The Catalyst

LAEKEN & MAXINE DILLON @ THE BREWERY ART WALK

Stop by my friend Mallyce's loft to see her clothing line LAEKEN and my friend Maxine's line MAXINE DILLON at The Brewery Artwalk this Saturday Nov 1st and 2nd 11am-6pm. The event includes: installations from both designers, projections from their recent spring 2009 runway shows, and a sample sale. There will be food and drinks next door so come stop by and hang out. I'm excited. I used to live there and The Artwalk is tons-a-fun.

THE BREWERY artist lofts
620 Moulton Ave #105, Los Angeles, CA 90031 US

Maxine Dillion's magic

Love that pocket Maxine

by Maxine Dillon

LAEKEN

www.laekencollection.com and www.maxinedillon.com  to see them in all their glory

FAMOUS PEOPLE & THEIR CATS PART 2

I couldn't resist posting more famous people + cats.

John Lennon nuzzles a siamese cat

Major Tom..cat.

John Lennon's cat art

Hunter S. Thompson at his home in Colorado with kitty friend

Zappa with cross-eyed sweet siamese

Little Drew Barrymore, Big Kitty

Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody

Nina Simone Cat Queen

Drew Carey and Morris the Famous Nine Lives Cat (who was featured in my 1990 Calendar post. Wow).

Zach!

Fred Willard and matching bowtie kitty

Gustav Klimt the original crazy cat guy

P Hiltz

Model Paulina Porizkova 1985

Actress Jayne Mansfield Talking on the Phone and Holding a Kitten

Sean Connery in bathrobe with kitten 1983

 

Actress Edwige Fenech in the film Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, 1972

Don't iron the kitten Steve, 1969

Actress Kim Novak in the 1958 film Bell Book and Candle.

Veruschka Modeling Sylvia de Gay Outfit, 1968

Carly Simon kitty cuddler, 2000

Martha Stewart as Mr. Mistoffoles. Happy Halloween.

(many images found on corbis.com)

ACE HOTEL OPENING IN PALM SPRINGS AND NYC

I am constantly scouring the internet for new places to visit in Palm Springs and the desert. I am thrilled that The Ace Hotel is opening another location in Palm Springs in 2009 (in addition to locations in Seattle, Portland, and NYC). The L.A. based design collective Commune is remodeling the former Howard Johnson hotel and Denny's restaurant and designing the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in the tradition of Palm Springs mid-century style with a folk-modern-bohemian flair. They've got it going on.

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY'S CAT

YEARBOOK YOURSELF!

I'm not going to lie, I could spend a very long time yearbooking myself. And putting together decades of Jenny and Luc. 

Yearbook Yourself here. A tip: take screenshots if you want to bypass the email to yourself/friend part, and get all the goodness one after another. 

SCUBA CAT(S)!

Here's an orange cat wearing scuba gear. And he's not the only one. Below is an amazing water-loving cat named Hawkeye from Northern California. She scubas for real. How Stuff Works hired her to do a promo video for their site. Go Hawkeye. Watch the commercial here

You can watch a great news segment about Hawkeye and her owner here.

WACKADOO ZOO

Best cat poster ever. Thanks Luc for showing me this.

This picture is one definition of zany. French singer Joe Dassin in the 70's from corbis.com. Oohh Champs Elysees.

Jim and Tammy Bakker with Their Cat 1987, courtesy of corbis.com. This picture might frighten you to never look here 'ere again. Early Halloween treat. Just scroll down, scroll down!

PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD

This is what happens in Denmark at Hvass&Hannibal  - a design and art studio based in Copenhagen - when their super creative team steps away from their computers and tries a different medium. I love the triangular salami and the sophisticated color palette and Mr. Pancake Face.

LORD WHISKERS

Behold Lord Whiskers. 

KIME MUSE-ELLI TAGGED ME

I have decided Kime Buzzelli's new alias should be Kime Muse-elli because she is so gosh darn creative, talented and inspiring. I am the proud owner of one of her paintings. She owns the magical boutique Show Pony in Echo Park. Her blog The Moldy Doily inspired me to start a blog. I was perusing archives of her precious adorable-faced cat Georgie Boy and he definitely gets a few tribute photos on my cat loving blog. I also discovered one not-so-strange coincidence -- I bought a silky Manoush ruffled cat dress last year at the Manoush sample sale -- and it turns out that very dress was inspired by the precious Georgie Boy.

Kime's dress above and my dress pictured below. Looks like I got the ruffle collar version.

See more of Kime Buzzelli in all her splendor in her blog The Moldy Doily

Oh yeah so she was tagged by a blogger to reveal 6 quirky things about herself. And now I will do that, too, as I have been tagged. But I may not tag other bloggers because I don't know enough of them yet. 

1. I once read in Cat Fancy about a Russian Cat Theatre Group who performs with live cats. I was on a camping trip at the time. As soon as I got home from the trip, I checked their website, sped to the Wilshire Ebell Theatre as the show was starting in 10 minutes on that very day, got a free "donated" $60 3rd row seat ticket, and tried not to pee my pants as I watched this wonderful Cat Theatre in pure delight. That is the abridged story, I am going to devote a whole post to that soon.

2. I love pizza.

3. I put one foot up on the sink while I brush my teeth.

4. I am obsessed with The Madonna Inn and would go there every weekend if I could.

5. My animal totems are a wolf and a roadrunner. Surprisingly not a cat.

6. Luc called me a soccer mom when I came back from a power walk and told him about my Oprah Soul Series podcast.