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  • "Tree Burst"

  • "Victorian Daydream"

  • "Autumn Star"

  • "The Little Garden"

  • "Candy Apple"

  • "Scarlett"

  • "Empty Cage"

  • "Grace"

  • "Luella"

  • "Lily Pad"

  • "Astor"

  • "Tree Burst"

  • "Victorian Daydream"

  • "Autumn Star"

  • "The Little Garden"

  • "Candy Apple"

  • "Scarlett"

  • "Empty Cage"

  • "Grace"

  • "Luella"

  • "Lily Pad"

  • "Astor"

June 15, 2009

tony curtis at the million dollar theater

On Saturday, we were lucky enough to see a screening of "Houdini", starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, at the beautiful Million Dollar Theater downtown.  The screening was part of the Jules Verne Festival and before the movie started, we got to see a live performance of Houdini's water torture trick (by escape artisit Curtis Lovell II) and - a Q&A with Tony Curtis!

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The theater itself was really amazing... it's the oldest theater in Los Angeles, and one of the Broadway theaters renovated by The Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation, the only non-profit organization in the area dedicated to theater preservation and revitalization...

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And what does the Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days) Festival have to do with all of this you ask?  I wondered the same thing at first, but it turns out that Tony Curtis was awarded the Jules Verne Legendaire Award, which is "dedicated to exploration, conservation and education through imagination." wow.
I also wanted to share these amazing Jules Verne covers I found on wikipedia while I was adding the link...
beautiful...

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June 10, 2009

NYLON party

NYLON Magazine's annual music issue launch party was this past Monday... the Ting Tings were the headliners and as always, there were lots of interesting people - and fashion!
I especially liked this top hat and tails outfit...
(yep, that's a dude)

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June 08, 2009

birthday cake and a melody gin

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Melody Gin - courtesy LA Times
Isn't it funny how you can go for days and days without a single interesting activity and then all of a sudden there's a massive deluge of stuff to do every night for weeks on end?!  Well that's what's been happening here lately, and I think it started with that trip to the opera... (wow, who knew a trip to the opera could do such a thing!)  There's way too much to detail here, so I'll just hit the highlights. After the opera, we spent several nights viewing films outdoors, 2 of which were at Hollywood Forever, where we picnicked and watched Hitchcock's "To Catch A Thief" one night and Richard Linklater's "Dazed and Confused" the next... it was so - much - fun...
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Grace Kelly & Cary Grant in "To Catch A Thief"
(as projected on an outdoor wall)
...and then the next thing I knew... it was my birthday!

On the big day I had lunch at Chateau Marmont, which is always a big treat, followed by an exciting day filled with good friends and happy celebrations.  I did the LACMA art walk at the Craft and Folk Art Museum on Saturday where I met some really cool fellow artists and crafters, and had just an all around great day. And on Sunday, some friends threw me a birthday party... and what a party it was!  Actually, it was a party for me, but it was also a Dewanatron show (slash) magic act (slash) interactive post-it-note-art-experience, complete with champagne flavored cake. wow.  And the whole shindig was covered by NYLON and the LA Times... again, wow...

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Brian Dewan, Rob Zabrecky, Tim Maloney - courtesy LA Times
(and check out that spoon art!)
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Me, Rebecca Tull - courtesy LA Times
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Brian Dewan, Me, Leon Dewan - courtesy Mark Blackwell
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Syd Lynch - courtesy LA Times
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Lisa Bae & friend- courtesy LA Times
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Cake! - courtesy LA Times
It's about now, I imagine, that you've started wondering about the Dewanatron... a remarkable invention that you need to experience in person to order to fully appreciate.  Since we can't really do that here, I've posted the Times article below, which describes its
eloquence and uniqueness quite nicely.

Continuing the fun, the next day we had a SpoonFed Art photo shoot, so look for some new photos with a lovely new model and a new website design, all coming soon.  And to wrap up the extended SpoonFed Art/birthday/Dewanatron weekend, we watched "Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey", an interesting little documentary about the inventor of the first electronic synthesiser instrument...

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Last week was full of great adventures too, including an enchanting evening of magic and cabaret with my friend Rob Zabrecky, Handsome Jack, Derek DelGaudio and the incredibly lovely and talented Lindsay Benner.  It was my first time seeing Lindsay, and I was thoroughly thrilled... she was amazing
I was also lucky enough to be invited to a little comedy club located in an alley in Santa Moncia where I saw
my friend
(and former SpoonFed Art model) Pamela Walt perform stand-up for the very first time... and she was great!  It most definitely takes talent and lots of guts to do stand-up, and Pamela has both - (way to go Pam!!!)

And so, after all of that, the NYLON Magazine party is tonight in Hollywood.  And there's even more coming up this week.  Whew... when it rains, it pours! 
(...thank goodness!)
 
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*Shine on, Dewanatron*
By Dean Kuipers, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 1, 2009
If you've got a melody gin, it only takes two little musical tones to make a song, a really good party, or even a strange and ever-changing career as a musician. Sunday night at Ghettogloss gallery in Silver Lake, the duo known as Dewanatron made a rare appearance with their handmade instruments, pulled together a bunch of L.A.-based musicians and a birthday cake, and left the local hip-oisie gaping in wonder.

"Much like a cotton gin weaves together strands to make cloth, the melody gin weaves together a melody," explained Leon Dewan in between sets. One half of Dewanatron, Leon makes the "guts" of their handmade analogue electronic instruments, while his cousin Brian Dewan makes the cabinets. Leon's father was an inventor and worked with high-voltage equipment. "It's better to work with low-voltage, solid-state parts," nodded Leon, "and not risk death every day."

