Just came across this imagery we created for a yard sale + crafts fair we helped organize in DC in the summer of 2003, just before we moved up to New York.

Still dig it, man.

Experimenting with light a bit today.

No huge piece here, just, if you ever get a chance, definitely go see Grace Jones perform live.

No matter what else is going on.

Just. Go.

Photo above by Drew A. Kelley; below, a shot Katie got of of Ms. Jones performing alongside the supermoon lunar eclipse at the Hollywood Bowl last night.

Epic.

Pomegranates are soooooooo late-ninties when it comes to vibrantly colored super-foods.

To get with the times, we’re jumping on the pitaya bandwagon—formerly known as the dragon fruit bandwagon…which we assume was an attempt at rebranding the brightly colored fruit to appeal to video-game-playing teens.

We picked one up at the farmers’ market the other day, cut it open, and found that it practically glowed fuschia—Pantone 233, by our estimation.

Blend with a frozen banana, spare plum, a little almond milk, and a handful of ice, and you’ve got yourself a pretty tasty, evidently lifesaving smoothie.

We’re holding a cocktail benefit for local non-profit Art for Animals’ Sake at MooShoes LA Saturday night and, as part of the art-centric, rat-centric event, our design studio created these limited edition prints that’ll be available night of.

The Rattie Uprising, as AAS is calling it, will feature artwork for sale to benefit the group, like our prints; vegan food + cocktails; and general merriment and celebration in honor of our smaller animal friends. Much like the raven + crow, the rat’s been stigmatized largely in western culture, so we feel our furry friends’ pain and are happy that someone’s giving voice to them.

Below, some fun facts about rats paired with adorably cute photos of them and a promo video, all courtesy of David Walega of Art for Animals’ Sake.

If you’re in the LA area Saturday, check out info on the event and RSVP via Facebook.

Following in the footsteps of the ‘official’ announcement of our new apparel line yesterday, we wanted to highlight another relatively new animal-friendly t-shirt venture based here in Los Angeles, BEETxBEET, a company with the mission to “save the planet one vegan at a time”.

I attended the vegan-food-filled, DJ-rific one year anniversary party this past Saturday and finally got a chance to meet BEETxBEET owner, Jacky Wasserman (pictured right).

As the company states on their site, “BEETxBEET creates t-shirts to spread healthy propaganda while educating the general public about conscious eating and the environmental issues surrounding food. We provide you a tool to be a sound board for the important causes that need a voice while being fashionable at the same time so you can feel empowered representing our tees where ever you go.”

We’re big fans—I picked up two of our shirts, but it was tough not to walk away from the party with all of them in tow—and think you should be too.

Visit BEETxBEET’s site to see the rest of their product range and shop directly from the company. We’re hoping to carry their shirts at MooShoes soon too.

Black + white photos via BEETxBEET.

raven + crow studio now has an apparel line! We’ve been meaning to officially announce this for a while now, but wanted to wait until everything was available online.

The line, which we’ve dubbed The Kindness Collection, is available through mooshoes.com and in-store at MooShoes LA + MooSheos NYC. The designs for the shirts are based on the prints we did last winter but, truth be told, it took us a while to get everything in order for the shirts themselves as we had some pretty rigorous, self-imposed requirements for how they were to be made.

We’d first considered going the American Apparel route, but, with rumors of the company soon moving production overseas to China and the creepy ex-CEO who (we hear) is actually very much still involved in the company, we decided to take our time on these to make sure we lined up a team we could really be proud of.

In the end, we found a great, smaller scale apparel company located right here in Los Angeles that pays their workers fairly and sources a variety of innovative, sustainably made materials—ours are a mix of soft, organic cotton and recycled plastic bottles. The final cost of making shirts this way inevitably higher, but our hope is that our customer will understand that this is a reflection of us not wanting to cut corners in the process—paying local workers what they should be paid, not what we can get away with paying; lessening our ecological footprint, as it were, with the production of the line; and relying on small, local businesses to keep our money local.

Check them out online or in-store and let us know what you think.

We’re small-batching the shirts for now so we can switch up designs and keep things fresh, so keep an eye out for new ones in the winter/spring.

A photograph Katie took ages ago as part of a larger character portrait series that always hit a chord in me, mainly in the light, color combination presented, and straight-on look she gives the camera in that cryptic pose.

We’re hereby presenting our September 2015 mixtape, an accumulation of new songs from largely new (to us) artist that have us excited in the studio.

This month, we start off with a Brooklyn band that we’re really loving of late, Eskimeaux, before moving on to Eliot Sumner, who we simply cannot stop listening to (we gave her a brief shout-out and caught her live at the beginning of this month, which we highly recommend doing). We’ve also got some great new tracks from glitchy London artist, Farao, NYC orchestral chamber pop group and longtime studio favorite Miracles of Modern Science (who we interviewed last week), and the much-buzzed-about (and worth of said buzz) Empress Of, who, we hear, is about to join our ranks as New Yorkers who move to Los Angeles. And much more music, of course.

Listen on, friends.

And, if you’re new to the mixtape series, feel free to check out past installments and/or navigate to music-related articles via the MUSIC tab in the right-hand column.

Remembering today.