A little over a week ago, we were driving East on Beverly a few blocks past La Cienega and noticed something: ScentBar was missing! We were shocked and assumed they had gone out of business, us wondering if their doors were closed forever or if they had just transitioned from literal storefront to online storefront. After a somewhat frantic Tweet, we found out that they had not in fact disappeared but they had moved. ScentBar is now located on Beverly at Martel, a quickly coming retail hot spot as they, BLD, Modernica, Playa, Terroni, l.a. Eyeworks, Rolling Greens, and also relocated on Beverly Twentieth showroom are within three blocks of each other. We popped by late last week to check out their new space, which is absolutely wonderful.
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Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Erika Vogt is a multi-discipline Los Angeles artist who works in everything from video to sculpture to drawing, all of them seeming to roll into each other.
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It’s always fun when you get to meet Internet friends in real life. So many blanks are filled in and the person is rounded out for you, no longer just “some guy on Twitter” or “that girl from Instagram.” A few weeks ago, Internet friend of ours, photographer, Instagram celebrity, and Desktop Wallpaper alumnus Paul Octavious was out West vacationing, traveling up and down the California coastline. Luckily for us, we got to meet up with him one of the nights we were in town from Chicago and realized–duh–we had to hear his thoughts on California, specifically Los Angeles. Check out his thoughts (which include a huge love of tacos) after the jump along with a few photos from his trek out West.
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Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Cody Trepte is a visual artist who works within silkscreening, words, typography, technology, found photos, video, and other graphically geared items. Cody is certainly the most graphic design related artist that will be in Made In L.A..
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Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Caroline Thomas is a Los Angeles based video and sculpture artist, both forms usually responding and interacting with each other in a way. However, Thomas’ specialty is sculpture.
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