February 2014

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Feb 13, 2014

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The startup Founder and investor relationship can be a very frustrating experience at times. Both are vying for their own best interests in mind and require quite a bit of nudging in order to find a common middle ground to appease both parties. Sometimes however one side can be too stubborn (I'd like to assume...

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Feb 11, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_9594" align="alignnone" width="790"] Top row photos courtesy of Ben Clark[/caption] Since yesterday's gig was the second Save Music in Chinatown show, which I've been single-handedly been promoting for weeks on end, I have to admit that I'm getting worried about writing the same things over and over again. Thrilled to parlay my background in indie...

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Feb 10, 2014

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Go to any event (concert, speech, birthday party, etc) and you'll notice that the vast majority of attendees, if not ALL of them, are using their phone to snap a quick picture or shoot some footage. The importance of one's phone has never been clearer in today's modern technological world. Photos taken with cell-phones are...

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Feb 07, 2014

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Around this time last year, I was in Hawaii for POW! WOW!, and I was lucky enough to meet the good people at InterIsland Terminal. I got to visit their amazing and versatile space R&D, part design book store, part coffee shop, part colocation workspace, part cinema, and part gallery. After a great run of...

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Feb 06, 2014

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As technology and medicine continue to improve, so does the average human life span. Healthier humans equals an increased number of humans that are alive at any given time. This means more food, more energy, and more resources that need to be manufactured and consumed. Eventually, this rate will begin to grow at an exponential...

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Feb 05, 2014

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photo from Reeding Annex: Tasha Bleu's "Shoot n' Style" Reed Space in New York has been hosting a series of one-off “classes” in conjunction with Skillshare called the Reeding Annex. The 3rd installment of this series starred the art group URNewYork, who use various mediums from photography, silkscreening and graffiti to produce interesting art scapes. Thanks...

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Feb 04, 2014

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Once a year, the LA Art Book Fair takes over MOCA's Geffen Contemporary space in Little Tokyo. Vendors pay for their spaces but admission is free to anyone who is interested in artists’ books, catalogs, periodicals, zines, and prints from an international array of publishers of all sizes, booksellers, and artists themselves. Of course I had...

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Feb 03, 2014

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Grace Hawthorne is one of those unique people who is savvy about business, organization, and logic, as well as brilliant with creation, imagination and art. Amazingly, she has nurtured a career that embodies both worlds as an artist, (five-time) entrepreneur, author and educator. A co-founder of ReadyMade magazine, she was an early pioneer in the...