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love & hate

long time no see meow!

how are you? hope all you kittens are meowell =^v^=

noa and ash are doing great!

i just made a video of them, hope you enjoy it!!

also i’d like to share with you this happy news:

i had given the opportunity to work on some “cat”‘s illustrations

for rebecca taylor, a kittenish fashion brand that i love.

the kittenish collaboration items are t-shirts, tanks, tote-bags, and keychains,

and sold in america, japan and hong kong.

please visit HERE to see pictures of items and details.

thank you <3

are we still kittens?

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here!

Hope everyone is doing alright.

Noa and Ash are doing well as well!!

Even I haven’t posted here, I’ve taken so many pictures of Noa and Ash.

I just haven’t had a chance to post them onto here.. ^_^;

But since I’ve got my Flipcam, I think it’s about time!!

SO here is the new video of them, hope you like it ^_^!!

great news!

We are happy to announce that our short film “Logue” has been officially selected for LA Shorts Fest 09! The film will be screening on Program #25 on July 28 – 1:00 P.M. at Sunset 5 Laemmle’s Theatre, C.A. If you happen to be in the area, please join us for the screening of “Logue”!

Here is the trailer!

LOGUE Trailer from Hiroshi Kumatani on Vimeo.

Official site for “Logue”

The festival runs from July 23rd to 31st. Scarlett Johansson, Courteney Cox and Kirsten Smithwill be there on 23rd to open the festival. It must be a lot of fun to attend the festival and see great short films from all over the world.

For more detail, please visit their official site.
LA Shorts Fest Official site

Hope to see you there!
Very best,
aica

About LA Shorts Fest:
LA Shorts Fest honors those individuals who have achieved excellence in short films. As the largest short film festival in the world with 9 days of screenings, educational panels, interactive and entertaining events, the festival has quickly become the industry standard for showcasing and awarding undiscovered talent.

As officially recognized by the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences, some of these films may go on to receive Oscar nominations. In the past, 33 films have received Oscar nominations with 11 winning the coveted Oscar statue.

La Maison en Petits Cubes “The House of Small Cubes”- Director Kunio Kato won LA Shorts Fest BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM AWARD in ‘08, and 7 months later received the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the 2009 Academy Awards.

“Spielzeugland (Toyland)” screen at LA Shorts Fest in ’08 and went on the win the Oscar for Best Live Action Short. “This Way Up”, alumni of LA Shorts Fest ’08 received an Oscar nominee in the animation category.

perfect profile

a beautiful shadow..

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her perfect profile

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but.. she lost her fur again..

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just a small area..

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Noa and Ash always eat rabbit formula raw food. But somehow our pet food stores in neighborhood ran out of the rabbit formula for a while, so I thought it might be nice to try something new, like chicken formula.  As I expected, Noa refused to eat the new formula food until I covered with wet food. Of-course Ash loves wet-foods as well, since her itchiness was gone for a while, that made me think it was fine to feed her wet food until Noa could eat chicken formula, which only took a few days… But I shouldn’t have done that… Although Ash doesn’t scratch often as before. Now we got rabbit formula again, we hope Ash get better soon. I don’t think Ash’s losing fur was caused by the chicken formula food, and they like it, so we’ll feed them the chicken formula as well. and it made their fur smoother and shiner :)

Upcoming Art Exhibition 4/5/09-5/17/09

Hello! I’ll be in a group show coming up soon! this Sunday, April 5th, please join us for the opening reception, if you’re in the area. It should be a fun show :)

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aica “Ambivalent of Happiness” acrylic on canvas

This piece has been selected for the exhibition!

“POISON”
April 5 – May 17 2009
Curious Matter
272 Fifth Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302
tel 201-659-5771

Opening reception: April 5th 3:00 to 6:00 pm

If you happen to be in the area, please stop by and enjoy the show. I hope to see you at the opening!

Below are directions by PATH and car from NYC.

PATH Directions from NYC: Take the Newark/Journal Square bound PATH train from 33rd, 23rd, 14th or 9th Streets (all at 6th Ave.) or from Christopher Street or WTC. (note: on weekends the train stops in Hoboken before continuing to Jersey City.) Get off at GROVE STREET station. Exit and walk West on Newark Ave. When you reach Jersey Ave. make a right and continue to 5th Street. The gallery is to the left at 272 Fifth Street.

Driving from Manhattan: Take the Holland Tunnel. When you exit the tunnel make a left onto Marin Blvd. Then turn right onto 6th Street, then left onto Coles Street, and left onto 5th Street. It’s just a few minutes out of the tunnel.

Regular gallery hours are Sundays noon to 3pm and by appointment.

For more info please click here

Thank you!