The Dewans' melody gins come in various sizes and shapes – some, like the Dual Primate Console, are too big to transport easily. Others are gallery installations or meant to hang on walls, where they generate tones on their own. Leon explained that the particular gin he was playing that night, which was about the size of an old reel-to-reel tape machine, generated sets of two toggling tones – up to sixteen total – that could then be modified with banks of knobs and dampening keys.

At full roar, the Dewanatron experience howled and warbled with demented mid-1960s fervor, all simple rhythms laced up with complex and freakish electronic wails, a retrofuturistic journey to the reinvention of the synthesizer.

The Dewans were joined by screenwriter Mark Blackwell on guitar; filmmaker Paul Yates on his own Dewan-built melody gin; bassist Jim Robbins; Drivin' n Cryin' drummer Jeff Sullivan; Tim Maloney on incidental violin, trumpet and guitar; plus other folks on electric dulcimers and found percussion, and Tommy Jordan banging spoons all over the place.

Spoons, in fact, were the motif of the evening, with silver spoons arranged on the walls, as the night also celebrated the birthday of Spoonfed Art proprietor Karin Collins. Her jewelry, based on spoons (www.spoonfedart.com), has been featured in about a zillion publications including Nylon, Health, Jane and L.A. Weekly, and is available at the Ghettogloss boutique.

Magician Rob Zabrecky, formerly in Silver Lake band Possum Dixon, even kicked the night off with a card trick and some illusions. Which were really good and worked even in lights so dim you could hardly see. What more do you want from a Sunday night?

May 21, 2009

a strawberry muffin morning

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Hello!
I decided to treat myself this morning so I went by Joan's for
coffee and a strawberry muffin... man it was good! 
Things are shaking up here, both literally and figuratively!  We've had 3 earthquakes in a row now and I've been planning some changes that should shake things up even more...
(more on that later...)
Believe it or not, I'm off to get ready for a trip to the opera tonight... I've never been before so I don't really know what to expect... I'll definitely let you know how it goes -
and a big Happy Birthday to my sweet friend Ginny!
Hope your day was as spectacular as you are -
xoxo!

May 15, 2009

celestial ash

I went by the Craft and Folk Art Museum shop today to drop off some inventory and ended-up walking through the current exhibit, "Celestial Ash: Assemblages of Los Angeles."  The show was inspired by Joseph Cornell's etherial shadow boxes,and included work by Exene Cervenka, Gail Greenfield Randall, Matjames Metson, and Michael C. McMillen.  I'd seen a show of Exene's work last year at the Western Project in Culver City, which included her collage work and journals from her days touring with X... her journals were what I remember most from the show... they seemed more personal that the collages and are really part of music history.  My favorite piece from Celestial Ash though was actually by Matjames... it was a large multi-level house-like box with lots of doors and windows... there were interesting details created from rulers, pencils and string... I wish I had a photo to share but like most shadow boxes, to get the full effect you really need to see it in person...
and a great chance to do that is during the LACMA ArtWalk!

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Yep, it's on Saturday, May 30th and takes place on Wilshire Blvd. between Fairfax and La Brea.  Four Museums will be offering free admission and more than thirty galleries will be participating in a self-guided tour... restaurants throughout the area will be joining in the fun too by offering specials & discounts - and there's even an after party at the El Rey Theater!
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I'll be in the Craft and Folk Art Museum courtyard with 15 other local vendors, offering the best in handcrafted, fair-trade, and artisan-produced items so stop by...
(all the details are above...)

there will be A LOT to see!

May 10, 2009

everyday grace

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I stopped by Fred Segal in Santa Monica yesterday to see a trunk show for Marianne Williamson's new jewelry line, Everyday Grace.  I really admire Marianne and and her work (and I clearly have a penchant for jewelry!), so experiencing this combination of things I hold so dear was pretty cool.  
The pieces feature Marianne's poetry and prose and once you choose a design you like, you can then select a
blessing or prayer to go inside.
The collection was a collaboration between Jamie Kole, Jimmy Moore & of course Marianne herself, and each piece was really beautiful... my favorites were the Herkimer Diamond pendant and the Pools of Light pendant (pictured above), which features the North Star...
(definitely on my wish list!)
And Happy Mother's Day!
To my Mom and to all of you who are moms or have moms,
have a fantastic day!

May 09, 2009

the birthday girl

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May 05, 2009

silver lining

Hello!
The long weekend is officially over, and even though Unique wasn't what I expected, all in all it was great fun!
I met some amazing artists and designers, sold a necklace to a lovely girl who had been wanting a SpoonFed Art pendant ever since she first saw them in a magazine
3 years ago
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and I even saw Jimmy Kimmel scurry past my booth. 
(btw, thank you Mr. Kimmel for that Depeche Mode show on Hollywood Blvd. last week - or was it the week before -
either way, wow!) 
I think the most fun was seeing people's faces when I told them that the pendants were spoons...
even the most introverted perusers lit up light fireflies!
And a big huge thank you to my friends... especially Mark and Tommi... I'm the luckiest girl in the world to have
such amazing & supportive friends!  Really, over and above...
Stay tuned for photos...
have a great week!
Edit: so here are a couple of photos from the show... they're not great, but at least you'll get an idea of the set up...
(and hey, how about that sign made of spoons!!)
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