Last weekend I went out to see my friends in the band’s Neon Indian and Ishi play at Hailey’s, in Denton, TX.  The show looked like it was gonna sell out at 8pm and they didn’t even go on until 11:30pm, it was pretty amazing!  This time last year Neon Indian was but a beginning, now in 2010 they’ve seen and toured the world, been mentioned on the national news, and have a fan following that seems to growing by the minute.  They aren’t the only band making waves though, Ishi is just another example of the growing music scene in Dallas, TX, despite the citiy government’s blatantly obvious hatred for it, and anything creative.  Ishi’s sound is a finely tuned dancing machine, that infects anyone that hears it.  I even found myself dancing in the middle of photographing them!  Look for big things coming from these two bands in the future!

Photos By:  Dustin Hollywood

Tags: dance party, Denton, Dustin Hollywood, hailey's, HELLoooooo.com, http://thefiasco.dphoto.com, ishi, Live Music, Neon Indian, Texas

Mikey Rodge did a great set at ‘THE ISH’ a few months back (“Dance Your ISH Off”) that also happened to be his biggest crowd to date. And now he brings Helloooooo.com his first mixtape, aptly titled “Dance Your Face Off! Vol. 1.” Give it a whirl and tell us what you think.

Download the full mix HERE

Tags: dance your face off vol 1, dance your ish off, HELLoooooo.com, mikey rodge, mixtape, The Ish Wednesday Ghostbar Helloooooo

Lots of cool galleries from NYC, London, Venice, & even Beijing ~ all worth checking out @ Dallas Art Fair

By far the one piece I wanted to take home from the fair:  Kiki Smith Turtle, 2009 @ Pace Prints NYC

@ only $6,000 for the single why not make it a set and buy all three for $15,000 ~ I’m not a math wizard but I am half Jew and that sounds like a deal to me ….

Butterfly…..

Bat…..

Kiki Smith ~ Butterfly, Bat, Turtle, 2009  ~ Dimensional iris print with collage ~ 1 of 22 editions

Pace Prints 32 E. 57th NY, NY or 521 West 26th NY, NY

Tags: Dallas Art Fair 2010, Galleries Dallas, Kiki Smith, Pace Prints NYC

Tags: 40s films, dir. William Beaudine), Elliot Forbes, Exploitation film, Mom and Dad 1945

This skinny guy (Alberto Giacometti’s “Walking Man I”) just sold for $104.3 million dollars in auction at Sotheby’s London.  Word on the street is the buyer called in by telephone. My guess? Russian billionaire.

Photo from NYTimes

Tags: Alberto Giacometti, Art, Auction, London, Sotheby's

Highsnobiety.com — a source for very cool shit, very ridiculously over-the-top (read: gay) shit, and finally, very dope and dreamy shit that I wish made some kind of financial sense. Take for example these clear shoe boxes from HUPBOX.com that The Doc put me on. They are AMAZING, but the only problem? At $40 a pop you may as well go buy a pair of brand new classic white Chucks instead of a single shoe box. I’m thinking of buying one, booking a flight to China, shopping it to various factories, getting my own version made, and selling ‘em for $5 each… coming soon, to your nearest The Container Store: the GILBERTOBOX!

Images via highsnobiety.com

Tags: gilbertobox, highsnobiety.com, hupbox, hupbox.com, the container store, The Doc

Amazing shots of toys with an SX-70 and flash. So clever, Thanks tubes.

Tags: Polaroid, polaroid wednesday, roids on toys, sx-70, sx-70 and flash, Toys, toys on roids, tubes

Toro Y Moi.

One of my favorite up and coming artists for 2010, I have been jamming him frequently as of late. Everyone should jump on this if you have not yet. Trippy, but not annoying.. real classy mix of popular genres.

Tags: Toro Y Moi

Helloooooo.com hosted the new ownership re-launching of Lift Lounge last Saturday with the sounds of LA-based DJ Marshall Barnes. The night was epic and the spot is definitely going to be an amazing addition to the Uptown Dallas palette. Check out the rest of the pics from the evening on our dPhoto site.

