Sunvogues Natural Man + Neil Young = Everybody Knows This is Nowhere

FOR THE MAN WHO IS A NATURAL SPORTSMAN...

For hunters, fliers, marksmen, fishermen... Sunvogues offer the confident wearing comfort of rugged metal frames.

-American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969

Sunvogues VS The Stooges | 1969

Cover of the American Optical Sunvogues Catalogue, 1969.

And In Time We Will All Be Stars | Eyewear of FAME the Movie Musical 1980

I sing the body electric...
I celebrate the me yet to come...
I toast to my own reunion
When I become one with the sun...

And I look back on Venus
I look back on Mars
And I burn with the fire of 10 million stars
And in time
And in time
We will all be stars...

- I Sing the Body Electric, FAME, 1980


I SING the Body electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves;
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do as much as the Soul?
And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?

- I Sing the Body Electric, Walt Whitman, 1900

Eyewear of the Alien Resistance Movement | 1983

Sun Sensitive Aliens from V the TV Series, 1983-84

I Heart Dorks in Blazers | XTC Video Party

XTC

If There Was a Me For You | ANA NG TMBG

When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge:
"I don't want the world, I just want your half"

They don't need me here, and I know you're there (don't need me)
Where the world goes by like the humid air (world goes by)
And it sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks until it goes away (it goes home)
And the truth is, we don't know anything (don't know)

Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you

-TMBG (1988)

So Fonda You | Peter's Post-Modern Civil War

Peter Fonda

Moscot | How do I love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways...

One...

Two...

Three... Four...

Five...

Six!

Moscot is Complex | Design History with Kenny Moscot

Moscot + Los Angeles = Hotel De Ville

East Coast meets West :

Legendary Moscot Frames now available at Hotel De Ville Vintage Eyewear...

Moscot Week | Then and Now

Moscot in 1934

And later...

Moscot Week | New Yorker in '46

New Yorker Cover, September 21, 1946

Walk This Way | The Evolution of Scott Walker

SCOTT WALKER on 4AD RECORDS

Sad Screwballs | David and Lisa 1962

A Bunch of Screwballs Spoiling the Town! Short Clip from David and Lisa, 1962.

Plebeian Love | Davy Graham and the Dark Haired Ladies

Davy Graham in a clip from the 1969 movie Cain's Film, about the writer Alexander Trocchi.

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

-Alexander Trocchi

Guitarist Davy Graham playing Cry Me A River, as captured in a 1959 BBC documentary directed by Ken Russell on the rise in popularity of the guitar in Britain.

You drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember, I remember, all that you said
You told me love was too plebeian
Told me you were through with me and

Now you say you love me
Well, just to prove that you do
Come on and cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you

Cry Me a River Lyrics by Arthur Hamilton

Perfect From Now On | Fifties Future Frames

every thousand years
this metal sphere
ten times the size of Jupiter
floats just a few yards past the earth
you climb on your roof
and take a swipe at it
with a single feather
hit it once every thousand years
'til you've worn it down
to the size of a pea
yeah I'd say that's a long time
but it's only half a blink
in the place you're gonna be

where you gonna be
where will you spend eternity
I'm gonna be perfect from now on
I'm gonna be perfect starting now
stop making that sound
stop making that sound
I will say I forgot
but it was only yesterday
and it's all you had to say

-Randy Described Eternity (Perfect From Now On, 1997) Built to Spill

The Woman in Her | Lee Remick's Anatomy 1959

Original Trailer for Anatomy of a Murder, 1959

BoHo East! Hotel de Ville Vintage Eyewear in Los Angeles Magazine's Best of LA

Read the buzz on Hollywood Blvd. East in this summer's Los Angeles Magazine's Best of LA issue! Listed at number one is Hotel de Ville Vintage Eyewear, here's the write up:

It was only a matter of time before the strip of Hollywood Boulevard between Hillhurst and Vermont avenues -- where you'd go for a U-Haul rental or Goodwill duds -- would begin to reflect the gentrifying neighborhood. The storefronts once occupied by traffic schools and tax offices are giving way to urbane restaurants and boutiques, many of them specializing in vintage or vintage-inspired goods that look right at home on young Los Feliz residents fixing up their 1920s-era duplexes and bungalow courts. The grit remains (there's still a topless bar), but the credit card parking meters aren't the only shiny new faces.

1. Hotel de Ville Vintage Eyewear: The selection of dead-stock vintage frames includes Christian Lacroix, outsize Gucci, and Jackie O favorite Nina Ricci. The far-out collection of new eyewear takes its design cues from decades past.

Next time you are in Ho-Bo East (a.k.a. the Los Feliz Art + Design District), be sure to visit HDV, HDV Lifestyle next door, and our new neighbors at Bar Covell... we'll see you there!

Bar Covell

The Arto of Detachment | DNA 1981

DNA = Arto Lindsay + Tim Wright + Ikue Mori

Milk into Milk | Experimental Alchemy with Harry Smith

Untitled, Harry Smith, 1978

Untitled, Harry Smith, 1978

Untitled, Harry Smith, 1978

VISIT THE HARRY SMITH ARCHIVES

Bryan Ferry | This is (was) Tomorrow 1977

Bryan Ferry Eyewear 1977

Sun Ra Interview on WTZA | 1986