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8 Questions

Dec 10, 2013

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Jill Lee started her card company, Beau Ideal screen printing cards in her home studio and selling them at the Brooklyn Flea. Since then she's moved down to Miami and expanded Beau Ideal, stepping away from hand silkscreening and more on designing new cards and mass producing, but she still packs all the orders by...

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Dec 03, 2013

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[caption id="attachment_9047" align="alignnone" width="790"] Imprint Presents: David Choe at the Center for the Preservation of Democracy (October 17, 2013)[/caption] Over the holiday weekend I didn't do anything worth exploring or sharing, so I'm going to take this opportunity to answer the 8 Questions questionnaire. After all, how can I ask my peers to participate unless I...

8 Questions

Dec 02, 2013

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[caption id="attachment_9034" align="alignnone" width="790"] Jesse von Doom and Maggie Vail at the CASH Music Summit LA at The Echoplex (November 16, 2013)[/caption] I was introduced to Maggie Vail by our mutual friend Lance Hahn when he was staying at my house and her band The Bangs was playing down the street at Spaceland. It was probably...

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Nov 25, 2013

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Stephen Greene has devoted his career to a multitude of social causes. In 2003, Stephen co-founded international pro-social media company, RockCorps, an organization that leverages the power of music to inspire young people across the world to give back to their communities through volunteering. People who donate four hours of time at a RockCorps organized...

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Nov 18, 2013

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Kyle Christy is an accomplished LA-based freelance photographer who has a knack for shooting creative and interesting portraits of famous talent, including musicians, actors, actresses, athletes, and more, for an equally wide range of clients. A quick look through the portfolio on his website reinforces that statement very nicely. Kyle has a unique blend of...

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Nov 11, 2013

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I posted on Dante several weeks ago on his creatively developed collaborative project, titled The Doodle Project, where he brought together 62 illustrators and 14 musicians from all over the world to play a small role in this piece. I had never really seen this type of project done before and just thought it...

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Nov 04, 2013

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Many artists call themselves indie musicians but I've never met any as independent as Goh Nakamura. Not only does he self-release his own music (which is a lovely mix of The Beatles, Elvis Costello, and Elliot Smith) but he'll perform anywhere because he loves it. I've seen him play clubs, bars, and large gatherings of...

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Oct 28, 2013

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Jay Smith's background is in journalism, having worked for WAD and been Editor-in-Chief at WARE (international sports magazine) for several years. If you follow Jay on Instagram you'll have a reasonably good idea as to his mind-boggling international jet-setting schedule these days, not to mention his many shifting responsibilities as Art Director, Writer, Editor, Publisher,...

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Oct 21, 2013

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I first met Che-Wei at a friends house, where I learned of his successful Kickstarter the Pen-Type A. Che-Wei is one half of the creative duo CW&T together with his now wife Taylor Levy they create some amazing and unique things. Their designs vary from industrial designed products to iPhone apps, never not conceptually genius....

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Oct 14, 2013

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When I heard John Tabis, founder of The Bouqs Company, share his story at the Anderson Entrepreneur event, I was amazed at how easy he’s making it seem to enter a mature and crowded market, to disrupt an entire model. John is extremely passionate about solving the problem of customer experience when ordering flowers, and...