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Rabu, 31 Agustus 2011
At Last! A Little Respect for the Ringling Museum of ART -- Yes, I Said "Art" ... Also: Circus Wages & Risks; Enter the Chinese Daredevils
How pure it felt to hear the words, "The Ringling Museum of Art" unmolested by the grasping inclusion of "circus." No, I am not an anti-circus fan, but I am a respecter of the lovey grounds and the architectural wonders, however garish, willed to the State of Florida by John Ringling, whose vision it was to build and promote a real art museum.It's been a long time since the "art" part seems to have gone it alone, which was what, in the beginning, Mr. Ringling intended. Just as his brother, Albert, intended would be the exclusive fate of the marvelous grand opera house he built in Baraboo, known to most of you as the Al Ringling Theatre (Are you there, Doc Bob?).
Pledge Break Society (PBS) cameras recently visited the courtyard of Ringling's horseshoe shaped gallery on a lovely summer evening, there to take in a soft performance by the very young opera star, 10-year-old phenom Jackie Evancho, though perhaps not yet a strong enough voice to sustain an entire evening on Great Performances, so I did not stay fully tuned.
But my spirit floated back to a time when I'd enter through the art museum itself, rather than take the tour, as is now the case, past the Tibbals tents and the Tibbals tributes -- perhaps because that's where a Sarasota bus dropped me off. After an obligatory amble through the Rubens, I'd of course wander across the grounds to my favorite spot, a little round French-looking building so discretely tucked amidst the trees -- a little circus museum of refined ambiance -- as if to say, yes, this too was a part of Mr. Ringling's life, just in case you might want to take a little look while you're here. It contained in the back the inspired backyard scene of old Ringling wagons resting on a lot under a simulated early evening sky, by far the most enchanting circus exhibit I will probably ever experience in my life. Credit, silence please, the great curator Mel Miller and his trusted assistant, Joe McKennon -- the man who fessed up to his own role in the land grabbing campaign when he penned Rape of an Estate.
No longer, of course, is it there, for the bureaucrats whose destiny it is to end up running such monumental gifts of death must forever tinker, gut and rethink and rebuild, expand and glorify in order to keep their jobs and add to their powers.
OK: the fun stuff (I know, I've said all that stuff enough already!!!): People who talk freely about circus pay scales (yes, vaguely) sometimes say things that surprise us. Here is clown Steve Copeland, telling the Aurora Advocate how he enjoys the tenting life, compared to those huge arenas, and the comforts it brings him, and then THIS: "The pay is better here than at RB&BB" Now, should we be impressed? Or just happy that, at Kelly Miller Circus, perhaps Steve is getting a decent pay check as opposed to a starvation stipend from the Felds, those "saviors" of the circus who saved it on the backs of countless young Clown College grads eager, for a few moments in the Ringling sun, to entertain the world for peanuts ...
Danger, Be Gone! I only ask, you only decide.... About peril above the ring, from which circus owners are sheepishly retreating, and why? Seems there's a new generation of "aerialsits" willing to go it cold (sans mechanics) only if the pay is right. To Zoe Gorman, who scripted the insightful account of her days traveling with and interviewing K-M staffers, came this sarcastic snap from her Aussie tutor, the "enthusiastic and brusque" Nikki Ogle when the subject of the safety harness worn by Ogle came up: "They don't pay you enough" for the fanciest risks, explained Nikki. ... That's a new angle. Me wonders what the going rate is for a single trap artist to shuck lifelines aside. READ ON!
UPDATE, 9/2, 12:00 PST: Nikki Ogle responds: According to her comment that I have posted, during her interview with Zoe Gorman, the following statement of hers did not make it into the story: "there is not enough pay in the world for me to take that risk." I have reread the Toledo Blade story; in fact, what I quoted her as stating on the issue is exactly all that was printed.
Enter the daring young Chinse man on the high wire: Some guy I saw on a TV news clip scaling a cable 300 feet above the ground, slipping and sparing his life by grasping the wire, etc. Those acrobats are flexing their muscles and magic in so many new directions, pushing daringly skyward while inside the U.S., the "static trapeze" is tepidly on the rise.
