Click-Click-Instaa! part-1

During my studies at FIDM,

I used to have long commute from South Bay to 
the San Francisco city each day!

and while waiting for my trains, and other commute...

... I used to just click-click-click!

here are some of my favorite 'on-go' Instagram!

where FIDM is!

near Union Square, SF

from Caltrain Station, Redwood City

somewhere on Market, SF

Millbrae Intermodal Terminal, Milbrae

opposite to Macy's, Union Square SF

at Milbrae

view from FIDM terrace! amazing!

finally my train was there! 

while getting urgent printouts from Copy Central in Market St., SF

Can you spot FIDM?

these are just the part of long commute for one year.
more coming up! stay tuned, keep clicking.
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Jab We Ghoooom!

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completed one year of wedded happiness!

Yeah!...you guessed it right, 

Gaurav and I just completed one year of our marriage on 23rd June 2011... I really can't believe that its been a year already....time really flies!!... and we were on our Anniversary vacation to Cancun, Mexico and came back last night....

it was a wonderful and relaxing holiday away on a different land...

soon I'll update about our Cancun trip on 'Jab We Ghoooom!' 

keep reading...keeping enjoying life....keep designing your life!

@ Chichen Itza, Mexico

Casa Loma, Toronto

May 2011...
Experience the royal life of a bygone era at Toronto's renowned Casa Loma.  It was originally a residence for financier Sir Henry Mill Pellatt. Pellatt lived as the richest man of Canada and died being a penny-less poor guy, and the Castle shows it all. He started to build the castle in his glorious days but couldn't complete it. Now Casa Loma is an incomplete home museum. Lets have a sneak-peak into the castle.

different views of the castle

view of CN Tower from the castle gardens

castle's gardens

a few stuffs that caught my eyes

the sculptures on walls

the chandeliers   

the carvings

sculpture with two clocks

giant old piano

marble carving over the fireplace  

wall decor

now peek-a-boo in rooms

view from the top tower of the castle

Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, thank you for visiting my castle!

Textile Museum of Canada

May 2011
As I said in my earlier post, I have a treat for Textile Lovers :)

Recently we went to Toronto, Canada to visit my aunt who was there for a month. And as always, I made a long  list of what all we must see in Toronto, and as usual couldn't cover all due to time and logistic reasons. There were four museums on my list, Bata Shoe Museum, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Textile Museum of Canada and Gardiner Museum (ceramics). But we covered just two them ROM and Textile Museum. So here I am sharing a 'detailed' experience of the Textile Museum of Canada.

Textile Museum of Canada, 

connecting cloth, culture and art

Dedicated to promote an understanding of human identity through textiles, the Textile Museum of Canada (TMC) is a non-profit institution, exhibitions, volunteering and school programs. TMC has a collection of more than 12,000 textiles from around the world. Covering 2,000 years of textile history, the collection includes fabrics, ceremonial cloths, garments, carpets, quilts and related artifacts.. Here is what we saw there. Please enlarge and enjoy the pictures!

Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture

-by Jamelie Hassan, Hamid Kachmar, Aila Toor and Tim Whiten

Hunter's Shirt, Hunter's Coat and Man's Tunic - West Africa, Mali / cotton, hand woven

Wrappers - West Africa, Niger / cotton, hand woven

Hat & Man's Outfits - West Africa, Nigeria-Hausa / grass, leather and cotton woven

Cuff - East Africa, Ethiopia / cotton woven and embroidered

Man's Robes (Shabka & Riga) - West Africa, Nigeria / damask, plain woven and braided

Door Hanging - North Africa, Egypt / cotton appliqued

Hats - West Africa / cotton

Commemorative Cloth - West Africa, Senegal, Dakar / plain woven, roller printed

99 Names of Aman - 99 names of aman embroidered on Dusk Masks was created in the wake of security panics that followed 9/11 in New York City and also as a response to 2003 SARS epidemic in Toronto.

Purse & Cushion - North Africa, Algeria / leather, dyed

Blanket - West Africa, Cote / cotton, strip woven, hand spun

Loop : Peter Wilkins, Contact photography festival 2011

Peter Wilkins’ recent series Loop is an examination of built environments and how “pattern languages” relate to urban planning and public space within Toronto.

The Volunteering and School Programs include:

Permanent Collection Gallery  

-An Iconography of Celebration

Jacket - Europe: Greece, Ionian Islands / cotton; gold thread; copper; embroidered; couched; velvet

Kimono, furisode - East Asia, Japan / silk embroidered

(left) Jacket - Central Africa / cotton-rayon woven & roller printed

(right) Masquerade Costume with Ceremonial Mask - West Africa / knitted

Apron - Souhthern Africa / goat skin, glass bead

Wedding Shawl - South Asia, Pakistan Punjab (now in India) / bagh phulkari, embroidery

Dress & Wedding Shoe Cover - India, Gujrat / cotton, silk, glass mirror

Jacket - China / silk, embroidered

Wedding Collar - China / silk, metal sequin, embroidered

Prayer Rug - China, Eastern Turkestan / silk, cotton, knotted pile

Silk Oasis

-on the Silk Road Bukhara

Map

Hope you enjoyed this treat of real long textile post. 

Soon I''ll show the glimpse of Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) soon. Keep reading, explore cultures.