URBAN OUTCRITTERS

Very impressed with Space 15 Twenty, as I happened upon it's Where the Wild Things are pop-up store in the Urban Outfitters foyer yesterday. More evidence can be seen here. My favorite part was the integration of raw wood material and crusty old afghans in the form of shanty structures. Inside the quinzee-like dome were mountain models—also made of raw sticks—painted with snowy white tops. Miniature monsters lurked throughout the display of high-fashion replicas of characters from the storybook. Shamefully, I have never been in tune with this children's book nor the storyline, but I could not be more excited for the film to blow the minds and hearts of an eclectic generation y!



All this exposure to the production design of cinema, advertising, retail and human beauty (vanity?) is really exciting for me while staying in Los Angeles this month. I'm going to continue my research and will keep trying to get a hand in it all!

2nd and BURNSIDE

i will always be fond of this place and my wonderful surrogate-mother friends for letting me crash for 2 months. i was basically homeless and poor. living downtown portland, with views like this every day during happy hour, made a lively outing with the portland bike messengers really dangerously easy. but sometimes it was the only thing that enabled me to come home and pass out on this 4 foot long couch.

GOVEY "SCUMMITS"

ahh the summit apartments in Government Camp, Mt. Hood. it was a white trash life and i will never live it down. here i learned about survival...

including an average of 4-hours of sleep while fully clothed plus a hat and bandana around my eyes. we opened our cans with a camping tool when we had food to eat. thankfully our shit did not get stolen (by keeping most of it in our cars) and we were able to sleep 3 on two twin mattresses. 

RIVERVIEW TOWER MSP

having just moved to minneapolis, living in a massive studio was ultimately lonely. i was addicted to raisins, gingersnaps, myspace, and photographing this nice set of windows. what resulted was a wild hair under my ass to hit the long road to the west.