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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Perfect From Now On | Fifties Future Frames

Posted by setya at 3:33 AM

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

Posted by setya at 3:33 AM

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Original Trailer for Anatomy of a Murder, 1959

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

Posted by setya at 8:19 PM

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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!