it seems the skirt fits the fire..

bona drag is having a 2 day sale....(use VEGANDONUT at checkout)
+all i'm saying is that this TEAMO 'long witch skirt" might need to come home to me.

duh.

awesome.

click on flyer for details.

if there was a magic wand, i would have more hours in one day.

marilyn.
october 23.
henry miller library.


here's a screengrab of my favorite (raw scans) so far...
many much more to come.

beso.
xL

p.s. scanning hi re takes forEVER....i'm really wishing that i had a few more scanners to run at the same time....it'd be like doubling down on enlargers in the darkroom...which i used to love doing- for the efficiency.

you may have seen me in the pile.

senor boru shot me in my painting studio for NY magazine's issue on vintage collectors...

see the whole shebang here.

fittingly, my (first?) primetime subtitle is, "she took off her bra."

here are some screengrabs from that Z Spoke/zac posen fashion show (for america's next top model) turner and i worked on in june...

it was NUTS...and they edited us down to 15 minutes...can you tell we were understaffed and exhausted from working 24 hour days??

the highlight in NO UNCERTAIN way was meeting miss jay.
i was out in the trailer printing out the looks and he came by while carmen and i were having a smoke break...
+holy shit. he's BEYOND hilarious!!
i mean damn i've never laughed so hard with a stranger+lord knows, i've laughed quite a lot...he was dissing the show and tyra and he is perhaps one of the most captivating and charismatic individuals i've had the pleasure of interacting with.

you can watch the episode here...you can spot turner at 5:48 and my acne ass at 6:07.
enjoy!
(oh+if you watch the whole episode...you'll see what i may consider to be the single most humiliating roller skating model fall in history...over and over again.)

p.s. backstage fashion ain't ever too cute but HOT lights and camera crews certainly don't help make it any easier..(please see the photos of me and carmen sprinting after that model..kinda cave woman-in-victorian-like.)

here's how our geeked out screening party went.
(or shall i say screen-grabbing party:)

move with the wind and take a swig.

we've returned from the grande tour ofOten (also referred to as 'out of service').
+i've got 36 rolls of film and countless polaroids to show for it...
yet shockingly or atypically rather, i shot hardly any digital (though i did take a bunch of iPhone shots for twitter +facebook of course)...

you've likely noticed, i've taken a break from my virtual sketchbook-in order to focus on my actual tangible life, grad school applications+the like. so apologies for the lack of updates but c'est la vie..i think it'll be easier to post as this weather continues it's decline into frigidity.

i begin scanning tomorrow morning so stay tuned for studio updates!

MAGAZINE PARTY LAUNCH TONIGHT!!

i know it's super short notice but if you happen to be around this evening...

please come celebrate the launch of MAGAZINE PARTY, a mini magaZINE, which -among a plethora of wonderful contributions - features a fashion editorial that kat clements, jill bradshaw, erika forster and i collaborated on a few months back.

it should be a really fun event and i'd love to see you!

brooklyn besos,
xlouise

please the details from the lovely miss jill below:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28TH

MAGAZINE PARTY - ISSUE#1
LAUNCH PARTY

...@ Rouge 58
555 Metropolitan Ave. between Union + Lorimer
7-10pm

DJs: J Penry + Max Wowch

For those of you who know...i've started a ZINE!!! This is the launch party...so please come out! I will be projecting images of the zine as well as selling a few of these babies. check out the blog for more info: http://magazineparty.blogspot.com/

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MAGAZINE PARTY was started to bring magazines back to the art form. Similar to Glenn O'Brien's TV Party, MAGAZINE PARTY aims to hold back from that technically slick feel that defines so many modern publications. Instead it encompasses a more DIY approach, which focuses on a more stripped down style; a style where art itself becomes the core of the design and content aesthetic. For this reason the zine has a limited run and is printed and bound by hand.

MAGAZINE PARTY serves as a forum for friends and artists to contribute something that is a little left of center and gives them the ability to expand from their usual work.

Full list of artists include:
- Kenzo Minami
- Gordon Hull
- Fergadelic
- Jess Rotter
- Zakee Shariff
- Vena Cava
- Elizabeth Spiridakis
- Will Lemon
- J Penry
- Max Wowch
- Alec Friedman
- Louise Sturges
- Kat Clements
- Sarah Kuhn
- Phil Oh
- Justine D
- Roi Cydulkin
- Jason Andrews

with eyes this salty, it's seemingly hard to get hit by a rainbow

my apologies for being completey absent in the blogland, but life came up.
in an upheaval,.

anyhoo, i'll fill you in after halloween...but in the meantime, here are some new scans from the last week.

p.s.
birthday week is hitting the streets.

santa fe->flagstaff->vegas->death valley?->san luis obispo->big sur->san fran!!!

take care+look forward to TONS of pictures when i return.
xL