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Adam Youch, you will always be remembered, especially by those of us who grew up and entered adulthood with you. You died way too young, but your magic will live on forever.
While we’re on the topic of magic (silly magic in this case) here’s one of my favorite Beastie Boys videos EVER, produced just last year. It’s 30 minutes, so make sure you have some time. Directed by the multi-talented Adam Youch. Prepare to laugh your ass off. I like to think all of the Beastie Boys would like us to remember Adam this way.
Posted in LIfe Outside the Studio
Heima
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It is no secret that my partner Clay and I are huge Sigor Rós fans. There will be a Sigor Rós song in our wedding ceremony. This August we fly to LA to see them live. We love them (and also Jonsi and his solo career) more than words can properly say. We’ve watched their documentary Heima over and over. The film is mesmerizing — the music, the landscape, the beautiful Icelandic people. It had such a profound impact on my senses I think I may have cried the first time I watched it. What I did not know before I watched it for the first time was that once I had, there was no turning back: I was GOING to go to Iceland.
As many of you who read this blog know, last week I purchased my tickets to Reykjavik. I am traveling to Iceland (and also to Sweden, Denmark and Finland) in September for three weeks. It took me a few years, but it’s happening. Sometimes I have to pinch myself.
{For those of you who are not familiar with Heima — the trailer for the film is above. About the film: “In the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and smallest shows of their career, the entire tour was filmed, and now provides a unique insight into one of the world’s shyest and least understood bands captured live in their natural habitat.}
Watch the film. It’s amazing. Available on iTunes and Netflix.
Posted in Inspiration, Travel & Adventure
365 Days of Hand Lettering: Day 123
Just showing off my awesome squirrel drawing skills here.
Posted in 365 Days of Hand Lettering
New Tattly and Globel Yodel
Tattly has released another one of my designs this week: The Bauble, pictured above. Like it? You can get it here.
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Also, for those of you who enjoy visiting far away places from your desk chair, I’d like to introduce you to an awesome site: Global Yodel. Globel Yodel is a website that explores the places and cultures of our globe, from the perspective of someone who really knows their spot: the local. Global Yodel is a place-specific gallery, travel guide and artist showcase, all in one. I’ve got a “postcard” on Global Yodel this week called Abandoned Icon. Check it.
Posted in Illustration Projects
365 Days of Hand Lettering: Day 122
I Carry Your Heart With Me, EE Cummings.
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Austin Kleon: How to Steal Like an Artist
{My friend Austin’s new book: Steal Like an Artist; Austin and me this past Saturday}
Sometime in the past year or so I read for the first time Austin Kleon’s blackout poetry online. There was a link to it online somewhere, and I followed it. I was instantly taken. I started following Austin on Twitter that very day and reading his blog. And within just a few weeks, (somehow as it sometimes happens on the internet) we became fast Twitter friends, chatting frequently, making connections, realizing we had friends in common, (you know, the usual). From there the relationship blossomed to stalking each other’s photos on Instagram, and then, finally, this past weekend, to real life.
Austin is on his nationwide book tour for his latest book, Steal Like an Artist, and he’s been in San Francisco since Friday. I met him for the first time in person Saturday after his book signing, and we also hung out again yesterday. I knew I would like Austin before I met him in person, but I didn’t know how much. I love being around smart, infectiously creative, driven people. I felt so lucky to get to spend some time with him.
I am also smitten with his new book. Here’s the trailer (voice over by Austin himself):
You can read more about the book here and get it most anywhere.
You may have noticed today’s hand lettering entry is a quote from Austin’s book. You like that quote? Well, the book is chock full of them.
Posted in Inspiration, LIfe Outside the Studio
Diana Vreeland
{left: Portrait of Diana Vreeland by George Hoyningen-Huene in the late 1930s; right: Diana Vreeland photographed in Arizona by Louise Dahl-Wolfe}
Sometime in 2001 I saw the Bruce Weber film Chop Suey at the Castro Theater in San Francisco. It was in watching this film that I became acquainted with former fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1903-1989). I remember being entranced by her (and by many other things about the film Chop Suey, but that’s another post).
Fast forward to 2012. Last night my partner and I went to see Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel at the San Francisco Film Festival, a documentary about the life and work of Diana Vreeland.
One of the most amazing parts of the documentary were the copious (and GORGEOUS) images of Harper’s and Vogue covers and spreads from her tenure at each magazine. Vreeland was fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar from 1937-1962. In 1963 she went to work for Vogue Magazine where she stayed until the early 70′s. What was most impressive about Vreeland was her brassy, unapologetic, forward thinking attitude about fashion — and what should appear in the magazine (she had a brilliant, visionary mind). Ultimately, that got her fired from her post as editor (according to the film), since most people could not handle the new content and counter-culture ideas she infused into the publication.
{Diana Vreeland, shot by James Karales in her Vogue office, New York, 1965, at 62.}
I love seeing documentaries and reading books about female creatives. I am not even sure I would have liked Vreeland as a person (she seemed brash and bossy). But I do admire her obsessive commitment to her craft and her clear, focused artistic vision. I also love that she featured prominently in Vogue non-traditional beauties like Barbara Streisand and Lauren Hutton and Cher. Vreeland herself was not a traditional beauty, and yet she had an iconic personal style and magnificent air of self confidence that was stunning.
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel has been picked up by a major distributor, so it should be coming to a theater near you soonl. Keep your eyes peeled. If you love fashion and fashion icons, you will like this film.
Posted in Inspiration
365 Days of Hand Lettering: Day 120
-Diana Vreeland, former fashion editor for Harpers Bazaar and former Editor of Vogue.
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