Happy 2011!

Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year! Here's to a year of big success, growth and prosperity!


xoxo,
Ladies Lotto

Tea Time with INSA!

Graffiti artist INSA has just made tea time a little more colorful with this special edition tea set.

http://clickforart.com/BuyArt/INSA/GraffitiFetish

Become a LLADY for 2011!

 

2011 is HERE!l

It's time to get in the mix and join up with like-minded get-it girls like yourself.  The New Year brings you another opportunity at creating whatever the hell it is you want for your life. It's time for SUCCESS.

You're number's up lady - it is time to bet on YOU.  

Become a LLADY for 2011! 

Ideas, hard work and networking are but a few ways to get ahead. Being a member of the Ladies Lotto community means accessing the support, talents, advice and collaboration from the crème de la crème of independent, creatively attuned, money-making females from major metropolitan cities and burbs across the globe.

Apply for membership NOW!!
http://tinyurl.com/joinladieslotto

RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP!

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Daydream Believer

It's time to let your mind wander!! Daydreaming is more than simple escapism according to MIT researchers Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli and John Gabrieli. By using devices to scan the brain's activity during daydreaming, "it turns out that cultivating an active idle mind, or teaching yourself how to daydream effectively, might actually encourage the sort of long-range neural connections that make us smart."

Read more about the correlation between IQ and staring out the window... :)

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/01/intelligence_and_the_idle_mind.php

Merry Christmas Ladies!

Gee Whiz It's Christmas! For all of you out there celebrating, merry, merry to you and yours!

Megan Geckler's Woven Colors

Megan Geckler installation from Wexner Center for the Arts on Vimeo.

Los Angeles artist Megan Wexler's vision is extraordinary. 

Geckler uses only strips of translucent plastic tape in her installations, positioning them and weaving them together to create surface patterns and curvilinear forms. In this case, she has lined several walls and wrapped several of the center's iconic columns in tape stripes and designed a loosely woven form that hovers like a canopy above the center's lower lobby and café area. Geckler is based in Los Angeles, and her work has been exhibited at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Torrance Art Museum, Women & Their Work in Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

http://www.wexarts.org/ex/index.php?eventid=5079

Artist Lori Nix Sees A Different World

Aquarium 2007

 Botanic Garden 2008

Map Room 2010

Majestic 2010

http://www.lorinix.net/index.html

5 Underappreciated Alternative Rock Jams of the 00s

1. Autolux - "Here Comes Everybody"



2. The Stills - "Still in Love Song"



3. Polytechnic - "Pep"



4. Broadcast - "Black Cat"



5. Pony Up - "Shut Up and Kiss Me"

Just In Time For the Holidays: Cherry Bomb Mix by Nire!

Just released from one of our favorite NYC DJ's, Nire, the Cherry Bomb Mix is perfect for the holidays and the rest of your 2011. 

http://soundcloud.com/nire/cherry-bomb-mix

  CHERRY BOMB MIX by Nire

Urgent Action Needed to Keep Control of OUR Food!

After a long, complicated process on which this dangerous bill was on and off the table, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act S.510 was passed through to the House for a final lame duck vote which could be as soon as today!

In short, this bill is put forth by large Agrobusiness companies such as the infamous Monsanto, and threatens our right to keep the freedom to choose what food to grow and put in our bodies. It goes directly against the localvore, slow food movement and is a big, scary step in the wrong direction.

Please contact your representative TODAY and urge them to vote NO on S.510. Citizens for Health has a great campaign against S.510 and have an easy form to use in contacting your representative here.

For more detailed info regarding this bill, here is a great article from Natural News.

The vote will take place in the next 48 hours so we must act now!

Grow on.

Mad Decent Mondays x Ladies Lotto in Philly with DJ Valissa!

Join Ladies Lotto TONIGHT at Mad Decent Mondays in Philly!!

with DJ VALISSA (NYC)

Nails by NAIL TITE + Hosted by CRISTAL B.EZ

Doors at 10

FLUID NIGHT CLUB (since back in the day!)

613 S. 4th ST

SUPPORT THE LADIES!!! SPREAD THE WORD TO YOUR PHILLY PEEPS!!

