Happy Holidays!

♥ Syd Mead's Winter Wonderland

Apartment 3's second annual Holiday Gift Sale

Don't Forget!

Tomorrow is Apartment 3's second annual Holiday Gift Sale for you and your ho ho ho's! You remember last year, we sorted out all your gift giving needs with reasonably priced one of a kind goodies? Well we are doing it again! This time we are hooking you up with hundreds of gifty items for under 40.00 and we are doing it with the help of our friends at the California Market Center! Please Join us on the patio Friday December 18th from 9am to 4pm. We are once again featuring some amazing designers that are bringing you gifts that like you've never seen!!


The California Market Center is at 110 E 9th Street in Beautiful Downtown Los Angeles

See you there!

Bazaar Bizarre: San Francisco

LOOMLAB will be in San Francisco this weekend!.....

A note from Bazaar Bizarre:

Be sure to mark your calendars for Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco, featuring over 100 carefully juried artists and designers from across the country. Shoppers can expect to find the crème de la crème of indie goods: handbags, pottery, letterpress stationary, silk-screened t-shirts, baby clothes, body products and more!

Bazaar Bizarre is not a craft fair chain; it’s a community event run by local residents. 50% of door fees will be donated to art education organizations such as Out of Site Center For Arts Education. Out of Site Youth Arts Center offers FREE after school, weekend and summer programs in visual and performing arts.

Event information
When: Saturday December 12th & Sunday December 13th 2009
Where: San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Admission: $2.00 for adults, Children under 12 FREE

LOOMLAB at UNIQUE LA - This WEEKEND! (12/5-6)

I hope to see you all at Unique LA this weekend at the California Mart. LOOMLAB will be there! Look for great holiday deals and visit our table near the DJ!

A note from the founder on Unique LA - Sonja...

UNIQUE LOS ANGELES is just a week away, and we've got a few new surprises up our sleeves. So avoid the hysteria, possible death-by-stampede, fake 'deals', and corporate consumerism that Black Friday brings... Shop at UNIQUE LA's 2nd Annual Holiday Show next weekend and support our local economy while scoring big. REALLY BIG.

+ Shepard Fairey's Studio No.1 has partnered with UNIQUE LA (omg)! Every attendee will get a free cotton tote bag featuring artwork exclusive to UNIQUE LA. That makes it a collectible. Soooo cool...

+ With over 300 designers/artists selling their goods, we are now the largest independent design & gift show in the country! That's right NYC, SF and Chicago, LA is taking over! ;) + Our new GREEN ROOM features over 50 eco designers/sellers, and will have a cool eco lounge run by YourDailyThread.com with free magazines, free drinks (thanks to Honest Tea), free gift wrapping services (thanks to the folks at the LA Times), workshops, and loads more!

+ Free DIY WORKSHOPS all weekend! Let our instructors (like the renowned Stefan G Bucher of Daily Monster) show you how to make robot ornaments, wallets/bags, journals, and monsters - for free! + Get your chance to eat from the amazing Tiara Cafe, Gram & Papa's, and Platine Cookies, who will all be serving up meals and treats at their pop-up locations within the show!

+ As usual, get snapped by the amazing Oh Snap Studios! They're building a top-secret, super-cool set for you to strike-a-pose in... Thanks for your support of the community and buying local - we're making big things happen in LA because of you!

See you next weekend...
Sonja *founder and buy local champion

LOOMLAB at Apt3 META Charity Event

From Apt3:
Come show your support by attending our first charity event. Saturday December 5th an extra special, extra fancy apartment 3 fashion show, and this time its for a cause!!

We are proud to be producing a serious night of fashion for our friends at the META charity foundation. Ticket purchases include: Wine, Food, Art Show, and Fashion Show and can be made at the door the night of the event. On top of that, there will be an on-site pop up store with hundreds of gift options under 40 bucks [and LOOMLAB scarves]!

