What's Wrong With My Franklin?

While coming back from Oakland on the Bay Bridge, I presented a $100 bill to the toll taker for the $4 toll. 

The toll taker did the usual, holding the bill up to the light to see the water mark and the pen to test the bill to see if it's real. 

Then suddenly she had this look on her face.  She took the bill and wrote something on it and then something on another pi...Read more

Sam Wo on a Cold Night

 
The wonton soup and the rice roll (guen fun) warms the heart.

My Line of Note Cards

I just added eight more notecards to my inventory making a total of eleven designs. 

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Susan and Sam's Wedding Album

I finally sent off Susan and Sam's wedding album to Shanghai, China.  Their wedding was last year when they resided in New Jersey.  They had their wedding here in the bay area.  Since then they have resettled in Shanghai.  So they've been too busy till now. 

Here's some selected pages from their album.  I didn't want to bore you with too much of the formally posed shots.  We did a LOT of those in the wedding day. 

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Rejected Again

I should've known  I was too fat and ugly.  I didn't learn my lesson from my senior prom did I....

and May Chou was the one who told me to apply too.

Dear Artist,

The Arts Commission has recently completed the selection of new artist and artist team candidates for the Central Subway Artist Pool designed to enhance the Central Subway Artist Pool estab...Read more

On Drawing Asian Characters

I was asked to do a talk/presentation at the Association of Chinese Teachers Lunar New Year Conference in January concerning the drawing of Asians. 

This came out of a concern that even Asian American teachers themselves are not aware of stereotypes involved in drawing of Asians.

I am going to get a little stipend which will partially pay for a digital project ...Read more

Ten things found in the crevice of the sofa of life.

1.  I just finished designing two albums.  One is the Xiang's album.  I am waiting for their approval and they seem to be taking forever.  The other one if for Naomi's.  They just gave me their approval.  I entered to prints at CC and will get the prints tomorrow. 

2.  I just sent of timada's album.  Their procrastination is contagious.  It took me forev...Read more

B-Day

If you know how to count in Chinese using one hand you will know how old I turned yesterday (right to left).

Lang Mar 1951-2008

I knew Lang since junior high school.  Just a few thing snapshots of him I wanted to share. 

I still remember he trained in a martial art he invented himself back then.  He came down to Lup Mo gung fu studio one night and pulled out these two small axes from his jacket and began doing a form with it.

I have this vivid snapshot in my mind of this silohuette of Lang just running down the hill at full speed by Cameron House on a f...Read more

35th Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair

The 35th Annual Nihonmachi Street Fair came and went in Japantown last month.   My connection with this street fair is that I have I used to design the posters for this fair for thirty years.  It's been four years since I have retired from doing the poster.  The poster has been designed for Big Sumo Fish for the last three years.  A lot of people still think I am the artist of the street fair poster. Read more