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i head video @sfgate. but you can call me sfgate girl. 🎤ᕕ(˘⌣˘)ᕗ ♪♬🌁

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Don’t be fooled by the seemingly chill pics. I was definitely having a workout of my own bopping to the tracks and making sure the vibes were hitting at the right moments.

Special shoutout to homegirl Melissa for coming to support. She is the 里長 of San Francisco!

Don’t forget to follow @joinrhythmstate to catch our upcoming events. We can’t wait to see you.

@cweventssf

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So extremely special that I got to wear a design by one of my dearest friends Vivi for The Living Archive: Before It Was Mine! 🥹 Emotion Potion made me feel like a lil cotton candy unicorn sorbet cloud. The dress was hand dyed and every piece featured in the show had seen a life before this one. Designers were asked to explore the history of a fabric, to upcycle, reimagine, and continue the life of a material.

@the_livingarchive_
Designer: @emotion.potion

TLA Founder, producer, creative director: @theflippside

TLA curators and featuring designers : @philippa_renshaw_+ @auerstyle

TLA casting director, show co-lead: @kj_lynn_

TLA content strategist:
@mull.muse @camytotah

stylists/dressers: @the.nay.edits @jillie_vanillie & Veronica

nails: @nailsxmish

media:
@chaptersbymayad_usa 🎥
@camytotah & Benny 🎞️
@melissademata 📸 Day 1
@michelleneoni 📸 Day 2
Please see the Living Archive page for full credits of the amazing team <3

#TheLivingArchive #BeforeItWasMine #sustainablefashion #fashionshow

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Arms sweeping and body bopping with the beat, ASL interpreter Julian Ortiz interpreted sets by Dog Blood (Skrillex and Boys Noize), Kettama and Chloé Caillet at Portola Music Festival on Saturday.

With few or no lyrics to work from, EDM is a tricky genre for sign language interpreters. Ortiz, who is deaf and has worked @portolafestival for more than three years, studies setlists in advance alongside his colleagues before interpreting an average of three sets a day.

Skrillex was the artist who first inspired him to pursue interpreting full time; since then, his work has taken him all the way to the Super Bowl, where he signed during Bad Bunny’s halftime show.

“We don’t have to worry about showing up and be like, ‘Oh my God, where is it? We have to ask for it.’ It’s just automatically provided,” she said.

Find similar coverage @sfgate.

🎥: Melissa Cho @itschochotrain, Social Video Editor

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Robert Soper has tuned pianos for San Francisco Botanical Garden’s Flower Piano festival since it began in 2015, bringing more than 50 years of piano tuning experience to a tricky job.

12 pianos scattered throughout the Botanical Garden are an unusual sight — and pianos and San Francisco’s damp conditions don’t exactly mix. Still, tens of thousands of music lovers flock to Flower Piano each year to take part in one of the city’s most beloved traditions.

SFGATE’s Melissa Cho visited the garden the day before opening night to learn how Soper and his tuning partner, John McArdle, prepare and maintain each piano to withstand San Francisco’s famously foggy conditions.

Find more local stories like this at @sfgate.

Video by Melissa Cho/Social Video Editor. Additional camera assistance by Brendan Lange.

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life lately! 🥰
a few months ago, I was at the culver steps as I always am, contemplating what makes me me at my core if I stripped back all of the parts that add up as I’ve grown, and the phrase that surfaced for me was: “I’m just a boy who likes to draw!” Made myself sob LOL but it really put into perspective what I love doing most. I don’t want it to be my career, I don’t want to do it for anyone, it’s just fun and I just want to do it alllll the time. I want to be 80 years old, covered in paint, getting lost in my canvas and blasting my music full volume.
Also, this past weekend with my all my besties really reminded me how seen I feel when I’m with them. Luv u allllll 💛

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I rarely ever do something fun like this so enjoy this bts vlog
#outsidelands #sanfrancisco #vlog #bayarea #press

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With 100 food vendors serving thousands of festivalgoers, Outside Lands produces plenty of surplus food. For the past 13 years, the festival has partnered with ExtraFood to keep that food out of landfills and redirect it to people in need.

SFGATE's Melissa Cho followed the process from start to finish, documenting how untouched leftover food is collected at the festival and distributed across the city.

Follow @sfgate for similar coverage.

🎥: Melissa Cho, Senior Video Producer @itschochotrain

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Backstage at Outside Lands, there's a nondescript white trailer referred to simply as MCR. Short for "master control room," it's the beating heart of the festival's elaborate livestream operation.

Inside, walls of screens carry separate feeds from four stages — each with its own satellite command center where a director calls out angles from up to eight cameras.

Learn more at the link in bio.

✍️: Dan Gentile, Senior Culture Editor @danjeremiah
🎥: Melissa Cho, Social Video Editor @itschochotrain

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☆*:.｡ foreign cinema ｡.:*☆ movie projected behind me but we’ve got a leading cast here already 📸 🎥 🎞️ 🌀‼️

bless the digicam 🖤
thank you to my loveliest ladies

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celebrating a decade of friendship with @roul32 and @_edo1 taking a nap in my bed and friends making beautiful things #hags #yay #blessed

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