Remember when I wrote a post back in January about a new Tumblr that was created showing Skrillex cooking things? Well, it seems like the DJ has taken the idea more literally than we thought because he opened up the Grillex Food Truck earlier this week.
“I figured, why not? Y’know? I’ve gotta try a new challenge right now,” Skrillex said. “Growing up, I cooked a lot at home … I mean, I spent a lot of time with a spatula and grill tongs, almost as much time as I did with decks and records. I’ve got a real passion for it, y’know what I mean? I think, like, 60% of these things fail in the first few months … might as well give it a shot.”
The truck will be near Echo Park in Los Angeles for the next few nights, but for a more complete schedule, Skrillex plans to update everyone on the Grillex Twitter account.
- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are covering Vogue’s second annual best dressed issue. The issue highlights the best in fashionable sisters including the Olsen twins, Kate and Pippa Middleton, Dakota and Elle Fanning and many more. [Source]
- Dakota Fanning’s ad for Marc Jacobs’ “Oh Lola” fragrance has been banned for being too sexual. [Source]
- In Chloe Sevigny’s recent cover shoot for Candy Magazine photographed by Terry Richardson, the two of them collaborated in…another way. [Source] Must be weird for Terry to make out with someone that completely looks like him.
“There are a lot of pop stars making fashion collections – Kylie and J.Lo, Puff Daddy and Kanye West…Maybe next season, [Domenico Dolce and I] should sing a song.” – Stefano Gabbana
- The lovely and talented Dia Frampton will be releasing her first debut album on December 6th. [Source]
- To celebrate Christmas at the Rockefeller Center, Tony Bennett, Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Cee Lo Green, Faith Hill, Carole King, Katharine McPhee, Javier Colon and The Radio City Rockettes will be performing for the live broadcast. [Source]
- Justin Bieber is definitely taking the paternity test in two weeks and Maury is trying to recruit him to be on his show when he reveals the results. [Source] I would love to hear Maury announce, “YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER!” or vice versa.
- An acoustic performance by Fun of “We Are Young” featuring Janelle Monae. [Source]
- EMI Music has been sold to Universal for $1.9 Billion. Sony bought out EMI Music Publishing for $2.2 Billion. [Source]
- Taylor Momsen’s band, The Pretty Reckless, will support Guns ‘N Roses on tour. [Source]
Television
- Showtime has renewed Weeds for an eighth season. [Source] I can’t believe this show isn’t over yet.
- Billy Crystal will be hosting the Oscars this year replacing Eddie Murphy. [Source]
- Lifetime TV is planning a new reality series called “Starving Secrets” to highlight the effects of having an eating disorder. [Source]
Movies
- Breaking Dawn fans are camping out for the premiere of the movie in Los Angeles. [Source] Wow, that doesn’t sound like fun at all.
Seattle
- The Chihuly Gardenand Glass Exhibit will open next spring at the Seattle Center and will be the world’s largest Chihuly exhibit to ever exist. [Source] Above is a photograph of our Chihuly sculpture on campus in Pigott.
- Cupcake Royale has made Breaking Dawn cupcakes to celebrate the release. [Source]
- Meet Seattle’s most influential people of 2011. [Source]
- Seattle made the list for being the 8th shopaholic city. [Source]
Other
- These are the worst action figures of Kate and Pippa Middleton I have ever seen. [Source]
- Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are finally following in the footsteps of their previous characters and are dating! [Source]
- 25- year old Kyla Pratt (One-on-One, Proud Family) has a one-year old daughter. [Source]
- Ex-pornstar, Sasha Grey, read children’s book to elementary students yesterday and parents were not enthused. [Source]
- A 10-year old girl from Mexico gave birth to a baby boy in a 31-week pregnancy. [Source] OH MY GOD.
- A straight rugby player suffers a stroke and goes into a coma – wakes up gay and fabulous! [Source]
Lindsay Lohan checked herself into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, CA last night only staying for five hours until they decided to release her for overcrowding. You’re killing me LA. Are you trying to teach the girl a lesson or not? Can someone tell me how five hours is close to a 30-day sentence? Oh…it’s not.
Growing up, I’ve always lived by this rule that airports were the only acceptable setting for someone to be wearing sweats in public. Sometimes, even that seemed like a stretch. No one wants to be uncomfortable while traveling. You have to take off your shoes. You’re confined to a seat. You’re sitting next to people that you don’t want to be sitting by. The blankets are measly and sometimes they’ve already got some vomit on them. Nice, right?! I’ve had my fair share of bad luck with traveling.
