Learning to write

What better place to start learning to write than on a special $70 norwegian layout keyboard?

No worries, I donated it to her when I accidentally ruined it when some abrasive cleaner fluid got inside it rendering several keys inoperable. But dude!

First letter

Lucia really likes to point out letters she sees especially if they are a "L", "U", "C", "I" or an "A". Obviously. She just started this week asking for help writing them too, I write a letter first and she copies it. Heres she tried to write an "L" below her drawing. It doesn't look like much but its fun to watch.

Photography 101

Heres a fun little video I took of Lucia while she for the first time experimented with a camera on her own. I have shown her to take pictures on the phone and on my big lens camera, but this was the first time she took pictures with something she now considers her own camera. Boy was she angry when I told her it was not hers and is not a toy...

Art Center Car Classics 2011

Finally a weekend all to myself. I can't remember exactly last time I had a weekend without company of any sort and it was a nice break. I stayed with David out in Venice and I am super grateful for his hospitality. He lent me the sofa and the keys to the Jetta. I was also struck by how nice that part of LA is, just a great neighborhood.
I came down to LA to go to the annual car show at Art Center where I went to school a few years ago. This car show is not like any other, its quite unique. Most car shows are either centered around new and coming cars, or vintage classics, or race cars, or hot rods, which are all exciting on their own, but the show at Art Center tends to bring the best and most significant and unique cars from all these genres together in one show. Usually there are other vehicles as well such as aircrafts and motor cycles, but I have also seen u-boats and spacecrafts there. This year was no exception with a very cool amphibious plane on display and although Jay Leno and Chip Foose was not there I met up with old friends and caught up on the latest.
I now have several hundred photos and videos to go through but in the mean time here are a few pictures from the show:

The impressive new concept car from Cadillac: "Ciel"

Very rare Ferrari #1 

Very rare Ferrari #2

Sketching

I have been using a program on the Mac called Sketch Book Pro for years. It is a pretty awesome sketching program when used with Wacom tablet. I downloaded the free version for the iPad to check it out but was disappointed to see that the iPad screen is way too coarse and doesn't register pressure or pen angle like the Wacom does. Lucia loves it though and has figured out how to change the colors, and she handles the little pen with a lot of enthusiasm without any risk of putting additional color on furniture, clothes etc.