Facebook Vs. Twitter - INFOGRAPHIC

Interesting stats on Facebook & Twitter via PSFK

http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/facebook-vs-twitter-infographic.html

TODAY in LOS ANGELES: HVW8 Music Series with J*Davey

GALLERY MUSIC SERIES
an afternoon of live music collaboration

J*DAVEY
ROB ROY
NOIRFANCY
FRANK OCEAN
JUST MAX

HOSTED BY LE CONNECTEUR AND TY G
WITH GOMEZ WARREN IV

SUNDAY DEC. 19. 2- 5PM

HVW8 ART + DESIGN GALLERY
661 N. SPAULDNG AVE., LA, 90036

*bring out can goods to support the LA food bank for the holiday.

Dam-Funk x tAz Arnold Live at HVW8 Gallery from HVW8 on Vimeo.

Flashback: Two Hearts That Beat As One

Two of Hearts - Stacey Q

Mega cheesy 80's anthem to brighten up your Saturday morning. Fun fact: Stacey Q had a short lived recurring role on The Facts of Life where she became romantically involved with George Clooney's character.

Ladies Lotto With Claws Out!

This Tuesday's CLAWS OUT event was SO MUCH FUN! Ladies Lotto brought together Claw Money with Dirty Librarian Chains, Heirloom Originals and Portia + Manny for a holiday shopping extravaganza! Thanks to all who came out to support women owned businesses + schmooze.

All photos from http://www.karstontannis.com and http://www.beckyyee.com/

 Dirty Librarian Chains' Susan Domelsmith and LLCHI founder Susan Morgan chatting it up about the goods.

 Longtime LL member, Rene Levy Abdo having a laugh.

 Cuties in the house sipping on Xante Liqueur.

 Ladies hocking up goodies by Claw Money!

 Sponsored by Xante Liqueur, the open bar kept everyone nice and warm. 

 Claw Money looking FABULOUS in her last trimester of pregnancy. Overheard at the bar was "I've seen that CLAW everywhere painted on the streets." Yes, she is a LEGENDARY graffiti artist, designer and stylist. MUCH RESPECT!

 

Jen from FAB NY / Heirloom Vintage showing off her gear to LL's Verneda White

Portia + Manny shoes - you can check out the store at 198 Elizabeth St in NOLITA NYC.

Due to the large crowd we were unable to hear from Claw Money. However, she WILL be speaking at a more intimate Ladies Lotto function in 2011. So get ready to hear ALL ABOUT what it's like to be one of the pioneering females in graffiti culture + fashion. 

More photos here/below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22759170@N02/sets/72157625614033328/show/

The Suzan! Japanese Neo Riot Grrrls Are All The Rage!

The Suzan's HOME video -
http://videos.nymag.com/video/Vulture-Premiers-Ek-Shaneesh

Get a couple of tracks here: http://www.myoldkentuckyblog.com/?p=12918

NYC: The Rock and Roll Circus Is Coming to Town!

2 nights at Lincoln Center - January 3rd and 4th. The first night is FREE!! More info:

http://rockandrollcircusparty.com/

MONKI SEE, MONKI DO

 

All photos courtesy of Monki

 

Last year in October, while on a trip to Copenhagen to visit family, I had spent a day shopping and walking around the city center, trying to check out the latest Scandinavian fashions. There was one particular concept store I had managed to stumble into that totally blew me away - MONKI.

My first impression of the store made me think I was transported back to England in 1968. Did I step into famed swinging sixties store Granny Takes A trip on King Road, London; or did Sid & Marty Krofft (creators of groovy TV shows H.R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos) go into interior design, and I just didn't know about it?

The more I wandered around the shop with sheer amazement in my eyes, the more I got to analyze the small details of the interior set up and the products that were organized all over the place. Then I realized - I had entered into my own personal retail heaven. A store that could combine the aesthetics from my two favorite decades where my own style is heavily influenced from - a mix of sharp, geometric contrasts and clean lines of the 60s, as well as the over-sized, boldly structured garments of the 80s. Somehow Monki has managed to take inspiration from these two decades yet spin them with a fun, youthful, and modern twist that will surely appeal to ladies who like to make a statement without being over the top.

