rony alwin – noa avishag schnall

i’ve been hibernating for the past few weeks, working on an upcoming exhibition + book. but i did manage to sneak away for a new year’s celebrating with these noodles, ALEXIS + TODD.

couldn’t be prouder of TODD for his grammy nomination + the rest of the team behind the RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES record.

thanks RONY for this last photo of 2013.

a few days later i used the dual excuse of finishing my disposable camera + seeing this dear friend before his move to NY to grant myself another leave from the edit bay.

it was the ideal respite from work with MATT + NATE (working the camera + sadly not picture). thanks for bringing me out, boys.

family doing big things.
KESH had her first show on november 14 exhibiting 14 self-portraits.
not only were we celebrating her birthday, but her pieces sold as well + we danced our hearts out at the afterparty.

my date for the evening: NIKO da IKON

thanks to RONY for this photo.

of all that voyeuristic eye could take in at the annual MAROON 5 halloween party at hollywood forever cemetery, this chick easily took the cake for the best costume, creepy eyes and all .
i fulfilled my childhood dream + brought a TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE to life for the evening.CHARLOTTE x SOFIA x PIPIVIK doing a killer TUPACATLANTA DE CADENET in lace
once you crossed the majority of the burial plots, + came through the mausoleum + passed the first bar, you came upon the main grounds of the party, complete with carnival games + in-n-out truck.GARCIA as la cucaracha. genius. i can almost hear this song playing .even with the spelling, i couldn’t resist grabbing a pic with the unicorn.ALEX was actually handling out slim jims…RONY doesn’t need to do much to be convincing in this role.MICKEY as SKRILLEXthis duo kept it mysterious all night. rumor has it RADIOHEAD frontman THOM YORKE got into one of the DAFT PUNK, + we all saw the master of hollywood ceremonies CHRIS HOLMES djing earlier. it might as well be the tootsie pop mystery…the world will never know.

last thursday ANA and i traversed all of la .
what a good sport that little lady is ! straight from her shoot with RONY, ANA came along for the shoot STAMP and i conceptualized for RUBY .

off we hustled downtown to the studio where GUISEPPE and NATE were ready to shoot .
after the final photo shoot of the day (and a brief visit from the cops), i had all the girls involved in the shoot put on the same neon pink matte lipstick we had RUBY wear, and had STAMP capture the moment .
from l-r: me, MELE, RUBY, ANA and ALEJANDRA

when RUBY directs