So I can’t blame you if you want to be wearing sweats at the airport, but you should know that there are more appropriate ways of being comfortable while flying. Celebrities do it all the time in your standard tee and jeans outfit so we should all be able to as well.
Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, brought on with her a second outfit to change into as she flew from New York to Los Angeles. When she got on the plane, she was wearing a Louis Vuitton dress, but soon after she had sat down, the editor excused herself to the bathroom and came out wearing jeans and a “cute top.” Sure enough, before the plane landed in Los Angeles, Wintour was back in her Louis Vuitton dress again. This woman is incredible.
Street artist Ron English has invaded a Ralph’s grocery store in Venice for a fun and quirky installation. English decided to replace some of our favorite cereals with ones that include a little play on words. Yum yum yum get me a box of Sugar Frosted Fat stat! The installation was designed to promote his new exhibition at LA’s Post No Bills gallery. If you’re in Venice and happen to spot one of these boxes though, feel free to snag it and then ship it to English so that he can autograph it for you.
Criminal Minds actor Matthew Gray Gubler will be hiding the following items in a “magic sack” in Los Angeles in hopes that someone will decide to enter in his game of scavenger hunt. Clues will soon be given, but I don’t know if anyone knows this or not… but Los Angeles is KIND OF a big city. I haven’t decided yet if the prizes are worth it, but if they are coming from MGG’s personal stash, then I suppose they are. Would you join the hunt?
For someone who claims that they are not a fan of Justin Bieber, I seem to be posting about him more frequently these days. Justin Bieber fans were jealous went nuts over the weekend and today for some of the most ridiculous reasons. First off, word got out that Mr. Bieber planned an extra special date for girlfriend Selena Gomez over the weekend by treating her to a special private screening of Titanic at the Staples Center in Los Angeles just for the young couple. Inspired by a scene from Mr. Deeds, Justin Bieber was able to pull off a pretty romantic surprise for Selena. And if you couldn’t dislike him anymore than you already do, you should know that the young pop star didn’t even have to break out the wallet for this. Yep. The Staples Center just handed their venue over to him since he has sold out his shows there three times. It also helped that there weren’t any other events going on that night either.
I’m not sure why Bieber fans were acting out over this. My guess is because of jealously.
Today, however, @Bieberarmy got a few sneak peaks at the songs featured on Justin Bieber’s upcoming Christmas album as a promo and Bieber fans that did not get this special privilege started crying all over the world about equality and unfairness.
Oh Justin, what a mess you have gotten yourself into…
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know someone in college that wasn’t studying abroad. People choose where they go to college for a number of reasons and though it wasn’t mine, a huge deciding factor is study abroad opportunities. I never studied abroad while in college and sometimes I kind of wish I had. Traveling, new experiences, meeting new people aren’t exactly things that scare me, but it wasn’t meant to be for me to go abroad while in school so I’m going to save some time for it when I finish…going abroad that is sans the studying.
This week, I came across a program called Education First. The program has been promoting themselves with a series of “Live the Language” short films that follow study abroad students as they embark on their travels in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Paris and a few other cities. The videos highlight some of the things a study abroad student might go through such as having a class, trying new food and experiencing the culture of the city.
My favorite below is Los Angeles.
Check out more videos and learn more about the program here.
Attention Los Angeles locals – After a month of being open, the pop-up shop Arts & Leisure will be closing, but before they go, they are throwing one last party tonight from 7-10PM. You’re not going to want to miss this because it involves a 50% sale so cancel your plans, change your plans, or make THIS your plan.
I’m the type of person that makes [insert number] year plans outside of the normal 4-year college plan. I’m not really sure why I do this. Sometimes the plans slip through the cracks and I abort them, but other times – those goals stay intact. It’s not like I haven’t left some room to wiggle- because I have, but there’s just so much I want to accomplish and if it’s not designated to a certain time period, it may get lost. On top of finishing school and on top of getting into my career, one thing I have always wanted to do for myself is open a boutique or pop-up shop. I’m a little bit weary of boutiques because I think that I would get bored of them after awhile. There’s only so much you can do to expand. A pop-up shop, however, is a shop that only stays open in a space for about a month or so before it up and leaves. It’s the perfect amount of time to leave a shop open and you get a blank canvas that you can do just about anything with.
This past weekend, Sophomore designer Chrissie Miller and her friend Erin Krause opened up their pop-up shop Arts & Leisure in Los Angeles at Space 15 Twenty. They will be showcasing a wide variety of jewelry, books, clothes, and many more from some of New York’s most well-known and underground designers and artists. Check out the shop’s website here.
