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Eddie's, the latest bar themed show

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Bars seem to be a part of the American tradition on television. From the day Marshall Matt Dillon sauntered into the Dodge City saloon to say hello to Miss Kitty ( Gunsmoke ), viewers have accepted the bar as an appropriate setting through the decades. Of course, the setting is rarely what dictates the subject of the story. Numerous critically and publically lauded TV programs have embraced the bar and the upcoming series Eddie’s does so with its own twist. The brainchild of writer Alex Scrymgeour, Eddie’s presents a dynamic which is perhaps not so intuitive in current times; an aspect makes it all the more enjoyable for the viewer. Eddie’s tagline is that it’s a place “Where all are welcome.” It’s an idea which bear’s similarity to messages from bygone eras but with a very modern dialect. A message of unity that’s wrapped in a comedic package, this half-hour TV series is poised to takes its place in the lineage of culturally relevant programs which use a bar as a springboard for w...

When Craftsmanship Meets Modern Art - Hong Kong Brand ‘Travel Mahjong City’ announced as finalist in K11 Design Store The D Project

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This already award-winning collection, Travel Mahjong City, combines Hong Kong heritage with modern art design to provide a wide range of contemporary products with creative illustrations related to Hong Kong culture, is now featured in a pop-up store at Hong Kong’s K11 from Friday to Sunday during 28 September to 21 October. The products highlights the value of mahjong craftsmanship while explaining Hong Kong’s traditional ways of making hand-carved mahjong tiles. Hong Kong brand, ‘Travel Mahjong City’, is a collaboration between three Hong Kong artisans: Karen Aruba, an illustrator, and two designers, Connie Siu & Maggie Cheung. Their ‘Travel Mahjong City’ collection has been recognized by the Hong Kong Smart Design Awards 2018 this April, which caught the attention of the Hong Kong design scene for its unique and creative design. This interest is due to the new take on an activity – mahjong – usually associated with Hong Kong’s heritage and older generations, combin...

Interview with entrepreneur Vinod Ramchandra Jadhav

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Vinod Ramchandra Jadhav is a first generation entrepreneur with a passion for business. In 2001, he began operating as a franchises owner of a “Medicine Shoppe International” where he learned the ropes of the pharmaceutical industry and got the experience he needed to apply his knowledge of supply chain management on a larger scale. In 2003, he started SAVA Group and has grown the company into an international powerhouse that has footprints in 35 countries around the world.  Since then Jadhav has taken his talents to a number of companies. In addition to being Chairman of SAVA Group, he is Chairman of DEVTECH M2M Group, Director of GangaGen Inc. and Managing Director of Regent Global FZCo. What has been the biggest accomplishment of your career? We started with one employee in the organization, Sava Global, in 2003 and now employ about 700+ employees across the organization in various countries. I feel this is the biggest accomplishment of my career. What mot...

Interview with mixed media artist Greg Beebe

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Meet Greg Beebe. Greg is a self-taught, mixed media artist who describes his work as ͞a mixture of abstract expressionism, pop and graffiti street art.  The Miami-based artist is also a successful financial entrepreneur that approaches his art practice with the same intention as he does his business interests...with an unstoppable impulse to create. With artwork featuring Playboy models to Einstein, the general theme that infuses his work is one of positivity where the specific message, elements and composition in each piece is fresh and handled differently each time. "Positive or energetic messaging is my key focus. I want to create artwork from a personal feeling of motivation or positivity. For example, seeing people work hard or working hard myself and achieving something is gratifying to me, so I want to create a piece of artwork that might give the viewer a piece of what I’m feeling.” He achieves this...

