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olivia

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

i love keeping to-do lists and cannot leave the house without atleast 2 moleskines, or i feel i cannot function. however, i don't take myself too seriously in social situations. i walk around the city aimlessly all the time by myself, with my old lomo lc-a or some other junky camera that tangles the film. i love good design and typography and i enjoy painting, but wish i had more time to do it. i get paid to play in photoshop and illustrator. and i love that.

My Interests

painting. watercolors. reading. old toy cameras. art and design books. (trying to learn) languages. jigsaw puzzles. italy. oakland. san francisco. my creative friends. mentors. sketching and painting drunks, awkward girls, old people, and the clinically insane. meeting creative people. drawing people when they aren't looking. not getting drunk. watching drunks. maps.

I'd like to meet:

Artists Cherry Hood and Ed Ruscha.
Storytellers, beatniks, artists, poets, writers, comic book illustrators, painters, other designers, other organizational people who keep to-do lists.
and you.

Music:

spacey country folky indie stuff. shoegazey stuff, mid 60s uk stuff, 60s northern soul and jazz. feist, mogwai, and kelley stoltz. old movie soundtracks with jazzy scores. the zombies are king. the beautiful nara leao and other bossa stuff. i can listen to bossa all day long.

Movies:

superbad, il posto, le samouraï, little murders, the loved one, masculin et féminin, in the mood for love, big lebowski, what time is it there?, lawrence of arabia, fishing with john, the thin man, the third man, delicatessen, ratcatcher, vivre sa vie, goonies, lost in translation, talk to her, documentaries, lots of documentaries.

Television:

LOST (always), Deadwood, The History Channel, Nip/Tuck, Daily Show, Freaks & Geeks, Bob Ross reruns, Arrested Development.

Books:

haruki murakami anything, paul bowles anything, d. powell, jon. carroll, koestler, david mitchell anything, a.m. holmes, mcewan, biographies and histories, mid century design, art, and photo folios, first editions, print, communication arts, grafik, watercolor magic, meathaus. i love books and i love book recommendations.

Heroes:

truman capote, garry winogrand, chris killip, lenny bruce, robert bechtle, gerhard richter, myrna loy, bruce davidson, bill owens, ed ruscha, joan brown, paul bowles, alice prin.

My Blog

links post .6

Hey everyone. recovering from pneumonia. i won't bore you with the details, but it involved a few trips to hospitals and doctor, a handful of x-rays, a CT scan, 4 different prescriptions for antibioti...
Posted by olivia on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:52:00 PST

links post .5

Go Italy! My arm is killing me. Hope you are all doing well! I'm just posting this for the links.Links: The City of Galvez, by Oscar Guzm..t have and never have had a counterpart in the physical worl...
Posted by olivia on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:56:00 PST

links post .4

Skip's mom flew in from Baton Rouge. I bought her some peonies to pretty up the bathroom. We are going to North Beach Restaurant for dinner tonight. I want to check out their infamous wine cellar as o...
Posted by olivia on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:43:00 PST

links post .3

so Michelle is way out in Ohio needing some links. so now I will be updating this thing more. basically i will be reposting here from my other blog.It's ridiculously warm out right now. I think I may ...
Posted by olivia on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:07:00 PST

links post .2

Back to work after a week off. My vacation consisted of a lot of drawing, very very little painting (bad Olivia), tons of book reading, hanging out with mom, losing a bucketful of stress by nixing the...
Posted by olivia on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:04:00 PST

life = good

lets see: + have love, and it is relaxing, beautiful, and a mutual adoration and understanding + moving to Piedmont in Oakland in May, into a cool 60's pad with future-husband + promoted at work,...
Posted by olivia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

ITALY PHOTOS

remember when i took off to Italy for a month? well, i finally posted the digital pictures. i had worked on a flash interface for all the sections but the download would've been too long for peop...
Posted by olivia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

3 things

three is a magic number THREE THINGS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND 1  Calculus 2  Slow walkers 3  Loud cel phone talking on public transportation. THREE THINGS I AM WEARING RIGHT NOW 1  rust col...
Posted by olivia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

venice mon amour

ciao ragazzi- first off: New Italian Cinema begins in San Francisco November 14th until the 21st. I am going. You should go with me. thought i would post a real update again. this may be my las...
Posted by olivia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

finally homesick in a serious way

the clouds cleared today and therefore, i went to Burano to take some pictures of the beautiful houses. it looks like this and a lot like this. the fishermen paint their houses bright so they can see ...
Posted by olivia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST