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2. What is the best thing about your profession? What’s the worst thing?
Getting paid to stay up late and have fun playing music for people having fun, the worst is having to wakeup after said parties
3. What is something you didn’t know about Los Angeles that you recently found out or realized?
I am obsessed with the San Gabriel Valley as of late Going to get hot pot in the SGV. I did not realize all the amazing Chinese food in the SGV and everytime I venture out there I find some new gem.
4. Where is your favorite place to eat in LA and why?
Depends on my mood I love taco trucks and also Salazar in frogtown, but now that is cold I always want Hotpot comfort food
5. What was the last good book you read that you would recommend to anyone and why? (Well, any adult…)
I read a lot of doorstop fantasy and really loved the book Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames which is a fun take on epic fantasy and also tickles my d&D itch, however this is definitely niche. For anyone I just finished Less by Andrew Sean Greer this summer in like 2 days and loved it and think this is a book anyone can pickup and enjoy and relate too.
6. Have you ever seen a work of art that stopped you in your tracks? What was it and why did it make you feel that way?
The first time I saw Bjork l was moved to tears, as for visual arts I love pretty much all of John Baldesarri’s art and as a graphic designer in addition to producing techno events I draw very heavily form his aesthetic
7. What is the most remarkable movie you’ve ever seen and what was it about the film?
Very hard question and tbh IDK. My favorite movies are true romance, there will be blood, sicario and up
8. Name your pop-culture guilty pleasure (music, movie, game, tv show, etc.)?
Playing dungeons and dragons weekly with friends
9. What is the most underrated album you’ve heard and what about it is special
This is an extremely hard question and I really do not know
10. Who do you think is the best rockstar who ever lived?
Bjork
11. What is the scariest thing you’ve ever experienced?
Choking on a piece of food and going unconscious and running in front of a car to grab my dog who darted into the road
12. Where is one place that someone can visit in LA for free that is a must-experience?
The Broad and honestly as cliché as it sounds hiking in Griffith Park or the San Gabriel Mountains
13. What is the weirdest thing about LA?
Our parties
Two unsung heroes from the LA underground Jeniluv (jeni_erickson@yahoo.com ) and Brad Mayer (funkworks23@gmail.com) from Funkworks who does sound for the majority of all the parties in LA
15. Tell us what we should mention about you (next event(s), releases, exhibits, etc
Lights Down Low NYE with Ben UFO, Geneva Jacuzzi, Interstellar Funk and more
What is the best and worst thing about your profession?
The best thing is collaborating with incredibly talented people and forever being inspired. The worst thing is having to network when I’m in between jobs to book more work and the other non-creative/business-y parts of my profession.
What is something you didn’t know about Los Angeles that you recently found out or realized?
It takes less than a day to casually walk from Silverlake to Santa Monica (including time to stop for lunch!)
Where is your favorite place to eat in LA?
Absolutely love going to Little Ethiopia… Messob is great, as well as Meals by Genet. It’s tasty food, I never leave hungry, and it’s fun to eat with my hands.
What was the last good book you read that you recommend?
Just re-read the Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky. I read it at least once every year and each time it changes my life.
Have you ever seen a work of art that stopped you in your tracks?
All the time…Although one of my favorite exhibits I have ever seen was Marina Abramovic at MoMa. Seeing her in person when I was such a fan was amazing. And her retrospective upstairs was just incredible. Oh and James Turrell at LACMA, specifically Breathing Light and Light Reignfall…Oh and multiple pieces by multiple artists at Storm King Arts Center in Upstate NY…The common thread in all of these pieces is that they are immersive… They’re very meditative in that I am fully present in the experiencing the art. I love when a piece can transport me out of this world, and into the world of the piece itself. I also recently had that experience seeing the LA Phil perform Steve Reich at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
What is the most remarkable movie you’ve ever seen and what was it about the film?
2001: A Space Odyssey will forever be my favorite movie.
Name your pop-culture guilty pleasure.
My life is one big guilty pleasure…Some offhand include "The Great British Baking Show", "Bachelor in Paradise", and Taylor Swift.
What is the most underrated album you’ve heard and what about it is special?
Not underrated, but I don’t think enough people talk about classical composers like John Cage, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich, who influenced so many of our most popular musicians today.
Who do you think is the best rock star who ever lived?
What is the scariest thing you’ve ever experienced?
Not sure about EVER, but: Pretty scary to experience the fires in CA, and thinking about how they’re going to be happening more and more due to climate change, and then seeing ill-informed reactions from Trump, like this tweet, and then knowing we have at least another two years with this awful human.
Where is one place that someone can visit in LA for free that is a must-experience?
Self-Realization Fellowship at Lake Shrine
What is the weirdest thing about LA?
Valet parking EVERYWHERE. Also, WeHo is pretty weird.
Tamar Levine recieved a BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design. She then went on to create commercials, videos, and photo campaigns for a wide range of fashion, music, and commercial clients including Victoria's Secret PINK, Urban Decay, Warner Bros Records, Flaunt Magazine, Nylon Magazine, and many more. Her work has won numerous awards including ADC Young Guns, New Exposure by Vogue, Redx & Bottega Veneta, and Communication Arts. Catch up with Tamar Levine on Instagram at @tamarlevine and on her website at www.tamarlevine.com
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