Bernard Maybeck Architect

We attended a book signing Sunday of Bernard Maybeck Architect of Elegance by publisher Gibbs Smith.  The author Mark Wilson and Joel Puliatti the photographer are friends of our family.

The book signing and presentation was at a Bernard Maybeck home not far from our house.  It was lovely home and a treat to be able to see the interior of a Maybeck home.

 I have photographed quite a few Maybeck homes over the years. They are not easy to photograph and Joel did a beautiful job.  His interior shots are amazing.
 I have known the author Mark Wilson for almost 30 years and he is an expert on Maybeck and so knowledgeable on architectural history. We worked on two books together. The first book was a architectural walking tours book called Living Legacy and was published in the nineteen eighties  and more recently the book Julia Morgan Architect of Beauty. Joel photographed all of the interiors and I photographed the exteriors and details for the Morgan book. That is the last big job we did with film....

Mark and Jonathan relaxing in the living room of a Maybeck home

Author Mark Wilson signing books

Photographer Joel Puliatti and Olivia Teter

Congratulations to Joel and Mark on a beautiful book. I saw it first prominently displayed at the SF Museum of Modern Art bookstore.

Red Carpet!

Friday night our daughter Elana's film REM was shown at the Ocean Avenue Film festival produced by Maria Fe Picar of the Oceanview Merced Ingleside Cultural Participation Project (OMI-CPP) It was the first public showing of her film. She was the youngest filmmaker selected to show her work in the festival this year. Next Saturday it will be shown again at The Urban School of San Francisco at their first film festival. She again will be the youngest student to have her film screened at the event. It was great to see it on a big screen and to a bigger audience. She worked very hard on the film  and we are very proud of her.

A scene from REM

A Q & A session with the filmmakers  after the screening of films

  

Sunnyside Conservatory Holiday Card Party

The second annual Holiday Craft Party was a huge success on Saturday. The weather was wonderful and the Sunnyside Conservatory was filled with children and adults all busily making holiday cards, envelope and a lot of ornaments! Dorothy Yuki never left the ornament table-clearly a favorite new table this year! It was a fun and busy day spent using all materials that were repurposed to recreate special handmade cards. We are doing our part to support the U.S. Postal Service this holiday season! Send mail! SCRAP generously donated materials to the event and Carly was there to spread the word about SCRAP and help maintain some order at the die cutting, punch and rubbers stamp table! Thank you Stacy for making the event happen. We will see everyone again in February for the Valentine Card Party.

My sister Dana helping me set up for the event.  We brought a van load of paper, cutters, stamps, scissors and glue to the event.

Dorothy Yuki, myself and Stacy Garfinkel at the popular ornament table we added this year making ornaments from toilet paper tubes,  leftover wall paper, calendars, envelopes and  tickets.  See below some samples.

Carly from SCRAP explaining what SCRAP is all about.

Steve's ornament fitting since he is a musician and works in radio.

Chester's ornament made from an outdated calendar page.

Ruth's Table Craft NIght with Tomoko Lipp

We had a huge turnout at Ruth's Table for our second Craft Night with guest artist Tomoko Lipp from 3R Art Paper Rose Project. Almost 50 people turned out to make wonderful paper roses from the colored sections of newspapers. It was a wonderful evening of food and art and all of us joining in to spread the words of Tomoko "Let's Reduce, Reuse and Recycle". Thank you Tomoko for all your hard word and teaching us all how to make a paper rose. You will see by the photos how great all of them were-- everyone of them different and beautiful.

The Paper Rose team for Ruth's - Dorothy Yuki, Monica Lee, Tomoko Lipp, Megan Coss and Lola Fraknoi

Tomoko demonstrating the paper rose project.

Lily, Olivia, Corey, Leslie, Dana, Yuriko and Megumi making thier first paper rose.

My First Find of the Week!

Check out my find of the week!  You won't believe what washed ashore on Baker Beach this Monday while walking our dog Herby.....more photos under the find of the week button.

Ruth's Table Craft Night - Friday!

Join me at Ruth's Table for our second Craft Night from 6-9 with guest artist Tomoko Lipp founder of 3R Art Paper Rose Project. Tomoko will demonstrate (around 6:45 pm) how to make a paper rose out of a newspaper. I got my first lesson yesterday and it was so much fun. I went home and made another one!

Tomoko's paper roses

We will learn how to make a box for our roses using a soy milk container.

This is my second rose made from dictionary pages and the New York Times paper
(Thanks Leslie for digging  the paper out of your recycling bin!)

Ruth's Table
580 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA
(415) 821-4515 x26
www.ruthstable.org

I wonder where it came from.... washed ashore

I carried this typewriter home with me and am transforming it into a succulent garden but not before documenting it on Baker Beach.