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“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 lose 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.

The self published blog, which is typically updated more often than websites, is clearly the New Darling of the this internet decade.

“WEBLOG”:

web·log

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.

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

Everyday is a new day” Adriana Sassoon

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.

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.

* I love to Blog. We live in a world spinning with a cycle of 24 hour non stopping News. I happen to prefer the good News.

“Love, Live and Learn.SHARE you experiences”Adriana Sassoon

Adriana Sassoon Design 360 From Salon & Beyond!

Iris Apfel (born Astoria, Queens, New York, 29 August 1921) is an American businesswoman, former interior designer, and fashion icon.Born Iris Barrel, she was the only child of Samuel Barrel (born 1897), whose family owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye (aka Syd), who owned a fashion boutique.She studied art history at New York University and attended art school at the University of Wisconsin. As a young woman Barrel worked for Women’s Wear Daily and for interior designer Elinor Johnson. She also was an assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman.

In 1948 she married Carl Apfel. Two years later they launched the textile firm Old World Weavers and ran it until they retired in 1992. During this time, Iris Apfel took part in many design restoration projects, including work at the White House for nine presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton.Iris Apfel still consults, and also lectures about style and other fashion topics.

 http://www.youtube.com/embed/yzf_WPqsmTM

Iris Apfel Interiors

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/homes/2011/06/iris_apfels_exuberant_apartment_article

This is one of those collections you literally dream about and wake up suddenly thinking, “Wow, I really need to lay off the late night tuna.” By now most of you know how much I love Iris Apfel so I am more than enthused to introduce to you her upcoming collection with MAC.

MyBrickell is a bold, new statement about contemporary culture and city living. Designed by the internationally acclaimed Karim Rashid, it is a destination that combines the driving energy of Miami with the intelligence of global business and the excitement of cosmopolitian downtown leisure.

http://www.mybrickell.us/

BIO

Karim Rashid is one of the most prolific designers of his generation. Over 3000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 40 countries attest to Karim’s legend of design.

His award winning designs include luxury goods for Christofle, Veuve Clicquot, and Alessi, democratic products for Umbra, Bobble, and 3M, furniture for Bonaldo and Vondom, lighting for Artemide and Fabbian, high tech products for Asus and Samsung, surface design for Marburg and Abet Laminati, brand identity for Citibank and Sony Ericsson and packaging for Method, Paris Baguette, Kenzo and Hugo Boss.Karim is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally disseminating the importance of design in everyday life. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the OCAD, Toronto and Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington. Karim has been featured in magazines and books including Time, Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Wallpaper, and countless more.

MANIFESTO

Today poetic design is based on a plethora of complex criteria: human experience, social behaviors, global, economic and political issues, physical and mental interaction, form, vision, and a rigorous understanding and desire for contemporary culture. Manufacturing is based on another collective group of criteria: capital investment, market share, production ease, dissemination, growth, distribution, maintenance, service, performance, quality, ecological issues and sustainability. The combination of these factors shape our objects, inform our forms, our physical space, visual culture and our contemporary human experience. These quantitative constructs shape business, identity, brand and value. This is the business of beauty. Every business should be completely concerned with beauty – it is after all a collective human need.

I believe that we could be living in an entirely different world – one that is full of real contemporary inspiring objects, spaces, places, worlds, spirits and experiences. Design has been the cultural shaper of our world from the start. We have designed systems, cities, and commodities. We have addressed the world’s problems. Now design is not about solving problems, but about a rigorous beautification of our built environments. Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally. My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, and to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, kitsch and the meaningless. We should be conscious and attune with this world in this moment. If human nature is to live in the past – to change the world is to change human nature.

http://www.karimrashid.com/index.html

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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.

Mission Statement

Like so many of the hairstylists we meet on a daily basis our passion for the art and craft of hairstyling goes beyond the simple desire to earn a living.   It is an extension of the love we have for beauty and fashion, architecture and design, people and nature. The commitment we have to family, the professionals we work with, and the next generation of stylists. A pledge that now extends to Sojourn.

