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Saturday, July 31, 2010
FOREVER VII
Check out my paintings for sale:
EBAY: PRISARTS GALLERY
PRINTS: FINE ART AMERICA
NEEDLEPOINT: KATHY'S SPAREROOM
Rocky Mountain Gorge
Since I shared photos of the top of these mountains I'm in for three weeks, here are photos of one the many gorges between them. This one is the St. Vrain Gorge that runs between highway 7 and Lyons, Colorado.
Our top 5 Event Entertainment picks
What makes a company event special? The food, the people, the ambiance, the entertainment. So many elements to play with. Let's talk about the entertainment!
When you walk into a party, the decor and the activity of people is what you see and this influences the way you feel. The more excited people are, the more excited you automatically feel.
How do we get guests excited and involved? Have activities that guests can take part in. Have entertainers greet the guests as they walk in be it mime artists, fire eaters or even palm readers. This is especially great for themed parties. Have an area where the guests get to mingle with the entertainers and have photos taken instantly.
Here are our top 5 picks for year end party entertainment this year:
Circus Acts and Acrobats
Who can be bored with the many unique acts? Book a stilt walker to make a big announcement for your company at an annual conference or meeting. It is a fun and guaranteed way to get everyone's attention. Booking a cirque act is a great idea when the event needs something remarkable or to get a buzz going. Make sure you can accommodate for the space some of the cirque acts require.
Celebrity Impersonator & Comedy shows
Hire a celebrity impersonator to come to the event and sign autographs and take pictures with guests. You can even hire comedians to set a light mood for the evening.
A graffiti artist that can create a painting of someone or something with a large crowd watching. Some artists do this type of thing super fast, making it intriguing to watch.
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Singing Waiters
Singing waiters is a surprise act featuring three talented and charming singers posing as real waiters before taking the guests through a highly amusing, yet sophisticated show.
Subtly, the performers infiltrate the function as members of the ‘real’ service staff. However, not all is what it seems. To the surprise of the guests, an unexpected story unfolds, culminating in a dynamic performance a la “The Three Tenors”.
Sand Artist
When a sand artist performs for an audience, a video camera would be fixed above the table to capture the process, to be projected onto a screen.
The animation is synchronised with the background music's rhythm and music.
The art itself is environmentally friendly. No art paper is wasted and no chemicals are used.
When you walk into a party, the decor and the activity of people is what you see and this influences the way you feel. The more excited people are, the more excited you automatically feel.
How do we get guests excited and involved? Have activities that guests can take part in. Have entertainers greet the guests as they walk in be it mime artists, fire eaters or even palm readers. This is especially great for themed parties. Have an area where the guests get to mingle with the entertainers and have photos taken instantly.
Here are our top 5 picks for year end party entertainment this year:
Circus Acts and Acrobats
Who can be bored with the many unique acts? Book a stilt walker to make a big announcement for your company at an annual conference or meeting. It is a fun and guaranteed way to get everyone's attention. Booking a cirque act is a great idea when the event needs something remarkable or to get a buzz going. Make sure you can accommodate for the space some of the cirque acts require.
Celebrity Impersonator & Comedy shows
Hire a celebrity impersonator to come to the event and sign autographs and take pictures with guests. You can even hire comedians to set a light mood for the evening.
Graffiti Artist
A graffiti artist that can create a painting of someone or something with a large crowd watching. Some artists do this type of thing super fast, making it intriguing to watch.
.JPG)
Singing Waiters
Singing waiters is a surprise act featuring three talented and charming singers posing as real waiters before taking the guests through a highly amusing, yet sophisticated show.
Subtly, the performers infiltrate the function as members of the ‘real’ service staff. However, not all is what it seems. To the surprise of the guests, an unexpected story unfolds, culminating in a dynamic performance a la “The Three Tenors”.
Sand Artist
When a sand artist performs for an audience, a video camera would be fixed above the table to capture the process, to be projected onto a screen.
The animation is synchronised with the background music's rhythm and music.
The art itself is environmentally friendly. No art paper is wasted and no chemicals are used.
Year End Party Decor Trends 2010
We organized our first Annual Dinner for the second half of the year two weeks ago and was it fun! Themed "Pajama Party" our client's staff walked in wearing sexy nighwear to two-piece jammies complete with bedroom slippers!