Enter Life. Yes, that's who visited me here recently, not the Big A, but Life, a few chic steps above Sir anonymous, who speaks sparely, "I like your site to see." Hmmmm, not a commercial for some other site. Not a rant. Just Life. In reply to a post back there about the hazzards of illustrating a circus book ... Thank you, Like. Sounds like you enjoy exercising your vision ... Do drop by again, tepidly, if you still please ...
Phil Younghusband & Neil Etheridge- Men's Health Philippines Magazine September 2011 Issue Cover!
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Phil Younghusband & Neil Etheridge- Men's Health Philippines Magazine September 2011 Issue Cover!
Selasa, 30 Agustus 2011
Senin, 29 Agustus 2011
MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) 2011- Fashion
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Here are the top 2011 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) 2011 Fashion:
Here are the top 2011 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) 2011 Fashion:
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Shamcey Supsup Miss Universe Web Interview (VIDEO)
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Here are Shamcey's script answer:
Do you believe in life on other planets?
Well, I believe there are other people in other planets because if we are living on earth and it's a big place... and it is small... you know... thing compared to the galaxy and another galaxy... I believe there are people out there. We just have to find them out sooner.
What advantage do women have over men?
Well, I think one advantage is that we rely on our intuition. And they always say that when a woman has an intuition, it is usually right. So we know if you are lying or not. So guys don't ever fool us. noypistuff
If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
Hmmmm... If I'd be an animal, I wanna be bird... because I wanna fly without limit.. like see the mountains and the seas... And you know just feel free and feel the wind on my face. So I'd be a bird, any kind of bird.
You can watch other candidates web interview via Youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AGPageantryHD
The Miss Universe 2011 pageant will be held in Sao Paulo on September 12, 2011. It will also aired live on ABS-CBN this September 13, 2011.
Here are Shamcey's script answer:
Do you believe in life on other planets?
Well, I believe there are other people in other planets because if we are living on earth and it's a big place... and it is small... you know... thing compared to the galaxy and another galaxy... I believe there are people out there. We just have to find them out sooner.
What advantage do women have over men?
Well, I think one advantage is that we rely on our intuition. And they always say that when a woman has an intuition, it is usually right. So we know if you are lying or not. So guys don't ever fool us. noypistuff
If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
Hmmmm... If I'd be an animal, I wanna be bird... because I wanna fly without limit.. like see the mountains and the seas... And you know just feel free and feel the wind on my face. So I'd be a bird, any kind of bird.
You can watch other candidates web interview via Youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AGPageantryHD
The Miss Universe 2011 pageant will be held in Sao Paulo on September 12, 2011. It will also aired live on ABS-CBN this September 13, 2011.
MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) 2011- Complete list of Winners!
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Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award: Britney Spears
Video of the Year: Katy Perry, "Firework"
Best Female Video: Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"
Best New Artist: Tyler, The Creator, "Yonkers"
Best Male Video: Justin Bieber, "U Smile"
Best Collaboration: Katy Perry featuring Kanye West, "E.T."
Best Hip-Hop Video: Nicki Minaj, "Super Bass"
Best Rock Video: Foo Fighters, "Walk"
Best Pop Video: Britney Spears, "Till the World Ends"
Best Video With A Message: Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"
Best Choreography: Beyoncé, "Run the World (Girls)"
Best Visual Effects: Katy Perry featuring Kanye West, "E.T."
Best Art Direction: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Best Editing: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Best Cinematography: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Here are the video highlights from AP:
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| Joe Calderon alter-ego of Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Adele |
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award: Britney Spears
Video of the Year: Katy Perry, "Firework"
Best Female Video: Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"
Best New Artist: Tyler, The Creator, "Yonkers"
Best Male Video: Justin Bieber, "U Smile"
Best Collaboration: Katy Perry featuring Kanye West, "E.T."
Best Hip-Hop Video: Nicki Minaj, "Super Bass"
Best Rock Video: Foo Fighters, "Walk"
Best Pop Video: Britney Spears, "Till the World Ends"
Best Video With A Message: Lady Gaga, "Born This Way"
Best Choreography: Beyoncé, "Run the World (Girls)"
Best Visual Effects: Katy Perry featuring Kanye West, "E.T."