Photos By: Shok

Tags: deckstar, HELLoooooo.com, Lift Lounge, Marshall Barnes, Marshall Barnes Lift Lounge, Marshall Barnes Texas, New Lift Lounge Dallas TExas

Just got a VHS player this week after many years without one. I recently started taking an exploitation film course at school so stay tuned for weekly recommendations of old classics (basically, anything I watch). This week: Russ Meyer’s 1961 film, “Eve and The Handyman”.

Tags: q, Russ Meyer, Russ meyer's, Russ Meyer's Eve and the handyman

Tags: american apparel, Helloooooo Apparel, stripes

Gilberto and I ate at Nobu last weekend and ran into the legend himself — Nobu Matsuhisa. When I asked Mr. Matsuhisa why he chose Dallas, he simply replied “Nobu does Dallas!”.

Tags: (214) 252-7000, 400 Crescent Court Dallas, Crescent court office, Crescent Dallas, Dallas Nobu, Nobu, TX 75201

This week we bring you a Neon Indian track, 7000, as remixed by ‘ISH’ veteran Yeahdef. Dude originally layed this track down immediately after Neon Indian’s set at Granada Theater on December 28, 2009. Give it a whirl — you will like what you hear. And be sure to make it out this week to ‘THE ISH’ Wednesday: Power Up as we team up Yeahdef with Ocelot and Indo. You can thank us with a solid Thursday morning hangover.

Click HERE to download Neon Indian (Reprise) ‘7000′ (Yeahdef’s Remix)

Tags: 7000, download free music, Ghostbar, indo, music friday, Neon Indian, neon indian 7000 reprise yeahdef remix, ocelot, Power Up, the ish, The Ish Wednesdays, yeahdef

Tags: 2404 Cedar Springs Road Dallas, Dj Marshall Barnes, Lift Lounge, Lift Lounge Dallas, new Lift lounge Dallas, Texas 75201

beautiful. provocative. alluring.

Jonathan Leder

Tags: Jonathan Leder, Photography, Polaroid, polaroid wednesday

The shins + Danger Mouse?

Yes please.

Broken Bells

Tags: Broken Bells, danger mouse, The shins

I have to give this kid credit because he is improving. The days of Darq Matter are long gone. DJ Molucutta has bugged the shit out of me for months to put up his mix and to be honest I never gave it a listen. This week I did. He is my boy so… A+ for effort and C+/B-  on the mix. Keep at it. Sick download for the car.

Download Here

Photo By: Dustin Hollywood

Tags: Dallas, Dj Molcutta, Mikey, music friday

Installment: 1 of 3

Date: July 25, 2009

Location: PM Lounge at The Joule Hotel (Dallas, TX)

Art Direction: Jonathan Shokrian

Styling: Jane Kackley

Jewelry: Ninaki & David Yurman

Hair: Jessica Watts for Dear Clark Hair Studio (Dallas, TX)

Photography: Dagny Piasecki

Production: Joshua Zad

Tags: Dagny Piasecki Photography, Dear Clark Hair Studio, Helloooooo Photo Shoot, Jane Aldridge Photo Shoot, Jane Kackley, Jessica Watts Dear Clark, Photo Shoot Dallas Locations, Photo Shoot Dallas Texas, Photo Shoot Series, Pm Lounge, sea of shoes, Sea of Shoes.com, The Joule Hotel Dallas TX

Today I present to you one of my absolute favorite photographers of all time: Jolijn Snijders. This Dutch born 28 year old is definitely one to admire. Influenced greatly by movies, especially the work of Godard, Cronenberg, Lynch and Larry Clark as well as Helmut Newton’s and Hockney’s photographs, Snijders exudes a raw, cinematic, candid, and moody tone to her art. She has in her recent years established a very addicting website/online magazine called ILOVEFAKE where she showcases the raw jaw dropping beauty of female and male models from all over the world.

When asked by theonestowatch : “What is the best advice you have ever been given?” Snijders responded with “Do what you love, and do it well, you only live once.”

