Now, Goh’s got a project on Kickstarter called “The Dream Sessions: Musical Travel Show”. He is dubbing it, the music version of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. He’ll be traveling the country, playing with some of the best musicians, recording, making original music, eating, chatting, seeing what is in their neck of the woods. What sounds cool is that you would not only see the process of art being made and documented, but, in the end, a finished product… a documentary and potentially, an album.

Already, he has musicians Kid Koala, Tim Bulkley, Jane Lui, Art Hirahara, Gary Wang, and Grand Hallway lined up. It’s still a work in progress, more musicians will be added, but, I know Goh, and Goh makes things happen. He’s a man of his word and when he does it, he does it with sincerity and awesomeness.

You can check out the video above or read all about the Kickstarter Project here. If you can give, do it… if you can spread the word, do it. Living the dream.

This hill of Echo Park is called Angeleno Heights, known for its high concentration of Victorian era homes in Los Angeles. I’ll save some of the grand Victorian homes for another post… some of them are incredible with carriage homes where they used to keep the horses, now turned into second homes and studios. Love this part of Echo Park, it feels like another world.

Poketo crew, Joe and Charlie…

Our friend and writer Julie Wolfson invited us out to this event. I’m so glad I had the opportunity to see this first show at Sonos Studio. The space will hold events, lectures, listening parties, sound installations, and music performances. First Jimmy Cliff, up next is music by Bleached and a dj set with Questlove. I have a feeling there is going to be some great stuff happening at Sonos.

Also coming up is an opening for Luke Fischbeck’s interactive, sound installation. Below are images of the installation. Each of the ropes trigger sound when you touch or move through them.

Then, from Atwater to Highland Park, a quick meeting with our friends Kagan and Justin of the Knowhow Shop LA. These architects have opened up a design studio and custom fabrication shop in a cool little residential strip of Highland Park. We are brainstorming store signage for the new Poketo retail store! Can’t wait! In the meantime, check out all of their projects at knowhowshopla.tumblr.com.

Peter Coffin neon installation (above)… I want this room.

Ben Jones fully immersive video installation. Blown… Away. Here is a tour of the Cartoon Network Studios I got with Ben Jones, John Pham, and the Problem Solverz crew last year.

Jim Drain and Ara Peterson. Probably the most photographed in the entire show.

Tom Sachs soundsystem.

Takeshi Murata

The show was sponsored by Mercedes Benz… the installation was the advertisement of the show… but, seriously, amazing. You put on the headphones, music plays and lights pulsate to the beat on the MBZ concept car. Loved it.

Poketo’s new retail and gallery will be at 820 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013… Right next to Apolis Activism, Wurstkuche, Pie Hole and all the fun stuff in the Arts District.

There have been some funny instances along the way too… like, Joe Poketo here trying to chase a bird out of the space with a handmade bird catcher. I felt like I was in an episode of Survivor or something…

Love this shot of Charlie Poketo here going through details of the buildout with our GC Matt Cole…

And here is the design/build/GC… man who can do it all, Matt Cole of Delta… going through the plans and checking things off his list.

Blue line will eventually extend all the way to Santa Monica, plans are to have that completed by around 2015.

Extremely helpful and friendly Metro staff made sure we got where we were going.

We had heard some good things about Pinche’s Tacos in Culver City, so, we stopped in for their goodness. It was pretty darn good.

… and finally… the beach. Aaaahhhhh.