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THE GUY DARIAN
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ALEXEY BRADAVITICH
PERSHING SQUARE
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TAKASHI MURAKAMI
TOXIC BEAUTY
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A l e x e y B r o d o v i t c h THE FIRST MODERN ART DIRECTOR
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n k n o w nf o r e m o s ft o r h i s w o r k on the american fashionmagazine Harper’s bazaar. Born in Ogolitchi,Russia in 1898 in an aristocratic and wealthy family, Brodovitch’s youth was marked by the bolshevik revolution. Being a loyal supporter of the tsar, he became first lieutenant in the czar’s White Army. In 1920 he fled to Paris as an exile from the October Revolution. Like many other emigrés whom had gained wealth in Russia, he ended up being both poor and workless. For the first time in his life he had to work to gain money. Living in Montparnasse, he found himself in a community of russian artists, which lead to his wish to become a painter. He obtained a job as a painter of stage sets for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Diaghilev’s approach to design inspired him to move towards the more commercial arts and influenced him in his ideas on the lack of boundaries between different arts. Brodovitch entered a poster competition which searched for the most innovatory design to anounce an upcoming ball. He won the first prize, leaving a drawing by Picasso behind. His design symbolically represented the idea of masking in the switch between colors black and white. This ‘Bal Banal’ poster was the beginning of his career as a graphic designer as it brought him to the attention of various designers and agencies. The ad agency Maximilien Vox asked Brodovitch a design for Martini Vermouth. The result, based on strict geometric forms and basic colors resembled the constructivist style as seen in El Lissitsky’s work. While politically he was sympathetic with czarist russia, his artistic work shared the ideas of the avant-garde. This might mean that avant-garde ideas in design, which are thought to be post-revolutionary, actually predate the revolution and were
non-political in origin.* Soon his work was in great demand, designing posters and advertisements. He became art director for Athélia Studio, which gave him the opportunity to direct all aspects of a creative production. He had become one of the most respected designers of commercial art in Paris, but Paris began to lose its spirit of adventure it initially had. He looked across the Atlantic for new opportunities and was asked to come to Philadelphia to organize design classes at Philadelphia College of Art. At that moment Bodovitch was one of the pioneers to bring modernist ideas to America.*Design of the early thirties was conservative and lacked of radical experiments. This could be explained by the economic situation after the Wall street crash in 1929. Many companies felt the need to show stability and used trusted methods in their advertisement design. At the Philadelphia college of Art Brodovitch teached by using examples of european graphic design, questioning his students about the placing of the elements and the decisions made by the designers. He once said “we learn by making mistakes. We must be critical of ourselves and have the courage to start all over again after each failure. Only then do we really absorb, really start to know.”* He often brought real design assignments to the classroom, asking his students to think along. As expected his work didn’t go unnoticed in America. The photographer Ralph Steiner who worked for Harper’s Bazaar, recognized the potential of Brodovitch as a designer. He introduced him to Carmel Snow, editor-in-chief of the maga Brodovitch created a harmonious and meaningful whole using avantgarde photography, typography and illustration. After being from his position at Harper’s in 1958. His wife Nina died in the same period and,left without a pension, his financial and physical situation worsened. He died in 1971 in a small village in southern France where he had spent the last three years of his life.
He placed himself on the same level as his students, treating them as equals.
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PERSHING SQUARE
The day at Pershing Square begins with the sky turning yellow over the buildings of the Jewelry Mart, and with a 64-year-old homeless man named Edward Reifsteck claiming his spot on one of the park’s concrete benches. “I used to do this in Central Park,” said Fisher, a UC Davis student visiting L.A. on vacation. “It’s a pretty nice vista here. It’s not quite as crisp as New York, and that’s nice too.” Pershing Square actually used to be called Central Park. And it’s still in the center of the city, both geographically and metaphorically, tucked between U.S. Immigration Court, the Art Deco tower of the Oviatt Building, a subway station and bus lines that reach to the edges 18 angeles of the city.
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By 6:30 a.m., he’s packed up his tent on Los Angeles Street and walked the four blocks to the park. I found him there just after noon with “The Story of Bohemia,” a book from the nearby Central Library, reading, scratching his chin and looking out across a landscape of fountains and fake snow. “I come for the peace and quiet,” he told me. And also because he and his friends on the park benches never know what they’ll see there next. They watch loft residents walk their dogs and pigeon-hunting hawks swoop down between the office buildings. They listen to people deliver monologues — usually of the schizophrenic or religious variety. “It’s a good vibe. Everyone’s in the Christmas spirit,” said Leon Lautalo, a park security guard from Hawaii who’s spending his first holiday season in L.A. He rattled off a list of the park’s holiday happenings: “jugglers, snow sleds, a train for the kids…” People-watching, bench-sitting and Christmas-celebrating are traditions that have endured for more than a century in Pershing Square’s five acres. Until Jan. 17, you can go there to ice skate — on a rink the size of a basketball court. Daniel Rodriguez, 16, laced up skates and promptly landed on his butt as his friends laughed. “Let’s see you top that,” he said, chuckling. There are lots of places in L.A. that will give you a simulated Christmas in the city, with Santas, snow and even trolley cars on cobblestone streets. But most of those places are just malls, really, pretending to be something they’re not. The temporary rink the city installed for “Downtown on Ice” sits at an authentic municipal crossroads. It’s a public park in the shadow of the Biltmore Hotel — where L.A.’s most famous crime victim, the Black Dahlia, was last seen alive, in 1947. First laid out as a park more than a century ago, Pershing Square has hosted political protests and celebrations of civic pride going back to the time of the Spanish-American War. This week there were skaters speaking Spanish, Mandarin and more. And there was Tucker Fisher, a 20-year-old from New York who for an hour was the best skater on the ice. He glided backward and did figure-eights in the sun, wearing a backpack and rosecolored glasses.
