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Lori Zimmer x Rebaroque x Scope New York

Lori — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:00:50 +0000

Scope New York is less than a week away! I’m going a little nuts getting everything sorted, but I’m super excited. Over the last year or so, I’ve felt very lucky to have so many talented friends in so many different areas. Now, I’m able to combine many of them in this special sound installation by mixing art, design and music. Rather than just playing an iPod, I wanted to have musician friends and artists curate playlists. the World’s Best Ever will be curating all day Thursday, march 3rd, check out their playlist selectors below. I’m really excited for the musician day, which includes Andy Rourke of the Smiths and my favorite crooner, Brian Newman, who I covered on NNE awhile back. I am going to be dancing the whole week. I hope you can visit! I am super duper nervous. No sleep til then…Previews of the pieces to come. x

About the Project:

Debuting at SCOPE New York, The Rebaroque Artist Series Sound Wall, curated by Lori Zimmer, combines our passions- art, sustainable design and music. Each Rebaroque sound panel is made from vintage fabrics, frames, hand painting and high quality Pyle speakers, and hook right up with your iPod or smart device. We’ve selected 20 artists to create unique collaborative pieces that not only look great on your wall, but play your favorite music as well. Artists include Beau Stanton, Claw Money, Cycle, Ellis G, Gaia, Ian Kuali’i, Jim Avignon, Jon Burgerman, Jonathan Viner,M11X, Martin Wittfooth, Mr. Kiji, Nathan Pickett, Orlando Reyes, R OSTARR x Madluv, Ryan Bradley, Sharktoof, Tara McPherson and Vesta.

The pieces will be wired together- creating a wall of sound, which will play a curated program during the fair. We’ve asked some of our favorite artists, musicians and publications to put together the sounds and songs that inspire them, including Gogol Bordello, DJ DB’s BLURRRing Radio, Kid Zoom, DJs Ole Koretsky and Andy Rourke of The Smiths, jazz musician Brian Newman, pop culture blog The World’s Best Ever and more.

About REBAROQUE:
Rebaroque was created from fine artists Mikal Jessie Hameed (aka M11X) and Rebecca Paul’s love for art, history, sustainable design and music. Using all recycled and sustainable materials such as vintage frames and fabrics with hand detailing, the pair have created a line of design meets art meets functional sound panels. Each sound panel functions as a piece of art that hooks into your iPod or smart device. Rebaroque asks us to use our favorite music to interact within the spaces we live or work in, and then redefine how we all think about music and our homes.

Thanks everyone! Can’t wait.

Happy 30th Jeremy Chilnick

Lori — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:01:11 +0000

I met Morgan Spurlock, and later his producer at Warrior Poets (and best bud) Jeremy Chilnick, as I helped him build his incredible art collection. The man has a ton of work – Lori Earley, Andy Kehoe, WK Interact, Shepard Fairey, Matt Haber, Jonathan Viner, David Choe and of course a zillion Ron English pieces. The art nerds (artists WK Interact, Ian Kuali’i and Mikal Hameed, along with Scope’s Mollie White and Arrested Motion’s Joe Russo) and I headed out for a night of cake and open bar to celebrate Jeremy’s surprise 30th birthday party- and it went off without a hitch! Good job Morgs. Thanks for the hang over, you’re welcome for the dance moves.

ReBaroque- Spiraling toward 2011

Lori — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:58:28 +0000

I’ve recently started working with ReBaroque, fine artists Rebecca Paul and Mikal Hameed’s product line. Using all recycled and sustainable materials such as vintage frames and fabrics with hand detailing, the pair have created a line of design meets art meets functional sound panels.

Each sound panel functions as a piece of art, to be hung in your living room, above your bed, or in your office, and come in an array of colors, sizes, and styles- yet each is unique. But the really cool part is, you can hook your iPod or smart device right into it, and boom, music. ReBaroque’s whole M.O. is to allow people to use their music to interact within the spaces they live or work in, and then redefine how we all think about music and our homes.

Rebecca is a realist painter and writer for sustainable design website, Inhabitat.com, while Mikal is a fine artist, known for his sound installations and involvement with the Barnstormers. With only a soft launch thus far, they’ve been gaining a ton of press and exposure, notably at the Ki sustainable design fair in San Francisco, The Wired Exhibition and store in New York and Scope Miami.Together they are unstoppable, or shall I say together WE’RE unstoppable?

For ReBaroque’s 2011 launch, we will also be planning an extremely limited artist designed series. I’m going to keep mum on our partnerships for now, but get psyched….seriously. They will be nothing short of amazing and go very quickly.
We’ve recently teamed up with photographer Jonathan Grassi for some lifestyle shots – here is a little preview!

Stay tuned for news, and please feel free to contact me with any questions.