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National Federation of the Blind to Attempt GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ Title
Chris Danielsen
Director of Public Relations
National Federation of the Blind
(410) 659-9314, extension 2330
(410) 262-1281 (Cell)
Orlando, Florida (June 24, 2015): As part of the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind Americans, members and supporters of the NFB will attempt to set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for largest umbrella mosaic. Over 2,170 individuals (the current record, achieved by PT Philips in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2012) will simultaneously raise umbrellas to create an image that can be viewed from above. The National Federation of the Blind record title attempt will take place at 7 a.m. on the morning of Wednesday, July 8, in the rear surface parking lot of the Rosen Centre Hotel located at 9840 International Drive in Orlando.
Mark A. Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: "Every day, the members of the National Federation of the Blind raise the expectations of blind people, because it is low expectations, and not blindness, that stand between blind people and our dreams. On Wednesday, July 8, we will raise expectations by raising a record number of umbrellas to convey the message that the blind can live the lives we want. Together, with love, hope, and determination, we can and will make this GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ attempt, and all of our other dreams, come true."
Harris Rosen, President & COO, Rosen Hotels & Resorts, said: "For the past several years we have been honored to host the annual convention of the National Federation of the Blind. We are delighted to do so again this year, and we are particularly excited to host an official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ attempt at Rosen Centre. We encourage the Orlando community to support this incredible organization and join the National Federation of the Blind at Rosen Centre in their attempt to break a world record!"
For more information about the National Federation of the Blind GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ attempt, or to sign up to help us set this new record, visit www.nfb.org/gwr.
About the National Federation of the Blind
The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.
Orlando's Rosen Hotels & Resorts Once Again Named American Heart Association Gold Fit-Friendly Worksite
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ORLANDO (March 11, 2015) – Rosen Hotels & Resorts is proud to announce that it has been named a Gold Fit-Friendly Worksite by the American Heart Association. This marks the 5th year that the Orlando-based independent hotel group has received this distinction.
To receive the gold level award, Rosen Hotels & Resorts fulfilled "key criteria" and demonstrated a "strong commitment to providing a healthy workplace for employees." As an American Heart Association Fit-Friendly Worksite, Rosen Hotels & Resorts will receive recognition on the association's website and local recognition at events and in communications materials. The hotel group also will be able to use the Fit-Friendly Worksite Gold Seal on its communications. Its associates may also take advantage of free tools such as the American Heart Association's online Activity Tracker.
The honor is just one of many bestowed upon Rosen Hotels & Resorts for its commitment to better health for its 4,600 associates and dependents. For more than 20 years, Rosen Hotels & Resorts has offered an innovative, in-house healthcare program for associates and dependents. In recent years, it added to that plan all students from the University of Central Florida's Rosen College of Hospitality Management. In November 2014, the hotel group partnered with Wal-Mart to provide free generic prescriptions for those covered on its in-house plan. And, in 2012, the hotel group opened a brand new associate medical facility, The Rosen Medical Center, A Place for Healing and Wellness, located on International Drive.
"We are honored that the American Heart Association has once again recognized Rosen Hotels & Resorts for our commitment to the health and well-being of our associates and their families," said Harris Rosen, President & COO, Rosen Hotels & Resorts. "We hope that our in-house healthcare model is an inspiration to other companies and individuals who want to take control of their greatest asset – their own health and that of their associates."
Features of Rosen Hotels & Resorts' associate healthcare program include an array of free preventative care opportunities such as annual physicals, comprehensive screening lab tests, well-baby care, pregnancy case management, weight management and dietician services, smoking cessation, flu shots and vaccines, mental health benefits, as well as exercise programs, classes and fitness groups.
For more information, visit www.rosenhotels.com.
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Orlando Hotelier and Philanthropist Harris Rosen Awarded Coretta Scott King A.N.G.E.L. Award by The King Center, Atlanta
Orlando Hotelier and Philanthropist Harris Rosen Awarded Coretta Scott King A.N.G.E.L. Award by The King Center, Atlanta
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ORLANDO (Jan. 23, 2015) – Orlando hotelier and philanthropist Harris Rosen, President & COO of Rosen Hotels & Resorts, received the Coretta Scott King A.N.G.E.L. Award at the 32nd Annual Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner presented by The King Center in Atlanta. The King Center, formally known as The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, was established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King. The awards ceremony took place on Jan. 17, 2015 (in observance of the late Dr. King's 86th birthday) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta.
The awards event recognized just four honorees. The Salute to Greatness Award, one of the King Center's highest honors, was awarded to former President Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, and to Bernard J. Tyson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente. The Coretta Scott King A.N.G.E.L. (Advancing Nonviolence through Generations of Exceptional Leadership) Award was given to Harris Rosen and to Aidan Thomas Hornaday, founder of the Aidan Cares Foundation. The award is given in honor of and in keeping with the spirit of the late Coretta Scott King and recognizes a youth or young adult and a youth organization/initiative which exemplifies exceptional leadership in the areas of peace, social justice and nonviolent social change. The honor was established and awarded for the first time in 2013.
Rosen was being recognized for his more than 20 year commitment to the Tangelo Park Program, a three-fold educational community service initiative within the once drug- and crime-ridden Tangelo Park neighborhood of Orlando. In 1992, as Rosen was planning his seventh property, Rosen Shingle Creek, he was struck with an overwhelming sense of gratitude for his many blessings and decided it was time to give back to his community. By 1993, he had created the Tangelo Park Program, a personally funded concept. His innovative program provides free preschool for every two-, three-, and four-year-old child living in the neighborhood and a full community college or four-year college, or a vocational or technical school scholarship for every graduating high school senior. In addition, the program provides a Neighborhood Center for Families where parents can take parenting courses and obtain counseling and other resources to help them become positive role models for their children.
When Rosen created the Tangelo Park Program, the community's high school dropout rate was 43 percent higher than the national average. Not long after the program began, high school graduation rates soared with an almost zero dropout rate. To date, more than 280 young people have now attended college or vocational school. "I am so honored that the Tangelo Park Program has been recognized by The King Center and I am truly humbled to receive an award given in the spirit of Mrs. Coretta Scott King," said Rosen. "I will be happy to accept the honor on behalf of the Tangelo Park community and especially all of the youngsters who have worked so hard over the past 20 years to better themselves through the gift of education."
Established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change ("The King Center") has been a global destination, resource center and community institution for over a quarter century. Nearly a million people each year make pilgrimage to the National Historic Site to learn, be inspired and pay their respects to Dr. King's legacy. Both a traditional memorial and programmatic nonprofit, the King Center was envisioned by its founder to be "no dead monument, but a living memorial filled with all the vitality that was his, a center of human endeavor, committed to the causes for which he lived and died." That vision was carried out through educational and community programs until Mrs. King's retirement in the mid-1990s, and today it is being revitalized.
Celebrating more than 40 years in business, Rosen Hotels & Resorts comprises nearly 6,500 guest rooms at seven Orlando hotels: three convention properties – Rosen Plaza, Rosen Centre and Rosen Shingle Creek, as well as four value-priced leisure properties – Rosen Inn International; Rosen Inn, closest to Universal; Rosen Inn at Pointe Orlando; and Clarion Inn Lake Buena Vista. For more information, visit www.rosenhotels.com.
Inspiration Through Experience
Forty years ago, with a single hotel and a dream, Harris Rosen changed Orlando's meetings landscape forever.
Award-Winning Rosen Centre Hotel Introduces Spectacular New First-of-its Kind Family Tradition This Season – Holidays on Ice!
