Party madness this past Friday evening as my husband Lars DJ’d at his monthly residency at Moonshadows in Malibu. (Name sound familiar? Well, Moonshadows is the restaurant/bar where Mel Gibson was partying it up the night of his infamous run in with Malibu police a couple years ago.) This spot is always great times..outdoor deck lounge overlooking the pacific ocean, the crowd, amazing food, stiff drinks and of course the MUSIC.

We started by sitting outside at a table on the deck, overlooking the ocean, and enjoyed an incredible gourmet dinner from the Moonshadows restaurant. And then Lars got behind the DJ decks, dropping some sweet music to start out the beautiful early evening. Soon after his guest DJ for the evening, our very good friend Tony Watson and his beautiful wife Angie showed up. Tony is one of my favorite DJ’s in LA and listening to him play is always a treat.  Both Tony and Lars dropped some serious dope records throughout the night, never staying within a specific genre or style. As the evening went on the place became more and more packed and soon the place was jumping and getting crazy. People were dancing, singing out loud and screaming. I’ve never seen that place get that nutty. All in all..although I was having a sober evening, (Lars drank plenty for the both of us… haha! ) I had a seriously good time and met some great new people .

Click on the image mosaic above and it will take you to my flickr set of all the photos both me and Lars took. Or you can view the slideshow.

Color Wars 2008 held a competition for people to submit a photo of themselves when they were young and another photo trying to recreate that moment as they are now. They have a gallery of all the submissions and some of them are just awesome.

Photographer Alec Soth received International honors in 2004 with his images of life on the Mississippi which became the hit of the Whitney Biennial in New York. That same year, his book, Sleeping by the Mississippi was published to widespread acclaim. “Shot over a period of five years, Sleeping by the Mississippi is a trip along America’s ‘Forgotten Coast’, the neglected bank’s of the country’s longest river.” Soth captures landscapes, interiors and portraits, alluding to religion, race crime, sex and death. He vividly exposes lost hope, loneliness and underlying dreams of the people he meets and photographs.

This series has been ranked with the greatest representations of the United States, including Walker Evan’s photos of the depression and Robert Frank’s harsh vision of the 1950’s.

Bonnie (with a photograph of an angel), Port Gibson, Mississippi 2000

Sugar’s, Davenport, Iowa 2002

During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l’oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.

BEFORE:

My passion for vintage design recently had me googling old supermarkets. To my surprise, I found some great blogs and sites that focus on this exact subject. Pleasant Family Shopping is a sweet blog “dedicated to preserving the history of retail chain stores of the past - with an emphasis on supermarkets and discount stores.” Also catching my attention is Groceteria, “a site about the history of the American supermarket, from both an architectural and a business perspective,” concentrating mainly on the 1920s through the 1980s. Such wonderful history, details and photos on both sites.

Here’s a collection of color vintage supermarket photos from The Imaginary World that warm my heart.