3rd generation Prius Hybrid

This is the best commercial ever! Check out the "making of" video followed by the full commercial...

Do I see a pattern here?

Oh, Buddakan. I miss you so.

The snow crab dumplings.

The wasabi mashed potatoes.

And the five spice Dip Sum doughnuts. With blackberry jam, chocolate sauce, and ginger cream cheese, of course.

My husband and I are in Philadelphia right now. It is one of my favorite cities, and I am planning on eating my way through this city like the Tasmanian devil on Bugs Bunny.

Here are some pix I shot while our mildly snotty waiter wasn't looking.

El Vez

Oh, El Vez, El Vez. I miss you so.

The manchego salsa.

The mahi mahi tacos.

And the El Vez margarita. On the rocks, no salt, of course.

My husband and I are in Philadephia right now. It is one of my favorite cities, and I am planning on eating my way through this city like a hurricane (do hurricanes eat? did that make sense? oh well).

Here are some pix I shot while our uber cool, white hot italian waiter wasn't looking.

Toyota iQ

iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.

Kent collage

Michael Kent Thompson

I had the pleasure of taking a few photos of my brand new nephew, Michael Kent. Here are a few of my favorites.

Marilyn Minter

I just ran across these images online by an artist currently working in NYC. Love them! Here's a quick summary of all things Marilyn Minter by James Danziger:

Minter could perhaps best be described as a post-pop artist. Both a photographer and a painter, Minter goes back and forth between the two mediums with each informing and enriching the other. The work she's making today, however, comes out of a long and winding career. Starting off as a photographer in the 1970s, Minter switched to painting in the 80s and 90s with a series of much noticed but also much criticized works referencing hard core pornography. Out of these images came the thought that the real glamour and the real porn was the glitter of luxury consumer culture.

Using both photography and painting, Minter's new millennial work consisted of hyperrealistic close-ups of makeup-laden lips, eyes, and toes, whose luscious colors and glossy surfaces were appealing and disturbing at the same time. Minter's exaggerated images copied and subverted the visual seductiveness of advertising while providing a visceral pleasure-laden punch.

A 2005 show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a star turn in the 2006 Whitney Biennial quickly put Minter on the contemporary art map. And the rest, as they say, is history.