Professionally Produced Outdoor Ice Skating Show Features Sought-After Pro and Competitive Skaters from Across the U.S.
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ORLANDO (Oct. 21, 2014) — The holidays have always been a special time to visit Orlando, but this year, the award-winning Rosen Centre Hotel on International Drive is helping both visitors and locals create a new fun-filled family tradition – Holidays on Ice at Rosen Centre.
Celebrating its inaugural year, Holidays on Ice at Rosen Centre is Orlando's only professionally produced poolside, outdoor, theatrical ice skating extravaganza. Nowhere else in Orlando – or perhaps the world – can guests sit outdoors next to a beautiful Olympic-size tropical swimming pool, surrounded by swaying palm trees, enjoying average December in Orlando highs of 72.9° F – all while watching an incredible ice skating and light show. This intimate and totally unique setting places guests as close as an arm's length from a cast of six highly sought-after competitive and professional skaters, hand selected from around the United States especially for the Rosen Centre show.
The holiday-themed spectacular features individual, couples and ensemble performances set to traditional holiday music "with a twist." Dazzling, custom-designed costumes adorned with sparkling Swarovski™ crystals add to the ambiance of the evening show, particularly during the jaw-dropping opening number, "Let There Be Light," which literally lights up the entire Rosen Centre hotel – all 24 floors! There's also a little comedy in the 45-minute production, as skaters present a light-hearted spoof of Olympic skating rivalries.
The show was written and produced specifically for Rosen Centre by professional figure skater, Alex Wilfand, owner of Ice Creative Entertainment. Wilfand has produced ice skating events worldwide for organizations including Disney on Ice, the National Hockey League and Gaylord Palms Resorts, as well as numerous music video and television events.
Wilfand personally selected the cast for Holidays on Ice, including four female and two male skaters, many of whom skate professionally for globally touring productions including Disney on Ice and for major theme parks and entertainment companies around the world. Many are former championship competitive figure skaters and ice dancers who have risen through the ranks of state, regional, sectional and national competitions before turning professional. One member of the cast is currently training for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. The cast comes from as far as Texas, California and Washington State, while one is a Winter Park, Fla. native.
Wilfand is confident that Holidays on Ice at Rosen Centre will make a big splash in Orlando. "There are many things to do in Orlando over the holidays, but there has never been anything like this before. Holidays on Ice is a completely one-of-a-kind show, like nothing you will ever see anywhere else," he explained. "Guests will be able to see these incredible skaters up close and feel like a part of the show, all while sitting in a beautiful outdoor poolside setting under the stars. It promises to be truly magical."
Todd Frappier, Director of Sales and Marketing for Rosen Centre agrees. "Everybody is looking for something special to do during the holiday season, so we are proud to provide Rosen Centre guests as well as local residents with a brand new holiday tradition that's both affordable and entertaining for the whole family."
Holidays on Ice at Rosen Centre is offered nightly Thursday through Sunday evenings from Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, until Dec. 28, including Christmas Day, as well as on Dec. 31, New Year's Eve. Two shows are offered nightly on Fridays and Saturdays. Each show includes a pre-show meet and greet with the cast and performances by carolers, as well as a post-performance photo opportunity with the cast. Tickets for Holidays on Ice are $25 per person; children under age 3 are complimentary.
Guests who dine at Rosen Centre, including the new Harry's Poolside Bar & Grill, can purchase a show ticket at a significant discount (some restrictions apply). Special discounts also are available for those who purchase the Thanksgiving or Christmas Day
To make it a truly memorable evening, Rosen Centre is offering specially priced accommodations packages including Holidays on Ice tickets. Visit www.rosencenter.com/holidays for specific dates and show times, to make dining or accommodations reservations and to pre-purchase tickets. Holidays on Ice is also accepting bookings for corporate holiday parties, birthday parties and other private events. Please call 407-996-6155.
The Holidays on Ice skating rink will be open for public skating Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons during the show season, as well as Dec. 22-30. Price is $12 per person which includes skate rental and two hours of skating time on the synthetic rink. And, for just $15, guests of all ages can book a 15-minute private skating lesson with one of the stars of the show.
About Alex Wilfand
Alex Wilfand, owner of Ice Creative Entertainment, has produced ice skating events worldwide for organizations including Disney on Ice, the National Hockey League, Gaylord Palms Resorts and the University of Central Florida, as well as various music video and television events. Skating since age 7, Wilfand trained in Boston and rose through the ranks as a national competitor, along with Olympians including Alexi Yagudin of Russia and Surya Bonaly of France. He toured globally as a soloist with Disney on Ice, portraying some of Disney's most beloved characters, before being tapped as a global casting consulting for The Walt Disney Company and assisting in the creation of Tokyo Disneyland's White Holiday Ice Skating Parade. He is a member of the Professional Figure Skaters Association and was recently inducted into the United States Figure Skating Association's Theatrical Skating Committee. Over the years, he has coached numerous national medalists and international competitors.


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Hi folks, I'm Quentin and I have been a working artist since the early eighties. My speciality is trompe l'œil (note the use of the Œ for the correct spelling) but I undertake many different styles.
I also design and mount websites (some of which can be seen on the pages in the menu) prepare graphics for web and print and much more. I call my self SuperSnail simply because I sign my work with a stylised "QR" which you can see above and resembles a snail. For more info about me please see the ABOUT page.
I also use this web space to mouth off a bit. Can't help it. I look at the world and I see so many somnambulists plodding through dreary, avoidable, tough lives with so much un-noticed weirdness going on all around them. It makes me wonder why they don't all wake up and we can do something to restore people a bit of control over their lives instead of faceless corporations dictating to OUR governmental representatives how poor and deprived they want us to be.
Don't play their game: you don't need that extra 42″ flat-screen with its designed in life expectancy of a couple of years. Buy an instrument, entertain yourself instead of being spoon-fed mindless sit-coms and police dramas with their glorification of violence and infidelity.
I hope you enjoy browsing my work, that you don't get too annoyed at my rants, and if you feel I can help in some way please contact me.
So there I am minding my business when I get a call from one of my oldest (in time, not age) friends, Rob Verkerk from the Alliance for Natural Health. He and a colleague of his have taken on the the distributorship of a health supplement called Nuzest which was going to be promoted at The Polaris Professional Jiu-JItsu Invitational that took place on Sept. 12th 2015, in Cardiff, Wales.(see here) and can I edit film? In a rush?
Well I have messed around with film, but I wouldn't say I edited film. Anyway, this is how it turned out. I was happy with it.
The Gag Law – La Ley Mordaza or more correctly Citizen Safety Bill
The reality is that the Gag Law is just one more in a series of highly repressive actions by state institutions against Spain's autonomous social movements [1]. Designed to keep us robots in place and to deny us our rights to free speech, to demonstrate against the repressive fascist regime that has been reinstalled.
This writer, Belen Fernandez, pretty much hits the nail on the head in her article Outlawing public opinion in Spain
The New World Order in action folk.
Time to wake up.
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A quick trip to France to visit my sister.
Or visit Photobucket to see all the photos and in more detail.
Well, as the saying goes, there are none so blind as those that will not see.
On the 20 November 1975 General Franco shuffled off his mortal coil (none to soon) and ostensibly a tyrannical dictatorship came to an end. The Spanish peoples got a stab at "democracy", albeit with a royal family still in place. Much the same as the UK. A bunch of out-dated spongers collecting huge salaries and claiming vast tracts of prime real-estate for free.
