http://loulesko.com always served chilled, this is the blog of lou lesko Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:00:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en APA/LA Presents: The Art of Estimating and Bidding Thursday November 13, 2008 Social 6:00-7:00 Presentation 7-9:30pm Helms DayLight Studio 3221 Hutchison Ave., Los Angeles 90034 *Parking is Located on the North Side of Venice Ave and Helm http://loulesko.com/2008/11/06/im-moderating-an-apa-event/ http://loulesko.com/2008/11/04/vote/ I have a very strong opinions about beauty and the industry I grew up in. This is one of them. http://loulesko.com/2008/11/03/real-beauty/ Please donate to the Movember movement. People from all over the world will be growing mustaches to raise money for prostate cancer research. I'm sponsoring my friend Kilian Kerwin who has pledged to grow and maintain a mustache upon the naked canvas of his goofy face for the ... http://loulesko.com/2008/10/31/movember-donate-to-find-the-cure-for-prostate-cancer/ A about two years ago I wrote a scathing piece about the blogeratti, the professional blog culture that was invading the blogsphere with posts dictating the proper form for blogging. I contended that while pro blogging was a fantastic new medium, blogging had no rules and was really a ... http://loulesko.com/2008/10/28/this-resonates/ When I started in the fashion industry, Macy's department store was where I went to pull clothes for model tests. They were also the one of the biggest clients to the modeling agencies in San Francisco, cranking out ads and catalogs from their in-house studio, Studio 71. The ... http://loulesko.com/2008/10/26/macys/ If you know Santa Monica boulevard in Santa Monica, California, you know it's wide and busy. Today I sat at a cross street waiting to traverse the massive boulevard. To my left, trying to do on foot the same thing I as doing in my car, was a ... http://loulesko.com/2008/10/18/cool-people-doing-smart-things/ I tell a story from my distant past about how I ran into an amateur photographer in Yosemite who was cursing at a breathtaking landscape in front of him. He was angry that his wife forbade him from bringing his good, but more clunky, medium format gear - leaving ... http://loulesko.com/2008/10/06/talent-over-technology/ It has been an insane few weeks of very long days. The launch of the next iteretion of Blinkbid, version 5 actually occured last Thursday at 1 AM, but it took took the weekend to recover and catch up on sleep. Not only did we revamp the product, ... http://loulesko.com/2008/09/28/back-and-ready-to-party/ In a little less than 12 hours Sotheby's will auction 223 lots of the new work by contemporary artist Damien Hirst. Typically the purveyors of works not less than five years old, Sotheby's and Hirst are taking a bold step forward in the economy of art. They are ... http://loulesko.com/2008/09/14/beautiful-inside-my-head-forever/