One of my favorite things to do on weekends is to head to Grand Central Market for brunch, grab a few glasses of wine at the Oyster bar and then roam around downtown collecting pigeons.
Over the past few years the market has been modernized and has become a really trendy spot, but it still retains aspects of what it was like decades ago.
Some of my favorite stands are The Oyster Gourmet, Sarita's Pupuseria and the Belcampo Meat Co.
Home State is known for their Texas-style breakfast Tacos. Next door to it there's a wine bar called Bar Covell, which lets you bring your tacos from next door and eat them while you have a glass of wine. Don't order more than two breakfast tacos if you don't want leave there with your pants unbuttoned.
Eleonora Orlandi is passionate about feeling the beauty of spaces.
She is interested in inspiring and stimulating people to deeply resonate inside dimentions/atmospheres/ambiences/places.
Architecture creates spaces in which we live our lives, often without even being conscious of it and she wants spaces to affect and move people.
Born in Milano, in Italy, Eleonora Orlandi is a designer architect currently based in Los Angeles.
She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture from Polytechnic of Milano and received her Master degree in Architecture from the M.Arch II program at SCI-Arc, her master thesis won the SCI-Arc Thesis Award . She has international study experiences in liberal arts at Stanford Univeristy in California, Brown University in Rhode Island and at Central Saint Martins in London, furthermore she was selected for the exchange program at UMPRUM in Prague.
Her work has been exhibited in Hauser & Wirth, Milano Design Week, and Venice Biennale.
Her working experience crosses over architecture, stage design and event design. Eleonora is currently working for Greg Lynn as a Junior Architect at Greg Lynn Form office in Los Angeles, California.
Xoana Herrera is an Argentinian director, designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles, CA, she finished her studies in the University of Buenos Aires.
She loves to find ways to create simple solutions, she gives a huge importance to color, shapes and loves create characters.
She defines her style by the delicate use of geometric shapes to create joyful characters and colorful backgrounds. Before landing in LA, she worked for a number of different studios in both Argentina and Europe. Her passion for illustration and her exquisite taste makes her one of the most promising artists in the motion graphics world
She currently works as an Art Director with the amazing and talented people at Buck.
Los Angeles-based artist Eric Yahnker seems to have a very odd and dark sense of humour which is reflected in almost all of his works of art. His mixed media and collage masterpieces combine traditional and classic images with some twisted humor and caustic wit. He received his B.F.A. in animation from the California Institute Of Arts and studied journalism at University of Southern California. Eric Yahnker lives and work in Los Angeles, California.