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HELENO

Ornare faz after party para o filme ‘Heleno’, de José Fonseca

Claudio Faria, diretor da Ornare nos Estados Unidos, foi anfitrião de uma descontraída after party para o filme “Heleno”, de José Fonseca, co-produzido e protagonizado por Rodrigo Santoro, que marcaram presença na festa. “Heleno” é um dos quatro filmes brasileiros que estão competindo no Miami International Film Festival de 2012. Confira nas fotos as presenças VIPs da festa, realizada no charmoso showroom da Ornare, no Miami Design District. A animação do evento foi do DJ Marcelo.
Fotos: Ronira Fruhstuck/AcheiUSA

Genilde Guerra, Lukas Klessig, Adriana Sassoon

Adriana Sassoon & Lukas Klessig

Rodrigo Santoro & Adriana Sassoon

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 http://www.hauteliving.com/2012/03/ornare-and-miami-international-film-festival-present-an-evening-celebrating-brazilian-film-artistry/

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STEPHANIE HIRSCH

“Religion is for people that don’t want to go to hell. Spirituality is for those of us that have been there.”
There is no better saying that captures the emotion of Stephanie Hirsch’s artwork.
Her work delves into the deeper or double meaning of words and sayings with both humor and enlightenment. “Initially, sayings can be static,” Stephanie says, “but once we apply our life experiences they can have infinite meanings.”
To convey her messages, she bridges the gap between fashion and art by utilizing beads and embroidery, which give her artwork a three-dimensional depth. The metallic sheen of the medium also serves to remind us that the mantras can shine a positive light on our inner struggles, both literally and figuratively.

     by Stephanie Hirsch

Stephanie Hirsch is an Artist, Entrepreneur, Designer and Author.
Stephanie Hirsch appropriates once iconoclastic images that have become somewhat commonplace fashion logos and re-infuses them with the anarchistic spirit from whence they came. Through her use of beads, sequins and embroidery, Hirsch’s canvases are literally ‘illuminated’ with words of enlightenment and hope. Her simple text and quips often cause the viewer to question their moral standings and beliefs, all the while offering aesthetically charged images that are simultaneously foreign and familiar.
Hirsch states, “Mental and physical blockages in life are often self- inflicted, both literally and figuratively. I explore my journey through life as a quest to uncover the truth around me and to express my position through the multifaceted meanings inherent to the words we use and actions we do.”
Hirsch had her first solo show at The Lyons Wier Gallery Project Space in Nov 2011. Her work was most recently chosen by Mercedes Benz to be their featured artist during Fashion Week in their VIP lounge at Lincoln Center Feb 2012.
In 1996 she created the inca resort lifestyle brand. The boutique design house featured collections of luxury swim and resort wear. Entirely self-taught, Stephanie’s designs have been praised for her unparalleled attention to detail along with its flattering and superior fit, and it has also brought her wide acclaim and international recognition as a fashion designer.
Following the birth of her son Hunter, her journey as a mother led her to write the book Mother Nurture: Life Lessons from America’s Best and Brightest. The book is a conclusion of her interviews with the mothers of 52 highly successful people around the world and was published in 2008 by Harper Collins.
Stephanie has also collaborated with the premier indoor cycling studios SoulCycle. In bringing her design expertise and shared vision to reinvigorate the soul, she created their fitness line of comfortable yet stylish cycling apparel.
She resides in New York and Bridgehampton with her husband and two young boys.

stephanie_hirschAdriana Sassoon and artist Stephanie Hirsch at her Miami art exhibit at Design District gallery night.

www.stephanie-hirsch.com

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B.L.O.G

I S   T H E   N E W   B L A C K!

Adriana Sassoon Design 360 From Salon & Beyond!

Copyright © 2010  ADRIANA SASSOON. All Rights Reserved.

“I love Art, I love Design, I live in a world full of Beauty.Life is one of God’s greatest Gifts.”Adriana Sassoon

“Culture is something that you take with you, wherever you may go.It doesn’t  get out of Style neither grows old”Adriana Sassoon

As magazines loose ad pages and newspapers go bankrupt,TV Shows get poor content.The Internet is leading the way as the most powerful vehicle for news and information delivery of the future. The internet is already a powerful tool for writers, photographers,designers,etc .You can watch television shows for free, get up to celebrity gossip,what to wear or not to wear, get breaking News on your mobile phone from CNN.Designers are inspired by blogs, bloggers and street style.Some people even wonder if Blogs will replace websites or take jobs away from graphic and web designers.The self published blog, which is typically updated more often than websites, is clearly the New Darling of the this internet decade.

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” ~Albert Einstein~

“WEBLOG”:

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Definition: A personal Web site that provides updated headlines and news articles of other sites that are of interest to the user, also may include journal entries, commentaries and recommendations compiled by the user; also written web log, Weblog; also called blog.

