I quit my day job. It was PR.  High profile. For an awesome boss, awesome company, awesome clients. But I just wanted something else. Flying free was scary. Without family, literally on my own, not having a day job was a big leap.  I had saved up a bit but wasn’t comfortable without any income [...]

Barcelona was a destination to which I had wanted to return for over a decade. I spent a semester abroad in Madrid but had only stopped in Barcelona for a 2-day whirlwind “greatest hits” tour but I thought it magical, interestingly Spanish yet not exactly, and wanted to get back and see more. So it [...]

Karen Elson is getting lots of buzz for her new album.  She has a sweet voice and I like the southern goth image her band has.  I plan to check out her new tracks but I have to shout out for her model ways too as the new ad campaign she is in is so [...]

Looking through the international design year book means saying, “that is so cool,” over and over.  So many of the things I viewed in the one I just perused I love.  The biggest standouts were prototypes.  Will they ever the see the light of day?  Like the mini flat lying portable sewing machine?  It’s just [...]

Brazilian artist Ethos’ meticulous and beautiful work is on display at the impressive new Ogilvy offices, alongside other great works from others as curated by the Carmichael Gallery.  The piece at Ogilvy is childlike, Tim Burtonesque, birds and old ladies, haunting, stunning, evocative, cartoonish. Seeing his work, like other great street artists–spray painted on to [...]

Last year, with an Oscar dinner party on the horizon, I crammed in a few last minute screenings and came up with clever and witty menu ideas to pun off some of the nominees. The move, and work and various other factors this year means I am totally clueless about this year’s lineup and I [...]

My recent discovery of Mt. Tremper Arts piqued my curiosity and a visit to their summer festival was added to my summer weekend to-do wish list. Their program offering several weekend ago proved that MTA’s vision will provide solid, quality, innovative yet accessible work. What a great new addition to the area and a beautiful, [...]

Leandro Erlich’s Swimming Pool embodies all that is so alluring about a pool, except it’s not outdoors.  Seen from above to the wavering people below or vice versa in the tongue and cheek under water room complete with ladder, this pool is all hypnotic–letting one see the beauty of shimmer through water without the sting [...]