Next week we head down to Florida for the Miami Basel Art Fair. The fair and satellite shows open as early as December 1 and run as late as December 7, 2009.
Art Basel Miami Beach is the main feature and, of course, is amazing … held at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Art Basel is the most important art show in the United States, combining a selection of more than 250 top galleries and art dealers from around the world with special exhibitions and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design.

We personally thrive on getting all over town with all the other collectors, buyers, on-lookers, artists, students … soaking in the fresh, established, emerging and out-there art shown at the satellite fairs! We will see what we can see, and report back to you on our finds, likes and dislikes, overview of each fair and reviews of selected artists!

THE 2009 SATELLITE SHOWS INCLUDE:

Aqua Wynwood 12.3 – 12.6
42 NE 25th St.- Wynwood Art District
Aqua features nearly 40 galleries from throughout North America and Europe, with an emphasis on West Coast galleries and emerging artists.

Art Miami 12.3 – 12.6
The Art Miami Pavilion Midtown Blvd. (Northeast 1st Avenue) between Northeast 32nd & 31st Streets
featuring approximately 90 galleries from Europe, Asia and the Americas – with an emphasis on galleries showing mid-career and established artists.

Art Asia 12.2 – 12.6
Soho Studios Miami – 2136 NW 1st Ave.- Wynwood Art District
60 galleries together to showcase paintings, photography, sculpture, mixed media, video and installations from established and emerging Asian artists.

ARTery Miami 12.2 – 12.6
Soho Studios – 71 NW 36th Street
ARTery is a cultural and visual arts partnership comprised of Soho Studios Miami, a consortium of Florida collectors, international art dealers, publishers, galleries and artists.

Design Miami 12.1 – 12.5
NE 39th Street and 1st Court – Miami Design District
Design Miami presents the best international design galleries exhibiting extraordinary historic and contemporary design.

Femme Art Miami 12.1 – 12.6
Coppertone Building – 7283 Biscayne Blvd.
Femme Art Miami creates a platform for emerging female artists to showcase, promote and sell their art during this important season.

Fountain 12.3 – 12.6
2505 North Miami Ave.
An exhibition of avant garde artwork.

Grafitti Gone Global 12.3 – 12.6
Midtown Miami – 3252 NE 1st Ave., Suite 101
Showing the dexterity of street art around the world. From traditional to experimental graffiti art.

INK Miami 12.2 – 12.6
Suites of Dorchester – 1850 Collins Ave.
Showcasing notable publishers and dealers who exhibit new publications, projects and acquisitions by leading contemporary artists.

NADA Art Fair Miami 12.3 – 12.6
The Deauville Beach Resort – 6701 Collins Ave.
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) features 88 emerging art galleries from 19 countries as well as performances, lectures, and events.

Pool Art Fair 12.4 – 12.6
Cavalier Hotel – 1320 Ocean Dr.
A meeting ground for outstanding artists, primarily those who do not have yet gallery representation.

PULSE Miami 12.3 – 12.6
Ice Palace – 1400 N Miami Ave.
Presenting leading international galleries and artists showcasing the latest movements in contemporary art designed to serve both seasoned and emerging collectors.

Red Dot Fair 12.2 – 12.6
3011 NE 1st Ave. at NW 31st Street – Wynwood Arts District
More than 50 international, modern contemporary art dealers from around the world showing Paintings, photography, sculpture …

SCOPE International Contemporary Art Fair 12.2 – 12.6
Soho Studios – 2136 NW 1st Ave. (entrance at 21st Street) – Wynwood Arts District
Miami’s original emerging contemporary art fair, hosting 88 exhibitors from 22 countries.

Sculpt Miami 12.2 – 12.6
46 NW 36 St. – Wynwood Arts District
Combining an international selection of over 30 top sculptors with other exciting cultural events.

Tribal Miami Art Show 12.3 – 12.6
The Catalina Hotel – 1732 Collins Ave. at 18th
An international show of fine antique tribal art.

Verge 12.2 – 12.6
The Catalina Hotel – 1732 Collins Ave.
Thirty exhibitors featuring international, exciting and interesting in new and emerging art.

Zones Art Fair Miami 12.3 – 12.7
Zones Art Space – 47 NE 25th St. – Wynwood Art District
A niche fair/event, including a food-tasting session, talks, cocktails, exhibition, video screenings, music, performance and publications.

Here’s the thing about making wedding cakes. Baking and decorating a 9/7/5-inch three-tier is like tackling Mount Everest right there at your kitchen table. But once it’s conquered and displayed at a big venue, it can suddenly shrink into a blink-and-you-miss backside pimple.

Case in point: the cake I made for my cousin Ricky’s wedding last week. The venue was One 15 Marina Club in Sentosa Cove, and it was the first time my cake was to be cut on stage in a grand ballroom.

Ricky’s fiancee Amy said it was a “small” stage so the cake wouldn’t look out of place. And as I was hauling my cakes out the front door to the car, it sure had the heft that befitted the occasion: The thick bottom tier, which itself was made up of two tiers to reach 6 inches in height, was so heavy that I had to stop twice to take breathers.

