Meet Lily!

A note from the KV ladies: We are happy to introduce our friend, Lily, who has been helping us tremendously with the opening of the shop. She will be contributing a weekly post about Seattle "happenings" as well as a weekend astrology update. Welcome, Lily! 

This weekend I went to ONN/OF, a "light festival" in a warehouse in Ballard. Using a handful of mediums, the curators and art makers focused on "creating an art exhibition and "light festival" that forecasts a weekend of illumination, warmth and gloom-banishing engagement". Among other things (don't mind if I do, windowless box with happy lamps and faux beach scene depiction on wall, or Hirst-esque giant golden skull protected by a million tea lights) the art made me realize that it's the season wherein I especially hold on for dear life to any excuse get out of the grind in order to watch, see, hear and create. Here's what I'm up to this week.

(My favorite of Jamey Braden's projects- Wet Paint DMM- Is It Therapeutic)

-THE BEST creepy crawly 90's haunted surf garage rock band, The Webs, are playing at the Mystery Machine on Tuesday the 31st. 

-After visiting us for our grand opening this Friday the third, don't miss all the other sweet happenings in the neighborhood: Gallery 1412 is hosting a mash-up of visuals and improv music collaboration between a handful of local gems, including writer/performance artist/musician/all around genius Jamey Braden, slithery freak-folker Arrington De Dionyso (uhhhh, he's known to preach Blake poems in Indonesian,) and visual artist/musician Dan Enders.

- Saturday the fourth, Northwest Film Forum is hosting an all day Children's Film Festival featuring a handful of whimsical sounding movies from Russia, India, and China.

- I will most definitely drink an overpriced mimosa and touch pretty things at Art Ache's sweet vintage/DIY market, hosted at Vermillion Gallery and Bar on Sunday the fifth.

<3 lk

Rayanne Graff

Chasing the clouds away...with Rayanne Graff.  Just don't get better than this.

Ria, Mackenzie, Ari and I had a splendid evening making perfumes, listening to Hall & Oates, and watching Sesame Street YouTube videos together.  Don't get better than that either.

- SDP -

Do you see what we see?

Here's a digital version of the zine we've been passing around in preparation of our launch...which is next Friday, February 3rd.  We hope to see you all at the party! I'm so excited I can't keep still, I'm buzzing about and fidgeting more than my two year old daughter. Fur Real.

- Ria -

Progress

What a tremendous couple of weeks it's been!  As Seattle has seemed to quiet down during this magical weeklong snowstorm, us KV ladies have been hard at work at the shop everyday.  Painting, planting, hanging, tagging, organizing, stamping, loving every minute of it.  

Here's a mini-playlist of what I've been making Mack and Ria listen to on repeat this week.  Listen! Enjoy!

Grimes - Genesis by factmag

None of us can get enough of the amazing Grimes.  We're taking a KV field trip to see her next month in Ballard.  This song fucking rules.





Thanks to Gorilla vs Bear for introducing me to this one.  Can't help but turn it up real loud and tap my toes to it.

Nicolas Jaar - 'With Just One Glance' by The 405

This song, by Nicolas Jaar, featuring vocals by Scout LaRue (daughter of Demi & Bruce), is sultry, addictive, luscious, inviting.  Cannot seem to get enough of it.





 Happy Friday, friends.

Love always,
SDP

Moonrise Kingdom

It's about damn time! I feel like we've all been waiting forever for this.

- Ria -

Where Did You Go

New song from Sleigh Bells titled "Born to Lose."  Listen to it real loud. 

Sleigh Bells - Born To Lose by Mom + Pop

TGIF.

Love,

SDP

Golden

Kimberly Baker

The Golden Smith

The 12+ hour workdays & labor intensive process of setting up shop have reduced my needs and desires to their most base and primitive state. Food. Water (who am I kidding...I mean wine). Sleep. Gold. 

Yeah, GOLD. 

