Saturday, October 31, 2009

Call for Holiday Vendors...


Holiday Marketplace Bazaar




This is an initial call for vendors for our Holiday Marketplace Bazaar to be held Saturday, December 5th and Sunday, December 6th in a loft in Downtown Los Angeles.

If you would like to take part or get more information, please post here.

Spaces are very limited for this bazaar, so get your name in early for consideration.  We have a large email/marketing list and do art shows twice yearly in this loft.

We will be emailing out more details soon...Happy Holidays!

xxx
Raven

Halloween Fashion Inspiration...Gareth Pugh


Yummy delicious fashion treats from Gareth Pugh collections past and present...
{click images to enlarge}


Happy Halloween to all you Dirty Pretty Things!  

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Friday, October 30, 2009

What Should I be For Halloween?



I'm STILL trying to decide what I should be for the parties we're going to tomorrow night. HELP!
Following are some of my final options...What do you think? What are you going to be this year?




xxx
Raven
 
Detention School Girl

Pirate

 
Jailhouse Rock Star.
..Tacky name, I know,...but cute outfit, huh?



Airline Stewardess



Geisha  



Thursday, October 29, 2009

FREE Music...Anjulie [Hurry...Expires this Friday!]

* Check comments to see which download codes have been taken...and please comment on which you take...Thanks! *

9 FREE downloads available...
ANJULIE
Anjulie is a captivating and authentic new talent in pop music. Ingeniously fusing the world-music rhythms and Top 40 melodies.  She creates startlingly imaginative songs that underscore her undeniable melodic gifts and crackle with provocative, confessional, lyrical word-play.

Starbucks & i-Tunes present this FREE Pick...


Note: Please take one download only {they are all the same song} and then leave a comment stating which you downloaded so everyone knows it's taken. Redeem at the i-Tunes store. Click "Redeem" and enter code. Codes can be used once only.

The following codes expire this Friday: October 30th, 2009


*TAKEN: i Tunes Download #1 "Boom": Download Code: WP6JFP93HE7Y

i Tunes Download #2 "Boom": Download Code: 6R7HATRTYT9H

i Tunes Download #3 "Boom": Download Code: RYHXJP6AAAX3



i Tunes Download #4 "Boom": Download Code: MEMKXKAY4RPL


i Tunes Download #5 "Boom": Download Code: MAWPTJXALA3H

i Tunes Download #6"Boom": Download Code: TYFLTM69AK4H

i Tunes Download #7 "Boom": Download Code: TKHT49LLWWT3

i Tunes Download #8 "Boom": Download Code: RKL46Y67XHYH 


*TAKEN:  i Tunes Download #9 "Boom": Download Code: NYYXYR4XTRRX


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WE LOVE THIS SONG!  Here's the song that you'll be downloading... "Boom"

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

All Tied Up...

Our upcoming show this weekend and renovations on our new studio loft have me all tied up, so I apologise for being M.I.A. without warning.




...Promise to give you updates and more information soon!


Thanks so much for the emails, texts and well-wishes...You are in my thoughts as well.


xxx
Raven

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Life Lessons...How To Be Alone




How To Be Alone
by Susanna Sonnenberg


In 1984 I was 19 and on any given day roamed from dorm room to cafeteria to classroom, then on to dance class or movie theater or Chinese restaurant.  Always with friends, always out with everyone I knew.  We hurried to meet up at coffeehouses or gathered outside the library, bound by lethargy.  Of course, we had no cell phones then, but our society was strung tight by perpetual interaction, presence, plans.  We went for groceries together and to the bank machine.  Everything happened outside my head.  There was no such thing as the interior life.  I needed my friends for the noise and motion, to be entertained, to be watched.  Partly this was the teenager's way of life sophomore year, but I'm sure some college kids liked isolation and privacy - just not me.  Solitude looked gloomy to me, held no uses.  I read better when my roommate was reading across the room on her bed.  I endured the subway ride after starting a conversation with the neighboring stranger.  Even falling asleep, for those of us who had boyfriends, was social.


Did I notice, after I got my first apartment, that a certain crucial thrill came from finding everything just as I'd left it when I opened the refrigerator door?  I must have, and stored the memory away.  But it wasn't until I had a baby that solitude looked interesting, became an elusive commodity. Now with the baby, I couldn't choose my state of being anymore:  Accompanied, by myself, quiet, festive - nothing was up to me.  Now instead of finding time to fill as I would  (a chance to make phone calls, to meet my husband for lunch, a chance to fill up with other people), I was with my baby, the glue of his saliva dampening the front of my shirt, his tendril limbs wrapped around my body, and his thick, soft fingers in my mouth when I opened it to say something.


For work I was reviewing movies, and all of a sudden this was the greatest job in the world because it gave me a chance to undo myself from the baby and go.  Alone.  There in the car at the stoplight, there in the line to buy a ticket, and in the brief, crackling dark before previews, I felt quiet and wonderful, there was a pause and a peace.  And when the movie was over, I returned to my family, renewed and ready.  


I like to be alone now.  I like to taste the honey on the toast, to consider the bee batting against the window. In solitude I come together, collect the errant bits of me that have wandered away, and reassemble them .  Solitude is so fiercely that:  the chance to still oneself.  From its sacred corner I look out, see the wide world, and feel my singular place in it.



repost from American Elle: "The Most Important Thing I've Learned"


We welcome your comments & suggestions. "Life Lessons" now appears every Saturday... If you have a Life Lesson article or topic you'd like to post, please email us at EyeCandy58@yahoo.com

Friday, October 2, 2009

Street Style Now...More Shoe Trend Do's & Don'ts

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Edgy heavy metal style is still in abundance on the European streets...and ya gotta love the first pair of shoes shown that look like they belong on the feet of Lady Gaga herself.  Yum.  Shown below, more of the best and worst on some of the most stylish street walkers right now.














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See if you can guess the big FASHION DON'TS shown here.  There are at least FOUR faux pas that we count.

photos...Tommy Ton

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Thursday Snack...Girl Crush

Lately we've been crushing BIG TIME on a certain little cutie with blond hair, a crooked mischievous-looking smile and quirky offbeat style...DREW BARRYMORE.


Recently, she made her directorial debut with "Whip It" after a decade of producing movies like "Charlie's Angels," "Fever Pitch" and cult favorite "Donnie Darko."

"It's no accident that I'm here," she says. "I've been preparing for this my whole life."






 
 
 

 
top 4 photos...Regan Cameron

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Trailer for "Whip It" starring  Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis, hip-hop artist Eve and Kristen Wiig. Barrymore also has a supporting role in the film.