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Sitting at Bijou Karman’s dining room table, eagerly eyeballing all of her strategically placed knick-knacks and personal works of wall art, I resist the urge to blurt out, “RIHANNA! Tell me about working with Rihanna!” So, acting like the cool, collected writer that I pretended to be while rehearsing my interview questions on the car ride over, I instead calmly and inconspicuously ask Karman about her art schooling, fashion background, her artistic inspirations, some of her favorite past works and recent clients. Karman immediately begins to blow my mind, unpretentiously rattling off her incredible accomplishments, from graduating with Distinction from Art Center College of Design, creating illustrations for Harper’s Bazaar and designing her very own zines to campaign work with Converse, artistic window displays for an Italian luxury brand and scoring the cover of Little White Lies magazine. That’s just to name a few.
Sex, drugs, and Star Trek. These are just some of the cosmic undertones that permeate throughout Robin Eisenberg’s artwork. From nude three-eyed aliens scarfing pizza, to vibrant animated GIFs of your favorite musicians, Eisenberg brings all of your intergalactic fantasies to life through bright colors, playful graphics, and intricate sketches.
Every band has a story of how they first met, and it is almost always an unexpected one. No matter how it happens, bands always seem to form out of some sort of inevitable fate, destining them for musical greatness. For The She’s bandmates, their stars aligned a lot earlier than most, bringing these four musicians together at the age of five.
Your Ugly Sister. Adult Books. Froth. Drinking Flowers. These are not titles of raunchy adult films nor are they the names of Hollywood’s latest swanky lounges, but rather the unforgettable names of some of the first bands to work with LA’s most iconic indie record label, Lolipop Records.
Many artists tribute their years of accumulated success and talent to their early adolescent exposure to the arts, claiming to have created masterpieces from the crib and learning how to paint before learning how to walk. For French illustrator Lucas Beaufort, it wasn’t until the age of 26 when he first picked up a brush, quit his day job of eight years, and pursued his newfound yet deeply rooted passion for creating.