We have been blessed with an intimate perspective on the culture of hairdressing and some of the world’s greatest hairstylists—men and women who revolutionized the art of modern hairstyling.  Our respect for these artists runs deep. Hairdressing is a noble profession enriched by a strong tradition of skilled craftsmanship and carefully nurtured alliances. The bonds that come from guiding, encouraging and supporting another individual in developing the skills needed to be successful are the very essence of our industry.

This is the energy behind Sojourn—a professional product line based on positive chemistry, ecological integrity and some of the good business practices that we have lost in recent years—like quality ingredients, in salon education, and professional distribution.

The people you meet on these pages and those you will soon meet on the road with us share the same vision.  We are an industry that strives to make people more beautiful and what a joy it is to be part of that. From that single unified thought we invite each and every hairdresser to join us in charting a new course. One by one we believe we can restore the values that inspire creativity and craftsmanship in all hairstylists. Bringing beauty, health and wellness to all the people we serve.

http://www.sojournbeauty.com/culture/

http://www.youngarts.org/

The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) and the YoungArts program were founded in 1981 by the late Ted Arison, founder of Carnival Cruise Lines, and his wife, Lin. Mr. Arison, who had been an aspiring pianist in his youth, felt there was a desperate need in the United States for an organization that would encourage and validate young artists.

He also wanted to do something for Miami that would enhance its reputation and place it on the map culturally and perpetually.

“I think that the arts are the soul of our nation,” Mr. Arison said years later, explaining his motivation in establishing YoungArts. “I felt that the arts had almost become an endangered species. I realized, especially with young people, that [YoungArts will] insure the future of our soul.”

Since its founding in 1981, YoungArts has helped to support and nurture the careers of thousands of young artists. “This is beyond anything that Ted and I ever dreamed of,” Lin Arison said, reflecting back on YoungArts’ first 25 years. “It’s amazing. His dreams have definitely come true.”

The Young Arts & OCEAN DRIVE Magazine Present Live Performances by YoungArts Alumni

Kate Davis & Emmet Cohen

*Photo credits- Left:Kate Davis and Emmet Cohen   Right: Pink Lanvin 

Lanvin Paris with  Lukas Klessig and Adriana Sassoon

Kate Davis

Growing up as a classical violinist, Kate  experienced a variety of musical styles from age 5. When relocated to the  Pacific Northwest in middle school, she developed a new passion for jazz and  other contemporary styles. From then on, the upright bass and voice became her  primary musical outlets.

Kate was nurtured by the supportive music  community in Portland Oregon, where she was able to satisfy her hunger to learn  and perform. Late in high school Kate achieved national recognition for her jazz  bass and vocals. She was named an NFAA “youngARTS” Silver winner, accumulated  four Downbeat Magazine Student Awards, was twice invited to the Brubeck Summer  Jazz Colony, and was bassist in the Grammy Jazz Ensemble. She was also selected  as a Presidential Scholar of the Arts, including a White House visit and a  performance at the Kennedy Center.

http://www.katedavismusic.com

Emmet Cohen

At 21, jazz pianist Emmet Cohen, a finalist in the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, plays with the maturity and  confidence of a seasoned veteran. With astonishing technique and an  innovative harmonic palate, Emmet engenders a deep musical bond with his  audience. Cohen has shared the bandstand with a plethora of musical  luminaries, including Christian McBride, Benny Golson, Joshua Redman, Dave Holland, Patti Austin,  Maceo Parker, Carmen Bradford, Billy Hart, and many others. he is completing a music degree at the University of Miami where he studies with Brian Lynch, Terence Blanchard, Shelly Berg, and Martin Bejerano. Emmet regularly appears as a sideman and leader on both piano and Hammond B3 Organ in New York and Miami.

http://www.emmetcohen.com/

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

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

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/

Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau

People protect what they love.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Jacques Cousteau directs a diving craft’s launch in the late 1950s.

