The recent earthquake and consequential tsunami in Japan has kept people all over the world asking how they can help. When a disaster like this strikes the devastation is enormous, not only to our human friends, but to our animal friends as well. Animals left in the quake of a natural disaster need your help! […]
Ric O’Barry: The Performance of a Lifetime
When Oscar-favorite Mo’Nique accepted her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture she began powerfully and matter-of-factly, toting, “First, I would like to thank the Academy for showing it can be about the performance and not the politics.” The actress and comedian, who wore royal blue with a gardenia in her hair […]
Senior Living Projects
Senior Living Projects By Luisa Nunez The Machida Royal Care Facility, a senior living center located just outside of Tokyo is the first of its kind in Japan to incorporate what is known as the Eden Principle into their health care system. The principle, according to Lea von Kaenel, Principle in Charge of Senior Living […]
The Last Samurai
The movie The Last Samurai not only features the handsome and accomplished actor Tom Cruise, but it also stars fifty stunning and extremely talented equine actors. The Last Samurai is set in the 1870’s and follows the story of the ancient line of warriors, the Samurai and their struggle with the Emperor of Japan. Filmed in the Japanese […]
AF Bookshelf – Zen Cats
Zen Cats Photographs by Yoshiyuki Yaginuma / Text by Jana Martin / Abbeville Press Publishers In sacred temples and lush gardens throughout Japan, Yoshiyuki Yaginuma photographs cats because, he says, he and his camera are called by them. “I can’t explain the feeling of being called by a cat in any logical way,” says Yaginuma. […]
Michael Graves: On International Success, Architecture and his Yellow Lab Sara
Architect, artist, product designer, pet lover – Michael Graves is all of these things, and not necessarily in that order. Graves is internationally renowned for his architectural designs which include the restoration of the Washington Monument, the Hotel New York at Euro Disney in Paris, France, the Humana Building in Louisville, Kentucky, the Nexus Momochi […]