On a recent venture down to The City Of Angels, I was asked to DJ a gig called the Pop Up Shop. The Pop Up Shop was a brilliant joint venture between ‘Team Iso’, ‘Rockit Scientists’, ‘Class Villians’, ‘Phreedom’, ‘Boomtho!’ and a whole host of other amazing brands to display their latest and greatest works at the Dream Factory. Not to be confused with the Fantasy Factory, the Dream Factory is a one of a kind art gallery on Main Street in downtown LA. I spun the all day event as all the brands and their representers were out in full effect.
Now, this is the part that will undoubtedly cause me to get a whole host of angry emails about how I cut people out, and forgot about this person and that person, but I don’t care. All the brands that were in the house worked their hardest to come through with the best product they had to offer. Every size of every color-way or every look and every style of every piece were award worthy, hands down. And that being said, I have to be honest, I was a bit busy doing my job to get the background on every single brand in the building (there were quite a few), but below are a few peeks at some of the material from ‘Rockit Scientists’, ‘Team Iso’, ‘Class Villains’, and ‘Boomtho!’. Check the method.
All in all the event was a blast, and I have to try and shoot out everyone who helped everything run as smoothly as it did, starting with my amazing assistant Ashley F., who not only held it down at the event, but also managed to take all the photos in this post. Shouts to Keoni, Brittany, Louis V, Lil Ryan, and the whole Team Iso crew. Nico Santana, Reg Slvstr, DT, and everyone else involved with the Rockit Scientists. All of NhT, and every other performer who hit the stage to perform during the evening. And shouts to all and everyone who came through to support their brands, and most of all, anyone who bought something at the gallery. (You helped us get paid… so THANK YOU). By the end of the night, everyone was like family (on my twitter, you can see us all grubbing at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffels on Pico), and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Hit me up in a comment if you want the details on the next one, or any of the brands pictured in this post.
The Victoria’s Secret fashion show came and went recently, but with quite a fuss this year. From what I heard via an inside source, all the models this year were “Plus Sized”. (I can’t even TYPE that without rolling my eyes) But by some technical definition, any runway model over a certain size (4 or 6 or some such foolishness) is considered “plus sized”. But while I was watching the show, all the arguing about this issue was going on until everyone stopped to watch Jay-Z and Kanye West perform their newest hit ‘N*ggas In Paris’ on the runway. The performance was quite entertaining (with Kanye in his leather chaps), as the models passed down the stage during the song. Check the video from the show below.
