Jeremy Larson

Red Velvet Grand Opening

It's been a busy month.  Elsie, Emma and I have been working round the clock trying to get ready for the opening tomorrow.  Strangely, I think we are actually ready.  Sure there are plenty of things that will need to be done over the next few months, but I think we are in a good place.  Tonight as we were leaving I stood back and took a picture of the store.

 We are having a grand opening party tomorrow night.  If you are in the area, please come by!  It will be 5-7 at 211 east commercial street.  We will be serving cupcakes and bubble tea, plus you can be one of the first to shop the new store.

Elsie and I can't wait to watch the Project Runway finale tonight!  Please no spoilers, but could someone recommend a good place to watch it online?  We usually watch it on mylifetime.com but it usually doesn't pop up until around 1 in the morning.  If any of you know a site where they might post it earlier, please let me know.  Thanks!  Hope to see some of you tomorrow.

Jeremy

Darren King- Switchfoot Remix (Featuring Jeremy Larson)

This was a hard secret to keep.  

Darren called me earlier this year and told me that he was doing a remix of a Switchfoot song and asked if I'd be interested in writing some string parts for it.  The song is called "Yet" and it's off of Switchfoot's album titled "Hello Hurricane".  I've been listening to Switchfoot since high school, so of course I told him I'd be honored.  He sent over the tracks that he'd been working on, and I was blown away- although not surprised in the least.  Darren is probably my favorite drummer (he is the drummer for a band called MuteMath) and Jon Foreman is easily one of my favorite songwriters.  This was one of the highlights of my year.  Yes, this was a hard secret to keep, but I'm very excited that you can now download the song for FREE when you click here.  Enjoy!

A HUGE thank you to Jon and Darren for letting me be a part of this.  Amazing song.  I still have one big secret project that I've been working on this year, but you will have to wait a bit longer to hear about it.  This has been a great year, and certainly the most musically productive one to date.  Can't wait to share more with all of you.  Thanks for reading.

Jeremy

Thank You!

Thank you for all of the birthday wishes on Facebook.  We worked all day on the store, and I think I will be taking the night off from blogging.  I'll be back tomorrow night!  Thanks again!

Jeremy

iamphotograph.com

My good friend Ryan Strong started a new blog a while back.  Right now, it's one of my favorite photography blogs; have a look for yourself: iamphotograph.com  

He did a post recently that I really enjoyed.  It's a bunch of behind the scenes pics from a Mad Men filming.  I found all of these pics on his blog.

 

Beautiful.  

Two more full days of work until we have our soft opening for the new store.  Can't wait!  Thanks for reading.

Jeremy

3 Days

I've been so busy with the Fort Christmas EP, that I've hardly had time to blog about our progress with the new Red Velvet store.  We've still been there working everyday this month, I just haven't blogged about it as much.  It occurred to me as I was typing the title to this post, that we only have 3 full days left to finish the store; the friends and family party is on Thursday followed by the grand opening on Friday.  Elsie and I have both tried not to show too many pics of the store, because we want to save most of them for the "Before and After" post, but I thought I'd share a few more tonight.  These are some of the displays that Elsie let me create.  The first one is in the men's section.  My apologies for the bad lighting.

I just want to mention that there is an amazing PORTABLE 8-track player on the top right shelf in this picture.  It works great, and even has a strap so you can carry it around.  Pretty awesome.

These are a couple of displays Elsie and I made for the "Housewares" section.  Lots of Melmac dishes and vintage aprons.  Behind is our collection of vintage radios, record players, clocks and cameras.  Here's a closer shot:

Again, my iphone pics are not really doing it justice, but you get the idea.  I've kept myself from showing ANY pics of our dress collections, but you will love them.  Hope you all had a great weekend.  Thanks for reading.

