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At the tender age of 21, I moved to New York City to become a photographer. After 10 years of fantastic voyages, I escape the cold winters and live in Miami where I am from. A gal pal and I started a stationary, toy, library card company called, A HOME IN THE SKY.
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Recently, I saw the movie, Lars and the Real Girl, staring Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Kelli Garner and Paul Schneider. Everyone is excellent in the film and I give it 10 thumbs up! The movie focuses on a shy, lonely, socially inept, delusional young man who buys a life-size sex doll over the internet, Bianca, and falls in love with her.
What caught my attention, was that at first, when he introduces Bianca to his brother and sister -n- law, his brother immediately reacts with embarrassment and is completely worried about what people will think.
Lars begins to introduce Bianca as a girlfriend to his co-workers and people living in his town. Due to their acceptance of Bianca, Lars finds himself interacting more with people. Soon, Bianca dies and all the people living in the town attend the funeral.
I guess now I will introduce my "Jerry Springer final thoughts". I cried watching this movie because of people's acceptance of his delusional behavior. Usually, people are not like that, they like to gossip and belittle someone who has a serious problem. Going through major adversity is the worst possible thing, losing a family member, contracting and illness, dealing with depression and I can go on and on. Usually, people "jump ship" because they don't know how to deal with such crazy circumstances. And you see that in other films, like say Edward Scissorhands. But not here, and that is why I found the film profound and incredibly moving. It's a great film for therapists as well, they can meet on Wednesday nights, like a book club, and discuss the behavior of lars branding him with this and that disorder and give their 5 cents and how to really FIX him!
Another night, I fell asleep with my Television on and woke up to a singing River Phoenix! I said to my blonde self, what the heck is this and quickly Tivoed it and went back to La La Land. The next night I watched, The Thing called Love, which is a light, and nice movie. Not as heavy as Lars! But what makes this movie amazing is watching River sing country music, and he is so HOT and it made me remember how amazing he was as an actor. I put my Sherlock Holmes
Cap on and decided to dig up some information about what movies he was supposed to be in after his death.
-He was supposed to be the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire : The Vampire Chronicles. Christian Slater took his place, and donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River's favorite charities.
-Was set to star in Total Eclipse, another amazing film in 1995, the story of Arthur Rimbaud and his love obsession with his older mentor Paul Verlaine. After River died the part was given to Leonardo Dicaprio.
-He was also set to star in The Basketball Diaries. His role again went to Leonardo Dicaprio.
-He claims he did his best work in The Mosquito Coast, and developed an amazing friendship with Harrison Ford.
-After his death, Gus Van Sant published a novel in 1997 titled "Pink," which is a loosely disguised fantasy homage to River.
What caught my attention, was that at first, when he introduces Bianca to his brother and sister -n- law, his brother immediately reacts with embarrassment and is completely worried about what people will think.
Lars begins to introduce Bianca as a girlfriend to his co-workers and people living in his town. Due to their acceptance of Bianca, Lars finds himself interacting more with people. Soon, Bianca dies and all the people living in the town attend the funeral.
I guess now I will introduce my "Jerry Springer final thoughts". I cried watching this movie because of people's acceptance of his delusional behavior. Usually, people are not like that, they like to gossip and belittle someone who has a serious problem. Going through major adversity is the worst possible thing, losing a family member, contracting and illness, dealing with depression and I can go on and on. Usually, people "jump ship" because they don't know how to deal with such crazy circumstances. And you see that in other films, like say Edward Scissorhands. But not here, and that is why I found the film profound and incredibly moving. It's a great film for therapists as well, they can meet on Wednesday nights, like a book club, and discuss the behavior of lars branding him with this and that disorder and give their 5 cents and how to really FIX him!
Another night, I fell asleep with my Television on and woke up to a singing River Phoenix! I said to my blonde self, what the heck is this and quickly Tivoed it and went back to La La Land. The next night I watched, The Thing called Love, which is a light, and nice movie. Not as heavy as Lars! But what makes this movie amazing is watching River sing country music, and he is so HOT and it made me remember how amazing he was as an actor. I put my Sherlock Holmes
Cap on and decided to dig up some information about what movies he was supposed to be in after his death.