So come out, dress up (bring yo lady or man friend) and support your community. RSVP is necessary to attend this event, so make sure to get yours in quick! You can RSVP by emailing your name and those of any guests to rsvp@apartment-3.com. Don't forget!
xoxoxo
apartment 3

This event will be located at: Cisco Home Store 440 N La Brea Los Angeles Ca 90006

[so come support education and pick up a LOOMLAB scarf too - a portion of all proceeds supports META]

The Oh-So Fabulous Mr. Fix-It

I had to share these pictures that my Dad had sent me. I think they were sent, not for humor but to affirm that he is not the only one...(accompanying the email: JANE - I AM WITH MY OWN!!!!)

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!

For all you crackberry users in the winter...

Scarves for Tech Addicts
Joe Malia certainly was onto something with this idea - and check the old-school monitor! I don't know what is better - the massive depth of the monitor or the comp-scarf.

Time Lapse Video of Kiel Johnson's Cardboard Sculpture of a Twin Lens Reflex Camera

I'm on a time-lapse kick. Can't get enough of it!

WATCH HERE

Kudos goes to both Kiel Johnson with his masterful use of the basics: cardboard, hot glue, and tape and to the video production team, and whoever chose Sixto Rodriguez as the music!

See more of Kiel Johnson’s work at hyperbolestudios.com
Director of Photography: Theo Jemison theojemison.com
Edited By: Arthur Mor arthurmor.com
Music By: Sixto Rodriguez lightintheattic.net/releases/rodriguez/

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.
a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis
year 2009
blublu.org
davidellis.org
produced by studio cromie
studiocromie.org
music by Roberto Lange
robertolange.com
made at Fame festival 2009
famefestival.it

Video Highlights from LOOMLAB's Launch Party

For your viewing pleasure, peep highlights from LOOMLAB's launch party at Daydream Republic and the premier of the Pixel Project [at] LOOMLAB on VIMEO.

Process, Performance, and Participation: The fusion of fashion, film and music

Fashion 2.0 | The Revolution Will Be Webcast

“We are in the midst of a revolution,” says Nick Knight. As fashion brands study and seek to capitalise on what Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts calls the “digital tsunami,” we think understanding the three P’s – Process, Performance and Participation – is an essential precursor to effective action.

*Top Image from SHOWstudio - FANTASIA http://www.showstudio.com/project/fantasia

Flying Pixels in Chris Brown's New Music Video!

Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz - I Can Transform Ya

Flying pixels, amazing dance moves, a fierce wardrobe and some pretty sick editing. Now if someone would only teach me those dance moves!

Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz I Can Transform Ya (c) (C) 2009 RCA/JIVE Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment

A Scarf Woven from Golden Orb Spider Silk

This article was just shared with me: an art historian and a fashion designer living on Madascar have successfully produced a textile from the silk thread of the golden orb spider. It is currently on display at the American Museum of Natural History.

I find it fascinating, although the impending fear of a spider biting me during the experiment would prevent me from trying this at home...

After many fits and starts, the two men put together an almost Victorian spider-silk harvesting operation that hired local people to comb the countryside with long bamboo poles, carefully collecting live female spiders — about 3,000 a day — in boxes. The spiders were taken to Mr. Godley, who set up a system in which workers, all women, would handle each spider, gently pulling out the thread that dangled from its spinnerets. (The spiders bite if provoked, but their bites are not dangerous.) The spider would then be placed in a harness, with 23 others, and sit more or less patiently as a spool tugged the rest of its web out in continuous threads that could sometimes stretch as long as 400 yards before the spider had given its all. These 24 threads were then hand-twisted into one and joined into 96-thread strands that served as the foundation of the textile, which is brocaded with traditional Malagasy motifs.

Read more about the Golden Orb Spider Silk HERE.

Thank you All!

Hello Pixel-ists! Thank you again for participating in the Pixel Project.

The show was a great success! For those of you who made the premier, it was so wonderful to meet you and for those of you who could not make it, we will be posting pictures and videos soon! After a little rest and relaxation for team LOOMLAB, we enter into Phase 2 of the Pixel Project. Each day, we will be highlighting your work artist by artist and pixel by pixel, sharing your bios and telling your stories. Starting tomorrow, we will post pixel #1 and continue to pixel #90. Please email me directly for a full pdf highlighting the entire Pixel Project and all artists involved.

Cheers,
Jane
jane@loomlab.com