Author: Naomi Takata Shepherd
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“Astro” Collection launch at my new Artist Shop!
I’m excited to announce my new Threadless Artist Shop, “Naomi Mariko Creates,” a home for my art, collections, and projects.
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My 6º of Hapa Art & Design Process
If you’ve ever asked me how I make all of my 6º of Hapa swag, you know I could go on for hours about my process if given the chance…
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Recipe: Pumpkin Mochi Muffins
Just in time for the holidays, I’d like to share one of my favorite dessert recipes with everyone! I’ve always been the type to Google for recipes or even simple baking/cooking instructions and one thing that always drives me a little crazy is how long everyone’s recipe introductions tend to be. So without using up…
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Day of Remembrance
Family stories and history are an ephemeral thing; they’re often hard to pin down and are told fleetingly, spontaneously, after a game of cards around the dinner table or on a cousin’s front porch when goodbyes are forgotten and talk begins of what happened or may have happened and speculation about the details we’ll never…
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Lunchtime: Souvla in Hayes Valley
Souvla / 517 Hayes Street, San Francisco, 94102 / (415) 400-5458 Hayes Valley is a spot I’ve spent way more time in than I ever would have predicted. My first experiences in Hayes Valley were as a film production assistant doing things like office work at a coordinator’s Victorian terraced house on Page Street or…
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2017 Top Fives – Film & TV
To say that this list of my top five movies and TV shows of 2017 was easy to put together wouldn’t be exactly the truth. I had to scrounge around a little because I am, admittedly, still burned out from film school (four years later) and the thought of actually paying to go to the…
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Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Lady Bird, is the first film I’ve ever taken myself to see. I suppose my pitch to the few people whom I did ask to go with me wasn’t very convincing: “You know, Frances Ha?” or “I don’t really like Greta Gerwig, but I want to go see this so I…
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Naomi Mariko Creates 