louise on the left (coast)

Renée Perle and her times as seen by Lartigue Music from soundtrack to 1988 film The Moderns. When I was a teenager someone gave me prints from early 1920s VOGUE covers and I plastered my walls with them. They followed me from dorm room, to dorm room and back home during the summers. Then, later, they followed me to college where I guess they just fell apart from so much thumbtacking… I never knew there was an actual "real" woman who inspired the covers. But, of course there was. (There always is.) She was a muse -- and her name? Her name was Renee Perle. There are always muses and they are so often overlooked. A creative crime, really, considering they're usually more interesting than the artists who celebrates them. Everything is alchemy. In this case it was Perle's long, cool grace which cast a unique spell on the talented artist, Lartigue, whose advertising images of her inform our ideals of marketing beauty to this very day. Pretty cool fash

Meet Steve. He's a visual artist I have been a fan of for some time now. Lots of people have posted his images, but I'm not sure they've always identified who actually created them, which rather irks me. We all deserve recognition for the cool stuff we do -- especially if our work's good enough to be poached for Facebook and Tumblr accounts. So, here's a few pieces by visual artist, Steve Lambert, whose work I randomly adore. (Lambert   has his own website, here.   It's good.  Go there.) After first discovering his images via Tumblr a few years back I quickly became one of his most ardent fans. The blue version, I guess.   Earlier video of one of his 2009 shows in LA. Steve Lambert solo show walkthrough from Steve Lambert on Vimeo . Here's a link to a good article about Lambert from Laweekly a few years ago  If you don't have time to read all that -- this part is pr