WORK WORK WORK..AND MMJ.

Best friends: Sydney, Krista, Bobo [Kristi]
c. summer 2011, Hangout Music Festival
THE SET LIST FROM MY MORNING JACKET
our all time favorite band

Here's to you Yim, Tommy, Patrick & Carl:
You're Off The Record 

NPR music quotes:

"It won't take long for Circuital, due out May 31, to allay any fears. Without losing the playfulness of its predecessors — the chugging "Holdin' On To Black Metal" lives up to its title — My Morning Jacket stays far more focused on room-filling rock majesty. The album opens, ostentatiously enough, with "Victory Dance," which billows beautifully into the stuff encores are made of. From there, it's on to a suitably ambitious array of rock epics (like the seven-minute title track) and grand ballads ("Wonderful," "Movin' Away") that find James continuing to channel George Harrison as best he can."

To check out the full album before it's official release next week, see: http://www.npr.org/2011/05/22/136462209/first-listen-my-morning-jacket-circuital
[As of now, I will be flying solo to see them at the Pantages Theater this June. Fingers crossed I run into someone in LA who also has these plans.]

WORK WORK WORK
To officially introduce HBA:

We have cocktail parties!


Left to right:
Massimo from Italy, Catherine the former lawyer [her last day was today], Kelby from Chattanooga and roommate, Cindy Ou the Resource Librarian, Meghan Reichert from Iowa and roommate and me!

My name is Dani and this is my blog.

[blog] -noun. A web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc.

This summer-maybe longer-blog will be to 1. share with all those close to me a California summer and 2. help in my search for a thesis in design. I've come to Los Angeles to intern for Hirsch Bender and Associates [http://www.hbadesign.com/] and after a week in this city, I've realized there is maybe more to pursue. More to pursue than the design of five star hotels; more to pursue in finding the end, the ultimate level of seeking of knowledge, opinion, explanation, thesis. This summer-maybe longer-blog will document my pursuit.

My sweet dad always drives me to the Nashville airport when I depart for varying adventures. My parents are so supportive and for that I'm forever thankful.

VINTAGE BAGGAGE] is cool. Vintage baggage claim, not so much..

LAX was not the airport I expected. I'm sure its ongoing makeover will produce a..not so vintage look. As for LA, your vintage vibe of old school rock and roll suites you [and me] well.

my neighborhood: street hip

Bed Bath & Beyond

I freaked when I saw these shopping cart escalators.

All Saints Co. London

Megan Zolnier: you first spotted this in its original city.

I too, absolutely love.

Industrial mod vintage

process & result

a shaun white kind of dress

Santa Monica, CA

Hey breezy, I like yo facade.

Hillstone: Arty bookstore

Santa Monica Pier

It's culture day in California.

CHINA CHINA CHINA

moleskin sketch

Laugh Factory

"Opening its doors in 1979, the World Famous Laugh Factory has been recognized as "the #1 comedy club in the country" by such high-profile media as USA Today."

Film set, downtown LA

Frank Gehry
Walt Disney Music Hall, 2003

"It has been said as a barge at full sail, a homage to the billowing skirts of Marilyn Monroe, a cubist masterpiece, and a physical manifestation of a certain cartoon mouse's strokes with his magic wand."  

-Wallpaper City Guide [any designers essential Pocket Book]
  

friends. & gehry.

Jackson Polluck. MoCA, 2011.

"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well."

This philosophy shall be related to my pursuit. To find a substance from that which is truly pure, your intuition.

Roy Lichtenstein

Of what are you thinking?

Electric Feel.
A special person played this for me before I came to Cali. ;)