Loft Tour: Temporary Attic Abode

While renovating the ground floor of this factory, the owners took refuge in the attic. Using found materials like shopping carts and industrial lockers, they transformed the space into an innovative live/work home. Their two kids get to live every child’s dream: they sleep in a tent!

Lover's Land

So Nathan and Dustin were talking to one another...they both happened to be small time motorcycle enthusiasts, and they came up with the idea to do a motorcycle trip somewhere in Australia. After very little thought and even less planning, they grabbed a bearded third accomplice by name of Salsa, called in some favours from Deus, and set out from Sydney on three 650 Whips with no plan but to find good waves and hang with good people. Along the way they convensed friends, artist, kooks, pro surfers, grumpy old fucks, girls, moms, groms, hipsters, wankers, hippies, filmmakers and designers. Theirs was a voyage through the Lover's Land of Van Demons, on a highway to swell.

Covers

Six book jacket designs I'm digging at the moment.

Jim Houser

Jim Houser's paintings are the system by which he actively catalogs the images and noises that command his attention. His installations act to create a map of the contents of his head over the course of a particular period of time.

Jim has done graphic design work for Toy Machine, Designarium, and Nike. Gingko Press published a book cataloging his life in the arts, called BABEL, in 2005.

Black Owls - Ohio Sessions

The Black Owls, featuring my pal David Butler on drums and vocals, can be seen on Ohio Sessions. Ohio Sessions... live, intimate, acoustic recordings of musicians and bands filmed in unique environments in and around Ohio. It could be in a bedroom, at a small bar, around a campfire or on the street. It’s real, raw and genuine - like the Owls themselves. Check it out.

I'm Hooked.

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"Feel a Change Comin' On"

At one point, a romantic-sounding electric guitar break, coupled with accordion, comes before a verse in which Dylan reveals: "I've been listening to Billy Joe Shaver / and I'm reading James Joyce / some people, they tell me / I've got the blood of the land in my voice."

Two Birds Fly

Two Birds Fly is a new company based in San Francisco. They specialize in hand carved surfboards and skateboards utilizing environmentally conscious materials. The company states that everything is hand made or drawn from a talented roster of artists that include Thomas Campbell, Nat Russell, Serena Mitnik-Miller and many others.

Ashes of American Flags - Wilco Live

Ashes of American Flags is a new film presenting Wilco live in concert during their 2008 tour. Culled from concerts in five quintessentially American venues - Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Tipitina’s in New Orleans, The Mobile Civic Center in Mobile, The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. – the film captures the energy, poignancy and musicality of a Wilco concert and tour. Directed and produced by Brendan Canty and Christoph Green (Sunken Treasure, Burn to Shine).

Check out the trailer HERE

Junk Luxe

On the road to the small Texas town of Warrenton for Antique Week. If you see me out in the cow pastures, stop and say hello.

Marfa Film Festival

For the intrepid, Far West Texas is an unforgettable place, far from the world, urging visitors back time and again to its awe-inspiring wildness and serenity. Particularly, there is Marfa, home to Marfa Film Festival, coming April 29 - May 3, 2009.

Marfa is a small town alone on a high plateau, a place defined by a history of separation, where life proceeds at its own distinct pace as a harmony of antithesis: cowboy culture and high-art. Designed as a gasp of fresh air, Marfa Film Festival is a retreat far away from the chaotic and competitive environments found on the festival circuit. It's a get-a-way that is truly WAY out there.

For five magical days there will be screenings of films that transcend time with indelible images and engaging storytelling, reminding us that the art of cinema can change our lives and renew the world.

Raygun

Raygun, the alternative music+style magazine first published in 1992, came along at a time when I was starting to experiment with my own design aesthetic. Although I hold deep admiration for original designer/art director David Carson, I feel the magazine's true style did not come into it's own until guys like Chris Ashworth, Robert Hales & Jerome Curchod stepped on board.

Hello

Proposed designs for the photo journal R.E.M. "Hello" by David Belisle. To see additional designs, see R.E.M.'s homepage at Chronicle Books.

Alex Kopps, Displacement

Displacement, We Have Come to Ruin Your Surfing, 2009

Across the Universe

Japanese Motors

“Better Trends” by The Japanese Motors. The video follows the band into the streets of San Francisco on their hopeless, tongue and cheek search for a “better trend.” As the video progresses you travel through a variety of trend and fad graveyards, such as thrift stores and the now omnipresent vintage clothing boutique. The video eventually leads their search back to themselves and into a world of layered sun bleached video tape. You should be warned, this video was made in traditional no budget music video style with a baby stroller, boom box, skateboard and other antiquated tools of deception. Lo-Fi at it's finest.

Fuck Yeah

Hanging out in the Opium Den at the Hotel Saint Cecilia in Austin.

Reading

+81 MAGAZINE Vol. 43 Typography Issue. NEW SKATEBOARD GRAPHICS Namdev Hardisty. MIKE MILLS Graphics, Films. MUG SHOTS Raynal Pellicer.

Artist Loft

loftlife magazine. 2700 sq. ft. loft in Brooklyn by New York based design firm Ochs Design.

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Rudy's Barbershop. Locations in Seattle, Los Angeles & Portland.