Oren Pius of Cosmic Vinyl
Oren Pius and his cousin Eitan Kalma peddled wares in flea markets. Nearly twelve years after he first started selling records, he sits smoking a cigarette in his own store.
Rick Garzon of Residency
“Inglewood has a very rich art community that nobody really knows about….Why not bring it to the forefront?”
Elisabet Spaulding of Uplifters Kitchen
Elizabet comes from a family of small business owners…The ability to go out and do it, create it, to believe in yourself are messages that Elizabet’s mom transferred to her dau
Charlie James of Charlie James Gallery
In what James describes as a midlife crisis, he decided to shift gears—or rather, scrap the whole car. “I kind of just pulled the chute... at thirty-eight, I quit Microsoft.”
Lee Kaplan of ARCANA: Books on the Arts
Humans are naturally attracted to secrets. Secrets are tended, mined, and archived by those of peculiar dedication to a given topic. Lee Kaplan is one such keeper of secrets.
Theresa Baxter of Allmost Studio & Gallery
When I walk in and there’s a photoshoot, and a meeting, and someone is in their studio using an antique letterpress, and someone else is painting—this is the dream.
Michael Delgado of A.G. Geiger Fine Art Books
What’s delightful about Delgado’s progression is his uncalculated pedigree: “I started collecting art books in college, not really realizing that I was collecting books—I j
Identity is a Universe, Not a Spectrum
My identity is vapor. It’s around me. I can distinguish something there, and though it may gently direct me, it continuously slips through my fingers.
Making and Marketing Adult Products in LA
Remember when the only time you could see an advertisement on TV for anything that remotely referred to the taboo word “sex” was in the middle of the night?
Betty Dodson
“I get to spend most of my time now doing things that I love. That’s freedom. And everybody could do that,” Betty says. “But they feel like they have to suffer in life.”