Artist’s Statement:As an artist I always seek to communicate with the masses through my physical manifestations of thoughts. My art speaks of the troubles in people today, the battle within between impulse and logic, love and lust, destruction and creation, spirituality and the physical plane.
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This series place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The “…happily ever after” is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues that affect real women, such as illness, addiction and self-image issues.
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Eager to get into Miami’s deep, eclectic music scene, but have no idea where to start? The Future Classic Festival may be your answer.
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The event, being held Saturday at Soho Studios Miami in Wynwood, is an amalgam of local art cultures: Three music areas, art and graffiti exhibits, dance performances, a video game area, a skateboarding ramp and a food court will all showcase local and even some national acts.
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Electro-rock and hip-hop band N*E*R*D, fronted by producer-to-the-superstars Pharrell Williams, is headlining the event, which is appropriate since Williams spends much of his time in Miami.
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“The beauty of [N*E*R*D] is that they’re a group that crosses over genres,” said Mihai Crisan of Contagious Musiq, the local group that is producing Future Classic and has helped bring shows like the traveling hip-hop festival Rock The Bells and acts like Mos Def to Miami.
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Crisan said Williams’ involvement in clothing lines, skating and art made his band an obvious choice as headliners.
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The remainder of the lineup includes some of Miami’s best bands, which similarly blur genre descriptors: Latin-funk-everything groups Spam All Stars, Locos Por Juana and Suenalo; hybrid hip-hop bands ¡Mayday! and ArtOfficial; electro-dance trio Afrobeta; and indie-rockers Awesome New Republic. In all, more than 20 musical acts and 15 DJs will perform Saturday.
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If bands aren’t your thing, a DJ room promises mesmerizing 360-degree visuals complete with 3-D glasses for added effects. And, Fly Khicks, seen on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, and Gamblerz, from South Korea, will perform.
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Crisan said the goal of Future Classic was to give fans the best experience possible and deliver the most “bang for your buck.”
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“With your generic show, you check out the band, have a couple of drinks, and hopefully you have a good time before going home,” he said. “We wanted to give the audience so much more entertainment — constant things to keep you busy.”
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To celebrate his 90th birthday, Bentley Motors has collaborated with Brazilian pop artist Romero Britto. This is probably one of the most unusual Bentleys ever seen: a large, happy flower, little stars, squiggles and signs dance on the elegant hood and colourful, comic-like figures adorn the doors. The Continental GT – a static prototype built in 2003 – has become a truly unique work of art created by the world-renowned Brazilian artist Romero Britto. Bentley Motors donated the Coupe on the occasion of Britto´s Berlin exhibition “Come to my World” in the Automobil Forum Unter den Linden in cooperation with the Mensing Gallery. In keeping with Britto’s wider ideals, at the conclusion of the show, the “Britto-Bentley” will be put up for auction (nov. 07) in aid of the Nathalie Todenhöfer Foundation for multiple sclerosis as well as Best Buddies, an organization dedicated to improving the integration of the mentally disabled within society.
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