While Capitol Hill was celebrating Yogurtland as the dessert of the summer, down the coast – Los Angeles was opening up a fruit tart shop called Früute. I don’t know about any of you, but I am a huge fan of small foods – small anything! With nearly 21 bite-sized variations, you are guaranteed to sample more than just one. Sounds like the perfect summer treat, right? This is officially going down on my list of things to do the next time I’m visiting. To see more pictures of the tart shop and the many flavors that they offer, click here or here.
I cannot even begin to tell you how refreshing it is to discover a blog written by a male or better yet – a group of males! These days, blogs are overrun by women writing about fashion, style, home decor, etc. – don’t get me wrong – those are some of my favorite types of blogs, but reading a blog written from a guy’s perspective is sometimes so much better. It’s nice to see guys that care about the same things I care about, but in a masculine context. Refinery 29 wrote a post today about some of their favorite guy bloggers in the Chicago area, but I decided to extend this post to include some of my personal favorites from all over. Enjoy everyone! And don’t worry – even though it is male-focused, there is something for the ladies too. This is also kind of a follow-up post to the one I did back in January 2010.
Believe it or not, out of the 27 blogs I read on a daily basis, Cool Material is the only male-focused blog in that lineup. Highlighting new products in fashion, technology and design, Cool Material brings forth the items that every guy will want on their wishlist. These writers are the coolest of the bunch and are nothing, but effortless in their style.
Mr. Kim Says is kind of a hodge-podge blog in that I don’t exactly know what the focus is, but I like it regardless. It is very similar to a Tumblr (if it’s not already a Tumblr,) but it makes me laugh at the end of the day so I guess that’s all that matters.
If you’ve been following Yow Yow! for some time now, then you know that I’ve been a huge fan of MetroDad for over a year now. The identity behind Metrodad is still unknown, but that’s not the most important factor. Whoever he is, I find him to be intelligent, humorous, and a lovable father to his “Peanut.” It’s like the guy speaks my language, but that’s just because he’s relatable and I’m sure I’m not the only one that feels that way. He’s got a gazillion fans and his posts seem to always strike a chord with me. I once found myself wimpering away during a reading of one. Shameless.
Sophisticated and sleek, Los Angelist is catered for male readers that are confident, savvy, and in the know. The site is so simple and there is not much on the blog that is geared towards me, but yet I still find myself hooked on the blog regularly.
So I have to admit that I’ve got a little bit of an obsession with this blog. Having read it for a couple years now, Josh Spear still remains to be one of the most up-to-date and relevant blogs in my roll focusing on culture, technology, music, gadget, designs, travel and more.
Man Up Chicago is a blog I just discovered via Refinery 29 and even though I know nothing about Chicago, lucky for me, this blog is not just city-focused. I actually found myself pretty interested in some of the posts especially all of their recent Lollapalooza coverage! By the way, did anyone catch the live stream today? I was able to watch Delta Spirit, Foster the People, White Lies, and Two Door Cinema Club all while I was at work. Awesome. Technology!
Anna Skladmann, Vova Standing in His Grandfather’s Theatre from the series Little Adults, Moscow, 2010
I just noticed in my 20 tabs open I have about six tabs of photo series. Instead of making a new post about each individual collection, I figured I would condense it and be more efficient by sticking them all into one post. This first series by photographer Anna Skladmann is a photo essay called “Children of the Russian Elite.” I love how Skladmann photographs the children in a way that shows us how different their childhood is from the average kid. There aren’t any sandboxes or dirt on their faces. Despite their young faces, you can easily tell that these children are more mature than their actual age and that’s something that I find so interesting about this essay. [Source]
I am incredibly amused by the Pothole photo series by husband wife duo Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano! The two photographers capturing potholes in Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York have managed to turn them into something beautiful and comical at the same time.
Their inspiration: “After a sudden collision with a canyon sized crater of a pothole we decided to channel our frustration into a positive project where the useless pothole would be a source of humor and creativity.” [Source]
Passport and Reality
This project found on Behance Network shows how much people’s looks can change in ten years.
I am envious of the lives that photographers, journalists, and buyers lead because traveling automatically comes with the job. Marcel Mucil, a travel photographer, has captured these stunning images of Icelandic volcanoes and I am mesmerized by these gorgeous colors and views. [Source]
There is no denying that the moneymakers and businessmen of Tokyo are hardworking, but making that scrill comes with a price. For the past seven years, photographer Pawel Jaszczuk has been photographing “salarymen” in Tokyo. They are obviously dressed for work, but clearly are not awake for it since they are passing out on sidewalks all over the city. [Source]