-He was supposed to be the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire : The Vampire Chronicles. Christian Slater took his place, and donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River's favorite charities.
-Was set to star in Total Eclipse, another amazing film in 1995, the story of Arthur Rimbaud and his love obsession with his older mentor Paul Verlaine. After River died the part was given to Leonardo Dicaprio.
-He was also set to star in The Basketball Diaries. His role again went to Leonardo Dicaprio.
-He claims he did his best work in The Mosquito Coast, and developed an amazing friendship with Harrison Ford.
-After his death, Gus Van Sant published a novel in 1997 titled "Pink," which is a loosely disguised fantasy homage to River.
Yes Yes
Cecily Brown is coming to town.............
Opening Reception
Sept. 20th
Gagosian Gallery
555 West 24th street
New York City, between 10th and 11th
6-8pm
Sept 20-October 25
Time to pull out the outfit, proper shoes, and paint the town multiple colors on Sept. 20th.
Perhaps, some people really go to openings to look at the Art; others like myself, use an opening to score some free wine and kick off a long night of fun, meet interesting people, and dance the night away at the Passerby till 5am which is now gone! Such a shame. I would try to hang out with Larry myself. According to Phoebe Hoban who wrote,"Basquiat, A Quick Killing in Art", Larry was described as quite the party animal. Perfect guy for me to meet. Right. But I do love Cecily Brown's work and decided to dig up some info for all the other Art fanatics out there.....
-Born in London and studied at the Slade School of Art
-First Solo project was at Deitch in 1997
-Her Lips are in style
-At P.S. 1 you can see a painting she created in the stairway
-Has cool crazy curly hair
-Shown at such prestigious instutions such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden;
Museum of Fine Art in Boston;Kunstnalle Mannheim in Germany; IA and Modern Art Oxford, England;The Macro in Rome; and others
-Loves Karaoke
-She has participated in group exhibitions at the Saatchi Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Ceter Long Island City, NY.
-Loves artisits such as Francisco de Goya, Nicolas Poussin, William de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell
-Can spot her in Vogue or V magazine from time to time
-Her paintings combine figuration and abstraction
-Sir Elton John collects her work
-She's the daughter of Shena Mackay, a novelist, and David Sylvester, one of Britain's leading art critics.
-Likes to party with Tara Subkoff
-Has work
on Artnet
-Her father and pal Francis Bacon took Cecily to exhibitions and art parties as a young girl
-Was a waitress when she first moved to New York
-Her work collected by the Tate and the Guggenheim and is collected by Charles Saatchi
-Is buddies with art stars Rachel Feinstein and John Currin
-Some claim that she became famous for restoring a certain sensuality to painting
-Her first solo show at the Gagosian were erotic and depicted sexual acts
-Can work on 20 paintings at once
-Smokes cigarettes
-Has been photographed by Chuck Close and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
-Has sipped wine with Bruno Bischofberger
Cecily Brown is coming to town.............
Opening Reception
Sept. 20th
Gagosian Gallery
555 West 24th street
New York City, between 10th and 11th
6-8pm
Sept 20-October 25
Time to pull out the outfit, proper shoes, and paint the town multiple colors on Sept. 20th.
Perhaps, some people really go to openings to look at the Art; others like myself, use an opening to score some free wine and kick off a long night of fun, meet interesting people, and dance the night away at the Passerby till 5am which is now gone! Such a shame. I would try to hang out with Larry myself. According to Phoebe Hoban who wrote,"Basquiat, A Quick Killing in Art", Larry was described as quite the party animal. Perfect guy for me to meet. Right. But I do love Cecily Brown's work and decided to dig up some info for all the other Art fanatics out there.....
-Born in London and studied at the Slade School of Art
-First Solo project was at Deitch in 1997
-Her Lips are in style
-At P.S. 1 you can see a painting she created in the stairway
-Has cool crazy curly hair
-Shown at such prestigious instutions such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden;
Museum of Fine Art in Boston;Kunstnalle Mannheim in Germany; IA and Modern Art Oxford, England;The Macro in Rome; and others
-Loves Karaoke
-She has participated in group exhibitions at the Saatchi Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Ceter Long Island City, NY.
