SO I look in my inbox and I find this…
“YOU JUST WON THE CPSA AWARD AT THE FRINGE!!!!” (Translated: the sustainable practices award, for draping with re-used and re-purposed materials.)
After a lovely time doing a live-draping demo for the LA Visionaries and a meeting with a potential (and really great) photographer AND…not long after I’ve smacked my tailbone (trying to figure out a sliding door rail) in the new studio I’m going to be sharing with designer Michael Schmidt.
Cement floors, IKEA chairs and flip-flops. A flawed combination.
Thank you all…I am humbled, honored and seriously sore.
I am overwhelmed to the point of blushing. Thanks to Kim Cooper, who talks me up far better than I can!
I’ll be doing a live draping at the LAVA Sunday Salon at Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown LA tomorrow at 12:30, so if you missed Presque Pret a Porter…
This week we shine our molten red glow the direction of Visionary A. Laura
Brody, who offers a special program at Sunday’s LAVA Salon when she
transforms recycled fabric scraps into a custom couture creation crafted on
the body of a daring Salon attendee. Laura is sculptor who specializes in
outrageous costuming for performers, a custom leather crafter who evades the karmic jolt of working with animal skins by reusing her materials, and a serial collaborator always seeking the next artistic cross-fertilization.
From fetish pieces to inflatable comic suits, from a live draping
performance during the Hollywood Fringe Festival to her ongoing collaboration on “Driven,” an all re-purposed and re-used Steampunk wheelchair created for her friend Peter Soby (the Driver, who’s paraplegic and needs a chair to get around), Laura’s work is challenging, unexpected and always weirdly beautiful.
Yea! and thank you!
You can find Kim and my fellow visionaries at http://www.lavatransforms.org/
At least, the sole Hollywood Fringe Festival performance is over.
But the images linger…and there is more to come!
Presque Pret draper directions
Presque Pret audience enthrallment
Draping With Staples
SO many people to thank…
Rio at Beauty is Pain http://www.myspace.com/beautyispainboutique
David O and Ameenah Kaplan for their fabulous re-purposed, participatory jam session- find David at http://www.davidomusic.com
Models Lauryn Otten/ Protea and Johnny Quale/ Prince Poppycock- find the Prince at http://www.princepoppycock.com
Many thanks to the audience for gleeful participation and glorious donations! Particular thanks go out to Pam Noles (fellow Fringer) who was so fond of the idea of the show she donated without even being able to attend! Go and see her ! Death 40-feet Tall! and have a blast. http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/project/view/25
And thanks to the Hollywood Fringe Festival for giving me the opportunity to show people live re-purposing! Check out their other events - it’s all still happening through June 27th. Go to http://www.hollywoodfringe.org for details!
Presque Prêt a Porter:
Join the repurposed revolution!
Live draping and clothing creation using recycled and re-purposed clothing and fabric- taped and draped on YOU by a skilled costumier, A. Laura Brody.
6/19/10, 8-10 PM at Beauty is Pain, the rock and roll couture boutique at 1443 N. Highland Ave (just south of Sunset).
Improvised aural explosions by the dynamic duo of David O and Ameenah Kaplan, joined by many adventurous volunteers.
Bring a piece of clothing or fabric to sacrifice to the art and become born anew from its ashes…jeans that never fit? Unfortunate drapes? Bedraggled bed linens? That never-to-be-used bridesmaid dress? All will be re-made and re-worn.
And you will be a living work of art!
Entrance is free, though donations are always welcome…
DONATIONS (of fabric, clothing, tape or wine for the bar) bring preferential draping privileges.
This is an official part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival! Come see the site project at http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/project/view/180
and the sights for all around Hollywood this June at http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/ !
