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OK – please don’t call me predictable, but I’m throwing a little Lo’s List ♥’s Murakami Party – just because: he’s fresh and summery and it’s hot outside! So: first up, the collab’ with “it bag” maître, Louis Vuitton… I’ve never been too into the bags, but love the many other innovations that have come out of the partnership…
You must listen to Flying Lotus. The mastermind beat-making great-nephew of music legend Alice Coltrane, Steven Ellison puts together some very eclectic & modern beats, full of pixel-ish samples that spark a hint of nostalgia for more than a few of us 80’s Nintendo generation kids. I doubt you’ll make it through half of “1983″ without shaking your tail feathers or breakdancing on your kitchen floor…
You’ve got to check out this collection of adorable oddities over at Pen Pencil Stencil! Mark Giglio grew up drawing, painting, skateboarding and surfing and his fresh, light-hearted SoCal vibe is perfectly captured in drawings of pirates with pencil peg-legs, pencil hands, pencils in a bind and tessellating pencil wallpapers (just save the image and tile it)…
Kung Fu-fighting, helmet-donning, Rice Krispie-noshing Matt Furie is as wonderfully bizarre as his illustrations of mismatched critters making love, Sesame Street posers, and impeccably fuzzy monster families out for a weekend stroll…
My good friend (and incredibly talented photographer) Will Steacy will be premiering his latest body of work, Down These Mean Streets, tomorrow at the Gulf and Western Gallery in downtown Manhattan. The show runs from June 4th – August 8th so if you’re in the area you should absolutely swing by the gallery and check out the stunning collection…
Music producer and My Ninja! founder Peter Hong was kind enough to hook Lika and me up with some super-fun tees during the Map the Soul show at Irving Plaza last week…