Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop Documentary

I am a huge fan of BANKSY! So excited to watch this & buy!

San Antonio Winery in Los Angeles

This weekend was an interesting fun weekend! It snowed in Los Angeles this weekend! Crazy right? The local mountains are covered in snow & I have never seen rain coming down like this from a far!

Went to the San Antonio Winery in Los Angeles off the 5 Freeway for wine tasting, good food, and a tour. This is a family owned winery that makes most of their wine in Los Angeles. Their grapes comes from Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County. We did the complimentary 3 wine samples from their selected list! If you go to the right guy you can get a lot more than 3 samples! 

After you get a little tipsy, you can buy boxes (more you buy better deal) of yummy wine (including their house made Stella Rosa)! They will keep it on hold for you while you go get some food at their restaurant and go on the tour. The restaurant inside is Maddalena. It is maybe what you call a cafeteria style? You go look at food on display (which all look so good especially when you are tipsy) and you order what you want. Then you take the tray they give you and go down and pick your drink. Then they seat you in this beautiful atmosphere... (I think they left their valentines day decor haha) 

They have live music playing and your food will come out in no time! Their menu has a variety of things! The entrées & pastas comes with bread & soup or salad. This is the Minestrone soup & their salad:

If you go for lunch on Saturday & Sunday, they serve breakfast till 2:30 PM! This is one of their omelettes they serve. The next picture is of the Spaghetti with Meatballs or Sausages, and the one after is the best one!  It is the Linguine with Scampi! So good!

Now you are tispy, full, and need to walk! They have a free tour of the winery on the hour Mon-Fri 12-2PM or Sat&Sun 11AM-4PM. It is only a 15-20minute tour! Go have some fun! 

  

Creative Blog Designs!

Here are some pretty neat & creative blog designs:
For more http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/03/50-beautiful-and-creative-blog-designs/

 

10 Lessons For Young Designers - For the Creative Folks

Wieden+Kennedy’s Executive Creative Director, John C Jay's 10 Lessons for Young Designers:

1: Be authentic. The most powerful asset you have is your individuality, what makes you unique. It’s time to stop listening to others on what you should do.
2: Work harder than anyone else and you will always benefit from the effort.
3: Get off the computer and connect with real people and culture. Life is visceral.
4: Constantly improve your craft. Make things with your hands. Innovation in thinking is not enough.
5: Travel as much as you can. It is a humbling and inspiring experience to learn just how much you don’t know.
6: Being original is still king, especially in this tech-driven, group-grope world.
7: Try not to work for stupid people or you’ll soon become one of them.
8: Instinct and intuition are all-powerful. Learn to trust them.
9: The Golden Rule actually works. Do good.
10: If all else fails, No. 2 is the greatest competitive advantage of any career.

Come Out For The Kids!

Tony Hong is having his last show before he goes in "hiding" (as he says). I love his work! I came across his work at the Hold Up Art Gallery in Lil Tokyo! He told me he was going to have a show coming up and its finally here! It is this weekend February 25th-Feb 27th! The opening reception is this Friday February 25th @ 7pm-11pm! Its at 7365 Melrose Ave. Come check out his work and help the kids at Stand Up For Kids!  (all proceeds will be going to Stand Up For Kids!). 

Flowers Flowers Flowers!

Before work sometimes I go to the Albertsons and the first thing I notice are the beautiful flowers! There is a section where bouquets are arranged by color. It looks really pretty! Anyway its a friends birthday... same person as who got the Sweet Lady Jane... I decided to get her beautiful flowers too! I mixed yellow and pink/orange roses and I based the bouquet with green pom pom flowers! I love this bouquet & the bright colors! The bright colors remind me of the times me and my two other girlfriends hangout. It is always filled with smiles and laughter! Thanks P & B!
Check out a new restaurant that I went to today Eats in LA - Yum Italian!!!

 

Sweet Lady Jane

I am a big fan of Sweet Lady Jane's cakes and bake goods! Their chocolate strawberry cake is to die for! These cakes are really really good and the actual store has a cute cafe atmosphere that serves lunch too! They are good BUT pricey! These were for a friends birthday! They give cute cupcake boxes ;)

Best All You Can Eat Sushi

Went to Las Vegas this weekend and ate at the best all you can eat sushi place! Sushi-Mon is in Las Vegas, Nevada in a shopping plaza 15 minutes off the strip! Lunch is $25 & Dinner is $27. They have appetizers, sushi (good ono, salmon, unagi, yellowtail, seared tuna & more), hand rolls, cut rolls, special rolls, & dessert! Go EAT HERE! ITS GOOD! 9770 South Maryland Pkwy # 3 Las Vegas, NV 89183.

