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VU Dream - the Virtual Reality Movement

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Mark Metry is a 19-year-old college student who started a Virtual Reality based company   that wants to put a VR headset in every household in the world. His company does two things: Educate people about VR and sell headsets online. We have conducted an interview with Mark. As a 19-year-old entrepreneur, do you consider starting up in the Virtual Reality sector tougher? I think starting off in that sector will be much tougher but if all goes well there will be a much bigger reward than any other industry today. Honestly, being an entrepreneur will be a tough journey regardless of the sector so why shouldn't I embrace the challenge and push myself to overcome those struggles. Which are the most challenging aspect as a young founder? At first, it was a challenge establishing my reputation which I think is hard for any entrepreneur starting out anyway, but there's just an added multiplier when you're 19 years old. After people saw how I composed myself and net...

Electric Lady - Design and Web Development

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Joetomo is a Japanese Web Artist, Designer, Developer and Radio MC, Director of ElectricLady LLC. We have conducted an interview with him. Which is the most challenging animation projects you have undertaken so far? This MV. Senmtsuya - Summer Festival This video was made by a team of young Japanese musicians. The boy playing the shamisen is a Japanese champion. On behalf of ELECTRIC LADY, I was in charge to do the character design and illustration movie production. This thumbnail is an illustration of the game (LP): What kind of design services are you great at delivering?  I will make everyone crying. I will make the world more interesting. By injecting the essence of pop culture into cuteness and melancholy which will never be born again in the same form. A collection with originality. We are trying hard to make what we think is interesting, so that somewhere in the distance, I hope, the children will be pleased. His is my web shop .  ...

Restaurant San Carlo Osteria Piemonte

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Opened in March 2016 and located at 90 Thompson Street, between Prince & Spring streets, San Carlo Osteria Piemonte is the newest gastronomic addition to the Italian culinary scene in the heart of Soho, New York City. We have conducted an interview with the management of the restaurant. What kind of cuisine and ambiance does San Carlo Osteria Piemonte bring? Moreno Cerutti, Managing Director: We named our restaurant San Carlo Osteria Piemonte because we wanted to give a strong emphasis to our territoriality, taking the most famous and monumental square of our Turin, Piazza San Carlo, as our icon. We have brought to New York City the Piedmont’s culture that is reflected in a very simple cuisine and environment: straightforward but genuine and authentic dishes and soft music playing in the background. Also, the restaurant’s furnishings and architecture reveal our region, being extremely minimal but with high-end materials (bronze, faience, beams, contempora...

Interview with art director and designer Mitxel Gonzalez

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Mitxel Gonzalez is an Art Director and designer specialized on t-shirt and apparel design. During more than fifteen years he has worked with internationally known brands like Disney, L’Oreal, Volcom, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Lexi&Bö and much others companies. Mitxel is self-employed and he works for companies and clothing brands from all over the world. Apart from this, he has a handful of online stores where he sells his designs in different supports as clothing, phone cases, and art prints. We have conducted an interview with him. How do you work with Graphic Designers and Pattern Designers from all around the world? I'm a self-employed art director and apparel designer so I do not work with designers, in fact, I work directly with apparel brands. I know to speak English, French, Spanish and Basque so I work with brands from all over the world via the Internet. Who are the internationally known brands other than Disney and L’Oreal have you worked with? Fo...

MoMoWallet - Helps busy MoMs find great offers

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Tonight, our guest is Natalie Forood the Founder and CEO of Blaze Mobility, LLC. Her company developed the MoMoWallet app which helps busy MoMs find great offers on products and services they need for their families. They named the app "MoMoWallet" as a play on words. The "MoM" is for the Mom, although anyone can use it. The first 4 letters "MoMo" imply " Mo re Mo ney" in your Wallet and " Mo bile Mo ney" Wallet. We have conducted an interview with Natalie about this great new application. What are the benefits for Moms to use the MoMoWallet app? We understand how busy Mom's are. Finding great values for their families needs to be easy and convenient. That's why we've designed the MoMoWallet app to easily find and organize all types of deals – online, in store and paper offers. As you find deals you are interested in, save them to your shopping list and they will all be at your fingertips when shopping online or...

STOP Asking For Permission & Give Notice

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Charron Monaye is an Author, Playwright, and Book Publisher . She is a Philadelphia native. She writes inspirational books that are geared to helping and motivating individuals to live out there dreams. She coaches people through their mess so that they can have a beautiful testimony in the end. We have conducted an interview with her about her book, STOP Asking For Permission & Give Notice . What should those who read and digest the words from the pages of STOP Asking for Permission & Give Notice receive? Individuals will receive transparency, honesty, and commitment. They will receive transitional playbook that will explain, coach, and direct them to real love, wealth, abundance, and a strong sense of self-purpose. They will understand that in order to reach destiny, one must proclaim their desire and then prepare to receive it. One thing I have learned through my transformational period is that “God will not bless you with his rewards when you are living in your m...

Interview with author Bill Powers

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Today our guest is Bill Powers , a Suspense/Thriller author. He lives in New Jersey and has two novels out - "The Pharm House" and "The Torch is Passed". We have conducted an interview with him about his upcoming third novel "The Lost Codicil" When did you debut your first suspense-thriller novel? My first novel, The Pharm House: A Harding Family Story debuted in 2013. My background is in pharmaceutical research and development, about as non-fiction as you can get. I have a Ph.D. in Toxicology. (In fact a lot of my R&D friends still tell me they don’t get what I do now, but that’s okay.) I have always had a love of books, words and stories. I grew up in a small town in North Carolina with not much to do during my free time. My dad was a school principal and gave me free run of his school library. I read everything I could get my hands on, fiction and non-fiction. When I was in grad school, I started thinking, “I can do this” – write a fictio...