Forty years on and the past has been forgotten… those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So we have the PP as the governing body. The PP (Partido Popular – so they think) are a bunch of self agandising fascists that believe in nepotism and stripping the country of it's wealth in order to curry favours with the corporate oligarchy and make themselves "rich and famous" at the cost of the citizen.
Out of this mess (Andalucía has an unemployment of roughly 40%) came PODEMOS (translated – WE CAN). A brand new party for the people with the people in mind. They came in overnight and claimed so many seats on their first trial run that it rather appears that they may win the next elections. I think that will be the first time in the history of world politics that that has happened – should it come to pass.
Naturally the corporate controlled media are calling it COMMUNISM. But then again their education is so dire that they probably don't really know what communism is.
Suffice it to say that should PODEMOS win, it should be a big rocket up the arse of conventional 2 party politics.
Don't you think we've had enough proof that politics and rampant capitalism are in actual fact destroying the world?
Do you think that a bunch of bio-engineers whose remit is to make a profit at any cost (we will pay the cost, it seems like the first mutations in human placentas are occurring in the Indonesian Archipelago possibly as a result of GM soy.) are to be trusted with out FOOD!
I mean, come on folks, what we put in our bodies is pretty fundamental. Tomatoes with fish genes? Super-mutant weeds causing havoc with water courses.
Only in America is a pizza classed as a VEGETABLE.
Yes folks, you heard right, A VEGETABLE.
So the main company involved in trying to make us eat their untested, unknown garbage is MONSANTO. Their logo says
"BIO-TECHNOLOGY – innovation, collaboration, speed".
I think it's more like this:
July 2014
My place
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Or here to see it on this site. (It's better on Photobucket their reduction on here doesn't work too well)
Our menagerie has come on apace…
Well over at Jardimals we are tidying up the snail. So I thought I'd put a picture of Slippy the Snail and Eddie on here as this new sculpture furniture for gardens is driving me at the moment.
The Jardimals project continues with our frog. At the moment we aren't quite finished but here are some pics of the beast under construction.
Had odd thoughts as to the state of the world? This site has.
Why not have a read and see what you think. If nothing else it's an unconventional view of the world.
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UPDATE: unfortunately it seems that this site has been abandoned. Shame, there was some good stuff there.
The Jardimals project is to make sculpture as garden furniture. The feet of garden benches will all be the same height thereby giving the client a choice of asymmetrical feet of varying shape and design. To date we have a snail, a frog and a hedgehog. There are plenty more to come.
Why Eddie?
Eddie Erizo – being spanish for our prickly friend
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This was an A3 poster for an Arklow, Co. Wicklow band that recently disbanded after 20+ years.
Produced quickly in gouache and ink.
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Decorated furniture has been with us for centuries. Painted, carved, marquetry and lots more if you look around. Because of my trompe l'œil discipline I naturally gravitated to that side of the decoration. I have painted lots of furniture to commission over the years, and, in many ways, it's my favourite./p>
On the furniture page you will see some of the examples that I managed to photograph. But this is a toilet seat with items painted on the lid. They are inexpensive and fun. Naturally the more on the seat the more it costs. With most painting and especially with trompe l'œil the money is in the details.
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Ambigrams are words that can be read normally or upside down. They were brought to fame by Dan Brown's DaVinci Code. These were created with vectors and in some cases viewing them upside down gives a different word.
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Not too sure about the New World Order and all it's various security agencies. I don't do TV but when I do have the misfortune to see some it always strikes me as bizarre. It seems that there is a lot of bull being talked, to my mind. I have always seen the TV as a method of insidious programming, an electro-narcotic. All this scaremongering has lead to the birth of various alphabet agencies that are supposed to be working for us.
I have my doubts.
So here are a few political statements and parodies. Hope you like them.
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I decided that Facebook's profile pictures weren't to my taste especially as they use facial recognition software. Call me paranoid but I don't like my biometrics all over the place and included in passports and picture driver's licenses, being clocked by CCTV. Couple that with all the GPS embedded meta data… well suffice it to say that I no longer use Facebook. I prefer to keep a slightly lower profile.
Result are these Facebook profile pictures for the wary.
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So living in Spain at the moment is dire. There is no work and even when one does find something everyone wants it for nothing. The only advantage to being here is that there are no heating bills, I can see the sea, the weather is… well better than the north of Europe. Nuff said.
So my boredom lead to some vector graphics of the rapidly approaching and anticipated summer vistas.
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Website design. No I can't build you a site like Amazon but I can undertake sites for people that want a web presence. The site featured here took some 200 hours – but then there were a lot of products to include along with the resizing and optimising of photos for the web. On the websites page you will see other examples that are considerably smaller and quicker to produce.
I also have a good friend at PlusLocal that hosts all my sites for me. His servers are wicked fast and the support is impeccable and the price? Well I like it.
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I have to admit that I find logos hard to do – I tend to over complicate them. Never the less there are a couple with which I am happy.
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I love guitars. They have female forms. And bearing that in mind I decided to undertake a series of painted guitars. The idea was that each guitar should be a beach view with a babe. So far I have to admit that 2 are painted and 2 are half done and 2 are primed and based ready to go. When I stop prevaricating I'll finish them off.
This one is the famous Copacabana beach in Rio where I had the privilege of living for a while. The others, so far, feature Phuket, Frösakull and Mombasa in my country of birth. The remaining 2 are to be decided but I think they'll be Australia somewhere and Costa Rica.
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I like working in 3D but I don't often get the chance to do it commercially. The case of the Buddha came about when decorating a Thai restaurant in Mijas Pueblo, Costa del Sol. I heard the owner complaining that he couldn't get a big bronze Buddha from Thailand in time for the inauguration of the restaurant. I offered to build him one… he accepted.
It was built of plaster on an armature and then finished with a faux bronze patina. The faces of the Thai workers in the restaurant lit up and, I have to admit, I was blown away when they started praying and decorating Buddha's space.
Spread the love.
The art of the faux finish is to paint one surface to make it appear something else. In Victorian England cheap doors were grained to make them look as if made of oak or some other expensive wood. Similarly walls were painted to appear as if made of marble and other stone finishes.
Working in London in the 1980s saw a "reverse snobbery" taking place where the painted finishes were more expensive than the actual item. They became a social status and spawned many TV shows on how to paint faux finishes. Suddenly everyone was an expert!
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Sign writing is dying. Mostly people have computers and a vast array of (unused) fonts. It's so much easier to go to the print shop and say I want a sign made up saying "El Secreto de la Abuela" or whatever and have it run off on sticky plastic.
Granted the sticky plastic has come a long way, it now incorporates UV filters and there are special varnishes that help with longevity too. But it has killed an art form. Could plastic get the anchor and shadows on this yellow wall?
Again – Now everyone's an expert.
Some 20+ years on and this sign still exists! Sure the pub has been repainted but they left the sign. It's a bit of a shame they painted the walls a pale beige/pink because the shadow colour was calculated for a yellow ground and doesn't really work that well on the beige/pink. Have a look here on Google Maps
When I am not working for someone I like to create what I call "collages". I guess the word stems from the days when I used to use loads of magazines, scissors, scalpels and glue. These days it is way easier on the computer. However the computer does take some of the discipline out of it as the images are resizable, editable and they can be flipped horizontally or vertically which of course couldn't be done with a cut-out.
Probably a better term would be photo-montage.
This is an art form that I like immensely and was originally inspired but the British artist Penny Slinger whom I met briefly in the 1970s.
