JoAnn Takasaki, Freelance Writer here. I write marketing and advertising copy for Web sites. My clients span the globe. I also write travel and food editorial pieces for newspapers and magazines (online and print). Thanks for dropping by my blog where you can keep current with all that's going on in my world.
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Wed 23 Jun 2010
I know. It’s been a long time. I haven’t just been sitting around. I’ve been traveling. A lot. And working quite a bit. I also just finished a print piece for The Flippen Group. The designer of this piece is Jason Madding and he did an incredible job–don’t you think?
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Sun 20 Dec 2009
It’s been quite the odd year–what with recession, depression, and other words of doom being bandied about and budgets for copywriting drying up. The bulk of the work I’ve done has been for Harris County Flood Control District as a techwriter updating the application and user guides for all of the custom applications that their IS Department builds; and training users on new enhancements and new applications. Yea for HCFCD!
Nos Caves Vin and Ink Publishing/AirTran have helped to balance out the technical with the more (fun) marketing and travel writing work. Plus, this year has proven to be a big year in the Houston art community for me, working with the Sketchy Neighbors and a group of Houston Illustrators to promote and coordinate three incredibly successful group art shows in the last half of the year. Good times!
The generally slower work pace allowed me to travel domestically a bunch in the latter half of this year with trips to Hawaii, California, Florida, New York, Central and East Texas. In 2010, I hope to spread my wings a little further and get to DC, France, Mexico, Hawaii, Washington, Montana, and Louisiana.
Thanks for a wonderful year! And I wish you all the best for 2010!
Wed 7 Oct 2009
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On that fateful February 19, 2009, Katsola and Carlos Hernandez sent out a call to a random collection of local artists they didn’t know and hadn’t ever worked with. “Meet up with us tonight—we’re starting a sketch group!” They gathered at Big Star Bar that night. Red Neck Mother played in the background, Diablo took a crap on the wall, and Carlos bought the first round of Lone Stars and whiskey.
Exactly 39 minutes and 42 seconds into the casual meet and greet, that arbitrary congregation of artists became…the Sketchy Neighbors. And they had a mission. They wanted to do what no group had done before. They would meet twice a month over the year. At their first meeting of every month, everyone would put their suggestions for a theme and media/material into The Hat—whatever was pulled from The Hat would be what each artist would work on that month. The second meeting would be a Show & Tell—they’d present their sketches or piece and critique each other’s work. And at the end of all this hard work, they would have a big show. Josie the bartender did the honors for the first round: Life is…on underwear. This. Was going to be. Fun. 10 Artists Come to the show and sale–don’t miss the chance to see what your intrepid Sketchy Neighbors created! |