Last Friday I was doing my usual drive home from UCLA on Sunset Blvd. and happened to see a crowd outside this new Paper-Mag storefront. I called up my friend Danielle in WeHo and made her walk over there with me. I thought that the store had something to do with magazines/books/printed matter b/c one of my colleagues had told me it was a trendy mag store from nyc. I was like, oh someone’s going to get into it with Book Soup. Anyway, we show up at the storefront and it’s a sort of LA hipster flea market/swap meet. It was kind of weird and I wasn’t very impressed. I thought there were going to be like magazines and drinks or something, instead it was just some shitty booths of stores I could go to ordinarily i.e. Supreme, Welcome Hunters, Opening Ceremony. I kind of wanted to stop at a booth with some shitty boxes of vinyl and some cassette tapes but I’m anti-social and swap meets require a certain amount of confrontation with the vendors which I wasn’t prepared for. Anyway, turns out the space was designed by one of my professors, Mark Lee and it was all chain link fences and stuff. It kind of felt like when you actually go to a warehouse party, I’m thinking Diplo/CSS a couple years back at the Cooper Building? downtown, they always use chain link fences to keep people off the stage etc. I don’t know. Here’s some pix.