-Loves artisits such as Francisco de Goya, Nicolas Poussin, William de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell
-Can spot her in Vogue or V magazine from time to time
-Her paintings combine figuration and abstraction
-Sir Elton John collects her work
-She's the daughter of Shena Mackay, a novelist, and David Sylvester, one of Britain's leading art critics.
-Likes to party with Tara Subkoff
-Has work
on Artnet-Her father and pal Francis Bacon took Cecily to exhibitions and art parties as a young girl
-Was a waitress when she first moved to New York
-Her work collected by the Tate and the Guggenheim and is collected by Charles Saatchi
-Is buddies with art stars Rachel Feinstein and John Currin
-Some claim that she became famous for restoring a certain sensuality to painting
-Her first solo show at the Gagosian were erotic and depicted sexual acts
-Can work on 20 paintings at once
-Smokes cigarettes
-Has been photographed by Chuck Close and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
-Has sipped wine with Bruno Bischofberger
Sympathy for the devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, the ultimate exhibition explores the relationship between serious visual contemporary art and rebellious rock-n-roll music over the past 40 years;continues through Sept 7th Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in closed Mondays 770 NE 125st North Miami.
MoCA shows the movie by Jean-Luc Godard frequently recording the album Beggers Banquet by the Rolling Stones go on-line www.macanomi.com to check the times.
Sympathy for the devil is a must see exhibition for any rock and art looney tunes case, you can camp out in the museum and still not get enough. If you are depressed and on meds, just sleep here and you will wake up bursting with fruit flavor every morning. They have a mini-bar for coffee. We have all had a poster hanging on our walls at some point of some rock queen or king, I'm too shy to mention my wall. But let's just say Penelope Spheeris documentary Decline of Western Civilization part 1 & 2 or is that 2 &3 had a great influence on my interior design taste. She should make a film about hipsters, but more about that later. If you are a music video junkie, well you can thank Andy Warhol's involvement with the Velvet Underground for inspiring that genre. And you can see most of the footage and interviews at the exhibition which travels to Canada next. A rock jeopardy fanatic once told me that the graphic designer who crafted the famous Rolling Stone's iconic mouth/tounge/big lips symbol only got paid like $500.00 dollars. Someone needs to take that guy out dancing. As art critics across the globe are using their fancy SAT vocab words competing with each other, I say JUST GO! It's fun!
It's amazing to see artist's you admire create album and video artwork for musicians. And musicians creating art themselves as well appearing in films, writing poetry, and painting. I found one of the coolest aspects of this exhibition is the relationship between the NYC music scene and the exchange between downtown artists and no-wave musicians in the late 70's and early 80's. The exhibition mentions artists from all over the world, and the London music intersection of these two cultural entities rocked my world as well.
Great Gatsby Glamorous NY figures such as Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell, The Ramons brought art and literary backgrounds and approached music that served to define the early music scene in the city. Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe provided album imagery to Patti Smith and Television. Groups such as Blondie, Talking Heads, and Devo all hailed from great art universities, their preformances just exude poetic and a comical quality which would make your unborn baby grow gills. And you can see these preformances and the interviews, I'll keep repeating myself. it's good for the soul. Jean-Michel Basquait preformed in the group Grey, Richard Prince in Menthol Wars. Another firecracker, is to see Richard Kerns films of the early 80's which include, Lydia Lunch, and his photo series "New York Girls" is also hanging so well on the wall.
Some critics claim Sonic Youth, perhaps more than any other entity in the history of Rock and Roll, successfully bridged the artistic avant-garde and the merry musical mainstream by recording their sonic ooze and using contemporary artists for album imagery including : Richard Kern, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, James Willing, Harmony Korine, and Marnie Weber. Kim Gordon is also a visual artist and critic for Artforum.
Jack Pierson's work often uses titles and lyrics from songs by Roxy Music and Joni Mitchell to set the romanticized tone for his work. Other artists included are Karen Kilimnik and Rita Ackermann, who is a painter and is involved with music projects such as Gang Gang Dance.
Images below provided by : Jim Jarmusch, Matt Mahurin, Harmony Korine, Laurie Leber, Charlie White, James Welling, Christian Marclay,Rita Arckermann, Marnie Weber, Richard Kern, Richard Prince, and Jack Pierson.