Maybe its a subconscious reaction to the deprivation of personal aesthetic pleasure that I've been willingly subjecting myself to by wearing the same pair of paint splattered, ripped leggings day after day after day. Or maybe its just some ancient human lust that has been summoned up from the depths of my being. Or maybe I'm just tired of silver. I really can't be sure, all I know is its pretty, its shiny and I like it. 

- Ria -

First Feel

 Last Sunday I rediscovered an album I haven't listened to in a few years -- Mark Kozelek's What's Next to the Moon.  Had the coziest Sunday curled up in my pajamas, listening to these (if you can believe it!) AC/DC covers.  They might be a little melancholy, but it's so interesting to hear this dude turn 80s rock ballads into these pleasantly introspective and acoustic songs.  Listen to my favorite below.

Up To My Neck In You by Mark Kozelek by HannahnMike

-SDP-

In Your Nature

David Lynch remixes Zola Jesus' "In Your Nature."  The ladies of Kaleidoscope Vision rejoice.  Listen below.  Happy Friday.

Zola Jesus - In Your Nature (David Lynch Remix) by sacredbones

Love,
Sophia

Triple D

David Derksen Design

Transcience

Copper Cabinet

Copper Lights 

I've been finding myself increasingly attracted to tones of gold, copper and brass these days. I suppose that would explain a bit of my attraction to Derksen's work. His brilliant use of gradient oxidation and his origami-like control of copper have me amazed. 

- Ria - 

Hopea

Hopea

I stumbled upon this shop via the interwebz on a relentless treasure hunt for interesting new designers and rare vintage goods for the store. The pieces are raw, barbaric and intricate. A beautiful vintage curation (from Toronto) of Canadian and Scandinavian jewelry circa 1960s and 70s. I'm thinking this is right up Sophia's alley ;) 

Happy New Year all!

-Mackenzie-

Brother

So many exciting things coming along for the new year!  My younger brother, Jackson (pictured all the way to the left, along with his bandmates Tyler Cratcha and Kevin Friedman), is a senior at Berklee in Boston and has been making some amazing music the past year with his band, Carousel.  All of their songs are insanely catchy, and just undeniably GOOD.  The song posted below, The Thrill, is their latest release, and feels like the perfect anthem for this new year.  I just can't help but beam with pride for my brother -- I am so proud of him.  Check our their website HERE and Facebook page HERE.

On another note, Mackenzie, Ria and I have been working day 'n night to get our new store perfect.  We'll keep you updated. 

The Thrill (Mp3) by carousel_official

Happiest new year.