Copyright © 2010  ADRIANA SASSOON. All Rights Reserved.

Copyright © 2010  ADRIANA SASSOON. All Rights Reserved.

 My Blog as you all know is catered to a “Multicultural Global Community”. My variety session has all the  topics that I love and cherish.

“Life is like a laboratory, we have to experiment new things every day”. Adriana Sassoon

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DALI MIAMI

Aficionados of the acclaimed and equally flamboyant surrealist artist Salvador Dali will, for the first time in South Florida, have an extraordinary opportunity to view an extensive collection of work, Wednesday, March 7 through Sunday, March 11 when DALI MIAMI will bring more than 200 works of his expansive artistic repertoire to the Design District’s iconic Moore Building.

DALI MIAMI is being produced by Nick Betancourt and Michael Rosen, president and CEO of Colored Thumb, a driving force behind many of the area’s top art exhibits including Art Basel, Art Expo, and RedDot Fair. Curator of the show is Reed V. Horth President and curator of Robin Rile Fine Art, a specialist in Dali’s prodigious output, who will be providing the original paintings, drawings, lithographs, photographs and marquis sculptures from the master, valued at approximately $8 million. Among these treasures will be Dali’s seminal bronze “Venus de Milo with Drawers” (1964- 114cm), the gouache original “Spring Rain” (1949), the full set of “Dix Recette d’Immoralité” (1973), the rare original intaglio “The Grasshopper Child” (1934), and his Daum glass masterpiece “Montre Molle” (1971), depicting his quintessential melting clock. Taking his vision for a provocative exhibit one step further, Rosen has arranged for a continuous showing of the 1929 film, “Un Chien Andalou,” the iconic 17-minute French surrealist film in which Dali collaborated with friend and director Luis Buñuel. This graphic work explores the destructive elements of the psyche. The film clearly expresses pure surrealism and its relationship to the unconscious. Dali Miami has also secured celebrity chef Adrianne Calvo for the opening night reception who will recreate recipes inspired by Dali’s Cook Book. Since opening “Chef Adrianne’s Vineyard and Wine Bar in South West Miami, Calvo appears on The Food Networks “Chopped” and NBC’s ‘South Florida Today”, among other projects, Calvo is the author of a cookbook collection, “Maximum Flavor,” has for several years participated in the South Beach Food and Wine Festival and has been featured on The Food Network’s original series, “Chopped.”  DALI MIAMI will be open to the public Wednesday, March 7 through Sunday, March 11 at The Moore Building.  General Admission is $ 25 and VIP tickets are $90 with.by Maryanne Salvat 

www.dalimiami.com

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SOPA AND PIPA

The result of groups across the web making an effort to bring the damaging effects of SOPA and PIPA to light has been a nice cross-section of explanatory posts made to educate the masses, and what we’ve got here is a TED talk video of Clay Shirky taking all of that and making it so clear your grandmother could understand it. The video in this post has Shirky, a man who goes by many names, American writer, teacher, consultant, and specialists on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He knows his stuff, he’s very well spoken, and this is the video that’ll make it clear for you why SOPA and PIPA are beyond dangerous, they’re absolutely unacceptable.

 What Shirky says here is that this isn’t the first time the big names in the media industry have tried to stop us, the public, from sharing and creating our own media. What they’d like, and that these bills and bills of the past have tried to do, as he’ll explain, is bring us back to the ideal age for them, when televisions and radios were what we sat in front of and consumed, and that’s it. Everything from video tapes to xerox copy machines to the newest weapons of sharing, downloads and streaming video, these are things that the groups producing and otherwise selling the media you consume would have stomped out and destroyed.

If SOPA and PIPA pass, you will be guilty until proven innocent. Because groups like YouTube cannot by any realistic means afford to police each and every person who submits videos to their site, they’d have to shut down uploads by you, and would only be able to show videos they upload themselves that have been pre-approved by the owners of said media. Tumblr, WordPress, essentially every message board in the world, and more, will be under the gun should SOPA and PIPA pass, simply because they do not have the legal means to stop the wave of taketown notices that would pummel them.

Watch that video, see what you think. Also check our timeline below for the rest of the SOPA and PIPA related news and columns.

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WYNWOOD ART FAIR

Benefiting the Lotus House Women’s Shelter, Oct. 21-23

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3 first Photos by Adriana Sassoon

The Wynwood Art Fair is an opportunity to see and experience art first hand like never before. Don’t just see art – be it – at the Wynwood Art Fair!

Virtually every form of artistic medium – visual, sound, movement, video, sculpture, installation, conceptual, music and performance – will invite participation by fair goers to create a spontaneous  “happening” of “live” works of art, shaped as much by the audience as the artists.

