A few months ago, I discovered Gourmet Magazine. Yes, I know, that is like “discovering” the Beatles. I’ve been getting more and more into cooking over the years and the magazine just sounded intimidating. One day I just decided I was worth it and I bought an issue. Of course, that happened to be the [...]

The new website for Independent Exposure is live with Bill Plympton curating this years festival. I skinned the old site with this new look. In the works is a redesign of the structure of the site with more user interaction.
Independent Exposure has a call for entries through April 30th.

I designed a poster for Mom 2.0 Summit, based on a quote from one of their speakers, that will be on display at Fotofest and auctioned off next Friday to benefit Wyclef Jean’s charity for Haiti.

full poster

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Website up and running for the new Monterey Bay Film Festival.
The festival has run in the past as a teen only program, and this year is expanding  to include a program curated by Mike Plante, of Cinemad Magazine.

One of my goals this year is to not quit. I took an amigurumi class last year and failed miserably. It took me most of the class to understand (partly) how to make the first knot.
So I mustered up some courage and signed myself up for another class at Sew Crafty. Two and a half  [...]

Newest Aurora calendar. Some great screenings in this set including The BQE (which screened in January, but you can buy a copy here) and “It’s Not You; It’s Me” (illustration below) which I am looking forward to.
The editorial section of the calendar details the thefts that had occurred at the end of the year. I [...]

New logo approved for the upcoming Menil Community Arts Festival.
The Menil Community Arts Festival is a one-day festival hosted by thirteen arts organizations scheduled for Saturday, March 13, 2010 from 11AM-4PM in and around The Menil Collection campus.
Organizations invlived include Art Colony Association, Aurora Picture Show, Catastrophic Theatre, COLLAGE: The Art for Cancer Network, Da [...]

A few nights ago, I made a pasta dish from a La Cucina Italiana magazine. This one was a winner.

Recipe
Ingredients

2 lemons
Coarse sea salt
1 pound farfalle (bow-tie pasta)
1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
1 1/4 cups heavy cream
4 ounces  smoked mozzarella cheese, coarsely grated (about 1 cup) plus more for serving

Instructions
Bring a large pot [...]

We attended the 2010 presentation of the grantees’ projects for the Idea Fund at Diverseworks this week.
The illustration below was one I did that ran in the news section of a recent Aurora calendar. I am also working on a new website for the Idea Fund which will be launching soon.

Sundance 2010 was my ninth time to go to the film festival in the last ten years with the incomparable Seattle resident Joanna Price. We kept thinking it’s been a full decade, but then realized we took the year off after we graduated since we were both were in no position to take a vacation.
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