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Articles by Loni Kao Stark

Co-Founder, Creative Director and Wine Collector - Loni Kao Stark leads world-wide government marketing and solutions at Adobe Systems, Inc. She is passionate about building products and solutions that deliver value and celebrating the successes of her customers who use technology to improve government services. Between busy travel schedules to Washington and global destinations, she expends the rest of her energy collecting wines, practicing her “escape artist”- style cooking, and building what she hopes one day, will be a real estate empire. She catches her breath by writing about her adventures.

building Rome
Artist Diaries: Lucie Stern Theatre in hues of purple
by Loni Kao Stark, 03.10.10 | Comment
Artist Diaries: Lucie Stern Theatre in hues of purple

After sketching out the Lucie Stern Theatre building on canvas last week, I embarked on my first pass across the canvas with my oil paints.

I chose to paint this building because I’ve always loved the architecture and also ...

Deadlines
Adobe Youth Voices Cinequest Film Camp: To the finish line!
by Loni Kao Stark, 03.08.10 | Comment
Adobe Youth Voices Cinequest Film Camp: To the finish line!

The mood was definitely different when I arrived at Adobe HQ for the third and final weekend of Cinequest Film Camp. This was the last weekend before the screenings at Camera Cinema 12 (see Cinequest and ...

Traveling on foot
Australian Garden: Exploring all of the continent’s biodiversity in walking distance
by Loni Kao Stark, 03.07.10 | Comment
Australian Garden: Exploring all of the continent’s biodiversity in walking distance

The Australian Garden, which is part of the Royal Botanic Gardens, was designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Paul Thompson. Australian has immense biodiversity and the garden was designed to capture this within a walkable area.

The central ...

Yokohama Tattoos
Theater Review: ‘Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West’ is wondrously inventive
by Loni Kao Stark, 03.05.10 | Comment
Theater Review: ‘Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West’ is wondrously inventive

Things aren’t always what they seem.

A photographer disagrees. Grumbling, he notes that most people are what they seem. Such a disappointment that is.

If disappointment is evaluated using this criteria, then Naomi Iizuka, in her World Premiere of Concerning ...

Double Goodness
2010 Loreto Calendar: Adobe grant comes through bringing total raised to $4,190 2010 Loreto Calendar: Adobe grant comes through bringing total raised to $4,190

Great news, the Adobe match of $2,095 came through bringing the total amount raised for the Internado School in Loreto to $4,190.

This is fantastic news and a significant achievement for the community. Great job everyone!

Currently, we are planning ...

Gets better with age
“To Family, With Love” Yellow Chicken Curry Recipe “To Family, With Love” Yellow Chicken Curry Recipe

I’ve been perfecting my Yellow Chicken Curry recipe for the past two years, waiting for the moment it was ready to share with others.

I finally received the sign two weeks ago when I received this email from my ...

Inspirations from the desert
Amargosa Opera House: ‘If These Walls Could Talk’ performance with Marta Beckett
by Loni Kao Stark, 03.02.10 | Comment
Amargosa Opera House: ‘If These Walls Could Talk’ performance with Marta Beckett

Since I wrote my review of Amargosa: The Story of Marta Becket and how the movie inspired me to get into oil painting, I have received several emails and comments from others whom Marta’s life has ...

Changing Seasons
Solar Update: February 2010, Spring is in the air and Sunpower gets a fresh Web 2.0 look
by Loni Kao Stark, 03.01.10 | Comment
Solar Update: February 2010, Spring is in the air and Sunpower gets a fresh Web 2.0 look

This month, there were clear signs that spring was in the air. We had several days where the weather was warm and gorgeous, the air smelled of leaves and wood and finally, I spotted flowers popping up in ...

linda writes in
2010 Loreto Calendar: Updates from the Internado School of Loreto, Baja California Sur 2010 Loreto Calendar: Updates from the Internado School of Loreto, Baja California Sur

It’s been a while since I gave an update on the 2010 Loreto Calendar which benefited the children of the Internado School of Loreto. It seems like only yesterday that we were all looking at the photo submissions, ...

Obsession with Architecture
Artist Diaries: Transforming green blobs into leaves, a final signature and sketching Lucie Stern
by Loni Kao Stark, 02.28.10 | Comment
Artist Diaries: Transforming green blobs into leaves, a final signature and sketching Lucie Stern

This week I finally completed my fourth oil painting. The last challenge I had with this painting was in an area that I had painted first: the trees in the top right corner of the painting. The leaves ...

To Those Who Deserve It
Theatre Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ World Premiere throws many curve balls for the senses
by Loni Kao Stark, 02.26.10 | Comment
Theatre Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ World Premiere throws many curve balls for the senses

The Words on Plays synopsis I read in the passenger seat by a dimly lit book light did not prepare me for what transpired on stage at A.C.T.’s World Premiere of The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Playwright Bertolt Brecht’s creation ...

"Technology for the Greater Good"
Cinequest On Location: Interviews with The Real Revolutionaries of Silicon Valley (video)
by Loni Kao Stark, 02.26.10 | Comment
Cinequest On Location: Interviews with The Real Revolutionaries of Silicon Valley (video)

Once there were orchards, now there are silicon chips. Everywhere. In everything. Last night at the California Theatre, The ...

ideas take shape
Action! Adobe Youth Voices Cinequest film camp enters production
by Loni Kao Stark, 02.23.10 | Comment
Action! Adobe Youth Voices Cinequest film camp enters production

This past Saturday was the second meeting of the Adobe Youth Voices Cinequest Film Camp participants. While week one was all about coming up with ideas and storyboards (see “Adobe Youth Voices Cinequest Film ...