stepping inside the images

Yesterday was a very productive day... I finished up all the creative and business stuff on my to do list for SpoonFed Art, which felt great because it was a very long list! I was a little tired last night, but decided to drop by the NYLON magazine party in Hollywood. The set-up was really cool... it was a walk-in installation of the latest issue, so you walk through the "front cover" and then through a set-up of all the pages and sections of the magazine. There were blown-up pages from the issue everywhere... and when you first walk in you encounter an area where you could have your hair styled into a NYLON-esque doo, a Levi's jeans ad section with lots of sample Levi's, and an area that displayed a feature on Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth and her side project Free Kitten. It was the music issue so as you walked on through the installation/party, you came to an area where you could play Rockband - or if you wanted to experience the "real thing", you could hop on stage and play the instruments that were set-up for you and your "band" - or you could just hang out and listen to the actual bands play. Scarlett Johansson was on the cover of the issue, and even though I was a bit perplexed to read (in very large print) that David Bowie had played on her new record, the party itself was great, and really brought the pages of the magazine to life. And of course there were lots of beautiful fashion people there, who looked like they had just stepped out of a NYLON layout. It's fun to go to parties like this one and to just experience all the creativity... and for me, it's also a good time to check-in with myself to see if I'm recognizing and remembering what's image and what's real.