Pop culture TV host and journalist La Carmina - www.lacarmina.com/blog - visits the Mesa Arts Center to learn pochoir printmaking from David Manje. Using stencils cut in Goth-cute shapes (like hearts and Scottish Fold cats), they layered the Jpop forms on plates, and cranked them through an etching press. See how the various generations resulted in anime manga prints, from hard edged to abstract.
*** For FULL instructions about this DIY printmaking process, see the Video category of LaCarmina blog: www.lacarmina.com/blog/categor...
Video hosted by La Carmina - www.lacarmina.com
Song: Spacebirds (Creative Commons license via archive.org)
*** See her travel TV hosting and journalism work resume / biography at: www.lacarmina.com/travel.php
*** La Carmina is an experienced travel, art, pop culture and fashion TV presenter; bio below. She's appeared on major network shows worldwide, including Travel Channel "Bizarre Foods," National Geographic "Taboo," Discovery's "Oddities", and Food Network's "World's Weirdest Restaurants." Contact her for inquiries, television presenting, appearances, collaborations, sponsorships etc.
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-- Biography --
La Carmina's young alternative travel, fashion, and pop culture blog - www.lacarmina.com/blog - has led to international TV hosting, press trips and appearances including New York Fashion Week and Hong Kong Social Media Week. She's a Huffington Post Travel journalist, author of 3 books (Penguin and Random House), and hosts/coordinates TV shows for Discovery, National Geographic, Food Network, Travel Channel and more. Visit her LaCarmina website (www.lacarmina.com) for spooky-cute fashion, bizarre nightlife, youth subcultures, theme restaurants and Scottish Fold cats.
TV HOST: La Carmina has appeared on The Today Show and CBS The Doctors, and co-hosted an episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern for Travel Channel. She was featured on NHK Kawaii TV and New York Wave. Recent TV hosting and arranging credits include Food Network, Dutch Pepsi, Sony Australia, Canal Plus France, NRK Norway TV, Fuel, Discovery, Pro Sieben, National Geographic, and CNN. Reel: • Video
COOLHUNTING : She runs a trend consulting / TV hosting and Tokyo fixer company: La Carmina & The Pirates: www.lacarmina.com/pirates As alt/Goth/fetish insiders, they help clients get access to underground culture, and film episodes in Japan and worldwide. She also hosts videos about cool trends worldwide, published in Huffington Post AOL.
BLOGGER + JOURNALIST: Her popular blog - www.lacarmina.com/blog - has been featured in major publications (The New Yorker, Washington Post, WWD, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, LA Times). She is a travel and pop culture journalist for CNN, and Huffington Post / AOL. La Carmina is flown worldwide for press trips and event appearances; she was a guest at NY Fashion Week (speaking at IFB Conference), and was twice invited to Luisaviaroma's Firenze4Ever Italy event for the world's top style bloggers. She spoke about social media and travel video at Hong Kong Social Media Week, PRSA Travel Tourism Conference, Mediabistro's Social Curation Summit, and was guest of honor at numerous anime conventions.
AUTHOR: She's written 3 books about Jpop food and culture for major publishers (Random House, Penguin USA). These include Cute Yummy Time (about decorating food to look adorable) and Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo (maid cafes, cat cafes, bizarre cosplay restaurants). La Carmina is a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law School. More about her books: www.lacarmina.com/books.php
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