HighStreet People: Dana Hamblen

Name: Dana Hamblen.

Birthday and Sun Sign: April 5.  Aries.

Where is Home: Camp Washington.

Where she works & What she does: Administration and Client Services for Lightbourne ( a motion design pro­duc­tion stu­dio in Cincinnati ). Basically “I’m the Mom of the build­ing”. Dana plays in two rock bands, The Fairmont Girls and Culture Queer. She must have decided she wasn’t busy enough so she recently opened a hip, guer­rilla fash­ion store/gallery in Camp Washington called Chicken Lays an Egg, fea­tur­ing vin­tage clothes, fur­ni­ture, acces­sories, and trinkets…all sport­ing a spe­cific flare that is sig­na­ture to Dana’s style.

Most excit­ing work she does pro­fes­sion­ally: Art Direction,  Styling for Video Production, and Still Photography.

Most excit­ing work she does as an ama­teur: Playing rock-n-roll

Why does Dana love HighStreet? She loves the book and mag­a­zine selec­tion, the dis­plays, and the mix of vin­tage and new. “To put it bluntly, I just rip off your ideas”

Most inter­est­ing thing about Dana: “My orig­i­nal­ity”, even though as she puts it — she “rips it off from other peo­ple,” that and her col­lec­tion of striped socks.

What HighStreet thinks: Being inspired by oth­ers is an age-old and nec­es­sary tra­di­tion.  HighStreet thinks Dana is one of the coolest, and most orig­i­nal peo­ple we’ve met (period).