Paradise Now — Fallen Fruit Collective

FALLEN Fruit wants you to eat your neighborhood. It wants you to pound the pavement and pluck the ripe fruit hanging above your head. It wants you to imagine what your city can be, and works to make this dream a reality. With their first solo shows, "United Fruit" at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and "Fresh ‘n Easy" at Another Year in LA, running simultaneously, this quintessentially LA collective truly reps their hood and proves they are out to change the world one bite at a time.

Music & Art
David Lynch

MUSICAL auteurs Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) and Mark Linkous (aka Sparklehorse) supply the music, and cinematic auteur David Lynch provides the visuals for "Dark Night of the Soul," a project that bears little resemblance to the work of St. John of the Cross, the16th-century mystic who minted this subsequently overused phrase when describing the stages of spiritual development on his journey toward union with God.

The Graduates
CalArts Students Discuss Plastics

LINE drawings of famous philosophers, thinkers, and writers were tacked on the bright yellow walls. At a small table, gallery-goers took their pick of the pages, laughing and coloring together.

WTF:
Shepard Fairey Keeps Going, and Going

Ever since hearing about the pre-emptive lawsuit instituted by Shepard Fairey against the Associated Press over his using a then-obscure Obama photograph as inspiration for his now-famous Obama poster, I have been more interested in the moral indignation surrounding the case than the outcome of it.