Murals can serve to change an otherwise dull wall area into something with a little more atmosphere. Whether it simply breaks up a large space or helps to add to the atmosphere of, say, a restaurant.
When living in Eire I got involved in theatre thanks to Michael Stafford, my kid's granddad. I knew nothing but he had confidence in my abilities and the result was a lot of prizes and honourable mentions for my visions of the various plays. Thanks Mick!
This set was the Post Horn Gallop by Derek Benfield. Now I wouldn't be that into farces but the play set me in mind of cartoons. So I painted the set like that. The reviewer in Gorey Co. Wexford made the ego boosting comment that the price of admission was worth it if only to see the set.
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Painting and drawing people has always facinated me. This picture below is of Œnone, my daughter, painted on profiled MDF board. I think that working on irregular walls has put me off the formal framed picture. Nearly all my paintings have no frame.
Trompe l'œil is a french word meaning "trick the eye". In spanish it is the same, trampantojo. Some times it is written trompe d'œil which would mean "trick of the eye". Trompe l'œil (correctly written with the diphthong) can encompass many styles. Painted marble and faux bois can be included in this category because they become the tools of the painter who is trying to fool you. There is no point in painting a violin on the back of a door if you can't paint the wood from which the violin is made. There is a famous example of this violin at Chatsworth House, UK.
Often trompe l'oeil paintings are huge murals with views, masonry work, windows, pillars and various other architectural elements that change the aspect of the room in which they are painted. However it can be seen from the picture above that they don't need to be. This little shelf measured about 60cm square.
As long as man has existed he has felt the need to decorate his tools, weapons, living space and more. This picture is from "The Book of Kells" it features a letter, the letter P decorated to the hilt in a traditional celtic style.
The Book of Kells is one of the finest and most famous of a group of manuscripts, produced from the late 6th through the early 9th centuries in monasteries in Ireland, Scotland and England.
I always wanted to design an album cover. I got the chance to do two. I was also asked to produce covers for Aikido DVDs
This cover was created about 2 foot square in collage. It was for the band The Beautiful People who enjoyed some success in the early 90s with the album "If 60s were 90s". They managed to obtain the rights to use Jimi Hendrix samples.
I also had the chance of jamming with some of these guys – brilliant fun. Thanks Phil and Anton and Duncan.

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PartSelect Number PS2066823
NOTE: As per the manufacture the crisper drawer has been updated from the original. A new crisper cover may need to be purchased for the drawers to work.
This part works with the following brands: Whirlpool, Admiral, Estate, Inglis, Kenmore, KitchenAid, Roper, Maytag, Crosley, Jenn-Air, Hardwick, Magic Chef, Amana, Caloric & Glenwood.
This part fixes the following symptoms:
Frame only. Glass is not included.
Level of DifficultyReally easy
Time to do repair:Less than 15 mins
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Kansas forward C.J. Giles was dismissed from the team after dragging a women across the floor.
Kind of a crazy story. Some girl was at his place, he gets a phone call and tells her to leave, she asks why, he says it's his girlfriend, she says "girlfriend?", he says "yeah, you need to go", she gets upset, he decides to drag her across the floor and (allegedly) punch her in the face.
Not exactly the smartest play considering he was just let back on the team a day ago. Between this and the child support stuff he sounds like a real gentleman.
Hey, here's another crazy story, there's a thread right below this one with the exact same story. Why post a new thread about the same topic?
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FYF Fest's 12th year kicks off this Saturday at the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena & Exposition Park. Kanye West will now headline Saturday night's Main Stage. Frank Ocean has decided on his own terms to cancel his appearance.Tickets are still available, and this lineup tweak may have upped their demand just a bit. Check out the full schedule.
With a lineup that already includes Morrissey, D'Angelo and the Vanguard, FKA Twigs, Chet Faker, Flume, Belle & Sebastian and more, FYF Fest is excited to have Kanye West play this weekend in his newly adopted home of Los Angeles.
FYF Fest 2015 lineup (Morrissey, Jesus & Mary Chain, Frank Ocean, D'Angelo, Dinosaur Jr, Spiritualized, Bloc Party, more)
LA's annual FYF Fest returns August 22 & 23, and today the lineup was announced. It includes Morrissey, The Jesus & Mary Chain, D'Angelo, Frank Ocean, Bloc Party, Run the Jewels, Deerhunter, Belle & Sebastian, Spiritualized, Dinosaur Jr, Mac DeMarco, Joyce Manor, Title Fight, METZ, Cold Cave, Melody's Echo Chamber, Battles, Neon Indian, Alvvays, La Femme, Mikal Cronin, Hop Along and more.
Tickets go on sale Friday (5/8) at noon PDT. Full lineup below...
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Yoni Wolf of alt-rap/indie rockers WHY? is heading out on a solo tour this spring/summer with his old pal Serengeti. The tour hits NYC on May 10 at Knitting Factory. Tickets for that show are on sale now. All dates are listed below.
Yoni also just released a cover of Frank Ocean's "Thinkin' Bout You." He gives it his characteristically quirky twist, as you can hear for yourself below.
Speaking of, Frank Ocean recently announced that he's finally ready to follow Channel Orange with a new album. According to Billboard, the not-yet-titled album will be out this July, as will a new magazine he's making called Boys Don't Cry.
Serengeti is also one third of Sisyphus with Son Lux and Sufjan Stevens. Both Son Lux and Sufjan are touring too.
List of Yoni Wolf/Serengeti dates, and Yoni's Frank Ocean cover, below...
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Brian Wilson didn't lie about Iraq (or Frank Ocean & Lana Del Rey), interviewed about biopic, schedules show
photo: Brian Wilson at Wellmont Theatre in 2013 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)
A lot of people are calling Brian Wilson a liar for his false reports on the Iraq War. Though unless the former Beach Boy has a secret history as a news anchor that we're not aware of, chances are they mean NBC's Brian Williams (of BriTunes fame!), who was suspended for 6 months after admitting to those exact same accusations.
It may have seemed, however, that Brian Wilson was a liar for saying Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey would be on his upcoming solo album. Though one of his reps has since told Pitchfork that he did intend for them to be on it, but scheduling issues wouldn't allow it.
Brian also spoke this week in a new video for Hollywood Reporter about the upcoming biopic on his life, Love & Mercy, which will screen at SXSW. You can watch a three-minute video of him and members of the cast speaking about it, below.
Meanwhile, Brian still hasn't announced a tour in support of his new album, but he did announce he'll be performing at New Brunswick, NJ's State Theatre 2015 Benefit Gala concert on May 16. Tickets go on sale Friday, 2/20 at 10 AM with a presale starting Thursday, 2/19 at 10 AM. Gala tickets are $700, but concert-only tickets range from $55-$150.
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Chance the Rapper planning Social Experiment live-band LP, LP ft. Frank Ocean, Andre 3000 & J Cole, playing NYU show
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Chance the Rapper got plenty of deserved buzz off of 2013's Acid Rap mixtape, and he's planning to change things up pretty significantly for his next release, Surf, the debut album from his live backing band The Social Experiment, which Chance says is really the brainchild of trumpet player Nico "Donnie Trumpet" Segal. A new FADER story on the album opines, "It's almost as if Chance and his friends are aiming to reverse-engineer the act of beat-digging. Where earlier generations of hip-hop producers foregrounded small fragments of music from the past, The Social Experiment buries new ones for the future." FADER got to hear the album when they interviewed Chance, and their story makes it sound like a dense, complex piece of work. Read more here. Watch the album's new trailer video and stream some recent music Chance and The Social Experiment uploaded to Soundcloud, which may or may not appear in some form on Surf, below.
