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NEW WEBSITE // NEW BLOG // FROM NOW ON FOLKS !
Guess what? Well, if you read the subject line you already know. We have moved! This is our last post here and from here (on out ) we will be updating our blog on the new and improved WORK MAGAZINE WEBSITE!
Check it out and tell us what you think ! ( www.theworkmag.com )
We previously posted about LolaFineart instagram (http://instagram.com/lolagil) but now am super excited to announce her show in december!!! Get there!
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE // IF YOU WANT ME TO STAY
Monday blues, be gone!
INVISIBLE FAMILIARS // MONDAY // NYC // GO LISTEN !
WORKAHOLIC // OLO FRAGRANCE // ESSENTIAL OILS HAND MADE
The first time my scent receptors got a hold of OLO oils, I felt like I discovered a secret batch of something that I had to hoard. I felt like this smell had to be mine and all mine. The beauty of essential oil scents is that it harmonizes with your own body chemistry and creates a scent all your own. So in a way, it's still very personal. Anyone who has asked me in the past what scent I am wearing and who recognizes the name OLO instantly seems to be put in a secret society of the know. Though, this society is growing and growing every day, and rightfully so...
Heather Sielaff has mastered the scents of what I would imagine whiskey, leather, tobacco, moss, and trees would smell like but in a way that seems to lure man, woman, and child in your direction. Her mixtures have inspired me to begin creating my own mixtures, which has opened my world to healing scents, though none of them smell as great as my staple OLO scent (I am keeping the specific name to myself for good reason). Heather gave us a viewing of her space and atmosphere. It is as perfect and relaxing as I could have imagined.
What do you do? I am a perfumer. I am the founder and owner of OLO Fragrance.
How did you get to where you are now? What made you turn to this direction? I was originally a Licensed Neuromuscular Massage Therapist and Gyrotonic Instructor. I was required to take continued education to update my license and aromatherapy was one of the certifications I took. I used essential oils for over a decade before the thought occurred to me to make perfume. I was just looking for a hobby and it turned into a business six months later.
Was this always your dream job? Yes, kind of. I’ve always worked for myself. This is ideal because I get to create fragrance blends, design packaging, plan events, etc.
How much of the week is work, how much is play? I’d say 75% of my week is work. But, my work is fun so I guess it could be considered 100% play. I like to work so I’m happiest getting things done.
How do you find your inspiration and do you find it easy to stay organized? Nature is definitely an inspiration. I can drive any direction outside of Portland and be in some mythical looking forest or gorge in less than an hour. It’s my routine to go somewhere outside of the city at least once a week just to smell the ocean or walk through the trees. It’s cleansing. Music, art, and people also inspire me. Little moments everyday are what stick with me. A mood created having a meal with friends or listening to a stranger sing on the bus are what I live for. I am very organized with how I schedule my time. My perfume blending process is a different story! I can be very sporadic with documentation on blends in the production phase.
How important is your work, and do you feel it defines you? My work is incredibly important to me. It is how I express myself creatively and it is also my livelihood. I try to stay true to my intuition when formulating a new blend. I don’t ever want to just give in and make things just for the money. I want to maintain integrity and I think that’s how OLO defines me.
What has been the most exciting thing you have done with your work, and what is a dream situation you’d like to find yourself in? The excitement level of perfume making stays pretty mellow, at least for me. I think the most exciting thing that’s happened is receiving a ‘fan letter’ from one of my favorite musicians letting me know he loves OLO. I was pretty stoked about that. My dream situation is to streamline this process well enough that I spend less time in production and have more time to work on new projects.
How do you define your personal style, work clothing, etc. My personal style is all black or grey, soft and simple. I get oil everywhere so I tend to wear throwaway clothes when I work. We are actually having OLO work jackets made by Portland Garment Factory so that I don’t look a hot mess at the shop.
What’s something someone may not know about you? I have an incredibly foul mouth. I swear profusely. I guess my friends know this but I doubt my customers do.
Milk Milk Lemonade/OLO Fragrance Studio is located at 1407 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97214
We are open when we are open. Hours are posted daily on Twitter Website Twitter http://milkmilklemonade.virb.com/
R.SWIADER // LENDING EASE AND HAPPINESS THIS SS/15
When I took a look at this collection, I couldn't help but want to cover my own self in its layers. The fabrics, textures, and minimal dimensions that R.Swiader has provided in his new collection prove to be something every man (and woman) may want to crawl in before heading into the battle of urban living.
"R.Swiader is the uniform of the utilitarian lifestyle. The clothes are intended to lend ease, comfort and happiness into our chaotic world. This is a menswear collection inspired by the streets of Paris. Classic lines mixed with clean graphic shapes and unexpected structure provide the perfect uniform for a citizen of the world."
R.Swiader officially launches January 2015. WORK gives you a special preview of what you'll want this spring.
