it's not fathers day but it's good to be thankful everyday..

ty showed me this holy ghost video the other day and it had me cracking up..trading places downtown/williamsburg style.

and here's 'i'm his girl' by friends...

i can really get behind these lyrics right about now;)

remember that time we danced in the foggy exploding stars?

here i am, once again feeling terribly lucky to have such remarkably radical friends!!

i can't begin to describe how overjoyed i was this afternoon to receive this AMAZING record of last years librAwesome californiAdventure.. sent to me by the one+only mr. multi-talented danny sangra, my newest libro birthday week buddy+bestE's future forever, who has wowed me full-tilt in oh so many ways+certainly again today with his impeccable video documentation skills.

it's just simply delightful to see the still images i've been processing, since our return last october, come back to life in real time...
[also kinda wild that it's been nearly a whole year since, and it's almost time for our 2nd annual;]

i hope you enjoy it nearly as much as i do!
xL

p.s. i strongly suggest watching it full screen..it's way better that way;)

sometimes a still is just too static..

we showed upstate who's awesome last weekend.


santa monica night rainbows.


a dear deer on the way to woodstock.

lastly a kiss of shit robot at terminal 5.

he's gone+trumped up the standards of yes.

it's an anthem to cruise inside of.

"boy trouble" by benoit+sergio
introduced to me on a radical new mix i've just happily received.....and which am playing on major repeat.
blasting in the volvo and the casa...
hope you dig it as much as me;)

he's accustomed to spinning the audible wheels with pomp and circumstance.

from senor ivan berko:

BIG NEWS
(drudge report sirens go here)

I am throwing a party and your invited.

FilmMaker and Photographer jordan bennett and I are teaming up for a special night. Bennett is going to be projecting some of his new video work, "Earth Angels," and I will be in the booth playing my records making a soundtrack for you to dance to.

We are also going to be celebrating the birth of our good buddy Jessica Rotter of Mexican Sumer records, and of course Rotter and Friends. Jess is absolutely one of the best. Come buy her a drink!

hope to see you there!

here is a lil vid i made to give you a taste of what to expect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRwtyTUfxzc

X
ivan

ps
I also heard Zebulon has new subwoofers now too so be prepared to freak out. : )

she was casually embedding herself into my heart. (visually pleasing me the whole way in a most uncommon fashion.)

no bigs (or BFD if you nasty),
just some more epic and tripped out brilliance from my dear darling gal, chrissie abbott.

(just saying...this might well be my most favorite thing to be featured in of all the fotos+videos i've collaborated on..)

leaving me to wonder...why do some of my favorite sunny special friends have to live on the other side of the atlantic??? it's majorly lametown some days more than others...like today when i'm reminded that my witchy woman collaborator is too far to collaborate with on the daily. i'd like a zipline transporter from london to nyc to lala pronto...k? k!

i'd say it's a perfectly candid celestial scene.

dyyyyyying for this whole christopher kane scene at opening ceremony.
specifically (fyi:sugar daddy/mummy/tranny;) the princess skirt, princess dress, +the hubble tank dress.

anyhoo, the cosmos kane brilliance reminded me to tell you that my sisters little one has arrived!!
+his name is abraham and i call him bABE!!!
+miss daphne is growing fast..
5 months of elfin awesome.
+the eldest fanukas...

+lastly some videos of lucas that i finally uploaded from thanksgiving...

when in limbo, grab some seeds+sequin skivvies+we'll get groovy.

i was just reminded of this the seeds song on this snowy (AGAIN) morning.
seemed a fun fittingly cheerful california tune to obscure this monotonous white.

(p.s. hot damn...where can i get some of those sparkly underthangs?! so hot-boss miss bets!)

if you don't have the win, you may not find the way.

the forgotten bonus of a car is driving around to the tunes of now....these are two songs i've been trolling the pop hip hop stations for...

black and yellow by wiz khalifa

+girl you be killin em by fabolous...
word.

the smoke bombs+laughter made our eyes water hard.

hope y'all had a magical merry holiday + i wish you an explosively awesome new years eve!!

we're ditching the new york new years brouhaha (IN MY NEW CAR!) to hang out in a lake house in the poconos!

what we've got on the agenda: eat loads of yummy marlow+daughters food, light a couple smoke bombs, wear sequins by the fire, take LOADS of fotos, drink this bottle of veuve and just get really fucking groovy.

i promise i will post more fotos soon. i just cleared 3,660 pics from iphoto-i.e. i've finally had a chance to upload all my digi pics from november+december...but i have to go dig my car out from under heaps of snow so my apologies but you'll have to wait a few days more:)

i don't know about you but my new years resolutions are stacking up: eat more fruit, make some more books, back up my digi jazz more frequently, jump rope, get rid of this vintage archive (lemme know if you'd like to make an appointment to go thru it;), +paint more frequently.
what are yours??

xxL

andy warhol can't get the ketchup out.

i've read quite a few of his books, autobiographies, diaries et al+am still surprised+delighted with his queer+wondrous ways.
also, that napkin seems really crunchy.

happy thursday y'all.

the night began beautifully yet ended in a slam.

now, i'm waaaay behind on this here blog+thus, i'm only just now finally telling you that the open ocean show at secret project robot was mad good-these gals just keep getting better and looking hotter..the experience was made all the more complete with fireworks and babes aplenty...


+speaking of these righteous babes...

the stylish and stunning bassist, accessories editor, artist and all around sweetheart, miss sarah kuhn, has gone ahead and designed the most covetable camera straps i've EVER seen!!!

i mean, you know i love some chanel+am never without my camera..so, here, now i present you with the genius (and remarkably affordable) SFK camera straps..go to her site and order one or ten! i'm eagerly waiting on the classic gold and black but am seriously considering the turquoise and silver as an awesome alternate.

for more on this check out her recent write ups on refinery29 and on white lightning...

we ate the stars for breakfast.

it's a trick new to me.

the best gif you've ever seen, riiight?!
(aiyght, maybe not..but i thought, in honor of my first passover dinner since the 90's, i'd make a first time matzo gif:)

she wore the leopard skin pillbox hat.

if you watch long enough-you will see her in my dream leopard fur coat..those bell sleeves+real fur...my dreams are actually made of this...

so i present you with the rough draft of my edie sedgewick look...
i figured i should do a trial run as i am a major make up novice..i mean i can do blush+kohl+the basics but when it comes to eyebrows+liquid liner--not so much practice..anyhoo-i think it turned out pretty aiyght..gonna take it to the streets on saturday....


mi senor might gussy up as my bob dylan date..so stay tuned-should be some fun fotos to come.

above+beyond a regular wednesday.

our neighbors installed a major pool on the roof last week.
awesomesauce.

you don't need route 66 for kicks.

white wisps of transient topography

gratitude for the greatness of instamatic awesome...

my dear photo buddy's claire+jeremy blogged this recently+i liked it, so i'm sharing...
+congratulations on your pdn win day19, a more perfect advertising match could not have been made!
xL