DON’T STOP BELIEVING This was a rough year for the San Francisco Film Society. Besides the usual stress of putting together the 55th annual film festival program, the staff was in deep mourning after the loss of their beloved executive director. Graham Leggat resigned his post last year and passed away soon afterwards of cancer….
Are You A Digital Native?Everyone knows that if you can’t fix your computer, ask a twelve year old. These kids who were born and raised on YouTube and instant messaging are pushing aside the baby boomer grasp on the media. It hit me whack upside the head the night I showed up at the New…
Failure is so popular these days there’s even a convention extolling it’s virtues. Presenting FailCon to the rescue, an annual one day conference of encouragement and enlightenment for start-ups and fans of all things tech. Seems there are lots of reasons why we fail, the first being that fear keeps us from even trying. Speaking…
Remember the Sleeping Beauty story of your childhood? You know, that family friendly, romantic fantasy musical? Ok, now take out everything but the beautiful girl and the fantasy, add a lot of soft core and inexplicable behavior. The 2012 Sleeping Beauty is a complete enigma. I suppose it’s about a young student exploring her sexuality,…
KOREAN STONEWARE DESIGN: WHAT’S OLD IS NEW AGAIN During a press conference this week to unveil the Museum’s spiffy new logo I slipped away to enjoy a self guided tour of the latest exhibition, “Poetry in Clay”. This well rounded collection comprised of Korean buncheong ceramics is from the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. Full…
MASCARA: 3 months (yep, only 3 months) EYELINER: pencil, every 2 years, sharpen often liquid, 3 months FOUNDATIONS: water-based, 1 year, oil-based, 18 months. CONCEALER: 1 year LIPSTICK 1 year NAIL POLISH 1 year LIP LINER 2 years EYESHADOW: powders, every 2 years, creams 9-12 months. POWDER: 2 years BLUSH: powder 2 years, cream 9-12…
We love retro fashion and design because there’s beauty and a touch of irony in nostalgic simplicity. If I want a mindless good time in film land, there’s nothing like a trip to the past that never existed. I’m thinking of Doris Day singing over daisies and the like. But wait, there’s more… ladies, I…