-SDP-

The Fable of the Final Hour

In the 1st minute of the final hour Walt Whitman was found
        in an ancient subwaytunnel beneath 52nd st. where he
        had lain in exstasy since the first bars of jazz filtered
        through. The trackwalkers who found him immediately
        took up their crowbars and smashed in his skull, re-
        ceiving two month's pay from the grateful City Council
        and promotions to the rank of Conductor;
In the 2nd minute of the final hour the archbishop of Holly-
        wood decreed Moses and Mohammed to be Christian
        and had Buddha stricken from the records due to Com-
        munist Tendencies;
In the 3rd minute of the final hour Washington Monument
        stalked across the land to New York City where it
        raped the Washington Square Arch in an attempt to end
        forever the reign of suffering and alchemy;
In the 4th minute of the final hour thousands of frenzied
        poets engaged in drunken roof-dancing atop Sutton
        Place;
In the 5th minute of the final hour Bud Powell became
        president of the newly-formed Jazz Musician's Union by
        successfully skipping 3 successive Lawrence Welk Stere-
        ophonic LP's into the gurgling waters of Chesapeake
        Bay, 17 skips to an LP;
In the 6th minute of the final hour two vandals stole a heli-
        copter and replaced the Statue of Liberty's torch with a
        defamatory sign. When questioned as to the truth of the
        allegation, the lady smiled wisely and nodded her head;
In the 7th minute of the final hour a monstrous orgy took
        place in the main office of the New York Times after
        which a colossal hardcover evening edition was brought
        out containing all the news that had never been fit to
        print;
In the 8th minute of the final hour the Police Gazette ex-
        humed the Unknown Soldier and found him to be none
        other than Adolf Hitler;
In the 9th minute of the final hour three psychiatrists en-
        gaged in simultaneous subliminal copulation with a color
        television set;
In the 10th minute of the final hour the Daughters Of The
        American Revolution applied lipstick to their ——
         —— and mascara to their ——.   Contemplating their
        handiwork, they decided to sign up for correspond-
        ance courses in ventriloquism;
In the 11th minute of the final hour a delegation of narcotics
        addicts volunteered for medical experiments in return
        for drugs and living cancers injected into their
        eyes;
In the 12th minute of the final hour the Congress of Amer-
        ican Advertisers proclaimed The Dignity of Man, issuing
        a 1000-sectioned scroll of the free verse on the subject;
In the 13th minute of the final hour the weary floor of Yucca
        Flats fell in, revealing a glorious an hitherto unknown
        subterranean civilization and the remains of its people,
        their withered bodies still bent in supplication;
In the 14th minute of the final hour millionaires were
        enticed, with their Cadillacs, into an innocent-seeming
        auto laundry where they were swiftly dismantled, cars
        and all, emerging 6 minutes later as 42 cases of dog
        food;
In the 15th minute of the final hour the secret of Salvador
        Dali's symbolism was subconsciously revealed to a fam-
        ily of deaf-mutes;
In the 16th minute of the final hour a band of inscrutable
        indians in full battle regalia filed silently back and forth
        past a telephonebooth in front of the ASPCA;
In the 17th minute of the final hour the tenor sax of the
        world was discovered and played upon by an obscure
        Republican congressman from Artesia, New Mexico;
In the 18th minute of the final hour 6 drunken juvenile de-
        linquents became stupefied on the subway and were
        carried to Canarsie, where they awoke to evening un-
        certainty. They commandeered a rowboat and headed
        for open water, and were last seen just outside Sheeps-
        head Bay, rowing erratically and mumbling energetic
        prayers to Jean Genet;
In the 19th minute of the final hour a troupe of black-
        listed negro actors put on whiteface and played "Tobacco
        Road" to an audience of hysterically-weeping American
        Legionnaires;
In the 20th minute of the final hour an enterprising railroad
        owner surreptitiously installed red lights and prostitutes
        aboard the Staten Island ferries, causing a mammoth
        trafficjam in Ne York harbor which marked the re-
        birth of the loco motive;
In the 21st minute of the final hour the washingmachines of
        Levittown became enchanted and transformed their en-
        tire contents into purple anklesocks;
In the 22nd minute of the final hour an intense young man
        with a beard startled the pious crowds at Lourdes by
        materializing 20 feet above the ground and announcing
        that he was Christ. when he descended to submit to the
        tests of the observer from the American Medical Associ-
        ation, a young priest fell upon him and garroted him
        with his rosary, restoring peace and order and earning
        for himself a special medal from the Pope;
In the 23rd minute of the final hour a mysterious illuminated
        flying object was chased to earth by a daring jet pilot
        and found to be the ghost of Cyrano De Bergerac;
In the 24th minute of the final hour a flock of diarrhetic
        pigeons strafed Miami Beach;
In the 25th minute of the final hour fire swept through a
