love is found

♡♡♡ Sade ☆ LOVE IS FOUND MP3 ♡♡♡

just a week ago, i saw SADE front & center, 10 rows down from the stage in the VIP section thanks to Andrew Hale, Sade composer & keyboardist since 1984. without a doubt, this was the most beautiful, elegant & heart warming show i've been to in many years. to witness such tight intimacy & complicity among a band of so many extraordinary musicians blew my mind... not to mention i've worshiped Sade Adu since i was a kid in the 80s! pics of the show in this iphone album of mine.

while the east coast got an earthquake & another hurricane, i've been chilling under the hot California sun... gallivanting around town, i came across the fabulous high priestess of green galactic...

...then wrapped it up at summertramp - scroll down to bottom of page.

♡♡♡ Sade ☆ THE MOON & THE SKY MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Florence + The Machine ☆ WHAT THE WATER GAVE ME MP3 ♡♡♡

...Florence Welch is a force of nature! so is Björk:

♡♡♡ Björk ☆ CRYSTALLINE MP3 ☆ Omar Souleyman ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Siete Catorce ☆ CUMBIA SAMPUESANA MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Adele ☆ FIRE TO THE RAIN MP3 ☆ Plastic Plates ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Hird feat. Yukimi Nagano ☆ KEEP YOU KIMI MP3 ♡♡♡

...Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano is the cutest!

♡♡♡ Little Dragon ☆ RITUAL UNION MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Erlend Øye ☆ FOR THE TIME BEING MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Mix Chopin ☆ WHEN I'M WITH YOU MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Oliver $ ☆ DOIN' YA THING MP3 ♡♡♡

click on this photo for more summertramp snapshots...

...shout out to Natalie Levy of Grey Ant for my New Foundry shades!

♡♡♡ M83 ☆ MIDNIGHT CITY MP3 ♡♡♡

AALIYAH

yesterday marked a very sad 10 year anniversary. Aaliyah was one in a trillion! click on picture for a recent remix of my favourite song of hers; she is that somebody... a heavenly salute to Aaliyah & our sweetest friend Douglas Kratz who was on the plane with her... Stuck On Doug!

White Nights

...Oh Land video by Doomsday directing collective Canada:

♡♡♡ Oh Land ☆ WHITE NIGHTS MP3 ☆ Twin Shadow ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Faker ☆ DANGEROUS MP3 ☆ CSS ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Sade ☆ HANG ON MP3 ♡♡♡



♡♡♡ Franke Laine ☆ MOONLIGHT GAMBLER MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Kings Of Convenience ☆ FINALLY MP3♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Azari & III ☆ MANIC MP3 ♡♡♡

The Laughing Heart

commissioned by W+K Levi's, this Radical Media production was directed by RALF SCHMERBERG who shot it from dusk till dawn with natural lighting over the span of 5 nights last Spring. the spot celebrates those looking to ensure a better future for this world, with words by Charles Bukowski:

THE LAUGHING HEART

⎯ your life is your life
⎯ don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
⎯ be on the watch.
⎯ there are ways out.
⎯ there is a light somewhere.
⎯ it may not be much light but
⎯ it beats the darkness.
⎯ be on the watch.
⎯ the gods will offer you chances.
⎯ know them.
⎯ take them.
⎯ you can’t beat death but
⎯ you can beat death in life, sometimes.
⎯ and the more often you learn to do it,
⎯ the more light there will be.
⎯ your life is your life.
⎯ know it while you have it.
⎯ you are marvelous
⎯ the gods wait to delight
⎯ IN YOU...

...on the same topic, here's a picture i love::

I ♡ LA NIGHTS

it took Colin Rich 6 months of on & off shooting time lapses to finish this project on the electric radiance of Los Angeles at night...

♡♡♡ Yasuko Agawa ☆ L.A. NIGHT MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Oxford ☆ HOLLY MOON MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Oliver ☆ I NEED YOU MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Hypnolove ☆ MIDNIGHT CRUISING MP3 ♡♡♡
♡♡♡ Sparro Winehouse ☆ BACK TO BLACK & GOLD MP3 ♡♡♡

...click on image for more photos of LA at night.