Rubin Recommends

(Part of The Weekly Check In series)

I discovered Dan Monick’s work in Anthem Magazine while in photo school, (I’m sure I’ve told this story before…) I wrote him an email after seeing that photo, ended up he was on tour with Les Savvy Fav which came through Boston, where we met up. A little under a year later, I moved to Los Angeles and became his neighbor on the backside of the Silver Lake reservoir.

He’s a very talented photographer and used to hit the drums in the band Lifter Puller, as well as others I’m sure. He rules it.

View his photography at http://dmonick.com and his blog here.

Rubin: What are you currently working on or just finished that you’re excited about?

Monick: Well I have really dug in to the design of my book for Gingko Press which is a document of all the work I have done with Atmosphere and Rhyme Sayers. This project has been going on forever and is very close to being finalized. I was just in a show in Philly, and I’m in one in LA this week called Stoked Sessions I just bought a color copier and I’m starting a short run color copy press with Anthony Anzalone. Just moved into a new studio, cranking out the LA Record each month and there are some super exciting things going on with that that I can’t talk about yet. Two solo shows this fall in LA and Canada. Just shot a video for designer Valerj Probega’s Fall 09 collection. Also commercial print work with Dell, Activision, and others.

Rubin: Where have you traveled so far this month?

Monick: I’m in Paris right now and I’ve been to Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis in the last month or so.

Rubin: What’s your favorite music right now?

Monick: My iTunes recently played has LCD Soundsystem, The Cars, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Frankie Vali, From Bubblegum to Sky, The Cult, Languis, No Age, Thunderclap Newman, Tom Petty, MGMT, Eddie Money, and Thin Lizzy.

Rubin: Best food you’ve had in your neighborhood lately or while you were traveling?

Monick: I had a scone at the Trails café in Griffith Park that was seriously one of the most mind blowing things Ive ever had. Dude knows his baking. That and the Lebonese food we just had in the Latin Quarter at a place called the Savannah Cafe. Oh and the fish sandwich I had at Wholey’s in Pittsburgh. Amazing.

Rubin: Anything else you want to mention?

Monick: Peace. And that Luis Farfan is a genius.