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Riana van Staden is an artist, digital artist and photographer from South Africa. She has exhibitions all over Europe and the USA with her digital art. Some of her works are displayed in art magazines overseas. She was also presented with an award in Italy, namely the Leonardo Da Vinci - The universal Artist Award. We have conducted an interview with Riana. Which series of work were you awarded "Leonardo Da Vinci - The Universal Artist Award? My "Women" series was awarded the prize. The series shows the emotional abuse of women in toxic relationships. When did you become a Digital Artist? I studied Photography way back in 2004 and Photoshop is always part of any photographers life. I started experimenting with the program and in 2014 I really started working in " digital painting " techniques and so my first exhibitions in Italy started. Which are the countries where you host digital art exhibitions? I were very lucky with a gallery...

Clare Mellor is a London based graphic designer and entrepreneur. She is the owner of   www.myfriendsroom.com where you can rent travel accommodation from your friends network. We have conducted an interview with Clare. What inspires you to start this business myfriendsroom.com? I was inspired by the need to find somewhere to stay when travelling abroad. I wanted to stay with friends rather than an impersonal hotel or someone's house on Airbnb that I don't know or trust. I have a lot of friends on social media from all over the world, but I wouldn't feel comfortable asking to stay with them and I wondered if there was a website where you could rent from your friends network. There wasn't a website like this, so I decided to create one. What is your mission? Our mission is to get friends out from behind their screens and start reaching out to each other in person again to meet up and stay with each other all over the world. How safe is MyFriendsRoom...

Elliot James Burns is an armature filmmaker from Whitchurch Hampshire. He and his partner in filmmaking (Joe Goodall) who created the film group Odd Fox films after many name changes have been filming for 6 years. They started with nothing and built up their equipment and skills. We have conducted an interview with Elliot. How did you get started on your filmmaking career? Me and Joe never saw eye to eye on Secondary school, but when we learnt that we were both on the same course at Basingstoke College of Technology studying Sound Engineering, we both also discovered that we share a love for film. One day Joe showed me a bunch of youtubers doing some amazing things that inspired us to make a channel and have some fun. What did you go through to get to the quality of film you make today? We started with a little Sony handicam, and year after year of making on the spot films, we finally built up our knowledge and skills and we're finally able to call ourselves ama...

Brenda Rachel is a published author of the inspirational book IN THIS MOMENT ANGELS’ SWEET REFLECTIONS, which has over 250 quotes channeled to her through the Angels when she was on disability with serious back and hip pain. Brenda Rachel says “I am a ‘Messenger for the Angels’ delivering words of encouragement, inspiration, hope, love, peace and joy”. Brenda Rachel lives in Vancouver, BC Canada. We have conducted an interview with her. Why did you choose to write “IN THIS MOMENT ANGELS' SWEET REFLECTIONS?” I did not choose to write this book or become a writer/author. I was at my one of my lowest periods in life as I was on disability, off work from my corporate job, lying on my bed almost all day long in a back brace and iced all day. I was not able to do the most mundane household chores. I had been pleading with God and the Angels to “take me home” if they did not need or want to use me as their messenger anymore. I asked them 3 questions: what they wanted me t...

Tasha S. is an Indian-Thai lifestyle, fashion, beauty and food blogger. She works currently as the social media and marketing assistant of Homes and Living Magazine in Vancouver. We have conducted an interview with her. What is your writing style? Which kind of tips do you blog about? I like to keep my writing relatable and honest, with strong traits of my personality to keep it as real as possible! I blog about and give tips about things that I am naturally interested in and passionate about: Food, Beauty, Fashion and things I encounter in my everyday lifestyle. When did you start theopenjournal.net? Why? I started this blog about 5 months ago, and mainly because I just enjoy writing and sharing my ideas and thoughts with as many people as I can. What is your background and how has it help you in these fields like fashion and beauty? Well, I am currently working as the Marketing assistant and Social Media Coordinator of H&L magazine in Vancouver and ...

Tal M. Klein is crowdfunding his first book, a hard science fiction novel (hard sci fi is sci fi that is rooted in real science and tech available today) on the Inkshares platform. It's based in the 25th century that revolves around teleportation and the various ways accepting it as a transportation technology affect society. The novel is in a contest sponsored by Geek & Sundry, the winner of which will get publicity and development. We have conducted an interview with Tal. Why did you choose to write about the 25th century? I didn’t set out to write about the 25th century, per se. The Punch Escrow is a hard science fiction novel, which means the tech has to be plausible, and since the core of the plot revolves around teleportation I had to figure out how far away we are today from the plausibility of human teleportation. Fortunately one of my friends is a physicist. He helped me wrap my brain around all the scientific hurdles humanity would need to overcome in ord...

Ali Shahbazi is Iranian Australian Author from Sydnes, NSW. His passion for writing began in his teens but did not fully blossom until he moved to Australia in 2011. He published his first book in 2016. We have conducted an interview with him. What is so enjoyable about your own characters crafting? I love being able to spend my time putting characters into situations and testing them. My characters aren’t really fully formed until I have put them in a few situations and thought about how they will rect. Sometimes this is done in my head before I start the writing process and sometimes it happens naturally when I am writing. I love writing as I can create my own world and my own characters and I love seeing the impossible happen in my mind! The fact is that the worlds that I create in my books need strong characters to inhabit them. Many of the characters that I bring to life in my fiction just live up to these massive habitats that they live in. I enjoy making characters...