Westley Harris: Placing X-tra X-cellence in The X Factor

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The most visible element of The X Factor may be the judges and talented contestants but it’s producers like Westley Harris who are the essential link between audience and talent. Harris has an impressive resume that includes some of the biggest TV shows in the world such as Wife Swap, The X Factor , and Summer House (Bravo). Executive Producer Andrew Llinares declares, “I worked with Westley on The X Factor UK, Britain’s Got Talent , and The X Factor USA. Whether working for me either in the US or UK, he is constantly impressive; which is why he is asked back season after season.” In addition to praise from EPs like Llinares and Mark Sidaway, Harris has been recognized by the prestigious Royal Television Society for his outstanding work in Reality TV. Westley seems to have a natural ability to sculpt compelling and emotional stories about everyday people who aspire to stand out. His involvement in all stages from casting, filming, producing, directing crews, to edit producing allow...

Australia’s Mark Davis charms in witty romantic comedy

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For Australia’s Mark Davis, acting means constantly exploring. Every role requires research into humanity and discovering a new aspect of himself. No matter the character he is portraying, he aims to constantly convey their own personal truth, and in doing so, he learns something. That is why Davis loves acting, and it is why he is such an in-demand actor both in his home country and abroad. Davis’ career has been filled with success, and although he has excelled on stage and on screen, he is most passionate about filmmaking. His work on films such as I Want You and Topdecked exemplify just what a talented actor he truly is. No matter the genre, he excels. “I use my personal emotions, physicality and ingenuity to embody people who are not me. I take day trips in someone else’s shoes, and even when it’s challenging, I have fun in the process,” he said. One of Davis’ most decorated projects on his impressive resume is the 2016 romantic comedy Lucy . The film tells the ...

Colorist Cynthia Chen creates artistic masterpiece in new award-winning film

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Filmmaking is one of the most celebrated artforms. However, unlike a painting or photograph, it takes an incredibly large team of talented people to make it a masterpiece. Cynthia Chen knows this well. When a film is done shooting, the footage is raw and looks pale, and as a colorist, it is her job to fix that. She ensures that every single shot in each scene matches one another by balancing color saturation and luminance from shot to shot. She applies different color styles to the whole picture for different contents based on their stories, characters, emotion and themes. For Chen, the suite is like a magic room; she can turn a day scene into a night scene, enhance and switch the emotions by using the different color palettes, help to finish the lighting tasks that can’t be done on the real set, assist the director to emphasize the atmosphere and feelings. Her final goal is to provide extraordinary images for the audience. “If one says that the scriptwriter is the first...

College Papers for Sale: How to Get the Paper in a Timely Matter

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Students from the U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Australia and other regions of the globe actively use the assistance of custom writing services. This is no novelty. This is a reasonable method to cope with really complicated assignments. They offer a wide range of capabilities. For example, you are free to order such academic papers as movie/book/literature reviews, term paper, admission essay, coursework, dissertation, research proposal, etc. The approved writers easily compose assignments on various topics and are good with any subject (accounting, science, sociology, psychology, programming, etc.). Conventionally, their help is affordable and an ordinary client can easily purchase the required services. Thus, many people buy college papers for sale on OnlineCollegeEssay.com and on other partnerships. Notwithstanding, there appear certain questions and impediments. One of such is the matter of time. Every school/college assignment has a clear deadline. Therefore, students want ...

Custom Essay Writing Service: 3 Offers to Get at a Cheap Price

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Getting a custom essay written doesn’t need to cost a fortune, although there many companies out there which will charge students a lot of money for a paper which they have sold time and again to different students often on the same courses. If you enjoy being a savvy shopper and getting the most for your money, then read on… Consultations As any great service provider knows, regardless of the service that is being provided at least the first, initial consultation should be free of charge. If a company tries to charge you for the initial chat, then go somewhere else! They are not trying to help you. It is really important that the custom paper writing service that you choose to use provides free consultations. Students buying papers from writing services have to ensure that the paper sounds as though it is their own, unique work and the best way of ensuring this happens is to have frequent consultations with the service providing the paper. That way, the service can g...

