I am the Creative Director at Media Temple. I I live and work in Los Angeles, California where I also run the Los Angeles chapter of Creative Mornings.
I am really looking forward to January’s edition of LosAngeles/CreativeMornings with National Forest. I’ve been an admirer of their work for years now and I have a few pieces of Steven Harrington’s work in my “collection.” I stopped by their studio the other day to take some pics and chat with them up the upcoming event. They really couldn’t have been nicer guys and anyone who is coming to see them speak on the 20th is in for a treat. RSVPs open up on 1/16 at 11am.
Last Thursday night we had our second Creative Mornings at night. This time our speaker was the legendary Roger Gastman. Gastman has been at the forefront of street art and graffiti for years and years. He founded the magazines While Your Were Sleeping and Swindle, he was one of the produces and creative consultant for Exit Through The Gift Shop, he co-curated the Art in the Street show at MOCA and he recently wrote The History of American Graffiti. His talk was a short history of how he got where he is today, including bank-rolling a European trip, and most of his early business success, by selling graffiti caps. We’ll be posting a video of his talk on the LACM Vimeo page in the next couple of weeks.
Thanks to everyone who turned up. We had a big crowd and many thanks to Willard Ford at Ford & Ching for getting this all going.
I started my new job this week. I am working as Creative Director at Media Temple in Culver City. So far, so great. I am working with an insanely talented and smart team of people and we’re working on some big changes. I’ve been a devoted (mt) customer for years and, after being inside the walls there, I am even more impressed with the company. They’ve lived up to the high expectations I had.
I had the pleasure of dining at Son of a Gun last night and it was damn good – shrimp toast, lobster rolls, mahi dip, dark and stormies and coconut porter all around. Mr. The Fox Is Black himself (Bobby Solomon) organized a little designy “bro” evening for myself, Justin of Aquarium Drunkard, Alec (one of TFIB contributors and sadly a Liverpool supporter – yet a supporter nonetheless) and Damien Correll who was in town from NYC. Hopefully, it’s the first of many evenings like this. I highly recommend checking out that restaurant and, even more so, clicking on all those talented dude’s links above.
Generationals live at the Echo from jon setzen on Vimeo.
2011 is shaping up to be a banner year for music. So many good records have come out: Bon Iver, Black Lips, McCartney reissue, etc. One record I have been listening to for months is “Actor-Caster” by Generationals. It’s a great summery pop record which just doesn’t get old. I went to see them the other week at The Echo and definitely would go back to see them again – a perfect show for a Summer night – goes well with Red Stripe. Check out their album.
