Dylan Baker Rice of Zaha Hadid recently designed these faucets for Triflow.
JK5
JK5 of Saved Tattoo stayed with us at our house upstate this weekend. He's super talented, very humble, and an all around great guy. Above is his Munny for Kid Robot. Check out his tattoo work and beyond here.
Nick Gelpi Featured on Kanye West's Website
Nick Gelpi and Steven Holl's Riddled Furniture is featured on Kanye West's website. Is there any higher honor?
Gyan Shrosbree
Gyan painted a portrait of me in a bear costume. Better yet, I think she went on a date with each of these guys.
Commonwealth for Flying Lotus
My friends at Commonwealth collaborated on this dark electro music video and cover artwork for Flying Lotus.
In Prison My Whole Life
Nick Goodwin Self, one of the coolest guys I know, just produced this movie about Mumia Abu Jamal. Appearances by my college professor / Black Panther Angela Davis, Snoop Dogg, Noam Chomsky and more.
Atmospherics
My friend and former boss Hani Rashid is having an exhibition of his work called Atmospherics at Phillips de Pury & Company from June 5 - 28.
John Dewis
I just stumbled onto a bunch of photos of my friend John Dewis for Band of Outsiders. Brilliant marketing strategy.
Dana Goodyear
I hung out with some old friends last night and they brought along the very talented and charming Dana Goodyear. Dana writes Postcards from Los Angeles for the New Yorker.
MUSEO
David Shapiro has re-launched MUSEO, a quarterly contemporary art magazine.
Espeis Outside
Zoe Coombes and David Boira, my friends and collaborators at Espeis and Commonwealth, have a million things going on and one of them is the recently opened Espeis Outside.
Valeska Soares
Last night I went to the opening of Valeska’s show at Eleven Rivington. Its all about love, literally. In addition to these books she made these marble pillows that are among my new favorite things.
Chris Cran
Self Portrait with the Combat Nymphos of Saigon | Chris Cran (1985)
Chris Cran is brilliant and hilarious and dangerous. One of my new favorite people.
Lord Cecil
Lord Cecil is one of my favorites from a brilliant drawing series by my friend Tim Hull.
Ro Starr
Butterfly In The Hurricane (detail), 2003
Installed at World Company Ltd. Headquarters, Roppongi, 2003
acrylic, latex and aerosol on canvas
15' x 50'
I ran into my friend Ro Starr the other night at an opening sponsored by Converse and as a nice surprise it turned out that his work was in the show. He’s got a strange touch that I’m fully in love with, and even more he’s a super cool guy.
Dead Birds
Lauren Stern gave me these drawings this summer and I’m still blown away. I just love them.
Alex Ebert Applause
This is my friend Alex Ebert. He was in New York for the summer recording vocals for his band IMA ROBOT. We drank a lot of wine and put together this website photocollage of a performance art piece he did in LA. It’s LA so its not really art, but there’s something about it that works for me. I think there was supposed to be some music but I can’t find that part.
Holiday Home
Two of my good friends are part of Holiday Home, a project by UN Studio opening at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Philadelphia on January 20th. Noah Olmsted of Imaginary Forces is the project leader for experiential design and Isa Wipfli is the architectural photographer.
Graphic Section
I love this graphic building section done by my friend Noah Olmsted for our Jeff Kipnis + Greg Lynn studio.