Loni Stark
Loni Stark is an artist at Atelier Stark, self-professed foodie, and adventure travel seeker who has a lifelong passion for technology’s impact on business and creativity. She collaborates with Clinton Stark on video projects for Atelier Stark Films. It’s been said her laugh can be heard from San Jose all the way up to the Golden Gate Bridge. She makes no claims to super powers, although sushi is definitely her Kryptonite.
“To Family, With Love” Yellow Chicken Curry Recipe
This recipe makes a pot of curry for family style sharing and can be stored for a couple of future meals.
Amargosa Opera House: ‘If These Walls Could Talk’ performance with Marta Beckett
Since I wrote my review of Amargosa: The Story of Marta Becket and how the movie inspired me to get into oil painting, I have received several emails and comments from others whom Marta's life has touched.
One of these individuals is Sandy Scheller who wrote in a couple of...
Solar Update: February 2010, Spring is in the air and Sunpower gets a fresh Web 2.0 look
This month, there were clear signs that spring was in the air. We had several days where the weather was warm and gorgeous, the air smelled of leaves and wood and finally, I spotted flowers popping up in plants in our courtyard and on the balcony. I felt somewhat...
2010 Loreto Calendar: Updates from the Internado School of Loreto, Baja California Sur
It's been a while since I gave an update on the 2010 Loreto Calendar which benefited the children of the Internado School of Loreto. It seems like only yesterday that we were all looking at the photo submissions, making the hard decision of which photos would make the final...
Artist Diaries: Transforming green blobs into leaves, a final signature and sketching Lucie Stern
This week I finally completed my fourth oil painting. The last challenge I had with this painting was in an area that I had painted first: the trees in the top right corner of the painting. The leaves and pots had over time become big blobs of green and...
Theatre Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ World Premiere throws many curve balls for the senses
The Words on Plays synopsis I read in the passenger seat by a dimly lit book light did not prepare me for what transpired on stage at A.C.T.'s World Premiere of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Playwright Bertolt Brecht's creation tells the tale of a mother's love in a period of...
Cinequest On Location: Interviews with The Real Revolutionaries of Silicon Valley (video)
Once there were orchards, now there are silicon chips. Everywhere. In everything. Last night at the California Theatre, The Real Revolutionaries, a new film about the pioneers of Silicon Valley, premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival. Like the early days of the Napa Valley, these are the cowboys who...
Action! Adobe Youth Voices Cinequest film camp enters production
The group which had started working at 9am was in high gear behind computers, in front of green screens and madly cutting out characters and set objects from magazines.
Artist Diaries: Learning to create depth with light and dark color tones
This week, I adjusted the tone of some of the walls. However, the main focus was on the greenery in the foreground which I was looking forward to painting because it really adds a pop of color to the piece and softens up the fountain's stone facade. I also...
Confessions of an iPhone Chick: Your brain can’t multitask and neither can your iPhone
I love catching sleep while in a moving plane, train or automobile.
There is something satisfying about being able to perform such different tasks simultaneously. Ok, I admit, the moving vehicle requires a pilot, an engineer or a driver...and consequently this has always been someone else.
Besides this form of multitasking,...