Jeremy

Andrew Geller Preservation Project

Tonight I'm going to take a break from my shameless self-promotion of my side project (though if you still haven't given it a listen, you can do so here).  I received an email from a friend of mine several days ago.  His name is Jake Gorst, and he is an extremely talented film maker/director/writer etc.  He is also the grandson of one of the most influential architects of our time, Andrew Geller.  Before I get to the nature of the email Jake sent me, please take a look at some of Andrew Geller's brilliant work:

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst, Photo by Jerry Birnbaum

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst, Photo by Bill Davis

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

Collection of Andrew Geller/Jake Gorst

(All of these photos were used with permission, please do not use these photos without permission. Thanks!)

So, here is a portion of the email:

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I would like to extend an invitation to you to attend an event in support of the preservation of my grandfather's architectural archives.  This preservation project will be filmed for a documentary.

As many of you know, my grandfather, Andrew Geller is best known for designing midcentury free-spirited vacation housing throughout the Northeast and his work with Raymond Loewy.  His designs were very influential and helped shape the modern esthetic.  You can help preserve Geller's architectural archive, consisting of thousands of drawings and photographs, as well as models and correspondence, by participating in this special informative fundraising event. 

Please join us at Design Within Reach in Manhattan at 27 East 62nd Street on October 27th from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM. I will narrate a slide lecture highlighting his life and work and will speak about the Andrew Geller architecture archive preservation project.  I will be showing some newly discovered images - never before seen by the public.

There will be a silent auction on select decorative items donated by Design Within Reach, artwork by Andrew Geller, Shirley Geller, Jamie Geller Dutra, as well as hand made one of a kind modern jewelry pieces by the architect's granddaughter, Nancy Schindler. More items are being added over the coming week.  There are many door prizes as well.  Items are being posted in advance on Facebook prior to the event.

Refreshments. $10.00 entry fee recommended.

For more information about the project please visit http://www.andrewgeller.net/.

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This is a part of history that NEEDS to be preserved.  Please tell your friends about this event!!  A HUGE thanks to Jake for allowing me to use these amazing photos.  

Thanks for reading.

Jeremy

Free Song!!

I will be guest blogging over at Elsie's blog tonight (Tuesday night), and I will be giving away a free song!  So head over there and check it out.  Thanks to all of you who have already bought the "Feathers" EP!!!  I hope you are enjoying it with this beautiful fall weather.  See you soon.

Jeremy

Fort Christmas "Feathers EP" Now Available!!!

I'm extremely excited to announce that the Fort Christmas EP, "Feathers" is now available via bandcamp.com .  The EP has 5 songs, and is $5.  Please please please send this link to your friends!  Here it is:

http://fortchristmas.bandcamp.com/

You all have been so amazing about posting about this on your blogs and facebook pages, thank you for that.  You have laid a foundation and a buzz for me to work with, and I'm extremely grateful for that.  The harder part starts now.  Now that a lot more people are familiar with the name "Fort Christmas", we just have to make sure to get the word out about where people can hear it/purchase it.  Here is another E-Flyer that could be made into a link in case you'd like to use it as a button on your blog:

You all have been so positive about the songs that you've heard, and I think there will most definitely be a full length album coming next year!  This was really fun to work on, and the perfect chaser for working on my other "Jeremy Larson" album.  Thanks again!

Jeremy

Fort Christmas Release TOMORROW!!!

The Fort Christmas "Feathers" EP will be coming out TUESDAY!!!  Time has flown by, and I can't believe that the day is almost here.  I'm going to be releasing it on bandcamp.com, and it should be up and available for purchase at midnight on Monday night.  I hope I haven't exhausted all of my favors with all of you, because I still need a LOT of help getting the word out.  I think that you all have done an amazing job at reposting "The Leave Behind" on your blogs and facebook pages.  You've really helped to create a great online buzz about this little project, now I just need a little help letting people know it's out (after midnight, of course).  Are you guys feeling up for that?? 

In case you missed my posts from a few weeks ago, you can scroll down this page and find a free download of the first track on the EP.  Also, there is a youtube video of the song for you to embed on your facebook page or blog.  Help yourself to anything you need, and feel free to pass along that free song to as many people as you can.  Thanks again everyone!  I'm very excited for this!  Again, let me know if you need anything.  I read through the comments pretty regularly.

Jeremy