TAKARA Magazine Cover design & Interview :D

TAKARA Magazine is a free Japanese paper in Boston! If you are Japanese, you should know this super useful & fun magazine! :D Thanks to Yasuko-san, my artwork will be on the cover throughout this year! Woohooo!!

Yasuko-san liked my Mt. Fuji collage "Japanese Energy - I am Passion" because it's very New Year's festive "O-shougatsu" look, and chose for New Year January cover ;D
Below is my interview article! You can click the image to read in Japanese.  Thank YOU Soo Soooo Much, Yasuko-san, for such a wonderful article which gives me more energy & smiles each day ;)))

So, you might be thinking what's up with this mask?! :P This was made for Harvard Masquerade Ball party organized by HESA - Harvard Extension Student Association!  The awesome President Philip Harding & his sweet wife Rachelle Harding and the HESA team made this event so much fun with cool music & delicious dessert!!  

So for the Harvard Masquerade Ball, you have to bring your own mask to wear. This was my first time to make a masquerade mask! With Brandon's help, first I made my mask shape with sculpey clay and baked it in the oven, then colored it with silver spray paint. In the picture below, I am putting shiny rhinestones! Also I incorporated our beloved chicken feathers, sprayed in hot pink, neon green and silver. The flower was white but again sprayed in hot pink! Yeah you know my favorite color is ;P

The below picture was taken by a school photographer Evgenia Eliseeva who has great energy and took many pictures at the event! She made everyone comfortable in front of the camera and here is one of the pictures at the event! Thank you sooo much, Evgenia! :D

I really enjoyed wearing this mask and made me want to wear it every day! Brandon is wearing a safety mask which he got an idea when he was spraying my mask! It turned out to be a such a cool mask ;P

Above is the cool Harvard Masquerade Ball poster and 13 Harvard School logos!

Mihoko on TV!!

WOW!! It was soooo much fun!! This TV shoot was for English as a foreign language program for Cambridge University Press ;D
So excited to be in a TV studio! Being surrounded by all the filming gears reminds me of my father. Shake hands with everyone. The energy is super cheerful and sparkly! Everyone is so sweeeeet and I am in heaven.

(from left back row: Beth, Dina, Dave, Mike; front row: Kerry and me in my recent favorite outfit :P)

First, Dina explains what Kerry going to ask me in the interview: regarding my background and experiences in the United States. Dave puts a microphone on my waist and I feel like I am an important person ;P The lights shine on my face and I get super hot, maybe because I am so excited! Bob Nesson, the cinematographer, takes tons of pictures of me. (He took this pic so too bad he is not in the picture!) I ask if I can take pictures of him. I take many pics. He has such a sweet smile surrounded by his puffy, fluffy, energy exploding hair. I cannot think of any other hairstyles for him! He is a photographer, director and environmentalist at his company Nesson Media :D

The gorgeous producer Beth Cloutier has such a positive pleasant personality and I already love her. She attended the same school with me, the School of Visual Arts in New York City! Now she is a producer and a cinematographer, has her own company, Acazia Studios, and travels all over the world! ;D What an ideal life!

Finally, Daniel (sadly not in this picture either!) places the film slate in front of the camera and... "Action!"

The film shoot was at this pink neon place, CCTV studio! ;))) They will let me know when this program is on TV:D After this fun acting gig, I came outside and felt the delicious breeze... then I realized it was already dark out! I looked up the sky and found the big orange full moon!! That's why it was such a perfect day!! Feeling the amazing full moon energy and I smiled ;D