we consider february the beginning of the dtf new year. so happy new year!
it’s kind of our favorite month, probably mostly because both of our birthdays are in february (the 6th and 19th) but it’s also fun and weird with how short it is. and this year is a leap year, so that’s neat.
we’re planning a birthday at the beach because we live in LA and can do that in february.
so, hope you enjoy this months desktop background. download it on de tumbla.
just got back to sunny la from the sunny carribean, via sunny miami. we’re clearly doing everything we can to avoid any sign of winter this year.
the beach was our backyard and we fell asleep and woke up to the breeze + sounds of the ocean. zivi’s family has been going to the cayman islands for 35 years (!) to spend a week relaxing and soaking up the sun. every year zivs fam goes scuba diving — they’re all PADI certified — and this year I got to dive, too! and after being in the mediterranean this summer and shooting some underwater stuff, we knew we had to rent a camera and do some shooting of these incredible reefs. zivi rocked the camera and is going to put a project together, but you can get an idea of how amazing it was from the photo below. can’t wait to do more of that.
this is what our week looked like.
new calendar. get it desktop style over at the tumblr.
props to megan for taking us to the roof of her office building for sunset in dtla this month.
& happy new year.
here are a few photos from a shoot we did back in july while we were in prague. we met alya in our hostel the night before these shots were taken. he mentioned to us that he was a model and a dancer, so we of course asked if he wanted to walk around the next day and take some photos. he was in prague for a little while with no specific plans before heading south to vienna for a 3 week long dance workshop that he was awarded a grant to attend.
that morning we scavanged through his travel wear and found a couple outfits to take with us to an awesome looking tower on a hill overlooking the city. he had his camera with him too, so a lot of the day was spent just photographing the city together. we exchanged stories of traveling and compared growing up in far-away places. he told us about how he was educated through a waldorf system in australia that focused more on actually doing things rather than on grades and tests, something that as creatives we both love to encourage. this background definitely shined through in him as he was down to try whatever came to mind while we were walking around and was keen to throw out ideas as well.
it’s nice going through photos from traveling and remembering back to it and the people you meet. so many people from so many walks of life, it’s pretty amazing that we all co-exist.
one from a recent shoot. a big thank you to our team, love working with people who are gangstas at what they do.
MODEL // caitlin marshall
HAIR + MAKE-UP // megan sutherland
STYLING // kimi recor
PHOTOGRAPHY // describe the fauna
whoa whoa. that snuck up. sorry for the few day delay on us getting this out — we were struck by the santa ana winds and left without power for three days. uprooted trees and palm fronds have been the hot topic for us the last couple days, so between that and everyone’s talk about christmas trees, we thought it only appropriate to close this calendar year out with some fresh cut wood.
check over at our tumblr to get the calendar desktop version of the shot below.
zivs been shooting a bunch around town and on our various shoots with 2 wonderful little film cameras. the trusty olympus om-1 with the 28mm f3.5 on it, and another little gem that the amazing brynn bear gave to us a few months back when we stayed with her in seattle, a canonet with a 40mm f2.8.
we just got all these developed, hope you enjoy.
hannah + christian painting:
anthony of m83:
cool screen print show at this los angeles:
whenever you are, we’re already then.
hannah, snapped by christian:
since 1949. ish. snapped by chris vick:
…the west! having just finished our personal project on the west coast from our drive down it in september, we found a few photos on our hard drives from the trek up to vancouver from texas that we wanted to share. the drive was through new mexico, utah, idaho, oregon and washington, so we covered some pretty epic territory before we even got to the coast. these are a couple photos from that expansive place in america were we all often dream of being.
check our twitter sometime in the next some amount of time and we’ll let you know when we get the new project up… hype!
m83‘s new album came out a couple weeks ago so he’s out on tour in support of that right now. most of the major cities are sold out already (as was LA unfortunately) but we managed to get a hold of anthony to do a quick mid-soundcheck photoshoot. he’s originally from southern france so it was fun to exchange stories as that’s one of our favorite places we travelled this summer. definitely check out the new album ‘hurry up, we’re dreaming’ and watch the ‘midnight city’ music video too, it’s sweet.