A new GQ interview with Chance also reveals that Frank Ocean, Andre 3000 and J. Cole will appear on the next Chance the Rapper album, which is separate from Surf, The Social Experiment's album.
Chance doesn't have a tour scheduled at the moment, but he did announce that he and The Social Experiment will come to NYC to play an NYU show on February 24 at Webster Hall with Sweater Beats. Tickets are on sale now, and "all non-NYU purchased tickets must be accompanied by an NYU student with an NYU ID on the day of the event."
Album trailer and song streams below...
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Yesterday, Pitchfork posted their top 200 tracks of the decade so far, and today they've listed the top 100 albums to have come out between 2010-2014. There's some surprises on there. For example, I didn't expect to see Bon Iver's self-titled, their #1 album of 2011 and with a score of 9.5, rank as low as #27 on this list. I was also surprised to see Chief Keef make it but not, say, Shabazz Palaces or Schoolboy Q. And there's a few other glaring omissions: nothing by The National? Grizzly Bear? One thing that will surprise no one though, is their #1 pick.
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It's not just you: Over the last five years, there's been a seismic shift in the way we engage with music. We tweet, tumbl, stream, and share our favorite songs; we scour dead links and navigate obtrusive pop-ups for the newest mixtapes; we watch our music videos on Youtube and Vevo. We watched the explosion of EDM, the birth of drill, the rise and fall of chillwave. We debated how to pronounce FKA twigs, whether the album was dead, and where Bobby Shmurda's hat went. We met Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, Grimes, Jessie Ware, Disclosure, Miguel, and Charli XCX. We saw LCD Soundsystem break up, Neutral Milk Hotel reunite, and My Bloody Valentine release a new album--a shooting star if there ever was one. [Pitchfork]By the end of this year it will be halfway through the current decade, and to mark that, Pitchfork is posting lists of the best tracks, albums, and videos of the decade so far, this week. Today, they put out their list of the top 200 tracks. Like most of Pitchfork's 'top tracks' lists, it ranges from big names to underdogs in indie, electronic, hip hop and more, plus a few huge radio-pop songs sprinkled in. Can you guess what made #1?
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At Bonnaroo: Kim Kardashian's boobs overshadow, but Frank Ocean covers Kanye who gets booed, disses Jay-Z
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Though the big "news" seems to be Kim Kardashian's see through top (thanks Kanye for making Bonnaroo a place the Kardashians know about), our favorite Kanye related news was Frank Ocean's setlist. As CoS reports, Odd Future's R&B singer didn't end up playing any new songs, but he did play a number of hits from Channel Orange and Nostalgia, Ultra ("Thinkin Bout You," "Novacane," "Pyramids," etc) and his verses on Beyonce's "Superpower" and Kanye's "New Slaves." Speaking of, Kanye once again omitted Beyonce's husband from lyrics, possibly for not appearing at the ceremony where he recently became a husband (to the Bonnaroo newsmaker with the sheer top).
Kanye's controversial return to Bonnaroo wasn't delayed by hours this time, and included a ton of hits ("Black Skinhead," "Mercy," "Can't Tell Me Nothin'," "Power," "Jesus Walks," etc etc etc), but just on time for his New Year's resolution to be up (he promised to stop ranting for at least six months, apparently he meant that very literally), the set included plenty of rants. He referenced the 2008 controversy, yelled out "Where the press at? Fuck the press!," and compared himself to Shakespeare, Walt Disney, Genghis Kahn, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and still plenty more. Not everyone in the crowd took well to the ranting. Entertainment Weekly points out:
His outburst was met with violent boos and what looked like a mass exodus. Festival-goers headed away from the stage and began filling up U.K. dance duo Disclosure's tent early, punctuating their wait with eruptions of surprisingly well-organized chants of "F-k Kanye!"A video from Kanye's set, his setlist and Frank Ocean's setlist, below...
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Bonnaroo 2013 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)
As you may know, Bonnaroo returns to Manchester, TN in June. The main lineup and the Club Stage lineup were already announced and 'Roo just announced the late night artists including Chance the Rapper, Darkside, Deafheaven, Die Antwoord, Disclosure, Frank Ocean, Ice Cube, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Pusha T, The Flaming Lips, Ty Segall, White Denim and more. Full late night lineup below.
Since we last spoke, the festival's comedy lineup was also announced and it includes Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious, Taran Killam, Hannibal Buress, Neal Brennan, TJ Miller, Rory Scovel, Bridget Everett & the Tender Moments, Sasheer Zamata, Seth Herzog, Emily Heller and Brad Williams.
Tickets for the fest, whose main lineup includes Kanye West, Elton John, Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys, Phoenix, Neutral Milk Hotel and more, are still available.
Full late night lineup below...
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Bonnaroo 2013 (more by Katherine Hansen)
As mentioned, Bonnaroo 2014 happens June 12 - 15 in Manchester, TN. The fest has already been dropping hints as to who's going to play this year (Kanye and Elton John seem likely as headliners) but will finally spill the beans tonight via a web show called "Blam!" which airs at 9 PM EST on Bonnaroo.com (or an Xbox app). (Maybe you watched last year's with Weird Al Yankovich and Portugal the Man.) This year's announcement special is hosted by SNL's Taran Killam and Broad City's Hannibal Buress, with a "superjam" between The Flaming Lips and Ben Folds.
There's also a pre-Blam! web event from 7 - 9 PM EST featuring live cover song performances from Tenacious D, Kings Of Leon, Phish, My Morning Jacket, and others.
Or you can just check back here: we'll have the full Bonnaroo 2014 line-up in this post once its announced.
UPDATE (9 PM): Lineup now being announced and includes Kanye West, Elton John, Vampire Weekend, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Arctic Monkeys, Phoenix, Mastodon, Frank Ocean, The Flaming Lips, Neutral Milk Hotel, Meshuggah, Damon Albarn, Disclosure, Broken Bells, James Blake, Lionel Ritchie, Jack White, Deafheaven, Janelle Monae, CHVRCHES, Darkside, Phosphorescent, Cloud Nothings, Danny Brown, Cut Copy, Typhoon, Sam Smith, Pusha T, Warpaint, Those Darlins, Cass McCombs, Lauryn Hill, Chromeo, Dr. Dog, The Bouncing Souls, Classixx, First Aid Kit, Fitz and the Tantrums, Chance the Rapper, Ice Cube, Caveman, Washed Out, Real Estate, Rudimental, Ty Segall, Polica, A$AP Ferg, Little Dragon, Omar Souleyman, Lucero, Goat, Okkervil River, Jonathan Wilson, Wiz Khalifa, The Avett Brothers and MANY more.
Tickets go on sale Saturday (2/22) at noon.
Full lineup (spoiler: no Outkast) below...
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Beyonce's "surprise" new album w/ Frank Ocean, Drake, Jay Z, Miguel, Pharrell, a member of Chairlift & more (videos)
by Andrew Sacher
If you've been on the internet at all today, you probably know that the event of the day is that Beyonce released a self-titled album with no singles and no announcements on iTunes around midnight. By now you've most likely already heard it or intentionally haven't listened to it, and I think as much as anyone else that we shouldn't review this thing immediately (and we can save it for our Best of 2014 lists, right?). That being said, it's also been fun to spend the day discussing the album, so let's discuss.
