as it being the real value in life.

Like with Growing Project, how do you enable your creativity to flourish?

Through people and concepts. It's a nice job to be a designer, but the main thing that motivates me is to relate to society with my creations. I like to see [my projects] come alive.

A recent interview with Brooklynite photographer Sharon Goldberg.

Tell us a little about yourself.

To start off, my name is Sharon and I live in Brooklyn, NY. Besides creating With Roots, I am a photographer and photo retoucher. You can find my photo work here. I love riding my bike, traveling everywhere and taking fun photos of my friends being ridiculous.

How did With Roots come about?

With Roots was born in January of 2011 when I was making customized terrariums for a close friend's birthday. He loved the terrariums so much, he told me he wished he could wear them! For some reason that sentence lingered in my head, and I figured out a way to make it happen.

Have you seen Hafsteinn Juliusson's Project Grow from last year?

Yes! Their stuff is amazing! Since I've started With Roots, many friends have sent me links to other variations of live jewelry, and there is some fantastic and creative stuff out there.

Would you say that you have a green thumb?

I like to think I have a green thumb. I think I get it from my mom; her house is full of plants and lots of orchids. She is amazing when it comes to having a green thumb.

Have you thought about making rings?

I'd love to make rings! I've been searching out ways to make it possible for a while now. Nothing has struck me as just the right idea yet, but I'm working on it!

Do you have a favorite flower?

My absolute favorite flower is lilac. Growing up, we had a huge lilac tree on the side of our house. They're only in bloom for about two weeks out of the whole year, making them extra special.

*Photos from HAF and Sharon Goldberg

(RE)LAUNCHING AN ONLINE SHOP COME NOVEMBER. I HOPE YOU'LL REMEMBER!

TARTAN CONTROL

Cacharel slim fit shirt, $175
Vivienne Westwood Anglomania wrap skirt, £235
Dr. Martens dr martens boots, 150 CAD
MTWTFSS Weekday black hat, €20
Oversized wayfarer sunglasses, $410
T By Alexander Wang Jersey Sweater - Feathers - farfetch.com, $152

pal mixtape

Originally titled PALMS, but the track list wouldn't have been easy listening. I still dedicate this mixtape to all the mothers out there with MS or young boys with Cerebal palsy. I don't know of any, but like these songs by animal-themed bands, I've heard of them. Soundcloud

1 Big Spider's Back - Don't Make Me Laugh
2 Miniature Tigers - The Very Thought of You (Cover)
3 Giraffage - Moments
4 Beaver & Krause - Changes
5 Moths - Hearts
6 Glowbug - Where Is My Mind? (Cover)
7 Sondre Lerche - Modern Nature
8 Miniature Tigers - Cannibal Queen
9 Deerhunter - Desire Lines
10 Beach House - Zebra
11 Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
12 Little Dragon - Blinking Pigs
13 Pandr Eyez - Little Bit
14 Gold Panda - I'm With You But I'm Lonely

"I don't want to destroy your tank top, let's be friends and just walk away." - Weezer's "Undone"

There were too many modelesque citizens at LA FNO that I couldn't catch 'em all! The rest were mingling among their little circles or just plain unapproachable.. but I managed to snap some horrible quality photos of the lux style choices:

Sir Mac

Cut out so in!

Phillip Lim at Phillip Lim

Chanel at Chanel

"I can run away and leave you here to stay inside dreaming." - Cults' "Oh My God"

A sporadic account in less than one breath:

Millions.. well too many hepstahs scoured through the Los Angeles Historic Park for the annual FYF Fest to honor the musical dust bowl of the decade. Oliver Twists traveled in packs while dancing in circles, never minding anything but the music and other bare necessities. Oh, and the Bear Republic flag hovered over a few teen boys to mark their every location. Oh, and dead (or just dirty) babies on a stick moved in a disorderly fashion.

Smith Westerns were adorbs and entertaining lolito boys. Their three moneymaker songs, according to frontman Cullen Omori, included sensually rifted and lyrically charming hit “The Weekend.” Like fellow vamp Cullen, he was pale with brunette hair and Elvis noodleg moves.

Cult’s lead vocalist Madeline Follin sang more baby than usual. The Columbia Record deal has probably gone to her mop head. The ‘60s love goddess tra-la-la’d to old songs like “Oh My God” and “Go Outside” and new songs “Abducted.”

I was complete after these two. I’ve either already seen the rest of the musicians or just no longer wanted to. But I’m glad I stayed and got blown away by Nosaj Thing. The lanky Korean American killed the stage with hypnotic visuals that added to the trance-inducing electronic sounds of perfection and bliss. Chilly outdoors + the chills!

Simian Mobile Disco brought the glow sticks and dance groove circles. The hexagon lights and sound mixer in the center only amplified “Hustler,” “Cruel Intentions,” “Sleep Deprivation.” The audience would withhold the applause in order to protest for more. This is where I saw men take out their plastics and took the last of their fungi.

Four Tet was near the porta potties.. what a picnic!

Girls had an intimate love song session with a mix of people and soul backup singers, such as a man as tall as a lighthouse. They opened with hit “Lust for Life,” “Laura” and old songs. They also ended with an old song heart wrenching and epic “Hellhole Ratrace.”

This year’s fest is a leap from the previous years in that it no longer looks like a hipster internment camp of people waiting in line for the restroom, foods and water fountains. I’ve been going for the last three years, free of charge, and it surely has kicked the dusty previous year in the keister! For the record, I've been pretty sober from beginning to end.

Related posts: FYF 2010

"The pain inside my neck is leavin' leavin' and then we sit on the grass and oh!" -- No Age -"Boy Void"

MacArthur Park + gentrification?!

Here ye, here ye:

No Flag. Dukowski. Morris. Randall. Spunt. One Night. Thursday, July 21st, 2011.

Brought to you by FYF.

P.S. Free soyrizo tacos from Food Not Bombs!

Rear view of Heaven's Gate gathering

Lay's to get laid?

Mike Gao's long lost brother?

No Age's drummer vocalist Dean Spunt

Hey, aren't you that figure from Legends of the Hidden Temple?

The real dougie and Black Flag's Keith and Chuck!

Take that HP!

Scapul-ahhs, medial borders and inferior angles!

I have not seen No Age live since 2008!

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." -George S. Patton

Project in the making! Many thanks to my mild emotional distress symptom (MEDS). I've grown too comfortable with expressing myself through words, so it's nice to revert to my primal agoraphobic and impulsive instincts and speak through arts and craps.