UPDATE: CiRC design's 1st 2 postcards are in the Postcard Gallery!!!

The first two have arrived! Check them out! http://circdesign.com/postcard-research-project/

Date Night at The Grove $30 Per Person

 

Date Night at The Grove $30 Per Person! This is a good deal if you went out to go get dinner(3 course) + movie + valet. The restaurants are The Farm of Beverly Hills, Wood Ranch, Cheesecake Factory, Maggiano's, La Piazza, Morels French Steakhouse, and The Whisper. The movies are by day I guess. This is February 1-April 28 every Monday through Thursday night. Cool stuff!

Santa Monica Airport Artwalk

Save the date for Saturday March 19, 2011 12-5pm! This is Santa Monica Airport Artwalk's 5th year! Susan Feldman from 10 Women Gallery (I love this gallery) will be there!

HDR: Pushing photography to the limit — and beyond

Found this article about HDR photography. It  is something I just found out about. It seems really neat, but a lot of work. HDR stands for high dynamic range digital imaging. The article explains HDR as "simply shooting three to five  exposures of the same scene, then using specialized software to make one stunning image". These photos are taken by Robert Lachman.

Thank you!!

I just wanted to say thank you for visiting my blog! Hope everyone had a good weekend! Back to work/school this week! See you tomorrow!

Google Moving into Binoculars Building Designed by Frank Gehry in Venice

Google is moving into this Binoculars Building designed by Frank Gehry is Venice! I have been in this area and I JUST found out about this building! It was built between 1985-1991. The three commerical buildings are called the Chiat/Day Buidling. It was initially built for an advertising agency. The binoculars were designed by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The entrance to the parking garage is between the lenses of the binoculars. I MUST GO VISIT SOON!!!

The Majestical Roof

The Majestical Roof is a unique boutique & art gallery in an enclosed brick courtyard in Pasadena. If you haven't walked in that area you would have never known it was there! It is at the corner of Fair Oaks and Holly Street in Pasadena (88 North Fair Oaks). Its like a secret garden/courtyard! This is one of my favorite places in Pasadena and boutiques. This boutique has local artist work for sale. There are handmade jewelry, bags, cloths, and art work! Its amazing stuff! I love The Majestical Roof! You have to go check it out! Not a lot of people know about it so it will be our little secret place- if you bring this flyer on this saturday 11am-7pm they will give you 10% off! SHHHH!!!!! :)

Adopt an Acre All Around the World!

Did you know you can adopt an acre all around the world? You can help protect threatened habitats by adopting acres in critical locations around the world. You can adopt an acre of rainforest in Costa Rica. You can help The Nature Conservancy protect and restore what remains of one of the world's most extraordinary yet highly threatened rainforests in the Osa Peninsula. You also can adopt a coral reef in The Bahamas or Dominican Republic! This is pretty cool!

New Artist: MoDishMoD

I picked up his postcard promoting his  "Custom graphics for surf, snow, and skate are designed and executed by MoDMaN.  Airbrush / pencil / laminates / silk screens and coming soon – Stencil Kits, yum!" at Graphaids in Culver City yesterday. Pretty cool stuff. Then on his blog I found this! If you have seen Inception this will make sense if you haven't use it as your guide?

CiRC design- Postcards are ready!!!

Check out my research project blog! 

CiRC design is coming!

Been busy trying to get CiRC design's blog/project up! So come back soon to see what it's all about!!

Yosemite National Park

 I don't know if you know, but the US National Park Services has this "Free Entrance Days in the National Parks" on certain days out the year. The next one is April 16-24 (National Park Week). I think I have been to Yosemite National Park when I was a kid, but I want to go back because like these AMAZING PHOTOS. I want to take pictures myself and just sit there in awe of natural beauty! Look around you and appreciate the trees, plants, and environment around you today! :)

Heart Shaped WHAT!!?!

Hearts Hearts Hearts. I love hearts. I have this weird obsession with heart shaped things. It makes me smile and happy :) Anyway I did a random google search today of heart shaped things and its interesting to see what I found!

 

 Interesting right? I had to add in the heart smiley faces! Pretty cool stuff right? haha Enjoy your day!!