On Tuesday, October 24th, LVHRD invited New York fashion designers Erin Snow and Laurel Wells to compete in a live design competitoin: The Master-Disaster Fashion Duel III. Each designer and their assistant were given 1 hour, 1 model, and 500 feet of aluminum foil. Their task: to design an evening gown for a presidential innaugural ball. Attendees were asked to bring a…
I don’t mind having the same utilitarian desk as the rest of the world, but having the same house as 500 of my neighbors? There is also, dear readers, the pungent concern that this is the company that keeps costs low by requiring you to assemble their goods …
Am i really ready to build my own Housenooven?
Some groups, interested in breaking into the music business, pack up everything they have and ship off to a big city like LA or New York. The Rosewood Thieves are not that group. Leaving the hustle and bustle of the city behind to get away from all the noise, the group, headed by the ever so young (20) Erick Jordan, sojourned…
Though they spoke second at Thursday, November 16th’s Bi-Fold Vol. II, the Graffiti Research Lab blazed new ground during their presentation at LVHRD’s graffiti-themed presentation/performance event. Following a live painting session by Brazilian artist Speto, G.R.L. brought the audience up to speed on their unique form of technology-infused graffiti, and concluded their presentation with a live demonstration. Demonstrating the Night Writer tool,…
Though you’ve probably never heard of it, in 1939, Jimmy Cagney, one of the most typecast gangsters in cinema history, starred in what may have been one of the best, most understated roles in his career. The movie was The Roaring Twenties, and while it’s no White Heat and there are no bravura shoutings of “Top of the World, ma, top…
On December 5th, 1933, after a thirteen year dry spell, America revoked the liquor ban that was set in this country and officially ended the Prohibition period. LVHRD finds that interesting. Even more interesting, though, is the fact that Dewar’s, one of LVHRD’s partners, was the first alcoholic beverage available for liquor lovers to legally drink without getting hassled by…
Have you been to the MoMA lately? You have? Well why didn’t you call me?
They took your phone away at the door?! That . . . sounds . . . incredible . . .
Dukedoms is returning to the very site of our (CLL) PHN-LCKN to check out the MoMA’s new education and research building, which opens today.
The building,…
Coming off the Cirque Du Soleil run is the “new” Beatles album, Love. Acting as an extention to the group’s already steller catalogue, Love represents a sort of exclamation point to the band’s opalescent oeuvre with familiar songs blended with a new lemon twist.
Featuring some of the Beatles’ most beloved hits, George Martin, often referred to as the fifth Beatle, and…
Currently displayed against thehappycorp’s office wall is Speto’s mural from Bi-Fold II: WLD STRT. For those who couldn’t be there, Speto crafted this unique painting in front of a live audience in only twenty minutes. And if you squint, you can even make out Speto’s signature in the bottom right hand corner. That makes it authentic.
LVHRD’s graffiti themed Bi-Fold II: WLD STRT, held on Thursday, November 16th in NYC’s Midtown West and sponsored by Brahma Beer, featured the talents of two very distinguished artists from different parts of the world. Brazilian graffiti artist Speto provided his creative take with a mural design and discussion of his home country’s acceptance of his craft, while the New York-based…
To prep you for the Architect Duel III and all things that go build, check out Ayn (pronounced, Ay-an) Rand’s “other masterpiece,” The Fountainhead on DVD starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. The film, which chronicles the struggles of a striving architect named Howard Roark, is a monument in literature and film that stresses the message that you should never compromise your dream, no matter…
With the holiday season looming closer and closer, it looks to be that time of year again where children demand the newest toy on the block and expect Santy Clause to deliver it come Christmas morning. This year, that new toy is the Playstation 3, a technological powerhouse, the mother of a beast, that plans to overthrow the world and also…
Watch this week's installment of the LVHRD VDO Series. This episode:LVHRD VDO: DNCHRD IV IS MAY 20th
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