Anyway, the exhibition covers all aspects of artists and musicians from around the globe and if I continue typing this is going to turn out like a long boring college essay. At last, if you get excited about receiving free stuff, you leave with a poster!
MoCA shows the movie by Jean-Luc Godard frequently recording the album Beggers Banquet by the Rolling Stones go on-line www.macanomi.com to check the times.
Sympathy for the devil is a must see exhibition for any rock and art looney tunes case, you can camp out in the museum and still not get enough. If you are depressed and on meds, just sleep here and you will wake up bursting with fruit flavor every morning. They have a mini-bar for coffee. We have all had a poster hanging on our walls at some point of some rock queen or king, I'm too shy to mention my wall. But let's just say Penelope Spheeris documentary Decline of Western Civilization part 1 & 2 or is that 2 &3 had a great influence on my interior design taste. She should make a film about hipsters, but more about that later. If you are a music video junkie, well you can thank Andy Warhol's involvement with the Velvet Underground for inspiring that genre. And you can see most of the footage and interviews at the exhibition which travels to Canada next. A rock jeopardy fanatic once told me that the graphic designer who crafted the famous Rolling Stone's iconic mouth/tounge/big lips symbol only got paid like $500.00 dollars. Someone needs to take that guy out dancing. As art critics across the globe are using their fancy SAT vocab words competing with each other, I say JUST GO! It's fun!
It's amazing to see artist's you admire create album and video artwork for musicians. And musicians creating art themselves as well appearing in films, writing poetry, and painting. I found one of the coolest aspects of this exhibition is the relationship between the NYC music scene and the exchange between downtown artists and no-wave musicians in the late 70's and early 80's. The exhibition mentions artists from all over the world, and the London music intersection of these two cultural entities rocked my world as well.
Great Gatsby Glamorous NY figures such as Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell, The Ramons brought art and literary backgrounds and approached music that served to define the early music scene in the city. Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe provided album imagery to Patti Smith and Television. Groups such as Blondie, Talking Heads, and Devo all hailed from great art universities, their preformances just exude poetic and a comical quality which would make your unborn baby grow gills. And you can see these preformances and the interviews, I'll keep repeating myself. it's good for the soul. Jean-Michel Basquait preformed in the group Grey, Richard Prince in Menthol Wars. Another firecracker, is to see Richard Kerns films of the early 80's which include, Lydia Lunch, and his photo series "New York Girls" is also hanging so well on the wall.
Some critics claim Sonic Youth, perhaps more than any other entity in the history of Rock and Roll, successfully bridged the artistic avant-garde and the merry musical mainstream by recording their sonic ooze and using contemporary artists for album imagery including : Richard Kern, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, James Willing, Harmony Korine, and Marnie Weber. Kim Gordon is also a visual artist and critic for Artforum.
Jack Pierson's work often uses titles and lyrics from songs by Roxy Music and Joni Mitchell to set the romanticized tone for his work. Other artists included are Karen Kilimnik and Rita Ackermann, who is a painter and is involved with music projects such as Gang Gang Dance.
Images below provided by : Jim Jarmusch, Matt Mahurin, Harmony Korine, Laurie Leber, Charlie White, James Welling, Christian Marclay,Rita Arckermann, Marnie Weber, Richard Kern, Richard Prince, and Jack Pierson.
Anyway, the exhibition covers all aspects of artists and musicians from around the globe and if I continue typing this is going to turn out like a long boring college essay. At last, if you get excited about receiving free stuff, you leave with a poster!
Have a lame date lately? Been to a family reunion and can't connect? Have you been looking forward to the prom all year and then realize how bad those school dances really are? Been to another boring wedding? Received some bad test results back from your Gynecologist? Well, don't be sad and stuff your face!! Pull a Mary Poppins and jump into the world of Disco Years by Ron Galella. I've seen some of these images blown up a couple years ago, and you feel like you were there, taking bathroom breaks with Steve Rubell or Grace Jones. Therefore, if you checked YES on anything above, open up this book and you'll get your groove back. There will always be better parties and test results that will come your way!
Disco Years by Ron Galella ALL IMAGES BY RON GALELLA
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Disco Years by Ron Galella ALL IMAGES BY RON GALELLA
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ALL IMAGES BY RON GALELLA!