Stink Moves In

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Tammi Landry-Gilder is an author, wife, mother, and blogger who lives in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with her husband, two sons, two dogs, one missing frog (now presumed deceased), a bearded dragon, and too many fish in a tank to count. Her new book, "Stink Moves In", is the story of a boy who learns to love a hairy, pesky little rodent that has taken up residence in the boy's home. "Stink Moves In" can be purchased at www.tlandrygilder.com . We have conducted an interview with her. What is your book: 'Stink Moves In' mainly about? "Stink Moves In" is a children's book about a boy who learns to love a hairy, smelly, annoying rodent who has taken up residence in his house. Who do you recommend to read it? I recommend children read the book. The age range would be from preschool to third grade. The book is unique because it is illustrated only by children. All pictures inside the book were drawn by elementary school students,...

Out of the Darkness: A Journey into the Marvelous Light

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Cortland Jones worked 24 years as a PGCPS Educator, in art and graphic design. Currently he is serving also, as CEO of the nonprofit, The Better Place. Co-founded with two other professional colleagues with ties to the PGCPS school system looking to empower families, schools, and youth in PG County to help create a world where they thrive and encounter wellness through self-control and self-determination in leadership, service, and literacy.  Cortland is the author of Out of the Darkness: A Journey into the Marvelous Light , he is applying principles of faith in empowerment coaching for youth and young adults in applying entrepreneurial skills to start their own businesses. We have conducted an interview with him. What inspired the content of your new book Out of the Darkness: A Journey into the Marvelous Light? When I first acknowledged Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I knew He was the Son of God according to what the scriptures teach, but I was not aware of how...

Interview with graphic designer Nadeem Khan

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Our guest today is Nadeem Khan from Karachi, Pakistan who is a graphic Designer with 3 years of experience in this field. We have conducted an interview with him. What are the graphic designing services that you are great at? I’m a proficient graphic designer and have an extensive experience designing brand identities, print and promotional material. What kind of design challenges do you take up? Well, I had faced various challenges along my course, whether it be following the atomic structure of brand guidelines, picking up the best course for designing in the limited time and taking on logo design competitions. Which graphic design tools/software are you well-versed in? I have learned many of the design tools and ready to adapt any software but my experience in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign is flawless. Could you show us two of your top logo or brand identity designs? Here are they: 1. Behance.net/nkhansays 2. Flickr.com/...

Cosmic Craig

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Craig Imig, or " Cosmic Craig ", is an artist living in the USA. Currently, he specializes in creating colorful abstract acrylic paintings. Sometimes he includes a creature such as a bird, a fish, or a butterfly in his art. Craig is a member of an art gallery where he has sold many paintings. We have conducted an interview with him. What kind of paintings do you do? Currently I do a lot of colorful abstract paintings. Some of them have a psychedelic look, or look like they could be outer space. Once I did paint a bird that looked like a dove, but then put it into an outer space scene. One kind of painting I have been doing for several years is fluid painting, in which you pour paint on your surface and you can tilt or manipulate the surface to make the paint flow around to get interesting looks. I have noticed this kind of art becoming more popular today as it can be fun and hopefully be fun to look at. In general I would say that my paintings are expressionistic r...

Bleeding Panther

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Jodi Clark is the author of four fiction novels, the most recent entitled "Bleeding Panther". All of her novels are available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online outlets. Jodi is a wife and mother with a full-time career and, while publishing her novels, she was the primary writer for a local magazine and contributor of ehow articles online. We have conducted an interview with her. What inspired you to write 'Bleeding Panther'? My inspiration behind Bleeding Panther was that our veterans needing attention and care for their PTSD, a disorder that is killing them at an alarming rate. Who are your favourite main characters in your novel? My favorite characters in the book are Adam, of course, but moreover, his wife because it is her strength that holds the family together. Do you intend to write a sequel to this story? have no current plans to write a sequel to this story because I think that the message is powerful enough to stand on its...

Interview with fine art travel photographer Peter Aitchison

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Today our guest is Peter Aitchison a Fine Art Travel Photographer with 35 years experience. His work covers countries such as India, Cuba, the USA and all over Europe. His favourite locations to work are always city and Urban environments, he is am drawn to people and their environments. He also runs a photography workshop in India twice a year. We have conducted an interview with him. How long have you been a Fine Art Travel Photographer? I have been a photographer for 35 years! What is amazing about teaching and helping keen photographers to develop their skills? What do you do to help these photographers? I love to take people to exciting places and watch as they discover that their camera isn't complicated I make it easy for them to master and then the only limits are what they see. By being in amazing locations the inspiration is all around, I am only there to steer them in the right direction! What is so special about the photography workshop that you r...

Interview with actor Emilio Salerno

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Emilio Salerno is an actor from the SW of England. Taking the lead roles of school plays and being headhunted by theatre companies, he's always been able to adapt to different scenarios and exceed expectations. As he turned 15 his voice talents were spotted by a sound engineer whom worked for Little Entertainment group (now Fubuloo) and has since starred as a voice in Team Umizoomi and in 2014 took the lead dubbing role of character Iftach in the Nickelodeon teen drama; The Greenhouse. Since his various voicing roles he has become acquainted with Amarok Films, an independent Gloucestershire/London based film company with which he has already taken three on-screen roles under his belt within just one year of on-screen acting. Being highly appraised by all those he has worked with thus far Emilio was approached to actually join as a creative director at Amarok films. His notable work includes the award-winning "Destitute Blues" music video in which he took the lead role, ...