Photography by John Arsenault
NATURE VS ENVIRONMENT // DAIDO MORIYAMA
When getting lost on the Little Big Man Gallery site, I stumbled upon Daido's work and couldn't continue my aimless search. His work held me eyes, and the part of your brain that plays the games of recognition took over. There is a part of you that feels like you are more connected and more involved when you can look at a piece of art and feel like you get the punch line. Everyone wants to be understood, no? Even when no one can specifically hear or see you understand, you still are echoing that egotistic harmony. It's sort of like that tree falling in the woods thing.
Daido is playing with the ideas of patterns and cracks and shape that resemble one another, be it in an object that is pumping blood and sweat or a cold joining of perpendicular points. The positive and negative space is what really gets me.
Website Here
NICK WAPLINGTON// LITTLE BIG MAN GALLERY // OPENING RECEPTION THIS FRIDAY
Little Big Man Gallery is home to some of our most favorite LA art shows, and this Friday will not fall short of that expectation.
A Good Man’s Grave Is His Sabbath November 7, 2014 - January 7, 2015 Artist Reception: Saturday, November 7, 2014 6-9pm
LOS ANGELES - Little Big Man Gallery is pleased to announce A Good Man’s Grave Is His Sabbath, on view November 7, 2014 through January 7, 2015, featuring the work of acclaimed British contemporary photographer Nick Waplington. The exhibition presents two bodies of Waplington’s work that have been recently published as limited edition photography books, Made Glorious Summer and Surf Riot. For this exhibition, the photographs will be presented alongside a selection of the artist’s drawings, and various memorabilia from Waplington’s collection of fanzines, books, records, concert tickets and T-shirts that he collected from 1979 through 1986, the period of time that relates to the photographic works on view. The artist reception will be on Friday, November 7 from 6 - 9pm with a DJ set by Waplington, featuring music from his 7inch singles collection. A limited-run zine designed by the artist will also accompany the show.
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ZOMBIE TOWN MIX // KURT EUNALA DOES AN EXCLUSIVE FOR WORK MAG
NYC based DJ, Kurt Eunala has come together with the undead robots and sound machines alike to get your Friday night Halloween attachments moving. This deep mix is perfect for the dark black night.
It throws me back into my nights when I lived in Detroit and painted masks on my face any given night of the week and had a corset piercing down my back and went to 'da goth club to squid around.
ZOMBIE TOWN MIX - A WORK MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE
Halloween ain't over yet gouls and guys -
Tomorrow Kurt will also be DJ'ing at this Halloween party tomorrow Nov 1, at 11pm!
The fun is still not over ! He will also be in Iceland Airwaves at the Off Venue party located at Kaffibarinn on Thursday November 6th at 11pm?
Kurt's Website
http://www.kurtuenala.com/
THANKS FOR TRYING // CULTURE COLLIDE 2014
Besides the music and the beer, stylish fellow festival-goers can be quite an asset to a weekend of music. Now, I'm not talking about the one-size-fits-all flower crowns and cutoffs that a certain California festival provides, but more the outfits that seem to be inspired by an actual personal taste in clothing versus the need to fit into a sea of crochet-wearing hipsters. A vibrance that comes from wearing whatever the fuck you want, irrespective of current trends. We're into attitude and as always, we thank you for trying.
All photos by Sera Lindsey
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CULTURE COLLIDE // 2014
Culture Collide is a music festival all its own. Based upon the premise of bringing together acts from around the world (hence the name), it does just that... and it does not disappoint. For 3 days Echo Park's venues are filled with musical talents far and wide, boasting lineups from Peru to Israel, The Netherlands to South Korea, as well as a healthy dose of US and LA-based bands. The shows are varied, keeping you satisfied with energetic sets at The Echo and haunting sets at The Echo Park United Methodist Church. With new bands and old favorites (Nina Persson, we love you), there's something for everyone. And then some. Daytime BBQs and Happy Hour shows make it so you never have to leave and the proximity of venues allows you to stumble from one show to the next without ever needing four wheels. Pretty pretty brilliant.
Below are some of our favorite shows from the weekend, shot by Ethan DeLorenzo, Sera Lindsey and Katherine Aplin.
Tomorrow we bring you the best of Culture Collide street style in a dedicated Thanks for Trying post.
Go Back to the Zoo // Ethan DeLorenzo
Holy Child // Ethan DeLorenzo
Until The Ribbon Breaks // Ethan DeLorenzo
MØ // Katherine Aplin
Pins // Sera Lindsey
Takeoffs and Landings // Sera Lindsey
Sleep Thieves // Sera Lindsey
A Million Billion Dying Suns // Sera Lindsey
Torches // Sera Lindsey
Nervous Nellie // Sera Lindsey
Nina Persson // Katherine Aplin
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah // Sera Lindsey
Dorine Levy // Sera Lindsey
Skyroads // Sera Lindsey
HOUSE OF MODERN HORRORS // EVERYDAY
You know what’s scarier than a ghost? When the tag is sticking out of someone’s shirt. You know what will make any civilized person cringe? When someone has snot hanging out of their nose and you have to tell them about it. You know what is more terrifying than Halloween? When someone has toilet paper on their shoes and they don’t know it.
