Go!

Lisa and I spent Friday afternoon in heaven! Heaven on earth is otherwise known as Kabuki Springs and Spa in San Francisco in Japantown.

In the great tradition of Japanese public baths, this space is designed to encourage harmony and relaxation. Facilities include a hot pool, cold plunge, dry sauna, and a steam room. Individual bathing [...]

Story of stuff

This is the most succinct and entertaining explanation of how stuff gets made and into our lives I have ever seen. Show it to your kids, your friends, and grandma - it is terrific!From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most [...]

“The Bridge” to the after life

 
I just watched The Bridge last night and found it very revealing and disturbing. It is a documentary about the Golden Gate Bridge that showed the dark side of the beautiful structure that to many of us is a tourist attraction. Not only is the bridge a magnet for out of town visitors, but also [...]

Go with the beeswax

I found this wonderful beeswax candle shop in Santa Fe and brought some candles back to California. I really liked this family owned and run business and learned a lot about the benefits of beeswax. I share some info from their website http://www.santafecandle.com/ below:
Most candles: toxic leftovers.
Most commercial candles are made of poisonous chemicals. Paraffin [...]

Art born of a need to tell

The Los Desaparacito/The Disappeared installation is an outstanding collaboration of nine galleries around Santa Fe, NM. They are all part of this exhibit of artists whose lives have been profoundly affected by the political upheavals in Latin America over the last thirty years.
I went to the opening of the exhibit at Site Santa Fe.
“The works [...]

my favorite shop

Every time I go to Santa fe (I think I’ve been here at least 8x) I stumble upon this shop and then remember that I love it. The place is call Mira, which means “look” in Spanish. I like the eclectic nature of the store. It is full of treasures and interesting clothes. They [...]

candlelight and whirling red skirt

Our friend Tantric Paul took us to a wonderful place called the Green Tea Palace. It is a little place near the Santa Fe plaza, is 2 months new and run by Leland and Vera. The cafe was beautiful in candle light and spiritual art from around the world and also the art of their [...]

don’t try this at home

We went to check out the opening of the show: “Don’t Try This At Home, A Group Exhibition Obsessively Reshaping The Ordinary” at The Intersection on Monday, and were blown away by the innovation, fun, and simplicity of it. The show is a wonderland of innovative uses of found objects and recycled materials [...]

tasty kfc remodel, spork

Monday night after going to The Intersection art opening we lucked into a seat at the counter at Spork. The restaurant is named after the plastic utensils Kentucky Fried Chicken (the previous resident of this location) used to give out with their take home meals. A spork is a combo of a spoon and a [...]

wicked engine of connected desire

I stopped into The Lab the other night to see a fellow JFKU alumni’s opening. Corey Hitchcock’s installation is fun and crazy and inspiring, and it is deeper than it first appears.
At first glance I felt I was in a giant version of the childhood game, “Mouse Trap”. Those of you of my generation may [...]