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Pacific Standard Time Featured Fan Artist Profile: Michelle Alexis Newman

Pacific Standard Time Featured Fan Artist Profile: Michelle Alexis Newman

A few weeks ago, we asked artists through the Pacific Standard Time Facebook and Twitter pages to share their thoughts with us. To highlight some of Southern California’s up-and-coming talent, we’ve spoken with a few of these artists and asked them about their work, how they draw inspiration from Southern California, and their thoughts on Pacific Standard Time. The fifth artist in the series is Michelle Alexis Newman, a young photographer and visual artist who works with incredible doses of humor.

Editor’s Note: A few photos in this feature are slightly not safe for work.

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Los Angeles Secrets: Take A Photo With A Celebrity!

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Christmas cards are always a big deal for me. They have to be seasonal, they have to be witty, they have to bring joy: they have to be so many things while also being one tiny little sheet of paper, usually folded over itself to become a proper card. For a long time last year, we thought up some clever ideas and then thought of something that could be cool and particularly Los Angeles: having our photo taken with a celebrity in Hollywood.

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Belle N. Matisse’s Fashion Week Installation

Belle N. Matisse's Fashion Week Installation

The Los Angeles fashion scene is still something very nebulous in our minds, a mix of super high end stars but also up-and-coming designers and also people who seemingly make clothes for fun. We went to the Concept LA Fashion Week presentation over the weekend with no idea what to expect beyond a few installations and maybe a fashion show? We kind of got that but quickly realized it was like a hall of little shows happening that different people were invited to. We were invited to see the Belle N. Matisse presentation, which was a great installation that made all the other presentations there look like they were from people who make clothes for fun.

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Vintage Los Angeles Restaurant Menus

Vintage Los Angeles Restaurant Menus

Are you guys using Pinterest? We’re not. We’re not and we still don’t know how to feel about it as it all just sounds like a scrapbooking bulletin board nightmare. Regardless, when good things happen on there, good things happen on there, picking up like wildfire and being “Repinned” everywhere. One thing we found by way of LAist is a Pinterest board (Is that what you call it?) from the Los Angeles Public Library that features a showcasing of famous menus from Los Angeles restaurants of yesteryear.

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Lisa Hanawalt And My Dirty Dumb Eyes

Writer and cartoonist and generally funny person Lisa Hanawalt will be at Skylight Books on June 3 to read and sign her book My Dirty Dumb Eyes. The book sounds fabulous and hysterical so you should all try to see this.

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Bike Night Photos

The Hammer recently had one of their Bike Nights and they took portraits of people and their bikes. They’re really well done! You’ll also probably see some familiar faces, too.

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Big rig carrying fruit crashes on 210 Freeway, creates jam

In one of the funniest LA headlines and news stories, apparently a big rig with fruit crashed on the 210 and “created a jam.” We’re not sure if there were any injuries to people but 35K pounds of fruit got a little banged up.

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Six Types Of Transplants Ruining LA

Although this article is a *little* drastic, LA Weekly threw their hate in the “Stop fucking with LA!”/#LAHaters conversation with a piece that mapped the six types of Angelenos who are ruining the city. They’re a little mean–but they aren’t entirely wrong.

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Help VIA!

Newcomers VIA are hoping to make some printed items soon. What do they need to do that? Monday! Help them out: they only need a little over $2K and they almost have that money, too. You can catch a video they did for promotion after the jump!

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