I Set My Face to the Hillside

I Set My Face to the Hillside - Tortoise

Love love love love love. // photo: caramimi

All LOL'd out

LOL-ing for days......


found via Carlen Altman

around the corner

Despite these two galleries being around the corner from my home and work -- my consistent holing up in my studio has made me miss some visual relief from my computer screen.

Mission gallery, Ratio 3, showcases work from Lydia Fong (aka Barry McGee). McGee discusses some of the work influences, and the need to produce this art under the Lydia Fong persona. In particular, he talks about the preciousness of the glossy ink, face drawings that take up one corner of the space. The grouping of their frames appear something like a family tree.


video: KQED Gallery Crawl

A Moment for Reflection: new work by Lydia Fong
September 5 - October 18, 2008
Ratio 3 Gallery
San Francisco

the sum of it's parts

thar desert people, originally uploaded by giac.

this portrait fills my void of inspiration. there's too much in this image that i love. feeling alive again.....

guac prep

I picked up a Reed avocado from Rainbow the other day, and was eager to break it in with some guacamole. I like the fact Rainbow is selling other avocado varieties. Although I love the ubiquitous Haas, it's always nice to try something new. The Reed is smooth and buttery. Perhaps not as rich and fatty as the Haas, but a beautiful flavor nonetheless.

I've made many a guacamole over the years, but this recipe is my tried & true. Mexican inspired, but I add my Chamorro cooking influences with the Asian chili peppers, garlic and scallion.

1 avocado
1 sliced tomato or handful of cherry tomatoes
1 chopped sprig of cilantro (with root attached is best)
1 large diced scallion (roots and all), blackened over a flame
2-3 chopped roasted Thai chili peppers (or any small red chilis)
1 mashed clove garlic (roasted over a flame)
1 Tbs toasted, ground cumin
juice of 1 lime (rolled and/or heated to get it very juicy)
salt & pepper to taste

- Pit and de-seed avocado. Mash with a fork.
- In a mortar, pound together the garlic, salt, chilis, scallion, cilantro and cumin. Add to the avocado mash.
- Add the sliced tomatoes. Mash into mixture with a fork.
- Add pepper to taste, or more salt if needed.
- Enjoy!

another again

images *caramimi*

Fleeting..

壳, originally uploaded by 安星安心.


皱纹, originally uploaded by 安星安心.

Indian Summer is here. I already feel the faintest chill creeping into the night. Got to milk these days for all they've got.

The Mercury Program

track: Marianas by The Mercury Program

I finally got on the Pandora bandwagon, and I can't tell you how amazing it is. It's like radio and a psychic reading wrapped in one.

Anyhoos, in my Tortoise radio, this nice little track slipped in. At first glance, I thought it was Tortoise, but the sound was a bit more ambient-y/less bass. I looked up the group, The Mercury Program, and found a lot of love/hate for them. I think there are many Tortoisefan-haters, but as a huge Tortoise fan myself, I'd say there is room for this sound to expand.

It's like that time I played Eno's Thursday Afternoon on a loop for three days. I could really get into this.