        marijuana grove deep in the woods of Madison, Wiscon-
        sin, completely entrancing the entire Volunteer Fire De-
        partment, which thereupon drove straight through to
        Folkstown, Georgia in its fire-engine on impulse, spread-
        ing a largesse of giggles and exhilaration;
In the 26th minute of the final hour the indians appeared
        spontaneously in the ladies room of the NAACP, wear-
        ing tuxedos and carrying incomprehensible placards;
In the 27th minute of the final hour the Reader's Digest,
        Life magazine, and the Los Angeles telephone directory
        played capture the flag;
In the 28th minute of the final hour a popular medi-
        cine was revealed to contain heroin. 17,000 persons
        were squashed and 300 Rexalls reduced to rubble in the
        ensuing stampede;
In the 29th minute of the final hour a mailman's wife gave
        birth to a moviehouse;
In the 30th minute of the final hour a housing project was
        built in Goof City;
In the 31st minute of the final hour a magical incantation
        by the spirit of François Villon sealed every subway-
        entrance with concrete, causing the foundation of a new
        religion which worshipped the horse and sang as its
        hymn "Deep In The Womb Of Texas";
In the 32nd minute of the final hour 26 unreleased masters
        by Charlie Parker were unearthed in a Philadelphia cel-
        lar. They were, fortunately, trampled upon by the police
        before they could spread Disorder And Uncertainty;
In the 33rd minute of the final hour every man caressed his
        wife's —— with his ——, denying it five minutes later
        as hallucinations or sleepwalking;
In the 34th minute of the final hour the Law Of Inverse En-
        closure was rediscovered and a matchbox was declared
        the prison of the universe, with two fleas placed inside
        as wardens;
In the 36th minute of the final our the Puerto Rican Na-
        tionalists attacked CBS with ice picks while the $64,000
        question was being asked;
In the 37th minute of the final hour a Bop version of the
        Star-Spangled Banner was proclaimed official arrange-
        ment of the United States Marines;
In the 38th minute of the final hour an army of ravenous
        ants entered the U.S. Treasury and ate up all the money,
        refusing to be placated by green bus tranfers;
In the 39th minute of the final hour the president had a wet
        dream and the Navy was ordered into Algiers;
In the 40th minute of the final hour all of the toiletseats
        were found to have been reversed and the population
        blushed;
In the 41st minute of the final hour all future child-pederasts
        were ordered castrated as an emergency measure against
        the rising tide of intestinal pregnancy;
In the 42nd minute of the final hour the indians made their
        final appearance, stalking up to the candy counter of the
        New York Paramount wearing football uniforms. They
        gathered up armfuls of popcorn and grunted up to the
        balcony, never to be seen again;
In the 43rd minute of the final hour James Dean appeared in
        the dreams of 40,000,000 Americans, smiling softly and
        speaking gently of insurrection;
In the 44th minute of the final hour an "A" train full of
        exhibitionists pulled into Times Square;
In the 45th minute of the final hour there was an abundance
        of nakedness and hopeful uncertainty;
In the 46th minute of the final hour the first transparent
        clothing was worn out of doors;
In the 47th minute of the final hour prostitution became un-
        necessary;
In the 48th minute of the final hour all of the road signs
        were altered to read "GO!";
In the 49th minute of the final hour all women's magazines
        were turned into semen;
In the 50th minute of the final hour the Boy Scouts joined
        with the Girl Scouts in a new era of joy and experimen-
        tation;
In the 51st minute of the final hour Texas was declared In-
        capable and assigned a guardian;
In the 52nd minute of the final hour one of the Pacific
        H-Bombs let loose a shower of leaflets that said
        "BANG!";
In the 53rd minute of the final hour Jesus Christ appeared
        on the cover of Time magazine along with Donald Duck
        and J. Edgar Hoover;
In the 54 minute of the final hour Nelson Rockefeller
        established a hashish plantation in Nutley, New Jersey,
        an the A&P opened narcotics counters and began giv-
        ing out trading stamps with weird new prizes;
In the 55th minute of the final hour the Brooklyn Dodgers
        burned Disneyland in final protest and began the re-
        treat into relative insanity;
In the 56th minute of the final hour everyone with an IQ of
        less than 90 was castrated painlessly and the remaining
        populace began receiving Social Security;
In the 57th minute of the final hour the cash register was
        abolished;
In the 58th minute of the final hour all of the white-collar
        In the world called in sick;
In the 59th minute of the final hour all of the doors were
        ripped off of their frames and hauled off to a roaring
        bonfire, with only the hinges left hanging as mute re-
        minders of a sad and frightened history;
And In the 60th minute of the final hour America was dis-
        covered and the final renaissance of beauty and love
        began its eternity.

Written in 1958 by Beat Poet Dan Propper

One of my all time favorites an oh so fitting for the moment. 

Cheers to the New Year. May 2012 be filled with beauty, love & progress. 

- Ria -