Tinlark gallery _Crossroads of the world












Saelee Oh's sweetest murals are all over the place.....






Two days before the opening




Tanya is installing her textile piece.



and I love the felt stones she made!!




My pieces are all ready to go on the wall now.



Souther salazar 's little men and balloons.

and of course you know there are more to see......................... .....................

.............................................................................................................................

rabbit is making mochi on the moon
This is the one of my favorite story about moon.
The Chinese version of rabbit in the moon story.

11X15 gocco screen print on arches 88. editions of12
see it bigger here.

I did six new prints (six night tales) for the upcoming group show in Tinlark gallery.
Please join us this Saturday for the opening reception and gallery's 2nd anniversary party.

read the press here!!

..........................................................................................................

Will be back with more pictures and stories of the new prints!!

...........................................................................................................

After a good Sunday breakfast, I made Chinese steamed buns, called 花捲 (flower twist)/ Hua Juan.

Recipe from here. ( I forgot to put the oil in the dough, but they are still very tasty. I didn't add as much yeast as it said in the recipe, I just don't like the taste of yeast. ). I also tried to bake some of them. They turned out good too. Yummy!! I guess they can be different kind of forms. There are some similar buns in different forms and they all have their own names. I might make more of them but try different kind of forms or adding stuffing ( like red beans). But, Trust me! The twisting part is like crafting.......... unexpectedly & surprisingly fun to make.










I also like the twisted yarns!!




I made some belated holidays' gifts for friends.




............................................................................................................................

Barry McGee is the best!!

............................................................................................................................

darkness+faded memories + story of rabbit and moon.
I have been working on new prints for my second group show.
It's almost done. I will be back soon.

.............................................................................................................................

>triangle fantasy

Happy new year!



The first day of 2009 was cold. It's nice because it's more like a real winter. "cold and humid."
We didn't do anything special for new year's eve so I baked cheese cake in the morning. Just needed some heat from the oven and also some fresh lemon zest aroma to start the first day of this year.
Also made cheery jam for the cake. ( I added some bourbon)

p.s.
I found this spider web in our front yard when we were running around and trying to deal with our old sewer line in the first day of 2009. (yes, it's clogged again) . It's life. When you were a bit desperate and you found something really simple and nice in front of you and it immediately comforts you........... for seconds you can totally forgot what's in your head and run back to house to get the camera..











I didn't have time to take breaks for this long weekend. But no complaints....
so below is sneak peak of what I've been busy lately.....
soon I will be able to talk more about this!




.............................................................................................................................

Amy from pikaland interviewed me. Thanks a lot, Amy!!

.............................................................................................................................

happy holidays!!





finally i have a sit-down breakfast ! most of time i eat my breakfast in the car. the past a coupe of weeks were busy but full of challenges.




got some new polaroid films but half of them were jammed inside of the cartridge and this is one of them... a magical one with splashes of winter blue.



hope you are all well!!


***************************************************************

I hope you all had a nice thanksgiving dinner...
I am still thinking about the heat from the oven and the aroma from the herbs.

............................................................................................................................
soon my mission will be completed and i will return back to this space.
(I know that I've been missing a lot of things here....)

.............................................................................................................................

working & working

I have been working like a CAD monkey lately. Around 10 hours a day and 7 days a week ( plus 2 hours sit in the traffic everyday). I enjoy working but I also miss the things happening in this space.

I will be back soon!!

Jurgen Lehl






Nambu ironware is very good too!!
more nice stuff in their blog.

............................................................................................................................

carolyn alexander

.............................................................................................................................

Sea Maze
A continuous series of Princess Kavalan

Darkness
(set of 2 prints)






Twinkling
(set of 2 prints)






I'm still loving the story of princess Kavalan and still inspired by the amazing marine creatures details. I'm continuing to do more prints based on this lovely story. They are sets of 2 prints and available in my shop now. You will be surprised about it's low price and I think they will be good for Christmas gifts.
There will be more prints to come next week!!

...............................................................................................................................

Nothing nicer than a sweet package landed at my door when I was totally exhausted and needed to take a good break. Then here is a package from London sitting in my porch, on it's custom form it said " sweets",... yehh, there are mango chutney, plum jam, ginger cookie, raisin fudges.....
oh,... thank you!! phyl, you are so sweet! I love you! your package also brings rain to LA. It has been raining lately! ( another yah!!)






.............................................................................................................................

casa de tree
Nothing better than a vegan bento with ku:nel.



my vegan bento



..............................................................................................................................

moss


I've been weaving lately! I'm working hard on it so forgive me to be disappeared from this space for a couple of days.

.............................................................................................................................

maarten van severen's Atelier
( no more pictures because of the copy right)
follow the links to see more!!

there are more beautiful houses from OWI.
via here.

.............................................................................................................................

thank you Martha for the perfect Yamamoto Jacket link.
will be my coming holiday project................................can't wait!!

.............................................................................................................................

Watch by Denis Guidone


..............................................................................................................................

Ryuji Nakamura







..............................................................................................................................

how to fold a lamp

I bought a roll of sketch paper from Ikea in the kid section. The reason why we chose this paper is because of the price. It's cheap so we can do a lot experiments before we know what we really want to make.

okay, let's start to make the lamp.

The above diagram is the pattern I did for this lamp. The straight and dotted lines are the folding lines on the front side of paper and the diagonal lines are the folding lines on the back side of paper. When I say " front" and back" sides of paper it doesn't mean this paper has front and back sides. Most of papers are not like fabric has identical right or wrong sides. It's just easier for me to differentiate the two folding patterns on two sides of same paper.

1. Start with straight lines first. you can mark lines on the paper. The way I did is marking the line only at the
top and bottom of the paper and then score the lines by rotary knife. You won't see the marks because they
will be hidden after assembling the lamp.

2. I did 40 columns so total is 40 inches long. 1 inch(for each column)x 40 x 1'-6 1/2" (tall)

3. Begin the first diagonal folding line from the 8th column (see the diagram above) and continue.....
remember the diagonal lines should be marked in the opposite side of the straight line's.


**The images below show the sample of paper from the book.
1cm( for each column)x78 x 24cm(tall)




4. After finishing the marking then we can start to fold the lines. One side at a time. If you score the lines
before folding , you find that the folding lines are much more crisp.


5. Start to pull the shape together after you finish folding.




** It will start to like this....... keep pull them together ( in and out).




Ok, in the meanwhile, let's talk to about the core. I got this core from Ikea. I think they are original for their paper lamp. I also got the low watt light bulbs from them. They are in very love temperature so it's safer for the paper lamp.



You can also make your own cord.
**My dear friend Sean made this for me from scratches. You can find all the parts in Home depot.




6. Finally! time to assemble the lamp.
I drilled two holes on the top and bottom and thread the holes with embroider string We have tried metal
wire or polyester string. I think I prefer embroider thread. Adjust the KNOT when you think it can hold the
shape well.





7. Glue the two ends together. You are done !!!



Trust me! It's not that difficult to make this lamp but it takes time. For this small size one (roughly 13" dia.), it took me around 6 to 8 hours to finish.

Let me know if you have more questions. This is just my way to finish the lamp. I think you probably have better idea than mine.

Have a nice weekend and have fun making lamp.

** will be back to share more experiences about the paper and some other patterns.

.............................................................................................................................