The Wynwood Art Fair will feature street art performances and working “artist studios,” along side a diverse array of contemporary art galleries, art exhibitions, live music, and a taste of the area’s distinctive flavors and urban culture

www.wynwoodartfair.org

Tatiana Suarez

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Photos by Adriana Sassoon

Tatiana Suarez (b. 1983) is a Brooklyn-based Miami native. Her charming style is distinctive — first, the trademark eyes that draw the viewer into a beautiful and surreal world. Suarez takes full advantage of the oil paint’s ability to create creamy, soft images on canvas. Rich with symbols that stem from her Brazilian and El Salvadorian heritage, subjects appear as if they are under water, frozen in lovely stillness. The doe-eyed figures look childlike, but also exude sexual overtones, ornamented with plants, insects and other unsettling accompaniments. Beauty is presented concurrently with exotic — even creepy — creatures to create enchanted narratives
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*Tatiana is also the daughter of my friend Fatima Suarez .

http://www.tatisuarez.com/

 

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MIAMI CORAL REEFS

The proposed project will take 10 times longer and require more than 600 days of  blasting. Remember, there is no “undo” button, once we initiate the deep dredge  project.

We have learned that global climate change is pushing oceanic  ecosystems beyond their tipping point. Ocean acidification is killing corals and  phytoplankton on a world-wide scale, while sea level rise is affecting mangroves  and grass flats in our near shore areas.

Biscayne Bay is much smaller and more fragile than the world’s oceans. Under  these new conditions, large-scale development projects the bay could once  recover from would push it over the brink today. How much will it take to do  that? by Dan Kipnis

www.captaindankipnis.com

Read this article from the Miami Herald:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/02/2433107/why-the-rush-on-port-of-miami.html

How to grow a floating Forest

One of the most innovative, practical, and functional coral nurseries on the planet can be found just a few miles off the shores of Key Largo. The nursery consists of thousands of neatly organized colonies of the critically important staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) grown by the Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF) for the purpose of transplantation back to the reef. Staghorn corals have been decimated by disease and extreme weather here in Florida over the past 30 years, resulting in a seriously degraded reef ecosystem. Fortunately the CRF has developed methods that maximize the growth potential of these corals in their nursery, demonstrating that coral aquaculture is a realistic and effective way to restore beleaguered wild populations.

Miami Environmental Groups Sound Alarm on Impacts of Port of Miami Projects Please sign this petition:

http://bit.ly/miamiportletter

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MIAMI THE BEACHES ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL

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“Our goal is to create a highly recognized annual event in South Florida that will educate, motivate, and inspire attendees through films dealing with contemporary environmental issues.”

FILM SCHEDULE:

http://mbenvironmentalfilmfestival.org/mbeff-films-schedule

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VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE

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Mr. Sassoon of course changed the world with a pair of scissors.

www.vidalsassoonthemovie.com

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Vidal Sassoon is more than just a hairdresser-he’s a rock star, an artist, a craftsman who “changed the world with a pair of scissors.” With the geometric, Bauhaus-inspired hairdos he pioneered in the 1960s and his “wash and wear” philosophy that liberated generations of women from the tyranny of the salon, Sassoon revolutionized the art of hairstyling and left an indelible mark on popular culture. This documentary traces with visual gusto the life of a self-made man whose passion and perseverance took him from a Jewish orphanage in London to the absolute pinnacle of his craft.

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First Law of Thermodynamics

The first law of thermodynamics is the application of the conservation of energy principle to heat and thermodynamic processes:

The first law makes use of the key concepts of internal energy, heat, and system work. It is used extensively in the discussion of heat engines. The standard unit for all these quantities would be the joule, although they are sometimes expressed in calories or BTU.

It is typical for chemistry texts to write the first law as ΔU=Q+W. It is the same law, of course – the thermodynamic expression of the conservation of energy principle. It is just that W is defined as the work done on the system instead of work done by the system. In the context of physics, the common scenario is one of adding heat to a volume of gas and using the expansion of that gas to do work, as in the pushing down of a piston in an internal combustion engine. In the context of chemical reactions and process, it may be more common to deal with situations where work is done on the system rather than by it.

 

Second Law

 

The First Law of Thermodynamics, commonly known as the Law of Conservation of Matter, states that matter/energy cannot be created nor can it be destroyed. The quantity of matter/energy remains the same. It can change from solid to liquid to gas to plasma and back again, but the total amount of matter/energy in the universe remains constant.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics is commonly known as the Law of Increased Entropy. While quantity remains the same (First Law), the quality of matter/energy deteriorates gradually over time. How so? Usable energy is inevitably used for productivity, growth and repair. In the process, usable energy is converted into unusable energy. Thus, usable energy is irretrievably lost in the form of unusable energy.

“Entropy” is defined as a measure of unusable energy within a closed or isolated system (the universe for example). As usable energy decreases and unusable energy increases, “entropy” increases. Entropy is also a gauge of randomness or chaos within a closed system. As usable energy is irretrievably lost, disorganization, randomness and chaos increase.

http://illustramedia.com/