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On my visit to Pershing Square this week, I emerged from the Metro station and found three girls flipping the bird to someone inside a No. 2 bus. They laughed and walked down Hill Street, past the spot where police drop off a bag of money for Dennis Hopper in the film “Speed.” Hours later, at the opposite end of the square, I listened to the poetic language of three skateboarders. “Ollie up, one-eighty up, half-cab off,” called out Travis, 25, who then tried to perform that trick on the concrete stairs. His skateboard spun in the air, struck a stair and then fell to the sidewalk, though he couldn’t quite stick the landing. The legendary L.A. writer Carey McWilliams wandered through Pershing Square in the 1930s. He listened to boys hawking newspapers with crime news — a USC football player charged with robbing a bank — and found a group of men watching a “frowsy blonde” singing a gospel hymn. “Here, indeed, was the place for me,” McWilliams wrote in a passage etched into a Pershing Square wall. “A ringside seat at the circus.” My sense is that the Pershing Square circus is tamer than it used to be. But it’s still a place where the crosscurrents of many different L.A.s meet and mix. Kathy Casper, 52, a homeless woman originally from Long Island, arrived in L.A. from Arizona a few months back, having been hit hard by illness and the recession.
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“This place is more personable,” she said as she sat on a bench. “I lived in New York. I couldn’t be homeless in New York. This is sort of like being there but not as cold.” Leroy, the man on her left, was from Georgia. On her right was Reifsteck, who spoke of his travels — to Las Vegas, El Paso, Tennessee. Listening to them, and reading those McWilliams lines, it occurred to me that transience has always been part of the American character, and that L.A. may still be the capital of American wanderlust. Pershing Square is still a good place to observe the comings and goings of this free-spirited city. Just before the rink closed at 10 p.m., I found Santa Claus smoking a cigarette at the corner of 5th and Hill. Donald Dail, 49, said he had spent the day in his Santa suit, trying to raise money for homeless kids he knows. “I was at Crenshaw and Century, and after a while people stopped paying attention to me,” he said. “Then I went to Hollywood. And no one paid attention to me there.” So now he was headed back to his trailer in South L.A., waiting for the southbound 81 bus. A car sped by and the driver inside shouted “Ho! Ho! Ho!” It was more mocking than friendly, but Dail didn’t seem to mind. Many buses passed, none of them his, while the Christmas lights of Pershing Square shone on, coloring the misty night air red and green. angeles
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BEAUTY TOXIC BEAUTY
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ou’ve been dying to try that new shampoo that’s supposed to make your hair thick, lush and shiny. You can’t wait to use that new exfoliating scrub because the label tells you that it’s going to make your skin soft and glowing. You love that new cologne; every time you wear it you get so many compliments on how great you smell!
many others. If they cause these concerns for adults, just imagine the damage they can do to children who are smaller and weigh less. Although each product you may use may contain a restricted amount of chemicals, hormones and toxins, they can, and many times they do cause a myriad of damage to us all.
Not only are these beauty products toxic for humans, they are toxic to the environment, as well. Many of You love these products and how they make you look these products are made with petroleum-based inand feel, but did it ever occur to you that what you gredients, which contributes to global warming. Did you know that if you put on your hair or your “Not only are these beauty products toxic for switch just one bottle of a petroleum skin could humans, they are toxic to the environment.” based product for a make you sick? Did you know these products contain chemi- vegetable based product we could save 81,000 barrels cals, toxins and hormones that can cause anything of oil in one year. How’s that for incentive to switch? from an unsightly rash to learning difficulties to birth defects and even cancer? Even though each product So now you decide it’s time to go “green”, you may contain a limited amount of these toxins, please go to the health food store and purchase “Orkeep in mind, most people use several products each ganic” or “Natural” products and you no longer day, from the moment they wake up (soap, shampoo, have to worry about these concerns...or do you? conditioner, shave cream, deodorant, toothpaste, hand soap, make up) until they go to bed. After many years of daily use, these toxins accumulate in your body to cause the ailments I’ve listed above, among 30 angeles
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