High Places + Modern Amusement

Bryan Sheffield photographed Mary Pearson, one-half of the experimental duo, High Places, at one of their recent LA shows. She's wearing Modern Amusement's 53's.

High Places is currently touring Europe, browse their myspace for dates. For those in Europe and beyond, you can check out their new album, High Places Vs. Mankind, available now!

Baumvision at SXSW 2010

Baumvision heads down to Austin, Texas for SXSW 2010. Here are some of the artists from this year's lineup sporting Paul Frank and Modern Amusement Eyewear:


Billy Bragg (3rd from left) in Olympic Airways.


Jason Collette of Broken Social Scene in Back on the Motorway.


TJ Orscher of Bear Hands wears Legion of Indecency. The band is wrapping up their tour with Passion Pit but will be on the road with As Tall as Lions in April and May.


Native Aussies, The Crayon Fields, came all the way from down under and are wearing (from left to right) The Sporting Life, Dance Dance Dance!, Legion of Indecency, and A Friend in Tweed is a Friend Indeed.


The guys of Title Tracks don the styles The Sporting Life, 52's, and 48's.


BRAHMS in (from left to right, and up to down) White Lips Kissed, Land Locked Lifeguards, 49's, and Sans Soleil / Sunshine Clouds and Everything Proud.


Toronto-based band, Holy Fuck, in Feel My Heat, Fountain of Truth, My Bright Future, 53's, and Back on the Motorway.


Mariachi El Bronx wearing Paul Frank Eyewear

Baumvision Europe + The Bloodhound Gang

Llion of Baumvision Europe goes backstage with The Bloodhound Gang in Croatia and is happy to report that "(free) Paul Frank sunglasses are officially more interesting than 4 litres of (free) Jagermeister."

From left to right: The Yin wears The Crafty Engineer, Evil Jared in Bold as Love, Denial P in Legion of Indecency, and Jimmy Pop in B-Sides.

Vision Expo East 2010 + The Hold Steady

Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady stopped by the Baumvision booth at this year's Vision Expo East in New York. Here he is with Baumvision owner, Shane Baum.

Their new album, Heaven is Whenever, will be released in May, but the band is gradually releasing individual tracks to stream online via Stereogum. They're also currently touring around the US and will be heading to Europe in June. Check out their myspace for tour dates.

MIDO tradeshow 2010

Baumvision Europe at this year's MIDO tradeshow in Milan. Thank you to all those who attended and made this our best MIDO show yet.

NOMO + Paul Frank

Ann Arbor based Afro-beat supergroup, Nomo, stopped by the office before their show at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa and hung with Granny Leta out in Newport beach. They're currently on tour, Check out their myspace for dates. Also check out frontman Elliot Bergman's handmade kalimbas for sale. We're waiting for ours to come any day now...

Calling all artists!

Attention all you artists out there...Paul Frank has teamed up with popular arts & culture magazine, Juxstapoz, to hold an original artwork challenge - ART ATTACK. Whether you're a photographer, painter, mixed media artist, illustrator or craftsman...no medium will go unnoticed! Paul Frank will be awarding the grand prize of $2500 toward art supplies AND a full page showcasing of the winning artwork in Juxstapoz Magazine! Click here for details!

Baumvision + Little Boots

Baumvision's own Customer Service Ambassador, Arthur, visited The Glass House in Pomona to check out English electropop singer-songwriter, Little Boots. The eclectic artist plays a variety of instruments like the keyboard, piano, stylophone and even a Japanese electronic instrument called a Tenori-on.

Check her out wearing Paul Frank Olympic Airways in burnt umber.

The Crafty Cake Engineers

Charm City Cakes, a custom cake shop out of Baltimore, Maryland, is known not only for their beautiful and challenging cakes, but also for their hit TV show on Food Network - Ace of Cakes. Check them out wearing Paul Frank and Modern Amusement glasses below. Be sure to tune in to the next season of Ace of Cakes where you'll be seeing the cast wearing our newest frames!