Even though Monki was started in Sweden, a lot of the inspiration for their clothes come from the streets of Toyko - and you know what, it works! It's not gawdy, nor tacky stuff here - it's smart, colorful clothes that have an underlying chicness and sophistication. It should also be noted that Monki is the little sister of Weekday (home to hip denim label Cheap Monday), another great concept store based out of Sweden.
If you don't happen to live in Sweden or Denmark, you can also find Monki stores in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, and Hong Kong. There are no plans for Monki to open up in the United States for next year, but you never know... Fingers crossed we can get at least an online store set up for us Yanks in the mean time!

TOMORROW NIGHT: CLAWS OUT NYC!

Ladies Lotto presents
Claws Out!

An evening with Graffiti Legend, Claw Money  + shop from Claw and other  independent designers including Dirty Librarian Chains, Portia + Manny Vintage sip holiday  inspired cocktails and mingle with a creative class of influencers.

Tuesday, 14th 2010 7-10PM

Gallery Bar 120 Orchard Street New York

Complimentary Drinks provided by XANTE

RSVP REQUIRED!
RSVPNYC@LADIESLOTTO.COM

The Swede Beat & Friends [HOLIDAY SPECIAL]

flyer design: http://carolinakrupinska.com/

The Swede Beat Magazine is throwing the last party of the year in their series of monthly club nights at Williamsburg's Trophy Bar inviting Swedish musicians and other creative types to play their favorite tunes.
For this occasion The Swede Beat invited Palms Out Sounds' Marcus Price from Stockholm, Sweden and Swedish/Israeli bass lover TurkDisco.
Lydia Kellam of The Swede Beat is warming up the crowd between 9-11pm.

Wednesday December 15, 2010
9PM - 2AM
Free
Trophy Bar
351 Broadway, Williamsburg Brooklyn
j,m,z to Marcy Avenue or L-train to Bedford Avenue
Facebook RSVP


Ps. There will be Swedish Christmas goodies for all kind people

Flashback: At First You Don't Succeed

Try Again - Aliyah

Aliyah, what a gem and visionary. Nearly 10 years after her death, her music is still making us move.

Give to Girls Around the Globe!

Five hundred million girls cannot read or write. Yet, reading and writing skills not only allow women to express themselves, but also give them self-sufficiency. Literacy gives women power.

This December, LitWorld, a global literacy organization, is leading a campaign to benefit their project, Girls Clubs for Literacy. Girls Clubs for Literacy is a project that provides literacy and leadership workshops for girls in countries including Iraq, Kenya & Liberia. Girls Clubs provide mentorship, health & safety information, and a safe space for self-expression. LitWorld Girls Clubs for literacy create a network of girls worldwide using literacy for power and social action, and girls use their newfound skills to convey issues of health, information, safety and inspiration to other young women in their community.


This Holiday season, LitWorld accepted a challenge from Global Giving to raise $4,000 by December 22nd, which will help them launch five new Girls Clubs sites throughout the world. As little as $10 helps! Please check out the Global Giving Link HERE to make a contribution, and check out their Girls Club Blog link to find more about the Girls Club work!

Demand Human Rights Every Day

Today the international community observes Human Rights Day. This year's theme is human rights defenders who act to end discrimination. Today, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo sits in a prison cell in China. After more than twenty years of championing human rights, in 2008 he was sentenced to 11 years in prison and two years of deprivation of political rights. While bureaucrats agreed to international agreements with their fingers crossed behind their backs, Liu was protesting at Tianamen Square. He was also a co-author of Charter 08; outlining the rights to which all Chinese citizens are entitled.

Join the chorus of people demanding basic human rights all over the world. Speak up and make every day Human Rights day!

Los Angeles: A Current Affair This Weekend!

Hey Los Angeles, A Current Affair (@acurrentaffair) is TONIGHT & THIS WEEKEND (Dec 10 & 11)! Find the BEST vintage gear with over 25 top vintage retailers, including the beloved LIZ BACA (MISS CREW & The Goods).

This pop up shop brings a unique opportunity to shop a select assortment of vintage apparel, jewelry, accessories, eyewear, and ephemera including the likes of Azzedine Alaïa, Balmain, Chanel, Chloe, Comme des Garcons, Givenchy, Issey Miyake, Halston, Lanvin, and Yves Saint Laurent.

To top things off, the amazing LIZ GOLDWYN will be hosting and signing copies of her book Pretty Things. 

The opening preview and party will take place on Friday from 6 to 10 p.m., with the show continuing Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $10. Cooper Design Space, 860 S. Los Angeles St., 11th Floor, Los Angeles.

http://www.itsacurrentaffair.com

New Harmony Benefit Gala: You're Invited!

