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




