I just went down the weirdest YouTube vortex and ended up here.

Directors: Sally Cruikshank, David Ehrlich, Candy Kugel, Maureen Selwood, Bill Plympton, Mati Kutt, Priit Parn, Riho Unt, Hardi Volmer, Borivoj Dovnikovic, Nikola Majdak, Josko Marusic, Dusan Vokotic, Jiri Barta, Pavel Kovtsky, Jan Svankmajer, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Renzo Kinoshita and Osamu Tezuka

Countries: USA/Yugoslavia/СССР (Estonia)/Czechoslovakia/Japan

Photograph by Jamie Hawkesworth. Styled by Benjamin Bruno

Article here.

My love for both Low, and The Smiths is well documented. So you can see why I love this cover.

2001

The Boy in The Bubble by Paul Simon
Graceland, 1986

1981

Watched Stardust Memories last night; a Fellini-esque Woody Allen movie.  Not sure if I have a bigger crush on Charlotte Rampling or Woody Allen in this one…

We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.
-John Waters

Perhaps you’ve already heard about Pacific Standard Time, especially if you’re a Southern California resident.  If not, check out their site and start planning what events and exhibitions you want to go to!

“Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene. Beginning October 2011, over 60 cultural institutions will make their contributions to this region-wide initiative encompassing every major L.A. art movement from 1945 to 1980.”

I’m super excited about these upcoming shows and events in and around LA. I suppose I should also mention that my jewelry line is going to be featured in the Orange County Museum of Art’s shop in conjunction with their Two Schools of Cool exhibit and State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, which is their contribution to Pacific Standard Time. I’m currently working on a batch of one-of-a-kind pieces for them, mainly with vintage materials.