Come on out to this very special benefit event in support of two wonderful organizations performing critical environmental and human rights work in Guatemala.

This event is a cocktail gala and concert featuring Guatemalan musicians Tuco Cárdenas and Fernando Juárez, followed by a party with NYC-based bands and DJs. Be ready to shake it!

All proceeds go towards supporting Semilla Nueva's ongoing work in sustainable agriculture, and maintaining the various social programs offered by Nuevos Horizontes, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of the rights of women and children in Guatemala.

In particular for Nuevos Horizontes, the proceeds from this event will allow the daycare center to stay open in 2011. The daycare center is for children of working mothers/families living in poverty, and provides full-time childcare as well as nutritional, educational, and psychological services.

When: SATURDAY, December, 18th 7:00pm - 10:00pm (6:00pm - 10:00pm with VIP tickets)

Where: Club Soiree NYC | 199 Bowery, | MANHATTAN, NY 10002

Tickets: $35 General Admission; $100 VIP
REGISTER ONLINE HERE: http://www.semillanueva.org/event1210.php

Come out and support the farmers of our future!

CLAWS OUT! NYC 12/14

Ladies Lotto presents

Claws Out!

An evening with Graffiti Legend, Claw Money  + shop from Claw and other independent designers including Dirty Librarian Chains, sip holiday inspired cocktails and mingle with a creative class of influencers.

Tuesday, 14th 2010 7-10PM

Gallery Bar 120 Orchard Street New York

Complimentary Drinks provided by XANTE

RSVP REQUIRED!
RSVPNYC@LADIESLOTTO.COM

Chinese Patent Remedies For Your Medicine Cabinet

Energy cannot be destroyed, only changed. When it comes to our health, an Asian approach to changing the flow of energy is the primary means to wellness with the overall goal as balance.

Traditional Chinese Medicine allows for an understanding of the inner workings of the organs and how flow of blood and chi affect them. Addressing stagnation, heat, dry, and dampness are what many Chinese patent remedies treat in order to achieve balance and health. These are age old remedies born out of longevity and wisdom.

Every large city has a Chinatown where you can find these amazing treatment for what ails you:

-Yinchiao Chieh Tu Pien: Cold/flu remedy, also has antibiotic ingredients of honeysuckle flower to reduce redness/swelling/hives/rashes

-Lien Chiao Pai Tu Pien: Treats skin boils with pus, also fever, red, itchy skin

-Bi Yan Pian: Nose inflammation, sinus congestion, head cold

-Yunnan Pai Yao: Trauma (large wounds, broken bones, gunshots, etc), menstrual cramps, ulcers, sprains, inflammation. Great also before surgery (2 days) and after surgery (7-10 days)

-Curing Pills: Diarrhea, digestive cure all, safe for nausea during pregnancy! 

-Patch Removing Pills: Facial/skin discolorations, moles, freckles, dark patches on face

These beverage/teas/syrups are also medicinal:

-Lo Han Kuo Beverage: Dry cough/thirst with cold or flu symptoms

-She She Cao tea: Boils, pimples, rashes, skin toxins

-Hsiao Keh Chuan: Bronchitis, cough and asthma

Some great books on this:

Chinese Herbal Patent Formulas by Jake Fratkin

Asian Health Secrets by Letha Hadady

When 50 Foot Reels Attack: A Farewell to Kodachrome

Don't bother asking your momma not to take your Kodachrome away. The film geek's beloved Kodachrome Super 8 film has expired but there will be one last hurrah (okay, two) in Los Angeles this week. First, the 10th Annual Attack of the 50 Foot Reels where daredevil crews will shoot a film under almost dogmatic rules; one roll of film per crew; in-camera edits only and no viewing of the finished product until the night of the screening. Second, guests will gather for one last glorious night at RIP Kodachrome: A Wake Screening, complete with film and slide screenings, eulogies, music and a pot luck. I'd say Kodachrome is being sent off in a grand fashion.

