'Tis the season...

Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays and remembering what is truly important this time of year- as it often gets lost in the materialization and commercialization of the holidays.

Take a look around,

spread some cheer,
and express your love
to those who are dear.

Artsy Fartsy

Art Basel 2010 was a huge success. I got to enjoy (some) art, (many) parties, and even had to work in between it all. It took a good week to recover from the madness and cram for final exams, but it was worth every minute- I had a blast. Besides brunching with Russell Simmons, Serena Williams, and Kelly Rowland, walking in the biggest bash of the weekend for a YSL show by Vogue (with the aforementioned seated front row along with Gerard Butler, Emilio Estefan, Christian Louboutin, Daisy Fuentes...), I was enjoying musical performances by Metric, Mark Ronson, N.E.R.D., Twin Shadow, Rye Rye, A-Trak & Dave 1. Below are some photos from the week's events and some bizarre art I saw during Scope Art Show. My personal favorite was a pop-up Sanrio shop celebrating its 50th anniversary with a gift shop, art gallery, and tattoo parlor with free tattoos from an LA artist-- took me back to Japan and all the cuteness.

These huge pink snails were all over Miami Beach- for sale as art.

YSL & Vogue Fashion Show (photo courtesy of StyleNik)

Poolside runway (me in front)

Harajuku girls from LA

Free Sanrio tattoos!


I need to get back to Japan.

Wynwood

Pile of neon matchboxes- art?

Can't Concentrate

The semester is nearing its end and I'm finishing up class presentations, papers, and studying for final exams while things in Miami are just heating up. I've been so easily distracted lately and just in a "do nothing" mode that makes it so hard to get work done. Tomorrow marks the start of Art Basel Miami Beach 2010 and I can't wait to actually attend and enjoy the galleries/events/concerts! Pictures to follow. But for now, just some things that have been keeping me distracted...

Art Walking

Ximena and I at OHWOW Gallery
Photo by Justin Namon

November's Art Walk this past Saturday was the first I was able to actually enjoy walking around at since July. While I love my job at Fabrika, and have had fun spinning tunes at the past few Second Saturdays, this was a refreshing change of pace. I loved wandering in and out of the galleries with one of my best friends, Ximena, as we hopped around Wynwood. Below are some pieces I found particularly interesting, my favorites of the night.

Miguel Paredes

At Dina Mitrani Gallery

October: Music Month

Here's a look through my iPhone camera at some of the shows I was lucky enough to attend during October- Miami's busiest and best music month yet.

La Roux

Phoenix

MGMT

Beach House opening for Vampire Weekend

LCD Soundsystem

Mayer Hawthorne

Missing my photographer roomies

While I've been loving where I live and having an apartment to myself, I can't help but miss my photographer roommates from Brooklyn. We always had fun and would do impromptu photoshoots on afternoons or Saturday nights. Below is a picture from a shoot I did with Jennifer literally a day before I left NYC back in June (the poncho is from Peru).


The rest of the pictures and a lovely note she wrote about me are here

Fairwell Summer...

An ode to Summer, as classes and work are consuming more of my time these days...

Summer is... long, endless days,
Spent soaking in the sun's rays.
Conjures up memories from years past,
Always hoping for this time to ever last.
A time for child-like fun,
With ice cream dripping down a cone it does run.
Moonlit beach-side bonfires burn,
While messily eating s'mores & telling stories in turn.
Ocean waves crash at the shore,
Playing in them leaves me wanting more.
Traces of sea salt & sand left in my hair,
I lie in nature's warm embrace without a care.