HAPPENING
Looking at the photographs currently on display at the trendy Blk/Mrkt Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles you get the feeling that here we have a photographer who, as a teenager, looked more at the Kiss album c...
PEOPLE
As a young artist, Los Angeles based Yoffy has already grasped the basics of making it in the fickle art business. With a short, one word name, Yoffy has already become a brand, a label that sticks to his sleek, minim...
HAPPENING
It was a scene at the opening of Margaret Kilgallen grand retrospective at the Redcat Gallery in downtown L.A. The contrast couldn't have been greater: the outside of the gallery a metal object (the famous Gehry desig...
PLACE
826LA in Venice CA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. After 826 Va...
HAPPENING
Graffiti has been with us for decades - and a drive around pretty much any urban environment in the world is testament that the artform is here to stay. Now a fat book and a big show in Los Angeles is paying the long ...
PEOPLE
It sounds like the latest cereal offering, an 80's animation series or some kind of gay goth band. Well, wrong. Behind the unusual name Rainbows & Vampires hides a duo of respectable animation talents cum music vi...
PEOPLE
Larry Sultan's "The Valley" photographic series explores the middle-class homes of the San Fernando Valley — and the porn industry that rents these homes for use as film sets. Born in Brooklyn and raised in the Valley...
THINGS
It's a media world and more and more we are dominated by the soundbyte-sized, flash-animated, scrollable and channel-surfing kind of information distribution. Nothing against it but it is nice to know that there are p...
PLACE
Zurich/Switzerland is not just birthplace of the Dada Art movement but an important place for the world domination of the classic constructivist graphic design (think Helvetica and the grid system) and home for many s...
HAPPENING
That L.A. based illustration mavericks Kozyndan (a couple named Kozy and Dan) have new work shown at the Giant Robot Store is no accident. The duo contributes regularly to Giant Robot magazine and GR has returned the ...
THINGS
While New Yorkers are blessed with a wide selection of good and cutting edge publications, the crop on the West Coast is rather minimal. There are some good magazines coming from San Francisco but it seems that SoCal ...