Dress up! custom made from a bridesmaids dress by Blair
www.blairwear.com
She puts the F in Fun!
New Yorkers escape from the cold and venture to Miami for it's warm beaches and great techno music. Miami people escape the techno, rhinestones,continuous car riding and venture to New York for Proper Pizza, Bagels and Amazing Shopping. In both cities, attending an event is usually required. Especially during Art Basel, and I do suggest booking tickets now due to the funky fuel prices. But incase you pull a "Carrie Bradshaw" and break your "Choo" you need to follow Smoky and his Bandit down the yellow brick road to Adams Shoe Repair! Yes you will meet the wizard Adam there; along with Julio Englasis and Rabbi Frank, who is famous down here for marrying Jews to non- Jews. On his headshot he writes to the Lovely China ( owner along side with adam) ,"To the best shoe repair in the world from SOUL to SOLE." It's one of those emergency places that can recover your shoes with fabric or leather, refinish and dye shoes, put new "souls" on your shoes so you can dance the night away, and incase you get mugged, they can repair handbags and luggage. All ready for you the next day! When they shine your shoes, they look like stars! And the best part, sometimes little nice old ladies accidently leave their Gucci, Channel, you name it designer shoes, for years and there is a pile that you can pick from! THIS IS THE BEST SHOE REPAIR, and China has many lovely stories to share about her baby daughter!
Adams Shoe Repair
225-95th Street
Surfside/Bal Harbour
Miami Beach, Fl 33154
305-861-5310
1 block from Bal Harbour Shops
Oh! and if you hit a great sale at Saks or Neiman Marcus, and you have to buy a pair too small or big they can repair them to fit your size! What a dream come true for us size 10's!!!!
HEELS WHILE YOU WAIT!
Does anyone really like Kiss anyway? They used to scare the living daylights out of me when I was younger. Then when I grew up, I didn't really like the music. It was the act, which caused nightmares, but then grew to love it like any other 10 year old growing up in the 1970's. It was something to watch besides Silver Spoons and Different Strokes on a friday night. But hey, someone probably has a 2008 power water gun out there waiting for me. This band is idolized. People get buried in Kiss caskets, married in kiss costumes, carry kiss credit cards, form Kiss cover bands, and now they have a reality TV show. Gene and his significant other, Shannon Tweed, got facelifts together on their TV show. And Gene Simmons is super strict, if his kids are caught drinking, he throws them out of the house and cuts them off. He's straight edge! And a brilliant business man.
In 1990, Miami was a hotspot for photography advertisements, catalog work, and a playground for fine artists. The Versace campaign was shot at The Raleigh pool, before South Beach turned into Disneyland. Nikki Taylor was signed to Irene Marie which was one of the hottest agencies around the modeling universe. Madonna lived here. DARKROOMS were needed and they were ready and available. Sadly, Madonna left and took them with her. Enter, The Darkroom and Digital lab in Wynwood and I am in heaven. I've been through 2 labs here and you really don't need to hear me complain, but you're nobody till some Darkroom loves you, pays attention to your needs, and if you are crazy about your files and negatives, like this crazy blonde, well I would leave all my negs with them just like Suzy J, but we will talk about her later. I would FED-X my work there, photographers do. To begin, they have no sign on the outside wall. The first time I walked in, I said that and Randy shouted, "We don't believe in advertising!" It's like going to a speakeasy, instead of booze they have chemicals. Secondly, Randy Mitchel and Bryan Bogater have been MASTER printers for 25 years printing for stars like : Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Beard, Suzy J Horgan, Hype Williams ( I am still waiting for my blind date Randy ) and many other stars. They have every type of paper and can print Billboard size if you need them too. The best part is that you can sit right next to them and tell them what should be what, or just stop by everyday and annoy them like I do!
5 stars!!!!!
The Darkroom
378 NE 56th Streets
Miami, Fla.
33137
305.532.2185
Randy Mitchel
Bryan Bogater
www.darkroomanddigital.com
here are some prints I had done for your viewing pleasure! OH MY HENRY done by Suzy J Horgan, THANK YOU!
Need some cups for a hip BBQ,
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East Hampton, NY
11937
tel : 631-329-3379
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