08 Friday Oct 2010
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© Juan Zambrano
Sketch – Torso by Passarotti
Model – Oleg Galagan
06 Wednesday Oct 2010
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© Joan Currie - Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon is one of the largest privately-owned sailing yachts in the world at 289 feet, similar to Athena and Eos. She was sold in 2009 to Elena Ambrosiadou. Wikipedia
San Francisco Fleet Week, my favorite week of the year in the city, starts tomorrow. This week reliably boasts the best weather, air show, and boats in the harbor. Two years ago when Tom Perkins still owned the Maltese Falcon, I was thrilled to get up close and boat around it.
Maltese Falcon Stern
Maltese Falcon Bow
05 Tuesday Oct 2010
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© Jerome Kelagopian
If you ask old Riva aficionados, ‘Which part of the boat says the most to you?’ it would be the transom, so it was a slightly dangerous element to take on – akin to a plastic surgeon changing the eyes or nose of a famous beauty. Marc Newson, Industrial Designer
Marc Newson’s redesigned, 33-foot Aquariva is the sexiest speedboat on the planet! It is on display as part of Newson’s Transport exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery in New York until October 16, 2010.
The boat has a special attraction for me in that it is reminiscent of the antique Greavette Ditchburn, Duke, and Chris Craft mahogany boats that toured the Muskoka Lakes in Ontario, Canada where my family owned a cottage for over thirty-five years. A limited edition of 22 Aquarivas will be built in the original Italian Riva boatyards in Sarnico on Iseo Lake at a price of $1.28 million each. The first action item on my Top Ten List is now to drive one!
Cobra
04 Monday Oct 2010
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© Michael Chichi
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
Paul Valery
I like the aesthetic of asymmetrical hemlines in motion. Initial hand sketches such as the ones below, executed at Parsons School of Design, are the first steps toward the creation of a designer’s fashion line.
© Lauren DiMarco – Artist
© Lauren DiMarco – Artist
Model: Lauren DiMarco
02 Saturday Oct 2010
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© Douglas Thompson
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius
Scripps Beach near the Institute is one of my favorite beaches in the San Diego area. The underbelly of the pier fascinates me. Standing at the spot where the posts line up perfectly, the surf sounds seductive – like a Siren-song, and I am lured to the portal at the end of the pier and the sea beyond.
© Joan Currie
© Joan Currie
© Joan Currie
Model – Lauren Currie
Lower Photos – Joan Currie
01 Friday Oct 2010
Posted in Fashion, Food, Photography, Reflections, Writing
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© Kristin Gerbert - http://www.kg.photography.com
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be…
Robert Browning
I love transforming a simple cake into something spectacular, worthy of a birthday. My favorite cake was one I created for my daughter’s third birthday. It was a white four-layer cake, frosted with a buttercream basketweave design, and dotted with pink sweetheart rosebuds. Candied flowers and swirling candles were the final touches. She was utterly delighted, and it remains the gold standard by which she has judged all her birthday cakes since.
You could let a birthday pass like any other day, and not bother with a cake; you could perhaps buy a cake; or, to really make an occasion of it, you could create a cake that is extraordinary, a work of art – embellished with all that represents the life of the recipient, whether it would be a loved one, or even yourself! After all, a birthday is only once a year, and despite protestations to the contrary, most people would love a cake that was created especially for them. Who knows what may befall us, and how many birthday cakes we have left to enjoy. Why not honor every year with a glorious cake?
29 Wednesday Sep 2010
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© Joan Currie
Passing, glimpsing, everything seems accidentally but miraculously sprinkled with beauty, as if the tide of trade…had this night cast up nothing but treasure.
Virginia Woolf
As I peered in the windows of a millinery shop last night, Virginia Woolf’s voyeuristic essay, Street Haunting: A London Adventure came to mind. My imagination conjured up fantasies about who might buy these hats and to what occasions they would be worn. The mannequins appeared eerily lifelike.
Photos – Joan Currie
28 Tuesday Sep 2010
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Barbie, beautiful, Beauty, BMW, Fashion, Lauren DiMarco, Patrick Rafanan, Photography
© Patrick Rafanan
One of my heroes is Barbie. She may not do anything,
but she always looks great doing it.
Paris Hilton
Strolling along Mission Street at 21st in San Francisco I spotted a custom Barbie BMW 745 LI. Only Barbie would insist on a diamanté BMW logo!
Model – Lauren DiMarco
27 Monday Sep 2010
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Antonia Genovia, beautiful, Beauty, Fashion, Half Moon Bay, Lauren DiMarco, Oleg Galagan, Photography
© Antonio Genovia
Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day…
Oscar Hammerstein II
Half Moon Bay beckoned me this morning. I walked along the shore at high tide and dodged the waves that claimed nearly half the beach.
© Joan Currie
© Joan Currie
Models – Lauren DiMarco and Oleg Galagan
25 Saturday Sep 2010
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© Eleven Orchids Photography
The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.
I visited my maternal grandfather only a couple of times, but during each stay he smoked White Owl cigars. Since his passing over thirty years ago, every time I smell a cigar I am instantly transported back to those few, special moments I had alone with him. The most memorable one was when he taught me how to draw a five-pointed star. I traced his pencil lines following his simple directions: across town, downtown, uptown, downtown, and back home again.
Satin & Sand 