Posts Tagged ‘Janelle Wang’

The Floral Dresses of the Bouquets to Art Opening Night Gala

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Bouquets to Art 2009 is going gangbusters these days over at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, as per usual. You’ve seen some of the flowers, now check out the floral wear sported at Monday’s Opening Night Gala (not to be confused with the de Young’s recent Mid Winter Gala featuring Miami Vice’s Don Johnson and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, ably captured by the tiny Canon Powershot of 7×7’s Catherine “CBig” Bigelow).

Don’t miss seeing View from the Bay’s Janelle Wang at the de Young (“Janelle Debuts as a Runway Model”, KGO-TV). That’s the venue, avec 800-pound bouquet, now see photos of Monday night’s floral couture courtesy of Bree and Brandon over at Kuga Designs, a floral design studio. This is their effort, complete with “fierce” flowery shoes:

And here are the efforts of others, as photo’ed by Kuga Designs:

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The mise-en-scene:

There you have it. See you next year.

Bouquets to Art ends this Saturday…

46th Annual Cable Car Bell-Ringing Contest in San Francisco’s Union Square

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

San Francisco’s historic Cable Car bell ringing contest delighted hundreds in Union Square yesterday. It looked like this and this.

Mayor Gavin Newsom and MTA Director Nat Ford enjoy KBLX radio’s stirring interpretation of LL Cool Jay’s Rock the Bells. (Sadly, credit for the song was given to Run DMC.)

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KGO-TV personality Janelle Wang’s hair momentarily defied gravity as she did the robot on her way to the bell: 

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Grand Champion Carl Payne gave in to pleas from the crowd wanting to get a closer look at his humoungous bell ringing ring: 

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Carl Payne’s cable car ring. You can see the words “Champion Bell Ringer” and also the years of his victories on this Super Bowl-style finger bling:

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Yesterday was all about the bell, steampunkish in its own way: 

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See you next year!

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