The Annenberg Space welcomes its inaugural exhibit, L8S ANG3LES
Annenberg Space,  Century City, CA
3/27/09

The Annenberg Foundation, one of the nation’s largest private family foundations, announced plans to open a new community space dedicated to both digital images and print photography in Los Angeles, California. The Annenberg Space for Photography will open in spring 2009. The space will be a 10,000 square foot facility which will feature a state-of-the-art digital projection gallery along with a traditional print exhibit area. The combination of these galleries will enable the Annenberg Space for Photography to show an unprecedented number of images to the general public in a dynamic environment. →

EM: Occupation and Position.
Full time Student and Recording Artist (Grassroots Productions)

EM: What neighborhood do you closely identify with?  What makes your community so unique?
I looooovvveee LA!  All of LA:  Hollywood, Inglewood lol.  My fav is Santa Monica Beach.  LA is so unique because it has so many facets:  Downtown (LA’s New York City), Malibu (LA’s Hawaii), and nowhere else can you find Hollywood!!! →

Italian design and architecture magazine Domus continues to thrive in print media by way of innovative reader experiences. By putting together well-conceptualized and smartly designed pages, each issue of Domus is like a piece of artwork. The video above is an example of this in the March 2009 issue. By intricately folding the pages, the reader can reveal two illustrations by Tobias Krafczyk, a tactile interaction of Print 2.0, if you will. →

LOVEMADE & PUMA PRESENT MONTHLY MUSIC SERIES
Ecco Lounge – Hollywood, CA
3/24/09
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Lovemade and Puma hosts their monthly Music Series, this time hosted by director/choreographer, Fatima Robinson.  Celebrating the launch of Fatima’s Online Network:  HTTP://WHATDOYOUDANCE.COM.  →

52ND SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS THE LOST WORLD WITH DENGUE FEVER LIVE
Castro Theater- San Francisco, CA
3/16/09
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The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23-May 7) announces one of the highly anticipated special events of each year’s Festival, the annual pairing of live music with an iconic silent film. Dengue Fever will perform the world premiere of their newly composed original score for the first cinematic adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventure yarn The Lost World at the historic Castro Theatre .

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The last time you had your makeup done you walked out of Bloomingdales with a multicolored cheat sheet and a complete un-mastery of your own smoky eye.  Luckily, bold Brit chic Sarah Strand is prepped to punch up your pout – and then some.  The makeup artist’s perky line is filled with glistening glosses, sparkly shadows, high-shine highlighters and all those correct and conceal needs in between.  →

May 30th has been set as the release date for this new limited pair of Jordan’s.  What better way could there be to celebrate the struggling economy than to go out and buy a $310 pair of shoes.  A full red suede upper seems a bit much for Air Jordan’s but over the past few years they’ve been bastardizing the most recognizable shoe line ever to such an extent that it should not really surprise anyone. →

Hundreds turned out at the Egyptian theater in Hollywood on Sunday 8th March 2009, on what was a beautiful sunny day, to pay their last respects to the undisputed king of science fiction, Forrest J. Ackerman, who died on December 4th 2008 at the age of 92. Since his death the wheels had been turning to churn out a memorial fitting for the man considered a pivotal influence by so many. Among them Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, John Landis and the list just goes on and on. →

An Associated Press article reported that an opening for a janitor position recently received nearly 700 applications.  The officials at Edison Junior High School in the Massilon, Ohio were indeed startled, but perhaps not completely surprised. →

EM: Occupation and Position.
Independent Film Professional (Producer, Editor, Actress) and Blogger.  I’m a social networking whore, too.

EM: What neighborhood do you closely identify with?  What makes your community so unique?
Growing up, I moved around a lot and I’ve lived all over and around LA so it’s hard to say.  →