In a riveting book titled, “The Salton Sea,” LA-based photographer Rebecca Cabage embarks on a journey within the largest body of water in California. A tour through an environmental decline encompassing a location that was once a tourist attraction during the 1920s – the photographer visits the Salton Sea numerous times and as a result captures gorgeous, storytelling, up-close and personal images of urban decay in a desolate and forgotten place.

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Music maven Phlo Finister‘s style sizzles. An emerging artist off the 3|4 label, the Oakland native mixes Hip-Hop, Rock, Dubstep and Blues to keep us in a well-kempt mood, and with the fans and fashionistas crushing on her vocals and impeccable fashion sense, critics from Complex to The Fader started dialing in. Rolling Stone recently thought her music, mod-style and fashion inspiration were worthy enough for an interview. Our subject also styles herself! Haute!

Photo: Hayden Shiebler for Hearty Magazine

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Hmm, relationships. Relationships are always evolving. They seem to be analyzed, turned out, talked about and romanced around love’s biggest crush, Valentine’s Day. From the single lifestyle to monogamy at its best, one thing’s for certain: we constantly desire to learn about this thing called love… and SEX. A muscle that’s constantly evolving, morphing, breathing. We found some interesting survey charts from The Luxury Spot that contain even more interesting keywords: obligatory, predictable, aspects, often, spouse, lover, position… and so on. Take a look and better yet, gain some sex-sight.

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Berlin-based freelance designer Robert G. Bortholot has a way to my heart. The emphasis he impeccably has aced with photographic illustration and art direction mixed with highly stylized, avant garde characters play out his ocean of work; dolls, dust and limitless fashion are reigning themes that reside in his inspiration.

To discover that one does this so perfectly at first had me contemplating which series to put on this pedestal; like weak sauce, I vastly curated my own series of Bortholot’s selected works. What this really means is that I couldn’t really make up my mind so I picked my fab 5. Go on, crush with me.

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New York-based fashion, portrait and advertising photographer Tommy Agriodimas got us all excited this morning with one single capture of a skyline and two pairs of sexy legs in the air. The series is simply titled “Legs.” This creative capture-king owns Studio208; while shooting various works, he delivers packages of sexy babes on a silver platter for a mouth watering eye-feast. He has another series titled, “One Cigarette/One Roll Of Film” that leaves us with one word, thought, and action: HARD. He has to be well hung, but we’ll investigate that later — for now, we just want to show you his goods.

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Italian photographer Guido Argentini has lived in Los Angeles since the early 90′s; a would-have-been surgeon turned his eye behind the lens and went on to be published in worldwide publications with his talent for capturing some of the sexiest, femme (S&M!) driven images out there. His work is daring, dramatic — the photography books under his reign can scandalously find themselves under our naughty holiday wishlist and may give us and our lover the inspiration to enter a private room of our own… plus one lovely camera.

In his second book titled Private Rooms, Argentini locks up a few gorgeous beauties in provocation, pushing our view of female nudes to our limit. No complaints here whatsoever! It’s the way he plays with an idea of privacy; orchestrating an erotic universe for us, we enter a zone where we juggle notions of glamorous sexual fantasies that we either play out when the time calls for it, or crave to be a part of at one time or another. Black and white peep show starts right now, and Guido’s girls all have names…

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Tully on a window full of clouds.

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Tokyo-based Digital Artist 非, also known as YDK Monroe manifests haunting imagery in her work. Emotionally damaged looking males, to be exact. Sounds like a fitting subject for any female, especially when you’re a talented artist. However, there’s something more happening here. I feel confused, jolted, and questionable. I ponder: Should I be listening to Adele? Who are these tormented digital boys? The mystery of YDK Monroe ensues — most of her pieces are untitled, which heightens my curiosity level even more. When I try and find this artist behind so much scar tissue, I can’t get a fair glimpse into her personal life since she rarely shares any personal information. If I was a guy, I would chase her until she was mine. Would you?

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She was born in ’68. Served as a Creative Director for Nylon Magazine, and yep, a former VS Angel. Angel. A heavy hitting model in the 90′s, Helena Christensen still rocks our world. She pretty much looks the same as that sultry oceanic vixen we drooled over in Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game. Do you agree based on the black and white capture seen below? To put it quite simply, 90′s models were a different breed — Almost like how they used to make them in the 40′s and 50′s. The grace never seems to shed from these types. Yes, types. With injections and an easy ‘fix’ these days, some gals look shriveled before their 40. However, the au-natural beauties of these times are of this goddess-like type; the proof lies when you can admire female beauty and get blown away.

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I’ll try to make this as easy and painless as possible: Slice a chunk off a butter stick, place it on a tablespoon, open wide, place the spoon into your big mouth, and swallow. Sounded easy enough until you probably gagged or said “Ew, Gross” when reading the word swallow, I bet. Do it once for a test run, then repeat (always) before drinking heavily. Reading the article below will help you keep it together anytime you’re on a business trip with alcoholics. Trust.

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A true love for vintage and thrift will do either one of two things to you: make you sneeze or give you an adrenaline rush. And when both of those elements collide and you end up treasure hunting for a solid two hours, you know that this game will last a lifetime.