Mary Alice wearing Paul Frank The Crafty Engineer in white brown


Lauren Friedman in Paul Frank The Path of Least Resistance in aqua seafoam


Ben Turner wearing Modern Amusement 45's in blonde tortoise


Elena Fox in Paul Frank White Lips Kissed in white brown

Ubiquity Records + Paul Frank

Ubiquity Records and Groove Merchant celebrated their 20th anniversary by capturing a live performance by LA-based funk band, Orgone, at the Killion Studios in LA. The nine member band is an eclectic mix of piano, guitar, percussion, a three piece horn section, and a fiery soul singer on vocals.

Check them out wearing Paul Frank frames in these photos from the Ubiquity Records Spring 2010 catalog.


Orgone, and Paul Frank frames in front of Killion Studios.


Fanny Franklin wearing Paul Frank "That Special Groove" in burnt umber



Dan Hastie wearing Paul Frank "Slingshot" in tortoise


Sergio Rios in Paul Frank "Tried and True" in black


Devin Williams in Paul Frank "Olympic Airways" in black

Paul Frank in Vice Magazine

Vice Magazine's current "The Seeing Trails Issue" features some very "excited" models wearing Paul Frank Eyewear in their "Work Hard Play Hard" fashion feature.

Baumvision asks if you are experiencing these side effects from our eyewear for more than 6 hours to consult a doctor immediately.




Paul Frank "Instant Intellectual" in Aqua Seafoam






Paul Frank "A Friend in Tweed is a Friend Indeed" in Tortoise




Photos by Ben Ritter

The Second Annual Gefälshte Ski-Partei

Here is a recap of The Second Annual Gefälshte Ski-Partei hosted by Baumvision owner Shane Baum in Newport Beach. Translated this means fake ski party, which is about as good as it gets here in Sunny Southern California. In homage to our Baumvision European headquarters based in Vienna, Austria, we bestowed the event with a decidedly Tyrolean flair serving Fiaker Goulash, Glüwein, Sacher Torte and Schnapps.

Below you can view some of the attendants in their best Alpine Couture.

GEFALSCHTE SKI PARTEI from jimjims on Vimeo.

Images courtesy of JimJims.

Limbeck

Baumvision’s own, Jen Maclean filled in on drums for Limbeck during a few of there shows over the holidays. Check out the band rocking the new Paul Frank RX Spring 2010 Collection.


(from left to right) Robb in My Heart Rates Rapid, Jen in The Sporting Life, and Patrick in Instant Intellectual.

Baumvision + Bryan Sheffield

BV friend and awesome photographer, Bryan Sheffield rolled from LA through Nashville to NYC with his camera close by, capturing memorable moments with interesting people. Check out who he ran into....




Heisenflei of the Los Angeles two-piece band, The Pity Party wearing Modern Amusement 33's.



LA-based photographer, Lauren Randolph wearing Modern Amusement 49's in turquoise.


Nylon Magazine's Stephen Walker wearing
Modern Amusement 47's in Gold.



LA-based Photographer, Allister Dougherty wearing Paul Frank Gamera in Aqua/Seafoam.




NY-based hair stylist, Mari De Monte wearing Paul Frank White Lips Kissed in Amber/Yellow.

Make sure to check out Bryan's website for more awesome photography.

Therapy? Visits the Baumvision Europe Office.

Irish metal band Therapy? stopped by our office in Vienna to try on some Paul Frank Sunglasses. They mention the meeting on their blog, along with the experience of playing at undeground club U4 where bands such as Nirvana and Blondie have also played.


from left to right: Michael (Bass, Vocals) wearing Paul Frank Slingshot in burnt umber, Andy (Vocals, Guitar) wearing Paul Frank The Crafty Engineer in grey/pink, and Neil (Drums) in Paul Frank Digitalist in burgundy.


Therapy? along with their crew and on the far right 2-Time Silmo Tradeshow Mr. Mustache Champion, Baumvision's Llion Jones, all wearing Paul Frank Sun.