Pharaohs
We didn’t have a Featured Interview so, instead, we spent Monday focused on music. One of the acts that we were most excited to share was from Pharaohs, an LA electronic band who have recently put out a super stellar LP. They feel kind of like The Crystal Ark but without the South American influence and we’re super excited to see where this band goes.

The Service Station
There has been this vacant, abandoned gas station in Los Feliz for some time that, very recently, has flipped into a really rad event space. It’s called The Service Station and they’re going to be hosting movies, events, pop-up stores, art happenings, and more. It’s a fascinating story of how they came to be: this is definitely a place you’re going to want to visit–or apply to your an abandoned gas station near you.

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The Business Of Creativity: An Interview With Sonja Rasula
Unique USA is a rapidly growing by Americans, for Americans craft and goods destination that all started in LA by way of a little shopping destination for handmade goods called Unique LA. Who started it? Sonja Rasula, a woman who has done everything from build websites to be a personality on Trading Spaces to writing for various magazines. Her passion now is to help makers become successful. She has a super fascinating story and lots of great things she’s up to.

At The Presses With Ophelia Chong
Ophelia Chong is an artist, creative director, writer, and tons and tons of other creative things. Most recently, she’s a professor of Photography at Pasadena’s Art Center. We recently had the chance to hang out with her as she worked on a new project at the school’s letterpressing facility. It was a cool day of making that we got to document. What a neat process!

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Painting Place: An Interview With Fleurette West
Artist Fleurette West is really inspired by her surroundings. Her paintings are about place but do not represent how the place looks: she represents how the place feels. She ties all of this together in ways that are bright and abstract and really do give a feel for a part of town. Her story of getting to art through behavioral sciences is fascinating, too.

Helping Urs Fischer At MOCA
Urs Fischer has a huge MOCA show coming up. What is he doing for it? He had tons of LA people make clay things for him. Not just little things: people went batshit insane and made huge, crazy clay pieces for him. We went and helped him out and, boy, was it wild. You may see some familiar items at the show, namely a black fox.

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Combining Influences: An Interview With Rebecca Farr
Rebecca Farr is a really great painter. She’s recently been tapping into using collage work to make pieces, which are very focused on the idea of Manifest Destiny and mass movements of people. She does super fascinating stuff! Her studio is really awesome too and, surprisingly, she is one of the few artists that we’ve featured who we’ve actually gotten to document in the act of making art.

Paper Alphabet
Artist and designer Jeanie Chong is a bit obsessed with words and letters. She’s done a few projects that document this obsession but her most recent, Paper Alphabet, is likely her best. Using origami triangles, she made the entire alphabet. She touches different fonts and styles and movements, all framed within this typographic art project. We love it!

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