i think you're magical

so in case you've been wondering where i've been...

i got dressed up last weekend to attend the opening of an art show at project one, curated by one of my favorite sf artists, chor boogie -- who i spoke about in a previous post. i got to meet him, tell him thank you for the kind words he responded to me with in an e-mail, and met a ton of other amazing people. i love sf.

i'm teaching kids (between the ages of 5th and 9th grade) how to be graphic designers and digital photographers, in the east bay, full-time, by day, at a technology summer camp [called ed tech], until august. i am simultaneously cocktailing at great american music hall (a popular sf venue), by night.... freelance designing greeting cards on spare hours for tiny prints.... setting up a commercial live/work art+music gallery space in the marina, making&showing fine art all over the bay area... still working with freelance art & design clients, all while also trying to be a bikram yogi, loving friend, decent family member, and compassionate human being. hello life.


i thought i met the boy of my dreams last weekend and got overly excited about the concept of love at first sight.


"i think you're magical," i said.


too bad i didn't know then what i do now...


i guess that's just how it goes though sometimes.


so without giving up all the petty details, lets just say the search for the love of my life continues....


will i ever meet my dream boy?


anyways, aside from being disappointed about my love life... (or lack there of, rather) -- my image/character was put in a comic, alongside my dear battlehooch band friends!:

what's even funnier about this comic is that it was based on an interview with the band in november, 2010, when they had just returned from their first 4 month long, u.s. tour. they played a show at bottom of the hill in san francisco, as a sort of welcome home, for noise pop weekend, and i just so happened to make an appearance, wearing a werewolf mask and a short skirt with leggings. the werewolf mask got passed around from head to head that night, but i personally started rocking it in the back green room area where all the bands hangout before and after their sets. it was at this time that i met the makers of the comic who were observing battlehooch (miss kelly martin and danger bob), and laughed wondering why the band would even bother to mention me for their interview? 

months later, now viewing the comic, i can't believe the title is what it is.... i wonder if these boys still feel the same way about me....? especially since a lot has changed since then and i'm really not sure that they all still love me as much as they once did. although i certainly hope they do... this comic says a lot about the time span we all spent living together in the battlepad on 30th ave and taraval st in the sunset district of sf before we all got evicted in april of 2011 and went our separate ways. i love these boys though, regardless of our weird times with one another, and i know that they're my friends for life. 

on a separate note, i made a new music discovery after working 2 of zoe keating's shows at great american music hall this weekend :) she's a cello player, originally from canada, who makes some incredible, instrumental, thought-provoking music. i am now just a little bit obsessed. 

efterklang is also a new recent obsession. 

i can't believe it's almost july.... july 15th will be my 1 year anniversary living in sf. i never thought i'd be living in a city... it was never something that i ever really envisioned myself doing, nor was it even a goal of mine. now that i'm here, now that it's happening, and now that i am beginning to live a life that i'm proud to lead, i'm appreciating this beautiful city more than i ever could have imagined. i'm a lucky lady.

on that note, here are some very poor quality photos of the still under construction, but close to being completed, live/work space we're living in now :) the pictures i've been taking still need to be edited and i'm falling behind with all the other things i'm involved with lately, so thanks to won lee, my loft mate, these photos are all i have right now to show:

this is the recycled/found materials scrap wall that won lee and i build to separate/divide up the living loft space. we found all of this wood ourselves and painted over it.... we'll be doing more painting on it in upcoming weeks

this is the start of the art studio/work space in the commercial area that i built using found/recycled furniture and scrap wood... san francisco has a lot of free junk all over the streets...

aside from trying to be an amazing individual, working 4+ jobs at once, and living life to the fullest, i'm also still trying to be a bikram yogi and this is my tree pose in my summer bathing suit