In a world where items, objects and ideas are all classified into boxes that we construct, such as the genres of music, the race of a community, the faiths of people, when do we take a look back and see the commonalities and realize that a common denominator brings them all together? Music has been crossing over with mashups and hybrid sounds of Gnarles Barkley, MIA and MGMT, races are synergizing, adopting and accepting other cultures and languages which normally distinguished one from another, and faiths have been colliding, evolving and expanding. Taking a look at the arts we have in this world, fine art drips into film into illustration into photography into music into anything that expresses the concept via medium. And this is what we have. One might call it chaos, but I consider it as an organized chaos which is left to us to make sense of, produce and present.

In the same vain, the Be-in-1 event explores the concept of collaboration and collusion of the arts from visual to performing. An arts and entertainment festival held next week in Beverly Hills at the Aqua Loungem, any aficionado of music and arts must attend! Expect a truly genuine collaboration of visual art of film and photography, comedy, music spanning a multitude of genres, movement in dance, and fashion.

An event to discover the bubbling underground of LA, this is truly the event for artists to meet fellow artists, for aficionados to indulge their creative and cultural interests, and to come together in the spirit of the arts.

Comedy: Joe King
On the 1’s & 2’s: DJ Styles Davis
Performances: Sektor 7, The Pleez, Les and the Now
Film: One Night in LA, Jon Maxwell
Fashion: Kitty

Saturday, October 18
Aqua Lounge
424 N Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA

Doors open at 8 pm
Entry: $10 before 9:30, $20 after

One of the best PSA’s I’ve seen, this new video makes my inner Rock the Vote soul bubble in nostalgia.
I first saw the running time and said to myself, “4:48 to tell me to vote? Man, this is going to get stale real quick.” However, the barrage of celebrities and their honesty and their genuine messages truly resonates. The video strikes a nice chord between the serious nature of voting, or the lack thereof, and humor.

Check it out.

About the video:
“Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker have created public service announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote. The non-partisan PSA’s, produced by DiCaprio’s Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote and participate in the upcoming election. Celebrities appearing in the PSA’s include: Amy Adams, Tatyana Ali, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Maria Bello, Halle Berry, Selma Blair, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Esai Morales, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker.”

They say sex sells.
It’s sold music, video games, movies, celebrity status (ie, Paris Hilton) and clothing.

Now, I’ve stumbled across what I think is the penultimate use of sex, next to growing celebrity fame of course.

Probably the most creative and amusing video I’ve seen using porn movies to market something that isn’t porn, here’s Diesel Industries latest.



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Do you remember Romy and Michelle’s high school reunion where they tell everyone in their returning high school class that they invented post-it notes? Uh, no, they did not. Actually 3M did, which was initially a mining company out of Minnesota, but that’s another entry.

Well, inventions aside, what can you possibly do with a post-it note other than write reminders on it and post it on a surface.

Apparently, you can turn it into absolute beauty eloquently captured in moving frames by the guys who brought us the Mentos and Diet Coke videos a few years back.

Check it out.

Not only do I love the song, but I love the video by Murakami for Kanye West’s song, “Good Morning”.

The video beautifully captures the essence of the song of trials, hope and achievement. The day might rise without the beams of sun piercing through the fleeting darkness, but perseverance, patience, hope and education will get you somewhere better where a new sun appears, beading down a new knowledge and life.

Good morning.

I’m a big fan of those “holy shit, is that real” kind of videos.

For example, the breakdancer kicking the kid running out into the dance circle, the dynamite that was thrown into the river causing a wave for a surfer to ride on, or the new video by JUSTICE.

Directed by French director, Romain Gavras, “Stress” is shot in the burroughs of Paris, no different from Paris J’Te Aime, except, in Gavras’ work, you won’t find much love, but the polar opposite.

The video depicts a gang of juveniles, images conjuring a bit of the Outsiders, traveling throughout their day and creating havoc throughout the city, and stress for their victims, and strangely enough, emoting through the screen into the rising bpm of your heart. You feel sympathetic to the victims, then you cross that once thought of as impenetrable binary line into the multifarious world of good and bad; do you begin to care about the gang themselves and fear for them not being caught? Anxiety, frustration, anger, and sympathy mounts.

A bit stressful I’d say.

It’s an absolutely beautiful piece of work, conveying the song’s theme and mechanics…but is it real or is it staged?

Christian George.

The breakout video from his forthcoming album, Christian George’s Strangers is quickly gaining on the Billboard Dance Charts, having been Billboard’s Dance Pick of the Week and currently rising to #14 on the Dance Charts.

Marking the directorial debut of Christian George, the video combines infectious beat and melodies with risque moving frames of nude models and actresses articulating the raw sex and passion of the song.

(You’re about to watch the hottest music video in the history of music videos. God bless Rachel Sterling for being so hot. and curse her, for now I expect every woman I meet to look like her. sigh. the life I must live.)