I was watching the Next Iron Chef Asian fast food challenge episode when I notice a little blooper. They mixed up the Korean and Vietnamese when they were listing the Asian restaurants in LA, this particular challenge was for the chefs to taste the different Asian food and then try to make the food they were eating. I thought this was pretty funny and worthy of sharing. 
My good friend, Mike Rios, was generous enough to share his table with me at APE (alternative press expo) this year! It was our first time, we had fun meeting people and looking at some creative zines. I will be more prepared next year, I am excited to work on a few zines, I'll also find a cheaper printer/binder for my couch tomato comic book.
Mike went all out, offering free tote bag with goodies and free photo sticker with his mascot "clammy". I can definitely learn from his marketing skills and salesmanship.
Highlight of APE was meeting Phoebe Gloeckner and Marc Bell! Both of whom I admire and adore. They were very nice and down to earth, I'm in love them even more now. Marc Bell drew a bacon hat (how did he know I LOVE bacon?) in his new "Hot Potatoe" book, which is a freaking awesome book. I get pretty nervous and awkward in social situations, being shy and introverted can be a disadvantage in this business. It was encouraging to see that even my comic heroes can feel that way too sometimes. 
This cute little boy was staring at clammy's giant penis the whole time haha.
Can you tell I'm blushing? I told her that I have the biggest crush on her, which I do, she is one of the top 3 female artists who inspires me. I wish this wasn't blurry though.
Coney Island: 
Views from the High Line, Chelsea:
the only affordable place in New York?
family of kids in striped shirts!
This couple was kissing for 20 minutes, completely oblivious to a snoopy girl taking pictures of them the whole time, oh yeah, and a guy taking a break to stretch.
Random:
valet parking
"wow! we match!"
it took me this long to figure out how to make the images on the blog bigger! I am now re-sizing them so they don't look like they're hung far far away from the other side of the room.
Read more...New York was a blast! I love the museums, the subways, and street carts, there's all sorts of happenings to check out even if you're broke. I noticed that there are many cute puppies and pretty ladies in dresses, I opt to take photos of puppies instead since the net is flooeded with pictures of beautiful women already. 
Here's my friend Steph with a cute one at the store named "Poppy", how fitting!
This is an old piece I did in 3rd term of Art Center in Jason Holley's class, it is one of my favorite lower term pieces. 
This piece is a part of a series based of the original story of the little red riding hood by Perrault, He wrote it as a cautionary tale for adults, just like all the fairy tales that has now been adapted for children. In the original story the wolf had sex with the little red riding hood and it was implied that he raped her.
My version of the story is a sequel to that, shame grew in the belly of little red riding hood and Sammy Sundae was born. Sammy Sundae had a tail that reminded her mother of what had happened, she became increasingly paranoid and detest that part of Sammy so much that she abandoned her at her grandmother's place. Her grandmother treated her as a burden and as a sin staining her god-fearing house. Sammy got tired of arcane rules and ran away from home.
She no longer remains a victim who yearns to be save like her mother(like all the fairy tales), she decides to save herself and live on her own in the forest where good and evil intermingle. Sammy is also no longer ashamed of her tail, accepting herself entirely is essential to the story. She has a pair of scissors which she cuts the tails off of wolves and foxes, a symbol of what makes one sin, rehabilitating these once violent and evil wolves to morally righteous one. In a perfect fairy tale world that is, where right and wrong is black and white.
The symbols and metaphors in the story is very personal to me, as a female trying to break the stereotypes laid out by our culture of gender. I don't think I need to write a 10 page paper here go into the details but you get the idea. I have done a coloring book that narrates Sammy Sundae's story and I hope to make more coloring book collages to complete her world. I choose coloring books from the 40s-50s not only because I like the style of the era but it was also an era of strict misogynistic moral codes that set the stage for feminist movement in the 60's. I did not draw any of the black lines in my collages, strictly using found coloring books, rearranging them as I have rearrange the fairy tale to compose an image that is more fitting for our current society. It is important to me that the act of tearing up old coloring books, tearing up the images of stereotypical characters, is parallel to deconstructing history for a revisionist herstory.
The crayon scissors are also made for Sammy Sundae, and the room installation in previous posts.
Below are the collections of tails of Sammy Sundae. They are also numbered in a way that they all add up to 14, for example: 1616, 1+6+1+6=14. You can't see them in the pictures because they are paper cut out numbers painted with the same color of the background.
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