The album's only guest spots come from deservedly big names Jay Z ("Drunk in Love") Frank Ocean ("Superpower") and Drake ("Mine"), plus a moving feminist speech from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on "Flawless" (a reworking of "Bow Down"), and her daughter Blue Ivy on the album's final track, "Blue." There's also co-writing/production credits from Miguel, Caroline Polachek (of Chairlift), Pharrell, Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, Sia, Drake producer Noah "40" Shebib and others. That cast isn't too surprising (except maybe Caroline Polachek), but it's a nice reminder if you needed it that certain big name artists are consistently working with the artists that complement them best, rather than just piling on other big name guests.
As I write this I'm on my fifth listen, and the album itself is sounding pretty impressive so far. Her last album, 4, was maybe the first Beyonce album to truly contain no filler, but even most of that album got overshadowed by standout singles like "Countdown" and "Love on Top." At the moment, it's not sounding like there's a track on Beyonce that could be a standout single, which is maybe why, like the similarly album-oriented Yeezus, they chose to release it without any preceding singles. (You also won't be able to purchase individual tracks on iTunes until December 20.) Like Yeezus, and The 20/20 Experience, Beyonce is instead a new album from a megastar that uses her status to unveil a full-length collection of forward-thinking music to the mainstream, the underground, and well, just about everybody. The future-R&B that guests Frank Ocean and Drake make on their own albums is the style most prevalent here, and mixing that with one of the most undeniably great voices in today's pop music makes Beyonce a hell of a listen.
You also may have heard that Beyonce is calling the album a "visual album," and it was released with 17 videos for the 14 tracks (a few bonus videos included). You can watch a playlist of 30-second clips of each video, along with the tracklist, below...
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Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt released his new album, Doris, this year and now he's announced a tour in support of it. The tour brings him to three of the four Rock the Bells festivals, including the NJ one on October 4, and soon after that he plays a NYC show on October 7 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for that show are on sale now.
The tour ends with Earl's appearance at Odd Future's second annual Camp Flog Gnaw Festival which happens on November 9 at LA Coliseum with Tyler, the Creator, Frank Ocean, Flying Lotus, Schoolboy Q, Mellowhigh, Trash Talk, and more. Tickets for the fest are on sale now. Check out the flyer, along with the list of all Earl dates, below...
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is Kanye West's 'Yeezus' finally here? (includes Justin Vernon, Frank Ocean, Daft Punk, Chief Keef, TNGHT & more)
by Andrew Sacher
We're still waiting til Tuesday (6/18) for one of the most anticipated albums of the year -- Kanye West's Yeezus -- to drop, but something tells us it may have surfaced on the internet a little early. Assuming what going around is the final version of the album, it's pretty consistent with Kanye's mini-rant at Governors Ball about not caring about the radio anymore; this is some of his most anti-commercial music yet. Rather than the lush string/horn arrangements he used on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the melodic R&B-style beats of 808s and Heartbreaks or the borderline-electropop of Graduation, on Yeezus Kanye is all about dark, distorted synth maximalism. On "On Sight" those synths were reportedly worked on with Daft Punk, he's got a TNGHT (Hudson Mohawke & Lunice) track on "Blood on the Leaves," and that's Evian Christ on "I'm In It."
Update: It also includes production from Gesaffelstein, Arca and more.
He's pretty dark, lyrically, too and dominates most of the vocals on the record. Ye's been known to get heavy on the guest spots, but they're pretty low-key here. Not that they're coming from low-key people of course. The full version of "New Slaves" features Frank Ocean crooning at the end, a track called "Hold My Liquor" transitions from a Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) hook into a Chief Keef hook, and rumor has it that "God" appears on "I Am a God." I guess he really is talking back.
Kanye also brought in outside producer/Def Jam founder Rick Rubin (who just discussed the album at length) to help him out.
What may very well be the official tracklist for the album is below. Check that out and let us know your thoughts on Yeezus.
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You may have noticed these MSG show posters popping up around NYC....
Let's face it. Kanye West would never let anyone bill him 5th on a poster, but regardless, even with the typos, this concert bill popping up around NYC that claims Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Pharrell Williams, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Eminem, A$AP Rocky and Andre 3000 are playing Madison Square Garden on a "Thuesday" is sure to get more than a few people excited about a show that is not actually happening.
Who would do such a thing??? Well, the likely culprit is artist Andre Saraiva who allegedly pulled a similar stunt with Daft Punk, Phoenix, Air & more in Paris. A fake Beach Boys, Phoenix, Beastie Boys (really?), The Faint & Tame Impala poster has also been seen in LA.
Thanks Nick Masi for the photo!
Kanye on 'SNL'
Kanye West has had a busy weekend. On Thursday (5/16), he played a private show at Roseland for Adult Swim where he performed a few new songs. He also, as is his wont, let loose one of his stream-of-conscious rants, this time mostly about celebrity culture. You can watch video of that below.
One of the songs Kanye performed at Roseland was new track "New Slaves." A video for that song made its debut on Friday night (5/17), projected at, according to maps on Kanye's website, 66 locations around the world. Nine of them were in NYC, including two in Williamsburg: one being outside the Bedford Ave L stop, and the second on the Wythe Hotel, and there's video of the former below.
The song, which features a sample of 1969 single "Gyöngyhajú lány" by Hungarian rock band Omega and vocals from Frank Ocean, will feature on Kanye's follow-up to 2010's My Dark Twisted Fantasy which is, according to Pitchfork, titled Yeezus and has appearances from Daft Punk, Skrillex and more.
This activity was all centered around Kanye's appearance on Saturday Night Live's season finale hosted by Ben Afleck. (The teaser videos are below.) He performed "New Slaves" and debuted another new song, "Black Skinhead," and video of those, along with the other clips mentioned in this post, are below.
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Frank Ocean at Angel Orensanz in 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro)
Frank Ocean just posted the music video for "Lost," one of the many standout moments on his excellent Channel Orange. Check it out below.
He was also just recently named one of the most influential LGBTQ people in the world by Out Magazine (via Daily Swarm). Hopefully he uses that power to help change rap music homophobia, though Snoop Dogg might say he shouldn't bother.
Video below...
Kendrick Lamar, The Lumineers and more participating in "Yahoo on the Road" travelling festival (dates)
Amid all the noise that is SXSW, Yahoo! announced that Kendrick Lamar, fun., the Lumineers, J. Cole, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Imagine Dragons and more would be a part of a travelling festival called "Yahoo! on the Road" that kicks with a show in NYC on May 3. No word on exact line-up or venue just yet but the new media conglomerate promises details soon.
The tour concludes the three-day Wireless Festival in London (July 12 - 14) that will also feature Jay-Z & Justin Timberlake (who just added a second Yankee Stadium show), Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, Miguel, Ke$ha, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, A$AP Rocky and more. All Yahoo on the Road dates are listed below.
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Frank Ocean, Miguel, Bjork, Mumford, Black Keys, Jack White & more win & perform at Grammys (videos)
Frank Ocean performing at 2013 Grammys
The 2013 Grammys went down last night (2/10), and here's a quick recap of some of the winners and videos of performances.
