Loni Stark

Loni Stark is an artist at Atelier Stark, self-professed foodie, and adventure travel seeker who has a lifelong passion for technology’s impact on business and creativity. She collaborates with Clinton Stark on video projects for Atelier Stark Films. It’s been said her laugh can be heard from San Jose all the way up to the Golden Gate Bridge. She makes no claims to super powers, although sushi is definitely her Kryptonite.
Ex Machina - Why machine-learning will enhance, not replace, human creativity

Yes, the machines will rise… to a point

"When machines become more intelligent, humans are freed to become more creative. That opens the doors to completely new possibilities." In my latest article, over on The Next Web, I propose this theory and argue, perhaps not as dramatically as some, that machines of the future are far more likely to...

Ben Rector “Brand New” Live in the Vineyard (Video)

Loni Stark continues her exploration of the creative impulse, in and around San Francisco. Recent Stark Insider video features include a profile of the new $21 million SF Opera Lab, Dirty Dancing re-visited, the art of swordplay on the set of Cyrano, and mini-doc with the talented YouTube-winning a capella group Pentatonix. There's a lot...
Swordplay - Targets
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The Art of Swordplay on set of ‘Cyrano’ (Video)

"It has timeless romantic inclinations." Yes, and as I discovered when I visited the set of Cyrano, now playing at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, there's no shortage of dashing swashbuckling. Fight call! In this Stark Insider episode I meet up with the love-torn, nose-challenged Cyrano himself (J. Anthony Crane) and Jonathan Rider, a...

Pentatonix Live: New single “If I Ever Fall in Love” + interview (Video)

A capella group brings new single and The Hugs to Napa.

Pentatonix wins Napa with stellar performance (Video)

Stark Insider meets up with Pentatonix at the opening night of the Live in the Vineyard music festival. Video outtakes here for all us Pentaholics and music aficionados alike. Pentatonix. The two-time Grammy winners made a special appearance at Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena to kick off Live in the Vineyard. No...
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Inside San Francisco Opera’s new $21 million theater (Video)

Opera! Join Loni Stark in a very special episode as the Stark Insider crew heads to San Francisco Opera's beautiful new space in the War Memorial Veterans Building. After a $21 million renovation, the Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera opened earlier this year to the public, and has been receiving rave...

In Napa: Ingrid Michaelson, Andy Grammer, Ben Rector headline Live in the Vineyard (Video)

4-day LITV music festival returns with another marquee line-up.
Dirty Dancing - Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey
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Dirty Dancing Re-visited: 1987 film adapted for stage (Video)

I go backstage at the Golden Gate Theatre and re-discover some 80's magic.

Director Tom McCarthy on ‘Spotlight’, “If we increase awareness, we’ve done our job as story-tellers”

Legacy journalism and new media. Oscar-winning film 'Spotlight' is about more than just scandal. Watch as director Tom McCarthy talks about the future of news reporting.
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Breaking News: An Act of God hits San Francisco

"Then I thought, 'Let me take a brief break from eternity, and devote the greater part of a week creating a universe. And, I dunno, kind of just see what happens.'"