But once I got to the ballroom, the cakes instantly shrivelled up to look like last week’s muffins. It wasn’t because the stage was huge. It was because there was a cake-cutting table there, and sitting on it, a gargantuan, skyscraping fake cake covered in fake fondant and fake roses. To complete the blinding visual assault, it was topped with an enormous nest made of fake twigs and fake birds.

I asked the banquet manager to remove it so I can place my cake in its place. And he went blank for 5 long seconds.

“Take the fake cake away?” he said, looking at my shrivelled muffin, then looking back at his aviarius masterpiece. What he was really saying was, What? You want me to replace this magnum opus with that zit of a cake??!

“Ya,” I said, defending myself meekly, “I have three tiers.”

“Oh,” he said, and, with a slight frown still attached to his face, removed the jacuzzi-sized foam monstrosity.

I proceeded to assemble my cake. Once completed and placed on the table, it was only one-tenth the size of the ginormous tweeting wonder. If you’ve ever wondered what it felt like for David to face the mighty Goliath, just ask my cake.

But when it was cake-cutting time, at least Amy and Ricky were able to run the knife down a real cake, with real buttercream and real fondant — and not some insipid slit pre-cut into a foam block.

Call me old-fashioned. But when it comes to wedding cakes, nothing beats the real thing — backside pimple or not.

Preparing the flowers for this cake was both fun and deathly terrifying. Over a year ago, I stuck fresh rose petals on L&G’s chocolate ganache wedding cake and they wilted so fast that they looked like wet newspaper bits creeping up a pile of sh**. Needless to say, I’ve been scarred ever since.

But I decided to give fresh flowers another go this time because, in my opinion, they will always look better than sugarpaste flowers. I just needed to take extra care. These gorgeous white ranunculus (my fave flower) were first rinsed and soaked in water to get rid of pesticides. Then, with their ends wrapped in wet towels, they were kept fresh in the fridge overnight.

Amy wanted a Tiffany blue cake and I had just the right brand of colouring for the job: Wilton’s teal. Just a few drops were enough to colour my 3kg of fondant the perfect shade of Tiffany.

The four tiers of cake (two to make up the bottom tier) took an afternoon to bake. They were filled and crumb-coated with Swiss meringue buttercream, flavoured with organic strawberry puree.

To cover the 6-inch tall bottom tier, I had to roll out the biggest piece of fondant in my young career – 20 inches across! Once draped over the cake, I had to work quickly to cut off the excess.

More trims and tucks to make each cake looking perfectly wrapped.

The brown grosgrain ribbons and flowers were attached on-site. I love how this cake turned out, but I think my daughter E is still way cuter.

Lilitha - the fight

Lilitha - behind

Lilitha - Feuer&Wasser

Feuer&Wasser kommt nicht zusammen,

kann man nicht binden,

sind nicht verwandt

(Rammstein : Feuer und Wasser)

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Horizon 6 by Jessica Torrant, 2009
Textured acrylic painting on 12″ x 12″ x 1″ gallery wrapped canvas

I hear Sensei is here I will tell once I find out

Dayton, Ohio

Looking Glass – Brandy, You’re a Fine Girl

Director
Peder Pedersen

Director
Peder Pedersen

Director
Peder Pedersen

Si vous cherchiez à faire une effet “aqua” sur une photo, un effet liquide à la “Abyss”, ne cherchez plus… Le site Computer Arts publie cet excellent tutoriel où vous pourrez télécharger les fichiers d’exercice.

Pour accéder au tutoriel, cliquez sur l’image ci-dessous.

Salvete  Omnes!  I’m actually alive!!!!!!!!!!!! xD home sick- but alive!!!!! So I decided I should post, Okay so most of you have probably noticed club penguins start up screen:

And for most of you when you see something like this you immediatly think: Something big involving ninjas is happening, to the ninja hideout. Well good that’s what you should think.  There is a video telling you about the game but it is  laggy on my cmptr and my cmptr isnt exactly old so cp needs to  use some lower tech stuff I think. So at the ninja hideout you need to buy a  Amulet which some of us helped gold smith and click the stone fire inscription and a huge door will appear go inside and you will find the still under construction fire Dojo!!!!!

But it loads slowly…….. … Anyways what I know about it is that  it will have four players a game  and is member only!

Mom got me some fire Card jitsu cards the other day so I went upstairs and typed in the code but look!

I e-mailed cp and  Emma said that it would be ready soon. Every time I e-mail club penguin Emma responds….. Odd……. lol

This has been Zumaboy’s CP cheats.

~Zumaboy

It’s been a long time comin’, Kona!

Makes me wanna dance inside Kilauea already. Straight heat, son!

More info at Reptank’s Myspace page.

Ein Lied über Mutter Courage  Elisabeth:  Prinzessin, Mutter,

österreichisches weibliches Symbol für Anmut, Treue und Unabhängigkeit

SISSY

heARTbeats

>ich warte auf Freunde und suche Geborgenheit

ich teile die Freude, ich teile die Traurigkeit<