The big ones: Gotye took home Record of the Year for "Somebody That I Used To Know" (beating The Black Keys, Kelly Clarkson, fun., Frank Ocean, and Taylor Swift), Mumford & Sons won Album of the Year (beating The Black Keys, fun., Frank Ocean, and Jack White), and fun. took Song of the Year and Best New Artist (totally robbing Miguel's "Adorn" and "Call Me Maybe," and Frank Ocean (!), respectively). Other wins included Skrillex for Best Dance Recording (sorry Al Walser), The Black Keys for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song and Best Rock Album, Gotye for Best Alternative Music Album (beating Fiona Apple, Bjork, M83, and Tom Waits), Usher's "Climax" for Best R&B Performance, Beyonce's "Love On Top" for Best Traditional R&B Performance, Miguel's "Adorn" for Best R&B Song, Frank Ocean for Best Urban Contemporary Album, Robert Glasper Experiment for Best R&B Album, Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Niggas In Paris" for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song and their song, "No Church In The Wild" (feat. Frank Ocean and The-Dream) for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, Drake's Take Care for Best Rap Album, Dr. John's Dan Auerbach-produced Locked Down for Best Blues Album, Jimmy Cliff's Tim Armstrong-produced Rebirth for Best Reggae Album, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross' The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo score for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Bjork's Biophilia for Best Recording Package, The Beach Boys' long-awaited The Smile Sessions for Best Historical Album, Black Keys singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, and Mumford and Sons' "Big Easy Express" for Best Long Form Music Video. There were many other categories too and you can check out the full list of winners HERE.
And of course, during the Awards Ceremony a number of artists gave performances, which you can watch videos of below. You can see Miguel and Wiz Khalifa doing "Adorn," Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z doing "Suit and Tie" and then JT doing "Pusher Love Girl," The Black Keys, Dr. John, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band doing "Lonely Boy," Jack White doing "Freedom At 21" with his all-guy band (he also played "Love Interruption" with his all-girl band but no video of that at the moment), Frank Ocean doing "Forrest Gump" with a thematically appropriate visual backdrop, a big tribute to Levon Helm with Elton John, Mavis Staples, members of Mumford and Sons, Alabama Shakes, and others, and finally, LL Cool J, Chuck D, Z-Trip, Tom Morello, and Travis Barker doing "Whaddup" with a small piece of Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Til Brooklyn."
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watch Alex Collier & the Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra perform classical covers of Frank Ocean & Bon Iver in a church
Alex Collier
Charleston, South Carolina musician Alex Collier records modern classical/church organ renditions of pop songs with The Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra and they released their album, King of Instruments, this past October which featured covers of Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Vampire Weekend, Usher, Coldplay, and others. The album was recorded in a church with Alex on organ anmd we've got two videos of them performing Frank Ocean's "Bad Religion," and Bon Iver's "Perth," which are making their premieres in this post. You can watch them below.
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by Bill Pearis
The Village Voice's annual "Pazz n' Jop" critics poll is up and, as with anything like this with averaged votes, the winners are probably not that surprising. Frank Ocean's Channel Orange takes the top album slot (Kendrick Lamar is #2), and Carly Rae Jepsen's inescapable "Call Me Maybe" comes in at the top of the singles list. (Miguel, who is on the cover of the Voice this week, comes in at #2 with "Adorn.")You can also view individual ballots and read pithy quips about the year as a whole.
The top 10s for Pazz & Jop albums and singles are below and full lists are over at the Voice.
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Alt-J at Mercury Lounge in May (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)
Big day for award nominations. The Oscars announced theirs this morning and the Brit Awards just wrapped up their ceremony for 2013 nominations, with Emeli Sandé grabbing four and Mumford & Sons and Alt-J each getting three. All three of those artists were nominated for British Album of the Year, a list that also included Paloma Faith and Plan B. If you don't know, The Brits are basically the UK's equivalent of the Grammys, though nominees are all British apart from a few "International" awards.
Jessie Ware, Muse, and Adele each got two nominations, and single-digit noms went to Bat for Lashes, The xx, Richard Hawley and The Vaccines.
Mumford & Sons have two nights at Barclays Center in February and Alt-J will swing though town in March.
The entire 2013 Brit Awards nominees list is below.
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Local Natives at Bowery Ballroom in October (more by Tracy Allison)
Local Natives, who we hadn't heard from in a while until they were revealed as the secret headliner at a Bowery Ballroom show during CMJ, soon after announced that they'll release their new album, Hummingbird, on January 29 via Frenchkiss, the followup to their 2009/2010 debut, Gorilla Manor. The new album will be supported by a tour which includes three sold out NYC shows in February.
But while we wait for new material from Local Natives, we're still wrapping up our 2012 coverage so we asked Local Natives for a list of their top 10 albums of 2012, which singer/guitarist/bassist Taylor Rice and singer/keyboardist/percussionist/guitarist Kelcey Ayer compiled and sent our way. You can check out their list below.
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Hard to believe, but our BrooklynVegan "Blog Radio" show has been airing weekly on satellite radio for over 6.5 years. It started on Sirius which then merged with XM and became SiriusXM. The station, which was originally "Left of Center" on Sirius, is now called SiriusXMU (on SiriusXM). You can currently hear the two hour show on the "indie/college" station every Wednesday at noon EST and again at midnight that night (which is technically Thursday morning in Eastern Standard Time).
At some point years ago I brought on like-minded music lover Dominic (Nick) Masi to be my co-host, and to cover when I couldn't make it. Now, though I still may pop in occasionally (my New Year's resolution!), Nick has taken over completely, hosting the show week to week with a selection of music you'll find on BrooklynVegan.com and on his own iPod. Recently Nick also started hosting a show called "Cover Me" (all cover songs) on Bruce Springsteen's E Street Radio, and other programs on the network too.
In his spare time, Nick now tour manages members of Odd Future - a job which was an offshoot of his huge passion for hip hop (and traveling around the continent in a van).
What were Nick's favorite records and songs in 2012? We asked him and he gave us a list of his top 10 albums and "top 15 hip hop songs of the year that don't feature 2Chainz, Kanye, Drake, Rick Ross or (fill in the blank with your favorite rapper you've seen on every remix this year)."
You can check out both of Nick's lists, along with videos or streams for each song on his hip hop list (Odd Future songs included), below...
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by Andrew Sacher
Today, we finally get the much anticipated list of Pitchfork's Top 20 Albums of 2012. They revealed Nos. 30-50 yesterday and spent the rest of this week posting Honorable Mentions and tracks. None of the albums that made the top 20 are surprising to see there (which doesn't mean they aren't deserving), but the surprises come from the albums that missed the list all together. Passion Pit got ROBBED! Twin Shadow too! And Wild Nothing! If you're looking for Converge or Baroness, you'll have to redirect yourself to Pitchfork's Metal list (though Pallbearer was in the main top 50). And we could've guessed that Nos. 1 and 2 would be Frank Ocean and Kendrick Lamar... but who took the No. 1 spot? Head below to find out and you can check out individual writer's votes too...
Hospitality list their Top 10 LPs of 2012, playing Brooklyn Bowl for Kidrockers (as are Caveman and Hooray for Earth)
by Bill Pearis
Hospitality @ Brooklyn Bowl, 8/31/2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)
While I haven't revealed by Favorite Albums of 2012 list yet, I'll let it slip that Hospitality's eponymous debut album is pretty high up there. If you've yet to hear it's many guitar pop pleasures, you can stream it below. Wondering what the band have listened to the most in 2012? They've offered up their Top 10 of 2012 which you can peruse below. It's actually nine new albums and then the last slot goes to Led Zeppelin which singer Amber Papini admits she's been gorging on ever since Hurricane Sandy.
Sandy caused the band's headlining show at Bowery Ballroom to be postponed and the make-up date is right around the corner on January 10 with TEEN and Household. Tickets are still available and we're also giving away a pair.
