Happy Weekend
Today is just lovely; warm, breezy, and beautiful. Omar and I took the Cable Car to the Ferry Building where we pigged out on fresh orange samples at the Farmer’s Market, and later we took a walk on Herb Caen Way to watch the sail boats go under the Bay Bridge. I hope you’re having [...]
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan
It’s rarely, if ever, that I miss my single life. I suppose one of the advantages of getting married over thirty is that it gives you the time to do all those things that become more difficult with a partner and children. You know, sow those wild oats while crashing on friends’ couches after 3 [...]
Work I Love: Atfal Ahdath at the Sharjah Biennial
Aftal Ahdath is a Beirut based collective comprised of members Vartan Avakian, Hatem Imam and Raed Yassin. The work, Take me to this place: I want to do the memories, was given three rooms to spread out their installation, video work, and photography of studio work taken across Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, and Sharjah. Employing kitschy [...]
Totally Awesome Day
Today was just one of those totally awesome days. The weather was magnificent, I made some significant progress on one of my new projects, and everything just flowed together perfectly. My day in pictures: Early evening I had the pleasure of photographing Utsuwa Floral Design, run by an amazing Japanese floral artist on Polk Street [...]
Work I Love: Imran Qureshi at the Sharjah Biennial
Two of my favorite bodies of work at the Sharjah Biennial were created by Imran Qureshi. Modern Enlightenment “The Moderate Enlightenment series, made up of thirteen figurative works, deals with the socio-political issues that most of the world is currently facing. The works are created in the tradition of Mughal miniature paintings, in which a [...]
Habibi Omar at the Sharjah Biennial.
It wasn’t in my plan to take Omar to the opening day of the Sharjah Biennial. After 2 days of March Meetings, my little boy was seriously missing me, so I decided to bring him along. Since we are usually together 24/7, he wasn’t happy that I was away working everyday. He really likes contemporary [...]
Chinatown Park Pigeon Chasers
I took my son Omar to the park in Chinatown yesterday. This is one of my favorites because it’s always FULL of kids. I had so much fun watching these kids chase pigeons around the park. Total kid joy. It got me in the perfect mindset for the weekend. Have some fun! I love the [...]
ART/SQUARE, Sharjah Biennial
The Sharjah Biennial takes place in an area branded as The Heart of Sharjah. It is a project of tourism and entertainment around art, culture, and the Gulf’s lovely sea scape, that will be under development for the next 13 years. For now, it’s a bustling neighborhood that exists as one can imagine locals have [...]
Best Online Magazines: Rue, Est, Matchbook, Pure Green Living, High Gloss, and Lonny
The rise of online magazines is such a wonderful development. Even better is that for now, they are free! What I look for in an online decor or fashion magazine is the same as that for print: great photography and interesting layouts and writing that transport me from my living room, into whatever story they [...]
How Genius Works: A Series on The Atlantic
Saturday, I posted about using Creative Briefs as a project tool. I started one for a major project I’m working on right now, and it really does help. Later, I saw a tweet from The Atlantic about a series called How Genius Works. A series of posts that gives you some insight on how “the [...]