These are all public embarrassment, nuisances of contemporary life that can make any day go from great to uncomfortable. To confront this idea head on, artist Alex Miller has concocted a haunted house for the every day: it’s the House Of Modern Horrors. The House is a one day only, November 1, fright fest that will feature as many tears as laughs and will surely plague you for months to come. After all, hell is other people—and the deepest pit of hell is other people who lack self-awareness.
HEALTH GOTH // REAL GOTH
"Are you Health Goth?"
"No."
"What are you?"
"Goth."
"Well, I'm goth, too."
"No."
"I'm Health Goth."
"OK."
"I mean, I'm currently into really baggy Alexander Wang. I feel like that is very 'me' now."
"OK."
"Is Rhianna a goth?"
"No."
"That's right! She is Ghetto Goth."
"That is not real goth."
"Do you like Hood By Air?"
"No."
"I like how 'active' their clothing is."
"OK."
"Where do you work out?"
"I do not work out."
"You're so thin! Are you on a juice diet? I'm only drinking beet juice these days. It looks like blood."
"Being healthy is not goth."
"But isn't Health Goth about health?"
"I don't know."
"I mean, it's a lifestyle and a state of being."
"Sure."
"Why isn't that goth?"
"Have you ever seen Robert Smith at the gym?"
"Who is Robert Smith?"
"He is a goth."
"Is he Health Goth?"
"No."
"Do you think Health Goth is the new Normcore?"
"What is 'Normcore'?"
"You haven't heard of Normcore?"
"I have not."
"Well, Normcore is like this super funny, super basic movement where people wear nineties clothing and/or really relaxed clothing that are like too cool to care but also appropriate brands like Tevas and Patagonia. It's like a fresh take on nineties fashion and is about not caring about how you look but you totally care about how you look because you put something on."
"OK."
"I just love Normcore so much. It's so easy."
"Cool."
"Health Goth is easy, too."
"That's not goth."
"Why?"
"It's not."
"What is goth then?"
"You are not goth."
"You're totally Health Goth."
"No."
Photo via.
PLANNINGTOROCK // U + U
No one has had a better year musically than Planningtorock. The queer electronic experimentalist released her third album at the beginning of this year and has squeezed content from it all year. Fortunately, it is an unending, delicious audial treat.
PTR has new shit to give, too. With the release of the new maxi-single for the song "Let's Talk About Gender Baby," she slid in a hidden B-Side about threesomes and throuples called "U+U." The song is very special and features a fun little statement (by PTR's Jam Rostron) repeated, "You know, I'm always in love with at least three people." It's a funny, complicated statement backed by a Casio orchestra, playing along to the ear like an extended handholding through a field of daisies or a ride on a bicycle-built-for-three along the Santa Monica boardwalk.
The strangest thing about "U+U" is that it's so peppy and radio friendly: did anyone expect a sexual and gender iconoclast to pull this off? Certainly not I. Then again, the song is about having a non-monogamous relationship. Listen to "U+U" below.
Absorbing Life Into Objects
As an artist, Craig Van Den Brulle has merged the past and the present by continuously exploring elements and tools that will absorb life into the objects that he creates. There is a sense of performance in his work resulting in a lasting significance. Working consciously and unconsciously employing both traditional and innovative techniques, the concrete, repetitive nature of his work fuels his imagination and provides opportunities for grace to influence the finished product. His timeless, powerful sense of style and exquisite taste has attracted many from the world of fashion. Tom Ford, Anna Wintour, Helmut Lang, Kelly Wearstler and Ryan Korban are all fans of Craig Van Den Brulle’s work. “By creating an object and then editing it down over and over, it will embody what I feel it should, as simply and beautifully as possible. I'm inspired by everything I see and do, which can ignite new ideas and creativity that I can incorporate into my designs that will forever evolve.”
From Rick Owens to COMMES des GARCONS, the recent spring 2015 runaway collections influenced the artist to translate his favorite pieces into his most recent furniture collection.
COMME des GARCONS x The Riemann Chair
Rick Owens x The Darboux Chair
Junya Watanabe x The Delaunay Mirror
www.craigvandenbrulle.com
photo credit: NY Times, and Craig Van Den Brulle
This really intrigues me. I've been struggling recently with the concept of "what I own does not define me" in order to downsize. It's really fascinating to see someone make such amazing use of small space. We tend to think the more money we have the older we get, we need MORE MORE MORE and our footprints on this earth become huge. It's nice to see a different approach.
CALM // UCLA MEDIA ARTS // MFA FALL EXHIBITION
Los Angeles is a city of fantastic art destinations and some of the best exist behind the scholastic walls of local universities. One of the best hidden spots is UCLA’s New Wight Gallery, which showcases various works from different departments from art to design media. Did I mention all the shows are free? They are—and they are some of the best ways to engage with an upcoming class of creators.
Next up at the gallery, on view from October 23 through October 31, is a showing from the UCLA Media Arts department. The show is called .CALM and will feature new works from the their current MFA class. From Alex Rickett's “robotic sculptures” to Julieta Gil's reframing of the space, .CALM will undoubtedly showoff what contemporary (design related) is right now—and it’s all happening at a local university.