Meanwhile, Hospitality next show after that will be as part of the Kidrockers series at Brooklyn Bowl, happening Sunday, February 10 at 11 AM. Tickets are $8 and on sale now -- kids 2 and under get in free. It's all ages on Sundays at Brooklyn Bowl till 6PM when it becomes 21+ like the rest of the week.
Kidrockers have announced a few other 2013 shows as well: Caveman (who just announced a big tour, including Webster Hall on 4/10) play on January 27 (tix); and Hooray for Earth play on February 3 (tix, they also play Knitting Factory next month). There is also the previously-announced DIIV show on January 13 (they play an "adult" show at BB that same night).
Hospitality's list of Top 10 LPs of 2012 is below.
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I just purchased an Amanda Jane smocking pleater, never having actually seen one before. I don't know how to begin using it. At one point I found a site on the internet that had a video showing how to use a pleater. Would anyone know where that site, or one similar might be? Thanks. Cathy
Try a book or DVD. I saw one at smockingstore.com. I believe I have an old book from Martha Pullen called something like Bearly Beginning Smocking that may or may not still be in print.
Your local heirloom sewing store should also be able to help you, and it may offer a pleater class.
Once you master pleating, you must buy a copy of The Busy Mother's Guide to Sewing Children's Clothes by Nancy Coburn. This book was indispensable to me as I constructed many smocked garments. (I used to sew with it beside my sewing machine!)
Hi Joline, I did purchase a book, but at one point I watched a video clip on the internet that was free. There were two ladies, perhaps from England or Australia, showing how to use a pleater. I thought saved it in my favorites, but apparently did not. I was hoping someone might have seen it as well and could direct me there. Thanks for the thoughts. Cathy
This may not be the video link you found, but there's quite a bit of instruction here. Click on the yellow horizontal bar to view the video (you get to indicate which media player to use).
A helpful little book called Notions: Over 50 Great Gadgets You Can't Live Without published by Tauton has a good five page chapter with photos and illustrations on how to use a smoking pleater. This book is on Amazon, and if you do a "search inside this book" on the word "pleater" you can read the chapter on the Amazon website. But you can also buy a used copy of this book for under $3 on Amazon as I recently did. Notions book
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You might like to have a look at this site.Country Bumpkin This is an Australian website that specializes in Smocking and Embroidery. They have lots of books and magazines on smocking.
South Bruny Island, Tasmania
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http://www.everythingsewing.net/videohowto2.htm - not sure if those are the ones you are looking for but I have viewed those in the past and they are helpful. You should also check out the Martha Pullen and Delphi Heirloom sewing forums.
But the main thing is too start slowly and practice practice practice. I bought some cheap gingham from WalMart to practice going straight. Run some waxed paper through your pleater to lubricate the needles. And don't ever go backwards, you'll break your needles and mess everything up. It takes some time to get used to but that's why I recommend lots of practice. It's very enjoyable once you get the hang of it.
I use my pleater for smocking but also I will use a couple of the half space rows for gathering.
I highly recommend A-Z of Smocking by Country Bumpkin publication and English Smocking by Ellen McCarn
I'm starting smocking, but don't intend to buy a pleater yet, if at all. The pleating services offered by the store are cheaper than the time of pleating it myself. Cheaper by a lot. Plus, I don't have to deal with the pleater, and breaking needles, etc. If the price of smocking increases at the store, I would eventually buy a pleater, but am a long way from buying it yet.
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My friend and I bought a pleater together so that it was affordable. I think we made more because the pleater was so handy. We passed it from house to house. We also shared patterns and books.
Maybe you can find a smocking buddy too.
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No video here but here's a link to some pictures on Solosmocker's (a.k.a. Bunny) blog. Hopefully she'll see your post soon or you can leave a comment on her blog.
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Another Perspective
Paved With Good Intentions
Bob Geldof's Live Aid? It should have been called Dead Aid.
The first time Bono and Madonna got together to save Africa, the unintended consequence was the death of perhaps as many as 100,000 people. That's aid expert David Rieff's conclusion in the July 2005 issue of the resolutely liberal American Prospect magazine regarding the end result of Live Aid in 1985.
Billed as "The Greatest Show on Earth," Live Aid was a multi-venue rock concert held on July 13, 1985 in London and Philadelphia in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. With an estimated 1.5 billion viewers watching the live broadcast in 100 countries, the event reportedly raised $250 million.
The money was supposed to go towards relieving hunger. In reality, argues Rieff, the rock stars and well-intentioned donors became unwilling participants in a civil war and unwitting supporters of a Soviet-style resettlement project that vastly increased the severity of the famine.
Rieff points to three causes of Ethiopia's famine, one natural, a two-year long drought, and two "entirely man-made." The man-made contributing factors were, first, "the dislocation imposed by the wars being waged by the central government" against rebel groups in the north of the country, and, second, "by far the most serious, the forced agricultural collectivization policy pursued with seemingly limitless ruthlessness by Mengistu Haile Mariam and his colleagues who had overthrown emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, and officially adopted communism as their creed in 1984."
The impact of this government-mandated collectivization, contends Rieff, was "every bit the equal in its radicalism to the policies Stalin pursued in the Ukraine in the 1930s, where, as in Ethiopia, the result was inevitable famine."
As Francois Jean of the medical aid organization Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) described it at the time, the Mengistu regime was employing "shock treatment in order to transform Ethiopian rural society." Comparing the Ethiopian resettlement policy to its Chinese and Soviet predecessors, Francois Jean wrote that all three terror famines "proceeded from the same approach to reality, the same vision of the future, the same extreme commitment to radical social transformation."
This famine-inducing resettlement policy in Ethiopia, the movement of 600,000 people from the north and the "villagization" of millions of others, was "at least in part a military campaign, masquerading as a humanitarian effort," concludes Rieff. "And it was assisted by Western aid money."
Initially, few people came forward when the authorities in Ethiopia called for volunteers for the resettlement plan. "The response was swift," explains Rieff. "A campaign of systemic round-ups in towns and villages across three targeted provinces began. Those caught up in these sweeps were either airlifted south or transferred by land, sometimes in vehicles the authorities had requisitioned from international relief agencies -- vehicles that were there to transport foodstuffs. The trip usually took five or six days. To this day, no one knows how many people died in route. The conservative estimate is 50,000. MSF's estimate is double that."
"We are witnessing the biggest deportation since the Khmer Rouge genocide," charged MSF's president, Claude Malhuret, in late 1985. In an exercise of deadly compassion, humanitarian "aid to victims was unwittingly transformed into support to their executioners."
In other words, Madonna sang, activists bemoaned the self-absorption of life in the rich world, Bono felt good about himself, and music fans phoned in the money that would buy the trucks that would deliver the bodies to the Marxist murderers in the Mengistu regime.
When asked about these unintended consequences, concert organizer Bob Geldof seemed to have few second thoughts. "The organizations that are participating in the resettlement program should not be criticized," he told the Irish Times on November 4, 1985. "In my opinion, we've got to give aid without worrying about population transfers."
This time around, Chris Martin, the frontman of Coldplay and a former student in World Studies at London's University College, told the Live 8 audience that the July 2, 2005 concerts were "the greatest thing that's ever been organized, probably, in the history of the world."
Imagine that! Getting Bono and Madonna together for another afternoon shot at saving Africa is bigger than D-Day, a bigger and greater achievement in organization than the putting together of the invading force of 11,000 airplanes, 5,000 ships, and over 150,000 troops that broke Germany's grip on western Europe and foreshadowed the end of Hitler's dream of turning the planet into a Nazi hellhole.
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