The Unique LA & Apartment 3 Store Opening

Come join Unique LA and Apartment 3 as we celebrate the opening of our boutique at H.D. Buttercup! Enjoy an open bar, tunes by a super-secret-celeb DJ, goodies, our favorite food trucks, and more.

Don't miss this special preview to check out the great selections from over 100 independent designers and artists (including yours truly LOOMLAB)!

Free to attend but YOU MUST RSVP HERE: http://uniquelaapartment3opening.eventbrite.com/

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I recently had the good luck to visit the opening of Simmons and Burke's show IF NOT WINTER at the Michael Kohn Gallery. I often attend art openings in and around LA, but rarely does the art affect me as much as this show did. It was pure and raw and technical and an orchestra of image and sound - excuse my language, but their work is a complete mind fuck.

If you can get out to visit their show before it closes, I highly recommend it. It was an honor to be present to experience such true works of genius.
For their second solo show in Los Angeles, the artists have created a collection of work that underscores their now iconographic style. Using the Internet as their source material, Simmons & Burke have effectively combed through millions of images and sounds, appropriating these once disparate elements into the grand narratives of their art. Embracing a sense of horror vacui (literally, a fear of empty spaces) in their artwork, Simmons & Burke fill the entire surface of these works, creating depth from rich layers of imagery and sound.
-courtesy of Michael Kohn Gallery

Below LA Weekly's Christopher Miles describes the duo's work for their first solo show in LA:

"The collaborative duo of Case Simmons and Andrew Burke share a tendency toward epic spectacles that fuse human triumph, folly and cosmic events with the likes of 15th-century Netherlander Hieronymus Bosch or 16th-century German Albrecht Altdorfer. But while such forebears delivered such imagery as Christ issuing his last judgment from a kind of divine bubble hovering above a scorched and debouched earth, or a portal to heaven opening above a massive battle scene, Simmons & Burke are more likely to deliver Karl Lagerfeld decked out in white and emerging from the clouds, Michael Jordan dunking in the sky or Mr. Roarke and Tattoo of Fantasy Island mounting a podium while Britney and Madonna kiss in the corner. All this is handled via collage reminiscent of dada, with a kind of post-tweaker mania about it, and arranged in compositions that recall the sort of Renaissance and Baroque layouts art historians diagram with diagonal lines and triangles, but that you’ve probably seen more familiarly while tripping on a kaleidoscope. The most pleasurable eyestrain you’ll ever know is paired with equally cacophonous layered soundtracks matched to each of their Paradise on Earth visions."

Joel McHale in LOOMLAB?

Joel McHale in LOOMLAB? Hopefully soon! Rumor has it that Joel likes LOOMLAB so be on the lookout for him wearing a fabulous new scarf soon!

We love him in Community and E's The Soup, but we were super psyched about his recent feature in our favorite mag, as he hosted The New TV Guide in September's Wired.

"Smart" And Stylish Scarves on Real Simple

Simple Stated, a blog from Real Simple, had some really lovely things to say about LOOMLAB...

"She's got beauty and brains. No...I'm not talking about you (although I'm sure you personify both of these qualities)...I'm referring to this amazing Jane Henry scarf that is just as visually stimulating as it is mentally. Don't believe me? Well, read on..." "Smart" And Stylish Scarves By LOOMLAB



Thank you Julee and Happy Wrapping!!

LOOMLAB featured in TimeOut NewYork!

Our Gradient Oblong scarf was featured in TimeOut NewYork!

TIME OUT NEW YORK

08.19.10-08.25.10

LOOMLAB for Green Nation Entertainment

Green Nation Entertainment shot musician Beth Current's most recent music video featuring LOOMLAB's Fibonacci Stripe Oblong scarf on the mic stand!

Don't forget your data stream

Tired of forgetting your USB drive in a shared computer? Designed by Chris Jackson, an Industrial Designer living in Wellington, New Zealand, Jackson transforms the information hidden within the USB drive into a visual sculpture of binary code.

http://www.researchandobject.com/project/data-stream/