Perhaps I skipped a skip or two by posting an interview with Alpine Decline last week. Let's get into the show...
I was stoked when Tanya and Julia gave me a green light to set up an Imprint event featuring underground bands from China. I had booked them to play a benefit for music education at my daughter's school in Chinatown but how cool will it be for cool and noisy artists like Carsick Cars, Chui...
Has it really been eight weeks since Imprint's Long Beach: Work in Progress conference took place at the historic and long-shuttered Edison Theatre? Time flies, yet it was always our intention that its message of understanding and growing local history and culture would reach the entire city. We have also hoped to inspire members of other...
To expand on the audience and effectiveness of our recent Long Beach: Work in Progress conference, we have commissioned a series of videos. This is the second of three, and features the team of core speakers including Imprint founder Julia Huang, W+K Garage founder John Jay, Staple Design's jeffstaple, and me. Its purpose is to...
Our friend and photographer Ben Clark has been sending us previews of images that he and his team shot at the Long Beach: Work in Progress conference and they are sweet. I love how they show that the event was an actual gathering of people--and not just a collision of ideas. And while I've been blabbing...
After months of blogging in anticipation of Long Beach: Work in Progress, the week of the conference is finally here. This afternoon the crew visited the Edison Theatre, where the event will take place. The historic venue has been shuttered for years but has been cleared out and prepared for some washing down and selective...
We're pleased to announce that Imprint has recently received approval from the City of Long Beach to hold its spring conference at the Edison Theatre in Downtown's Broadway corridor. The stately structure was constructed in 1917, and has housed a variety of businesses including the Nippon Pool Room and Barber Shop (1924), sporting goods shops...