Who was Jacques?

 Born on June 11, 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, Jacques Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer who became one of the world’s greatest explorers, ecologists, filmmakers and scientists.

His passion was the oceans of the world and the sea life in them, and he co-developed the  modern “aqualung”  – the SCUBA tank and regulator – making underwater exploration accessible to scientists and the masses alike. He died on June 25, 1997.

CALYPSO

Cousteau meets Calypso

In Malta, Jacques-Yves Cousteau discovered a former Royal Navy mine-sweeper that had been converted to a ferry and named Calypso. The ship was christened in 1942 but her first prosaic name, J-826, belied the exceptional life she would lead. To Cousteau, she was the ideal ship for his plan to explore the seas. Thanks to the financial help of Loël Guinness, the sale contract was signed on July 19, 1950. Calypso left immediately for the shipyard in Antibes, France, where she was transformed into an oceanographic ship and a new Calypso was born. One of her many innovations was the ” false nose “, or underwater observation chamber built around the prow and equipped with eight portholes for viewing.

Much of the equipment was donated by the private sector, including many companies, and the French Navy. Jacques Cousteau and his wife Simone also devoted a major part of their personal resources to the ship.

Jean Michel Cousteau

Cousteau is the son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Simone Melchior. Cousteau first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 7 years old. Although he went to school to study architecture, he became part of his father’s Cousteau Society, serving for twenty years as executive vice president before striking out on his own in 1993 to produce environmental films. Cousteau and his father had disagreed about the management and policies of the Society. Ocean Futures Society, a non-profit marine conservation and education organization, serves as a voice for the ocean by communicating in all media the critical bond between people and the sea and the importance of wise environmental policy. As Ocean Futures’ leader, Jean-Michel serves as an impassioned diplomat for the environment, reaching out to the public through a variety of media.

 The Miami & The Beaches Environmental Film Festival presented last Friday  The World Premiere of My Father, the Captain: My Life with Jacques Cousteau, presented by his son, Jean-Michel Cousteau.

Fabien Cousteau & Adriana Sassoon at the Miami Beach Premiere My Father the Captain.

Eldest grandson of Jacques Yves Cousteau, Fabien continues the legacy and mission of exploration, media production, environmental advocacy and plantafish.org

Read this article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fabien-cousteau/people-protect-what-they_b_520906.html

http://www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures/xteam/

My Father, The Captain:
My Life with Jacques Cousteau
by: Jean-Michel Cousteau
with Daniel Paisner

The more I look back on my father, Jacques Cousteau, and his legacy, the more I realize how much he is a part of our times and how, had we listened more carefully, things might be different.

He was a pioneer who broke barriers with his inventions, like the Aqualung and underwater cameras, but he was also a visionary in the sense that he understood the consequences of the trends he witnessed.  He foresaw the risks of nuclear technology and waste; he projected the devastating results of overfishing, overexploitation of habitat, and climate change; and he spoke consistently about population growth and the strain on the natural system.

Jacques Cousteau, along with my brother and I, founded one of the earliest environmental organizations to communicate the issues we were encountering and to educate an international audience.  He wrote the draft of “The Rights of Future Generations” for the United Nations as a vehicle to embody the principle of sustainability and responsible resource management.  He constantly exercised his brilliant intellect in the service of global solutions.  He never stopped until, in his words, he was “unplugged.”

He wielded another power that is rare—he poetically made sense of the incomprehensible and gave us each a way of looking at the world that made action possible. For example, on an isolated riverbank in the Amazon, just as we had released a rescued sea otter named Cacha, my father turned to me, full of emotion, and said, “Jean-Michel, people protect what they love.”  That became for me a motto of my father’s work and an emblem of the commitment we all must make to the world that surrounds us.

- Jean-Michel Cousteau

by Ocean Futures Society

Jean Michel, Fabien & Celine Cousteau

http://www.oceanfutures.org/about/cousteau-family

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.

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