This was the standout:

Sweet Dreams from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

Created almost entirely with real food, Sweet Dreams is a stop-motion animation film about a stalwart cupcake yearning to find something beyond his world of sugar-cube skyscrapers and frosting-covered friends. When his makeshift boat crashes on foreign shores, he makes a shocking discovery that changes him forever. Director Kirsten Lepore’s immense talent for stop-motion storytelling shines in this endearing tale of friendship and community.

Despite the rain, the event was pretty fun. There was an eclectic crowd and open bar afterwards. Appropriately, the post-screening reception also featured Sprinkles cupcakes.

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Kirsten Lepore
LACMA Muse

What a month!

With all of the current chatter on (unlikely) financial regulation, (likely) Greek bailout, and potential economic recovery in 2010, FAS is a great ticker to exploit. It’s basically a basket of bank stocks on steroids.

Anyways, in the first week of February, FAS failed to break above the 20 day, Exp. Moving Avg (red line). My interest peaked when it hit the lower Bollinger band (lower green line). The previous day saw an ugly, ugly down move (long red bar). The sell off was overdone, and brought it into Oversold territory (Stochastics indicator – bottom set of black/red lines). With a relatively low risk, I started buying.

Into the second week of February, FAS continued to languish and then consolidated in the Oversold area. I bought more and more trying to lower my cost average (price paid per share) to the point I was comfortable with my position.

My big picture plan was to trade and extract the price difference between the Bollinger Bands (solid squigly green lines) – buy at the lower green band and sell at the upper green band.

Along the way, we witnessed some good battles between the bears and the bulls…

Beginning on February 16th, the bulls came out with much force, and gapped up the stock, which decidedly turned the MACD indicator up (black line criss crossed the red line). 

Throughout February, the bears and the bulls had good fights between the 50 day EMA (squigly blue line) and the 20 day EMA (squigly red line). For a while, every time the bulls tried pushing FAS over the blue line, the bears came back to push it towards the red line. We were in grid lock until the last trading day of February and the first day of March, when the bulls were successful in pushing above the blue line and led their march towards the upper green line.

Around this time, FAS was in the Overbought Stochastics area (which is a relatively safe time to sell), but with some seriously good momentum. Since FAS had not hit the upper green line like planned, I was not yet ready to sell, so I started paying more attention to the Relative Strength Index (RSI). In the recent past, FAS topped out (orange circle) when the RSI reached the upper line (powder blue circle)….

Not exactly perfect, but check out what happened yesterday. FAS not only got really close to the upper RSI line (powder blue circle), it also hit the upper Bollinger Band (squigly green line), and per the original plan, I dumped all of my FAS shares. It is possible that FAS could go higher in the next few days, but I think the bears will be coming back soon to take it down to at least the 50 day EMA (squigly blue line). If the bulls can hold it there, I will be back in the game.

Anyways, after commissions, I yielded + 27.8%, which is damn good for me! It was a good swing trade.

Even Stocktwits gave me a shout out…

Cheers!

Bukkake Cha-Soba… it was decent, but definitely not the best ever.

The grilled Chilean Sea Bass was just okay. Kind of dry.

Kesho Sushi. Now, sushi is what this place is good for.

I still like this place; now, I know to just stick with sushi/sashimi.

Link: Sushi Ichiban Kan

inside of the Burrito de Machaca (shredded beef….no beans). YUM!

Link: Las Fuentes

mmmMMmMmmmm

One cool thing about this place is that they serve osumashi instead of miso.. it’s a clear soup with shiitake mushroom, tofu, and a nice piece of fish (it tasted like rock cod).

the house salad was really whatevers. could have done without.

Chirashi Don…. the reason why I came here. the seafood was cut thick and fresh. I could eat this everyday.

…. sweet, sweet shrimps can never do wrong.

Tempura was crisp and light. Check out the steaming tempura sauce…

This gigantic yellowtail collar was pretty solid. Quality was decent and delicious.

I will definitely be back. Cheers!

Link: Sushi Ichiban Kan

JR expo Paris de Women are Heroes from La Boite Concept on Vimeo.

Besides the vibrant colors, which has roots in Hindu legend, this celebration brings together people of all castes, sexes, status and age…. my kind of party.

Bura na mano, Holi hai. Cheers!

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Awesome photos by Poras Chaudhary