Editorial

Editorial

Taxidermy could use a PR makeover. Unless you're a card-carrying member of the NRA, the ancient craft is kitsch at best. At worst, cruelty on parade. But when I visited the Natural History Museum last weekend, the horned specimens could almost pass as noble until I reached to the soulful, sad-eyed ape. What a buzzkill. Yet...

Editorial

Last weekend after dinner at my brother's house in San Diego, our families went for a walk so our little girls could see Christmas lights. There are five or six blocks in the Clairemont neighborhood where every single resident goes all-out with holiday decorating, and we check it out every year. Who says that California...

Editorial

As Sunday's benefit gig to raise money for music education at my daughter's elementary school was wrapping up, a couple of guests struck up a conversation with me. It turned out they are starting up a foundation to help the Chinese community in L.A. as well, and were checking out our event to see if...

8 Questions, Editorial

[caption id="attachment_9047" align="alignnone" width="790"] Imprint Presents: David Choe at the Center for the Preservation of Democracy (October 17, 2013)[/caption] Over the holiday weekend I didn't do anything worth exploring or sharing, so I'm going to take this opportunity to answer the 8 Questions questionnaire. After all, how can I ask my peers to participate unless I...

Editorial

Beck Hansen has always been an artistic oddity as much a musical chameleon. He writes songs that are both critically acclaimed and loved by the music-loving masses and then changes styles on a dime. Popularizing sounds as quickly as he ditches them, Beck not only challenges his audience's ears but his own creative limits--not to...

Editorial, ICL, Information

As I mentioned in my blog post last week, Imprint's very own founder, Julia Huang, was invited to speak at the Purina #BetterWithPets conference which took place in NYC earlier this week. She was invited to speak about Imprint's Architecture for Dogs project, in conjunction with design guru Kenya Hara. It was a really incredible...

Editorial

How could Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom possibly follow up on helping to grow Kill Rock Stars, one of the coolest and most important record labels of the '90s and '00s? The label that brought the world Bikini Kill, Unwound, Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, Quasi...