SF Premier Fine Art Fairs 2013

Every year I post pictures of artworks I take for clients at the two premier international art fairs here in San Francisco, and some of you have asked me dets. Well, they are coming-up in 2013 from May 17th to the 19th. I have a few 3-day passes for friends. So hit me up if you are interested in going to check some new art !!! xoxo

http://artpadsf.com/ 
http://www.art-mrkt.com/sf 

Past years interesting finds:
SF Premier Fine Arts Fairs 2012
SF Premier Fine Arts Fairs 2011

Mood Indigo (L'Ecume des Jours)

Artful French director Michel Gondry has unveiled the trailer for his next feature film L'Ecume des Jours (Mood Indigo), starring the great Audrey Tatou, Romain Duris and Omar Sy. The film is based on Boris Vian's 1947 novel Froth on the Daydream. The story revolves around a wealthy man named Colin who decides he wants to fall in love just like his best friend Chick. After meeting and marrying a woman named Chloe, everything seems to be going perfectly, but during their honeymoon her health quickly deteriorates due to a flower growing on her lungs. An official US release date has not yet been announced. Watch the trailer...

 

www.michelgondry.com

Double the Joy!!

Since this morning I'm a happy auntie again, this time of a beautiful baby girl!!!

Luciana Isabel 4/27 @ 4:27 am, 7 lbs 12 oz

Proud loving brother Ethan giving his new-born sister a big kiss!

Incredible, Ethan got a baby sister for his birthday, EXACTLY three years later... !!!

A Little Unexpected Fun

Photo By Paul Chinn

A few years back I partook in one of Futurefarmers' design collective events (while their A Variation on the Powers of Ten exhibit was showing at the Berkeley Art Museum), held at the Exploratorium back when it was at the Palace of Fine Arts. For the event, designers were asked to design tools that would allow to see beyond our biological perceptions and hence affect our understanding of the world. I made a simple fiber optic tool, but was impressed by the many possibilities of just one day's worth of fun work, as other designers came up with some pretty mesmerizing works!

The Exploratorium is a wealth of knowledge and inspiration for kids of all ages. And it was recently moved to a bigger facility, so the exploratory and designing fun is endless. Since last week it's now more accessibly located on Embarcadero's Pier 15, and I was super lucky that Monday my undergraduate university's alumni association hosted a private tour of the new Exploratorium, for a few of us alumni living in the Bay Area, lead by no other than the director himself. It was really exciting to see that they've now made the behind-the-scenes workshops and labs – where the scientists and artists design and build all the interactive installations we play with at the Exploratorium – open for the public to see; and that the Tinkering Studio is even bigger and better now! Can't wait to spend an entire day there tinkering with the many tools and materials they make available to the visitors. They have many new educational installations to play with at their new space, and space left for more to come, Denis said. So it's well worth the increased fee, as you'll probably spend an entire day there, and might even have to come back to see and play with everything.

Photo By Inda Liza Luciano

After the tour we had a reception, including a chocolate tasting, at the chocolate factory of TCHO next door on Pier 17 that was really interesting too. We got to taste a variety of chocolates, that although were made out of the same ingredients and recipe, the taste was completely different depending on the location where the cacao bean was grown. It was fascinating to me, because since a few years back I've been experimenting in my own kitchen with some natural sweets, and I used TCHO's design as inspiration to one of my packaging assignments back when I was at UCBx finishing my Graphic Design professional sequence. I love their packaging design!

Photo By Inda Liza Luciano

That was the first alumni event I've ever attended, and it was a little unexpected fun. Met some new interesting folks, learned new things about my alma mater, opened-up to new collaborative possibilities... so maybe I'll do it again next year, and for other of the colleges I've attended as well!

xoxo         

Happy Earth Day!

Since Friday of last week this spring has blossomed into the most beautiful spring I've ever seen here in the San Francisco Bay Area! I'll be in the city today at the new Exploratorium at an Alumni event. So excited to check-out Earth Day celebrations while I'm there, and to connect with peeps from my alma mater. And I also have a family visitor... good day! 

Illustration courtesy of the awesome ladies at Ecojot

Have a beautiful Earth Day!

It's Record Store Day!

Wondering out and about on the Earth Day festivities that have been going on here in Berkeley since last weekend, and also the festivities at CalDay, just realized today is also Record Store Day! 

Since 2007, on the third Saturday of April, record stores everywhere have celebrated Record Store Day, or RSD, as we cool kids call it ;) What's going on is different festivities, including exclusive vinyl and CD releases, live performances, as well as special appearances at independent record stores. 

Here are some of my favorite record stores on neighborhoods I've lived in on different cities and others I've visited... I'll post more later when I go back home, but go visit your local record store today and have fun!!

xoxo

CALIFORNIA  
Amoeba Music – San Francisco, Berkeley and Los Angeles  
Streetlight Records – San Francisco  
Aquarius Records – San Francisco 

NEW YORK  
Other Music – East Village 
Academy Annex – Williamsburg 
Heaven Street – Bushwick 
Halcyon – DUMBO 
Permanent Records – Greenpoint 

ILLINOIS 
Reckless Records – Chicago 
Gramaphone Records – Chicago 
Permanent Records – Chicago 
Logan Hardware – Chicago  

OREGON 
Mississippi Records – Portland 
Jackpot Records – Portland 

FLORIDA
Yesterday & Today Records – Miami 

INDIANA
Luna Music – Indianapolis

By Making a Handle, You Can Make a World

I Just Realized...

 

...that 98% of my days are blissful and the other 2% are insignificant. 


That I'm a phenomenal person who trusts and cares and I get cosmically rewarded for it constantly. 


That the people with no substantial contribution to my life vanish *puff*. It's real magic. 


That mean people's ugliness show. 


And that I use to have horrible taste when I was a teenager, which means my taste has improved!

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