Tigran Mutafyan on the Magic Behind the Black Eyed Peas Videos

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Black Eyed Peas founding member will.i.am knows more than a little about crossing artistic boundaries. As a musician, actor, and composer, he has Grammy awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, and numerous accolades to vet this. His success is indebted to his willingness to experiment and utilize eclectic influences. The music video is still a profound means for artists like will.i.am to express themselves and he embraces it as such. Cinematographer Tigran Mutafyan has collaborated with Will on some of these adventurous productions over the last couple of years. Whether an artist finds themselves on the stage in front of tens of thousands or capturing images to propel a music video, lighting is key. Mutafyan describes just how vital the lighting was for his work with will.i.am on the visual component of the creative statement being made on “Smile Mona Lisa” and “Constant.” The video for will.i.am’s “Smile Mona Lisa” takes modern visual artistry and melds it with the work of the classic p...

Educator Ronnie Brown Mansfield

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Ronnie Brown Mansfield is a highly respected educator and school administrator. The Ohio native is performance focused and is highly adept at establishing and cultivating working relationships with education stakeholders. He also possesses excellent oral and communication skills, which is critical in school management and administration. Being an accomplished educator, Ronnie has a Post-Graduate in Superintendent Licensure and Principal Licensure, all obtained from the University of Dayton, OH. He also has a Master of Science Degree in Educational Leadership and Bachelor of Science in Education, Majoring in Elementary Education. Ronnie is currently the Vice Principal of a Middle School in Mansfield Ohio. His areas burgeoning list of competence includes the following roles: District PBIS Committee, District LPDC Committee and District Curriculum Committee. From 2005 to 2017 Ronnie Brown Columbus served in various school administrative positions at Ohio’s Columbus City Schools. ...

Chinese-Canadian Actress Xiao Sun judges Toronto Korean Film Festival

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With over ten years of ballet and Chinese traditional dance experience, performing has always been a passion of Xiao Sun’s. The trilingual Chinese-Canadian film and television actress always knew she was meant to entertain audiences. Now that she is recognized around the world for what she does, she feels lucky to do what she always dreamed of every day. Her innate talent and sheer dedication have allowed her to rise to the top, and her respect for her craft is evident in everything she does. Having starred in acclaimed films like Les 3 P’tits Cochons 2, Mother!, X-Men: Days of Future Past and more, Sun finds herself at the forefront of Canada’s entertainment industry. She always, however, aims to help those looking to follow in her footsteps, frequently finding ways to assist those at the beginning stages of their career. Earlier this year, Sun was a panelist at the 2018 ACTRA Winter Conference, providing advice on how to build your brand as an actor, and just recently, she s...

Interview with singer and songwriter Cloudy Retro

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Mansoor Syed, better known by his stage name, "Cloudy Retro", is a 19 year old singer/songwriter based in Athens, Georgia. Enamored by music since childhood, Retro grew up writing songs and poetry, keen to share his musical talent with the rest of the world. In July of 2018, Retro released his debut album, " Eleven Thirteen Sixteen " to the public, an album met with moderate praise.   Cloudy Retro is also a published poet and painter. He aims to spread his messages in abstract languages other than the five he already knows. When he's not dabbling in the arts, he likes to collect and play video games, study for school, or spend time with his family and his cat. As a young singer/songwriter who has debuted your album, what do you think it takes to be a songwriter at this young age? It doesn't take anything more than perseverance. Too many people quit when their projects or art start to become difficult. But I can assure you that that wouldn'...

The Sounds of Home Away

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It’s often the prevalent but peripheral stimuli which allow us to be transported to a different place or time; that old song from high school, the smell of your grandmother’s cooking, etc.. Sound editor and sound designer Peiqi (aka Peggy) Duan has made a career of this in using her heightened sense and skills for creating auditory settings in film. For Home Away , she has wrapped the visual story in a sonic world which delivers us to the bustling cities of China to witness a father/son relationship at a tragic moment. Director Xiang Xu, under contract with China’s biggest entertainment company Tencent, enlisted Duan as a fan of her work on the films Moscow Nights and Father’s Studio . Starring award-winning Taiwanese actor Jack Kao as the father, this China/Taiwan release received massive critical acclaim for its talent in front of and behind the camera. In Home Away , Xiang Xu has created a film about one man but which also portrays the feelings of so many in today’s world....