by Sunny | Nov 15, 2009 | Beatnik, Music, Paris, What To Do In Paris
Yesterday we went to Vinyl Office a new record store in Bastille. It was an art opening, a friend of ours Patrice Caillet, collects modified album art. You know, when people change the record album with doodles, collage or other ways of defacing the original. Some of...
by Sunny | Oct 28, 2009 | Beatnik, Francofiles, Paris
Boris Vian (1920-1959), jazz musician, writer, painter, sculptor, all around cool Bohemian lived and played in the Paris underground in the 1950’s. He hung around Miles Davis, Juliette Gréco, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Tati and many other artist and musicians of...
by Sunny | Oct 26, 2009 | Beatnik, Travel
Some highlights: I found one of the last bohemian coffee shops left in Greenwich Village! Me and Laurent were on Dave the Spazz’s radio show. We got to see the Trashmen/Neanderthals concert. We spent ALL day at the WFMU record fair (found Roky Erickson...
by Sunny | Sep 30, 2009 | Beatnik, Fashion
Here’s some photos of the costumes I’ve made. I’m in no way a professional, but Mimi has great ideas and we have fun when we work together. In this photo I didn’t make Mimi’s costume, but my own. We were gogo dancers at The Loud...
by Sunny | Sep 27, 2009 | Beatnik, What To Do In Paris
Mimi de Monmartre, burlesque personality from Paris in the pages of Inrockuptibles. Mimi had a dream to do authenitic 1950’s burlesque, and I helped her in a way in the begining. I’ve made several of Mimi’s stage costumes, which I will tell you about...