Starting to shop at thrift stores when I was a 14-year-old Chicago city girl, I found my calling at The Village Discount Outlet. A slight but no match comparison to L.A.’s popular Goodwill, VDO had not only twice the number of locations spread across the city, but it was an effortless darling box to original vintage and thrift – the type of treasures that the woman in line behind you offers you money for before you check out. My brother’s girlfriend at the time loved to take me shopping, and it was here, like love at first sight, that I grew anxious for Levi’s, 1960s furs, and developed an obsession with accessories that took a hard swivel to make me go back every chance I got. I was addicted.

Cut to some ageless years later, I notice that the beauty and trend of ‘keeping things real’ in vintage surely lives in a mess load of boutiques. There are even vintage pop-up shops at sample sales around the city. The bustle of Etsy online collections. Spanish Moss Vintage, whom I adore. The list is endless, and the discovery makes me get hyper at one sound: the hanger sliding across the bar as we feel, pin-point, and examine our next piece.

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Sydney-based photographers Lyn Balzer and Tony Perkins are contributing to an exhibition called ‘Denim‘ — A material investigation into the use of denim in craft, art and design at Melbourne based gallery, Mr Kitly. I instantly thought of BL33N, a Matthias & Donovan Vriens-Mgrath project – the duo create tees with mask-inspired faces printed on the inside, meant to replace your own when you flip the tee inside out and wrap it around your head. It also caught my attention since I made a limited edition run of recycled denim & leather onesie-earrings last summer. I read up on an interview with Lyn and Tony and when asked why, here’s what they had to say: “… Create objects that you least expect to be made in denim. So we decided to create two masks woven from denim straps, recycled from denim jeans. Masks are usually used to hide or disguise [and] we wanted to contrast this by photographing them on an exposed naked body.” Recycled art that may be a bit uneasy for some, yet totally up my alley for gawking purposes. Feast on the denim-masked fringe below, and if you’re intrigued enough, catch the entire interview here.

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You will probably never find anyone who will start or end a conversation with, “Fuck, I just love gas stations.” We need cars to get around the expansive districts of L.A. – it’s a necessity – the public transportation just doesn’t compare to places like SF, NYC or Europe. Though we love being green and rocking out the sexy bicycle, street Vespa or a skateboard, these modes of transportation just don’t make the cut when stuck in traffic, or when you have a meeting in Hollywood at three and another at six in Westwood.

We thought we would make your gas-pumping woes more exciting with a look at the world’s most beautifully designed gas stations, so you can get Gas’d in style! Have a look:

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I have a big fat juicy crush on Helsinki-based artist, Minni Havas. Growing up, Minni used to admire daddy’s airbrush art collection, feasting her eyes on cartoons like Roger Leloup’s Yoko Tsuno. Later, she started to imitate Leloup’s characters and drew faces she found in magazines alongside her sister Milja, the brunette who often shows up in her work. Her photo-realistic drawings of girls are a perfect match to her focus – fashion illustrations. Bordering between the real and imaginary, her images score a perfect (and sexy!) ten – qualifying her as a LF type of gal.

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Pow! The has-been is back! Formerly known as 1980′s metal groupie accoutrement, the over-suggestive night-thumping trashy fashion statement known as “lace” finally has its overdue AND modern signature style. And it’s sexier than ever! Literally, lace is a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open web-like pattern, but it’s also called lacework, aka, “Work that hot shit when it’s on thy skin, OK!?” I just screamed that last bit in my head, FYI.

A few words that come to mind for me when I think of lace? Fairytales, royalty, punk, modern, paris, and most importantly, photographer Paolo Roversi. Finally, you can never go wrong with a few added slaps on the ass to get you going. Check out Roversi’s sexy lace-infused images below:

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Austrian songstress Fawni has first struck us with her golden voice and her beat-thumping tracks. You’ll gawk over her artwork and get inspired by her recent collaboration with Marc Jacobs in Soho, but first of all, take a peek at these killer party looks. Needless to say, there’s a lot to learn from a gorgeous goddess from Vienna. Invade us and conquer, please.

LOOK ONE: DimePiece Designs ‘Bitches Be Trippin’ Collar, A pen cap as a ring, Fleet Jewelry bracelet, Vintage Leather Gloves, and an Around The City Vintage Prom Dress!

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London-based street artist Slinkachu will def put a smile on your face with The Little People Project, where the tag line on his art reads, ‘Abandoning little people on the streets since 2006.’ Spearheaded in 2006, the street art installation and photography project aims to encourage city dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. His innovative scenes and witty titles reflect the loneliness and melancholy of big city living. We can all relate to the big city blues at times, but underneath it, a sense of humor is necessary. Let’s try to identify with the tiny people in his works, reflect and ponder that we are not alone in this ever-changing macrocosm.

Slinkachu launches a solo show titled Concrete Ocean at the Andipa Gallery in London this March, and below is the first image from it. To all of our LF Londonites, check it out! Here is Last Resort zoomed in three ways to give you an idea of the scale:

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