OK Go's tribute to toast.

This video, featuring toast and only toast, is as beautiful as the song its made for, Last Leaf.

Last Leaf

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OK Go is still viral. And still awesome.

OK Go has earned and impressed fans with their creative music vids since day one (you surely remember their treadmill video?). And though the viral nature of their distribution was recently threatened by the band's label, EMI (you can read the band's response to the label's restrictions here), they're still plugging away. They premiered their latest video of single 'This Too Shall Pass' via YouTube yesterday. It's embeddable (thank you EMI!). And it's a-flipping-mazing.

Imagine my childhood fave game Mouse Trap. But awesomer and lifesize.



Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs.

And hey Angelenos--OK Go will be hosting a fundraiser concert on March 5th at LACMA. Get tickets. Support art, good music, and LA hipsters.

The holiday hoopla circuit.

Holiday parties are like a box of chocolates. Sometimes you get one that's sweet. Sometimes you get one that's stale and chips your tooth. Despite this year's economic recession and the subsequent cutting of holiday parties from many companies' budgets, 2008 has still seen its fair share of personal, corporate and community holiday parties. A few highlights from this year's holiday festivities...

Alternative Apparel, Georgia's comfy, cotton answer to LA's American Apparel, hosted its holiday party at its pop up shop in Hollywood. Lukaas Haas [whom I know I know but can't tell you why] hosted and performed (pictured left)...

OK Go's lovely Tim Nordwind (pictured left) DJ'ed [because no Hollywood party is complete without an actor/bandmember-turned DJ]...

Akasha, Downtown Culver City's organic restauant, catered, providing the key elements to any good party: cupcakes and bubbly.

The Uncompany Collective celebrated the holidays last Sunday by gathering the city's unemployed, laid-off and still employed [but likely not for long] creatives at the Good Magazine space. Nothing makes job unstability more comforting than mimosas, muffins and other folks as unsure of the future as you are.

And then there were the friends' parties. There were the ones that were amazing, the ones that were awkward, and the ones where shoes were not allowed. Thank goodness for holiday slippers (pictured left).