Tags: Cronenberg, Godard, Helmut Newton, Hockney, ILOVEFAKE, Jolijn Snijders, Larry Clark, Lynch, Polaroid, polaroid wednesday, theonestowatch

(Originally published on Helloooooo.com April 14, 2009)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Hipsters: Coachella is almost upon us. With that, there are certain responsibilities and acceptable behaviors that one must abide by when attending The Festival of All Festivals. Count your blessings because the Commandments below are ten years in the making from the same folks who brought you the Ten BBM Commandments. Also, if you have not started starving yourself yet, then by all means go get yourself the largest cup of Ultra-Extreme-Columbian coffee 7-Eleven sells, kick your feet up, and pay close attention. Without further ado, Gilberto, Shok and The Doc present The Ten Coachella Commandments…

1. Never ever let your friends convince you to put down the $5,000 security deposit on your rental home. All the “I promise to pay you back”’s in the world will not magically take money out of your friends’ bank and land it into your over-drafted account. (Side note: If you are renting a home from a family by the name of ‘Zimmerman,’ return your deposit and tell them to go fuck themselves — trust).

2. Don’t tell anybody you have bought your ticket or even done anything that would remotely suggest that you have your plans figured out…this could put you in a position to figure out their plans too.

3. Don’t be seen in the “Beer Garden” — people might think you are broke, the recession has affected you, and you cannot afford VIP.

4. Be cautious when taking the biggest SUV among your friends down to the concert; though you will get the most bang for your buck (read: Artist Parking Pass), you can expect a great deal of arguing as either a) one of the 12 people in the car’s ecstasy wears off, b) one friend wants to stay for Felix the Cat (who?), or c) you are lucky enough to be with one of “those” people who can only use hotel toilets.

Gilberto’s 2006 Coachella Ho

5. Don’t be caught dead putting “House of Hype” as your blackberry status — even if you are staying there.

6. Don’t forget to fill up your house’s kitchen with the basics: Gatorade (orange, obviously), tequila, flour tortillas, cheese, water, Crown, club soda, Doritos (red), eggs, cold cuts, and of course beer (for those annoying “how do I know you?” guests who roll up empty-handed).

7. If any of your friends is adamant that they are not going to Coachella, they for sure are going. If they call you in the days before the festival, they for sure are trying to “crash on your couch.” Our advice: Don’t answer their calls or open their BBMs. Again — trust.

8. Don’t complain about the line-up and how three years ago was soooooo much better. Shut the fuck up, put on your American Apparel tee, and enjoy the show. And while you are it, for the love of God don’t come to the event at 3 and think you are coming fashionably late…everybody knows not to come before 6.

9. Ladies, this one is for you. It is not OK, under any circumstances, to think that it is cool to wear cowboy boots in the 110-degree desert weather. No, you are not in Austin and the amount of bacteria that is cultivating inside your shit-kickers is probably enough to kill a small village. Or at least the entire Sahara Tent.

10. And last but not least, don’t ever trust any friend who tells you he can make you a VIP or Artist wristband. That might have worked back in the day (aka 2001)…but those days are long gone, Mr Greenberg. Also, don’t bother showing up to the event without an Artist Parking Pass. You might as well not buy a ticket and spend Coachella in the parking lot listening to your eight-track player, watching your fellow ragged commoners.

Tags: 2009, artist pass, bbm, beer garden, Blackberry, blanket, broke, Coachella, commandments, cram, crown, dead, ecstacy, felix the cat, home, house, house of hype, iPhone, Kanye, madonna, parking, recession, Rent, security deposit, sienna miller, status, suv, vip

This just in: 2010 Coachella lineup revealed. Jay-Z, Deadmau5, Dead Weather, Tiësto, Passion Pit, Phoenix to name a few names…

Tags: California, coachella 2010 lineup, festival

Tags: Louis XIV, Miami, South Beach

One of my favorite shoots I have done thus far in my career, hands down. Our weeks and weeks of planning really paid off thanks to my incredible team of creatives.

Dagnushka: photography/post-processing

Miss Laura Kaululaau:  make-up artist

Natalie Morgan: hair stylist

Nikki Cloud:  stylist extroidinare

Jean-Philippe Martin: lighting technician

Models: Kelly Young, Emma Hefti

Tags: photoshoot, wood nymphs

Photography by Steven Molina

Tags: St. Lucia, Travel

I was drawn to the above image (Raincoat) for obvious reasons, but I’m glad I delved further into her work. Amy Kaufman work illustrates a strong interest in bold pattern based abstraction. I love color blocking and art that forces the viewer to search for more than meets eye.

Tags: Amy Kaufman, artist, black and white stripes, raincoat, rug, strut, tapestry