Fashionista (Geek)

I'm now a fashion icon... watch out Paris.

LA Weekly at Three Apples Hello Kitty Show (bottom of page)

Yearbook {Martin Hsu}

"Where have you been all my life???" Martin Hsu. lol.

Martin's Blog.

Delightfully talented, snazzy dresser and smooth dancer, Martin is the cat's meow! I first met Martin a couple years ago at Comic Con in San Diego and his work is ever increasingly refined and wonderful. Martin has a piece in the Three Apples show I attended at Royal/T. Below is his handsome mug along with his amazing painting titled, "Once Upon A Kitty Wedding".

preliminary sketch... how cool is this???!

Found on Martin's Flickr:

"The most exciting moment of the night was when I found out my painting was purchased by Sanrio and it's going to be on display at their headquarter office! I feel so honored!"

SUPER CONGRATULATIONS MARTIN! -c

Three Apples LA Prognosis

I obviously don't know how to use Photo Booth for recording video (taken at Eliza's studio with art cat Zara). In the clip above I'm trying to tell you how great the night before was at the VIP opening for the Three Apples/ Hello Kitty show at Royal/T in Culver City. They made everyone... EVERYONE wait in line to get in since the fire marshall called in his troops. Artists and Sanrio employees were waiting too. Finally we managed to bypass the line and get our Hello Kitty lovin' selves inside (minus Eliza who had to leave and not counting Jeni since she despises HK, but she was there for moral support). After snacking on delicious treats and free Sapporo... much awesome art was enjoyed and dancing ensued. Fun FUN night, even for HK hater Jeni, lol.

Geeky/crafty me painted my own Hello Kitty Space Kat tie just for the event... and had many fans appreciating my labor of love. Dork. The pic on the right is inside the Hello Kitty Airstream, schwanky!

I'm spending the rest of the weekend up here in LA and recorded the video with Zara at Eliza's studio where I'm super jealous of her set-up. Almost... ALMOST makes me want to be up here too with a studio space. Keeping busy all weekend, wishing everyone out there the best weekend ever and reminding you that Halloween is coming up soon... get out there this weekend and get your costume perfected... cause it's no fun combing 7-11 on All Hallow's Eve for disguises.

(a hint at what I might be turning into October 31st.)

Left my camera battery charging at home, therefore missing many fantastic picture taking opportunities, but ArrestedMotion managed to do a great job of covering most of the fantastic activities going on at the Three Apples VIP Party, enjoy:

Three Apples VIP Party Pics at Royal/T

P.S. An extra shout out to Jeni for taking the photos of my excellent tie and to Yoskay for giving Jeni and me his Hello Kitty Bag-O-Shwag since they were all gone by the time we were allowed in.

P.P.S. You MUST see Yoskay's nekkid kitty, "Hellooo Kitty!!!, " too awesome. But next time she needs kitty nipples to make her properly legit ;)

P.P.P.S. And here was his apology to Sanrio:

dear sanrio,

i'm very sorry to have your child icon like hello kitty posing naked with her dress off....
it's my japanese kinkiness that brought this end result...
please forgive me...