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Faces of China video will show the the bright optimism young people feel about their prospects in a modern China. We see the old and the new side by side. Imagine going back to the 1850's and standing on Market Street in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, and you will begin to feel the excitement of the gold rush going on right now. To be released Spring 2011
Cheryl Petty
In November 2010 I visited China. Here I am on the deck of the Century Star, hair blowing in the breeze of the Yangtze River. When I studied Mandarin Chinese, literature, art and history as an udergraduate at UCLA in the 1970's, who would have imagined I would finally get to visit this fascinating country full of contrasts and surprises. If you want to find out what's going on a half a world away, check out Gate 1 Travel.
NEW WORDS
Hypnagogic, Oneirism, Wake-Initiated Lucid Dreams (WILD), Sleeping with a Key
Here I am painting at Wright's Beach in Sonoma
We started filming on a sunny day in Burlingame. The first tree Shizue wanted to show me was an old cork bark elm. “I bring from Japan about thirty years ago...about that big,” says Baney, gesturing with her fingers a very small tree, “Now look at it, now is 80-percent done. . . ”
“We started the Yamato Bonsai Kai Club in 1965,” says Johnny about the early years for bonsai in the Bay Area while we stood in his sunny nursery in front of an old black pine that had been his sensei Jusaburo Furuzawa's tree. “He got it in a 5-gallon can during World War II and he cared for it for 40 years. I got it when he sold his collection of 100 trees before he passed. We have pretty good sun here and lucky water. The trees do good for me, and I'm glad to be here these 40 years.”
Accent plants help introduce the concept of season which is defined and heightened by the accent's colorful foliage, floers or berries, suggesting a time of year. “This can be challenging when your club's annual show comes in August, when many things are not blooming, and it's too soon for fall foliage,” says Barbara Bardella, one of the presenters at a workshop this summer....
Growing up in her grandparents' store, it's easy to imagine 5 year-old Linda Mihara learning origami at their knee.
This third generation Japanese-American was born in San Francisco where we started our interview in her father's store ‘The Paper Tree’ by showing me the first origami book in English that was published by her grandfather. .Linda's website