Best Art Direction: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Best Editing: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Best Cinematography: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Here are the video highlights from AP:
New Big Apple Circus Boss Wears His Power with Grace, Cool Confidence ... Reveals Shows Ahead ... Sawdust-Stealing Rodents to Join the Cast
New Big Apple Circus boss watches the show in Stamford. Photos by Kathleen O'Rourke/Stamford Advocate
At last, we are starting to see his face, hear his voice, get a feel for his vision. Guillaume Dufresnoy, in public interviews, comes across as suavely confident, an authentic leader with a passion to sustain Big Apple Circus standards and keep each year’s show fresh
“I really want each production to be different from the year before,” he told the Stamford Advocate's managing editor John Breunig last month during the circus’s appearance there.
“This year is all about movement and dance. Next year will be all about imagination and dreams ... it will be set in a fantasy land. The year after that will be a period show set in the 19th century (a little Toby Tyler, please!) ... and the one after that will be contemporary.”
Dream Big!, Dufresnoy’s next opus now in rehearsal in Walden, NY and slated to uncork at Dulles Town Center in Dulles, VA, on September 22, is sporting a slightly enlarged menagerie, in which we make take some heart. Per pithy press copy, they've recruited a “capybara and porcupine to perk up the sawdust party!” (Fancy lingo for rodents)
Sounds like the sort of subtle staging imagination I found, to my high delight, at last season's Dance On!, Dufresnoy's first fully produced effort for Big Apple. Indeed, in that luadable outing, I glimpsed ample reassuring evidence that Paul Binder’s protege is fully up to the task of extending the Binder-Christensen legacy well and wisely into the future, assuming, of course, that the organization can restore some of its lost dates once the show leaves Gotham, and re-energize corporate funding.
Born in Bordeaux, France, Dufresnoy caught the circus bug in his boyhood. By the time he was a young adult, no longer was he looking up at aerialists, but now, one himself, down upon audiences looking up at him. By 32, aching shoulders inspired Guillaume to a career make over. He joined the Big Apple Circus in 1990, performed for only a season or two, and then served as performance director. In 1997, he landed the general manager job. Thirteen years were spent as a “wingman” to Paul Binder.
About that strangely ill-defined recent three-part PBS Documentary that left more than a few of us slightly depressed, said Dufresnoy to Breunig, “They did not make it better or worse than it is ... This is a tough life.”
He likes talking to circugoers to get their feedback, and he watches nearly every show, especially near season’s end when younger artists can start to go dull. “They are kids ... We have to battle to keep them from getting ragged.”
Of particular concern to the new boss is the dominant kiddie demographic so integral to American circus promotion. “What we have not been yet able to convince people is you don’t need a kid to come to the circus. I come from Western Europe, where going to circus is something you do on Saturday night with friends the way you to go the movies or go to the theatre. And that is rarely the case here.”
Big Apple’s new artistic director seems to have his priorities perfectly in order. "You cannot rely on production values and themes to satisfy an audience. You must rely on having great acts. And a great act is a great act is a great act.”
Paul Binder should be proud.
Minggu, 28 Agustus 2011
Kapamilya and Kapuso Teen Stars Unite in MyPhone 'Isang Pamilya, Isang Puso. It's MyPhone' Campaign
It’s Tween Invasion! Various teen stars from the Kapamilya and Kapuso network unite for the latest campaign ad of My|Phone in “Isang Pamilya, Isang Puso. It's MyPhone”.
The Biggest and Hottest Teen Stars of ABS CBN and GMA join forces with the Number 1 Mobile Phone Company in the Country, My|Phone. Featuring in the main campaign ad, the newest touch screen mobile phone by My|Phone, the T18 Duo!
"My|Phone – the first and only Filipino mobile phone brand that offers dual SIM mobility – grew from a favor for friends to try out a local mobile phone brand in an attempt to join the playing field of established international giants."
"Three years down the line, My|Phone has proven to be a definitive contender in the Philippine mobile phone landscape, consistently averaging significant sales figures. The response has driven My|Phone to continuously strive to develop better phones at much affordable prices."
For more info about the My|Phone and their latest offer mobile phones, visit their official website at www.myphone.com.ph or “like” their official Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/myphone. (more photos there)
photo credits to My|Phone