Thursday, December 9, 2010
7:30 PM

Attack of the 50 Foot Reels
Special All Kodachrome Event
American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Ticket info: http://www.egyptiantheatre.com/

More about Flicker & the Attack of the 50 Foot Reels:
http://www.flickerla.com/


Saturday, December 11, 2010
6:00 PM

RIP Kodachrome: A Wake Screening
Echo Park Film Center Annex (in Atwater Village)
Call the EPFC for address, (213) 484-8846
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org

More about Kodachrome:
http://kodachromeproject.com/pages/contents.html


Photo Credit: Calvin Dexter

TONIGHT: Slideluck Potshow NYC Fundraiser

Martyr #7 by Javier Pinon

Visible City (Obstruction III) by Marissa Baumgartner

Along Route 6 by Wilmot Kidd

The NYC launch of SLIDELUCK is tonight, the event will serve as a fundraiser for Slideluck Potshow and its Slideluck Youth Initiative. Don't confuse Slideluck with Slideluck Potshow. Unlike the events past, Slideluck will be a collaboration with a chef, restaurant, supper club or farm. A carefully curated selection of 20 artists will be showcased instead of they typical 40 to create a more intimate and less hurried feel. Take your time to explore the work of the artist featured below. It's taken just about 10 years for this project to come to fruition so you don't want to miss this. Pioneering photographer Patrick McMullan, DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) and all the beautiful, arty people will be there.

TONIGHT, December 8, 2010

NYC Slideluck Launch Party & Fundraiser
6:00-10:30 PM

Sandbox Studio
250 Hudson Street, 11th Floor
NYC


TICKETS:
6:30pm Cocktail Reception with Hosts/Artists + Dinner + Slideshow +...
7:30pm Dinner + Slideshow + Auctions: $125
8:30pm (New) Reduced-Fare Ticket + Afterparty $75
Unavailable on this date, but would like to make a contribution regardless? Please click here.

* The Cocktail Reception will be limited to 50 guests.
* The dinner will be limited to 200 guests.


Artists Participating in Auction:
Gema Alava / Marisa Baumgartner / Yasmina Belkacem / Julie Blackmon / Chris Buck / Elinor Carucci / Jamie Chung / Bruce Checefsky / Zoe Crosher / Amber De Vos / Kyle DeWoody /Joey Frank / Andy Freeberg / John Gordon Gauld / Robert Herman / Andrew Hetherington / Casey Kelbaugh / Charlotte Kidd / Wilmot Kidd / Jessica M. Kaufman / Vincent Laforet / Stephen Mallon / Alyssa Monks / Amy Morken / Rosalie Stone Morris / Ruben Natal-San Miguel / Natalie Obermaier / Coke O'Neal / Javier Piñon / Lisa M. Robinson / Jonah Samson / Jennifer Shaw / Suzannah Sinclair / Sarah Small / Mickey Smith / Cameron Sterling / Brandon Thibodeaux / Phillip Toledano / Spencer Tunick / Martin Usborne / Jan Van Holleben / Sophia Wallace / Jamie Ziobro

Click here for Auction Preview

Brand Nubian - Love Me Or Leave Me Alone

Making Art Amongst Friends

Fellow Chicagoan Melissa Stinson and I stopped by the Levis space in the old Deitch gallery in Soho for a shoot from photographer Kareem Black. Tokyo TV was in town from Japan to shadow stylist Valissa Yoe for an upcoming documentary and the space was busy with an audience of fellow artists and fans. The styling was on point, the sick helmet Valissa pulled from Kerin Rose worked perfectly with singer Raquel Reeds futuristic style. Raquel just released a video for her new track "I'll Show You" with none other than Redman. Please peep the hot pink comb stuck in his fade!

Love the gold Vivian Westwoods

Jess Jubilee on the 1's and 2's

Kareem and Raquel on set

Valissa and Raquel

The Levis Workshop is open until December and is open to the public; photoshoots, printing and general art making goes on all day in the building so be sure to stop by. They also have a photobooth you can shoot and print your portraits like the old school photstrips. (It's a bit addicting).

I'll be shooting portraits of a few of my favorite musicians, actors and artist friends this Wednesday afternoon in the space from 3-5 so stop by and say hello!

18 Wooster St @ Grand

NY, NY

www.levisworkshops.com

Check the videos where Kareem and Valissa talk inspiration and "making art amongst friends."

KareemBlack@Levis Workshop from thepickenpackreport on Vimeo.

Valissa @Levi Workshop from thepickenpackreport on Vimeo.