Dutch Jazz Pianist Louis Van Dijk
13 March 2012
12 March 2012
The Poem of Fire
The room is filled with a blaze of changing colors. Now they glow. Now they lick and flare.
-Alexander Scriabin
09 March 2012
Mirror is the New Johnny Depp
Great fashion-sensitive gentlemen of Los Angeles... this could be you! Johnny Depp, the "leader of the pack", is here to help. You will need: 1- Fedora with holes in it
2- crinkle scarf(s)
3- ethnic beads
4- pro-beard t-shirt
5- Seventies style Mirrored Aviators in red, white, and blue!
Get the best in mirrored sunglasses from Snake & Mongoose Eyewear today! Available online or at Hotel De Ville Eyewear in Los Angeles.
08 March 2012
07 March 2012
East to West : American Painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Nevertheless, and much to my surprise, he finally gave his consent to my coming to America all alone. I thought of all the exotic and wonderful things I would see, and when the time came to go I left without sentimentalities or tears and with a brave adventurous spirit.
My dream of America and actually seeing America were two totally different things. I thought nothing of money, expecting to pick it up practically from the streets.
Unable to speak but a few monosylables in English, with no friends or any experience it was far from easy at first. I realized more than anything that I had to earn a living before I could go to school to learn English. I got a job working in a railroad in Spokane, through the good services of the hotel manager at a Japanese hotel where I was staying in Seattle.
After two days of sweeping out the round house, carrying buckets of water and sleeping on the wooden bunk without any mattress I went scuttling back to Seattle. This was my first real smack of America and it left me shattered, I began to long for home, but I had been so brave when I first landed here, that I had sent all the money I had back to father and told him that I was in a country where there was lots of money and so I didn't need it. I was stranded and so blue. I would have gone back if I had any funds after being here for only a month.
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi was born in 1893 in Okayama, Japan. At the age of thirteen he came to the United States and a year later began studying at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. In 1910 he moved to New York and took courses at the National Academy of Design, the Independent School of Art, and the Art Students League, where he studied with Kenneth Hayes Miller. He was married to fellow artist, Katherine Schmidt from 1919 to 1932, and after traveling throughout Europe, they moved to the Woodstock, New York in 1927 and took part in the Woodstock Art Colony.
Kuniyoshi studied and later taught at the Art Students League summer school there. By 1930, he had established himself as an internationally known painter and graphic artist. In New York City he taught at the Art Students League, the New School for Social Research, and served as the first president of the Artists' Equity Association from 1947 to 1950. Kuniyoshi was active in social organizations, especially Japanese American organizations, such as the Japanese American Committee for Democracy, and took an active role in the war effort during World War II. Yasuo Kuniyoshi died in 1953 and was survived by his second wife Sara Mazo who preserved the legacy of his work.
View the Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers at the Archives of American Art 
Portrait of Yasuo Kuniyoshi in his studio by Bumpei Usui, 1930.
06 March 2012
05 March 2012
02 March 2012
Staring At The Sun
Polarized lenses are popular with those who play outdoor sports, those who drive a lot, and people who spend time near the water. The reason people choose polarized sunglasses to cut down on glare from horizontal surfaces like water, playing fields, and the hoods and roofs of vehicles. Polarized lenses also reduce eye strain and make hazards easier to see. Additionally Polarized lenses don’t dim the field of vision, so whether lenses are polarized or not is unrelated to how dark the lenses are.
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Early Carl Zeiss sunglass lenses used brown tints to reduce the impact of solar radiation for light sensitive individuals.
01 March 2012
29 February 2012
28 February 2012
27 February 2012
24 February 2012
Love is a Rose : GNR Video Party
Just ask the Axl!
Nominated for Best Rock 'n' Roll Whistle Solo
Working for the rights of long-haired men since 1985
23 February 2012
Double Vision
HDV notes that this is a great men's opthalmic pair of glasses with the acetate color split at different heights from the nasal to the exterior of the frame front, a distinct design element that you do not see very often in eyeglasses from the sixties.
22 February 2012
Secrets of Electricity with Jacques Rouxel
French animator Jacques Rouxel initiates us into the secrets of electricity!
21 February 2012
Emergency Heart by Piotr Kamler
Polish film director and animator Piotr Kamler in wire-rimmed P3 spectacles.
20 February 2012
17 February 2012
16 February 2012
15 February 2012
14 February 2012
LOVESICK: Jocelyn Duke
Featured above are two paintings by HDV Patron and contemporary artist Jocelyn Duke. Stop by the Una Mae boutique in Los Feliz to catch her LOVESICK show through the end of February. Pictured below are her beautiful new glasses, made in Italy, found in Greece, purchased in NYC, and fitted with lenses in LA at Hotel De Ville. Read the whole post here!
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