An Evening with Michel Gondry and Friends

I was talking to my good friend Frank last night about why we love Los Angeles, and the biggest reason is that there’s always something fun to do. Such as tonight at The Montalbán, where there’s a screening of Michel Gondry’s new film, Michel Gondry 2: more videos (before & after DVD 1). The evening will feature “music, art, film and surprise guests, celebrating one of cinemas most groundbreaking filmmakers.” This should be so rad, I’ve heard he’s a weirdo when he talks in front of people.

The event is put on my the awesome folks at Flux, KCRW and Nike Sportswear, thanks ya’ll!

Bobby

Gama-Go Store Opens in SF!

I got an email from Greg over at Gama-Go last night telling me that they just opened their first flagship store in the SOMA neighborhood in San Francisco. The shop used to be home to a flooring company, but when the space opened up Gama-Go decided to move in. As Greg says, “We’ve always really liked the SOMA neighborhood & wanted to offer something that you couldn’t really find around here – namely a clothing and gift store!”

I asked Greg if they had and plans to open any stores in the future, and he said, “We’re definitely interested in opening other stores. This first one is great for helping us visualize what we want our stores to look like & what sort of experience we want to offer our customers. We have a strong relationship with LA and of course we love NYC and Chicago. I can also see us opening stores in the Northwest & perhaps overseas. Anyways, that’s all down the road a bit. Right now we’re excited to be giving our home town some love.”

The shop is located at 335 8th St. at Folsom, so if you live in SF or happen to be visiting, definitely go by the shop and say hi. They’re also having an opening party on May 2nd, so go have some beers on Gama-Go!

Bobby

Hard Graft’s New High Laptop Cases

I’m desperately in need of a laptop, I haven’t had one for about 7 or 8 years now, but I still dream of the day when I can tuck one away in a sweet laptop case. Hard Graft is definitely becoming filling a niche for designer laptop cases, featuring a thick wool felt body and leather detailing. The images above are from their New High collection, and I’m loving the elastic band on the front, so you can shove misc. items like magazines in there.

Bobby

He Was Dead… But He Got Better

As everyone has already seen, Crank: High Voltage already has the WORST tagline ever. But my friend Max and I decided to come up with our own version of the poster. Obviously, ours is way better. Tell your friends!

Bobby

Wish You Were Here Patternscapes

Last week Wish You Were Here, the brainchild of Fiona and Ben O’Brien aka Ben the Illustrator, released a brand new series of prints called Patternscapes. Each one of these is like an explosion of color, with all of the titles of the prints based around song titles, which I think is a great idea. There are 11 prints total, so I’m sure everyone could find one they like!

Bobby