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Saturday night we play our monthly at The Basement in Long Beach. Our friends On Blast and DJ Lithuanian Prince will be playing with us along with a special guest or two. Hope to see you there!

More info here.

Letterrheady is a blog that posts interesting letterhead throughout history up to present day. Somehow they even got letterhead from the Third Reich…scary.

Living in the same city as the second busiest container port in the United States I get plenty of shipping containers to look at as I’m driving to and from Los Angeles every day. I’m always struck by the logos and the type that gets painted on the sides of these containers and the above are some of my favorites. I especially love how the logos and type get painted on the ribbed containers and create that fluttering effect, it feels so down and dirty but it’s visually awesome.

This set of posters by Ross Berens just kills it for me. It’s all very simple and perfect. Lately I’ve been a sucker for dark landscapes with stars so maybe that has something to do with it, but I really love how the typography switches up with each piece and it still feels like a very unified series. Check out the rest of the posters here and the rest of Ross’ excellent portfolio here.

I got the idea to do stenciled wine bottles from ReadyMade Magazine when I was trying to figure out what I would do for holiday gifts last year. The idea was doing letter stencils on cheap wine bottles after taking off the original label. These two were done for the two biggest wine lovers in my family (whose initials are on each bottle). Certainly they are more appealing than what comes on the bottle (Papyrus? Really!? Avatar!!).

I’ve been selected the winner of a photo contest that lead up to tonight’s opening of Ordinary Days at South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa, California. They asked for submissions that exemplified our own ordinary day told in photographs, so I selected some from my iPhone (of all things!) that I’ve taken on what are in fact many-a-ordinary-day.

Winning netted me a pair of tickets, drinks, food and an after party! Should make for a wonderful Friday evening. See my submission after the jump or go here.

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I’m headed to the AGENDA Tradeshow today along with my Grnappletree cohorts to show our spring and summer collections as well as debut our collab with 9five: a rad pair of sunglasses and a t-shirt to go along with it.

Having come from a tradeshow background I’m really curious about this one; most of the shows I’ve been to were automotive-related so needless to say this show will be much more up my alley. I’ll have my camera with me as I hope to report back with some good shots and a synopsis.

I couldn’t talk about Polaroid photography without posting something about my favorite Polaroid photographer (to date) Grant Hamilton. I pretty much wish I had thought of using a Polaroid camera the way he does long ago because it’s just brilliant. If you could paint with this sort of camera this is how you would do it. There are way too many great ones to post so go see the rest for yourself here and here.

This Saturday I will be showing artwork and playing music with Tiger Tank Euphoria at COME•UNITY hosted by {open} in Long Beach. This will also be Feed The Feeble’s EP release show. The event is free so come by for an evening with artists, designers, musicians and others. The event starts at 8pm, more info here.

On a side note, I took a little time to create the above poster for the event. You can see the alternate dark version here. Hope to see you out!

In the spirit of Polaroid happenings this week, I thought I would share a video created by Charles and Ray Eames for the original Polaroid SX-70 instant film camera. Naturally they did an awesome job at visualizing how the camera works, I love all the close up shots they got of the mechanics and the film quality is classic.

While my camera isn’t nearly as cool as the SX-70, I still love carrying it around from time to time and seeing what I can capture with it. Soon I will be posting some of my own Polaroids and hopefully I will be able to obtain more film in the near future…looks like it could happen.