The waiting lounge was decorated with colourful lit structures, a backdrop which looked like a bed and even a bedroom set. The ballroom had plenty of helium balloons and mood lighting.
What made the event successful was not only the decor, or the entertainment, or even the hot emcee but really the attitude of the staff. They were ready to party and they were dressed for it! Their energy filled the air and everything just fell into place.
With companies starting to plan for their year end parties, we thought we'd give a little input on some trends to look out for and some of our fave venues.
Everything Is Illuminated
This season, swanky product launches, retail openings and VIP affairs all have one thing in common: illumination. We're not talking light bulbs, of course, but more of table lamps as centrepieces to color-saturated LED lighting. LED lighting They produce an enormous range of color while using almost no electricity.
Also, think glowing columns, changing mood lighting. Extra cool is that these lights can be pre-set to change colors, or changed by remote control. Event decorators are using them as is or dressed up with sheer fabrics for an exciting palette of otherworldly, gorgeous effects. When combined with equally color-satured lighting throughout the room, and maybe even a matching gobo on the ceiling or dance floor, the effect is truly spectacular.
The effect lighting has on a room, when done properly, pulls you into the space.
You, emotionally, are drawn into a space that you may have seen a hundred times before; but never in a way that you are seeing it now.
Spankin' New Spandex
During the intervening decades, some as-yet-unheralded designer figured out that when stretched over metal frames, Spandex allows light to shine through, casting an uber-cool color-rich glow. Event furniture companies are now offering illuminated Spandex lines of bars, highboys, cocktail tables and cubes. Generally, they're made of metal frames with acrylic or glass tops.
Ice is Nice
Yes, we know you're thinking those ice sculptured swans and hearts but ice sculptures have evolved! Not just for igloos anymore, massive blocks of ice are now being used to make beverage bars. They can even come with laser etched logos specific to your event.
We're also seeing ice used to create "ice luges," artistically sculpted blocks that have channels inside liquid can flow through. An attendant takes a bottle of say, white wine, pours it into the top of the luge. The wine flows down the channel, getting chilled en route, and into your cup, waiting at the bottom. Relatively new to the event scene, luges always seem to be surrounded by excited crowds, not unlike the earliest days of the now-ubiquitous (but still worshipped) chocolate fountain.
Balloons
Some of us grimace when thinking of balloons being used for adult parties but at a recent gala for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, an artist was commissioned to a design a pod of enormous, vibrant balloon sculptures of animals and sea creatures, which hung from the ceiling. And when famed clothing designer/ groovy girl Betsey Johnson held a fragrance launch in her home for a gaggle of newspaper and magazine beauty editors, her ceiling, too, was dotted with dozens of hot pink round balloons.
Edible Centrepieces
A high-end event decor firm in Florida is getting rave reviews from its centerpieces made mostly of vegetables, which use flowers only as minor accents! Think clusters of exotic-palette, texture-heavy artichokes, grapes, eggplants.
For non-vege lovers, you can opt for other food stuff, of course!
The waiting lounge was decorated with colourful lit structures, a backdrop which looked like a bed and even a bedroom set. The ballroom had plenty of helium balloons and mood lighting.
What made the event successful was not only the decor, or the entertainment, or even the hot emcee but really the attitude of the staff. They were ready to party and they were dressed for it! Their energy filled the air and everything just fell into place.
With companies starting to plan for their year end parties, we thought we'd give a little input on some trends to look out for and some of our fave venues.
Everything Is Illuminated
This season, swanky product launches, retail openings and VIP affairs all have one thing in common: illumination. We're not talking light bulbs, of course, but more of table lamps as centrepieces to color-saturated LED lighting. LED lighting They produce an enormous range of color while using almost no electricity.
Also, think glowing columns, changing mood lighting. Extra cool is that these lights can be pre-set to change colors, or changed by remote control. Event decorators are using them as is or dressed up with sheer fabrics for an exciting palette of otherworldly, gorgeous effects. When combined with equally color-satured lighting throughout the room, and maybe even a matching gobo on the ceiling or dance floor, the effect is truly spectacular.
The effect lighting has on a room, when done properly, pulls you into the space.
You, emotionally, are drawn into a space that you may have seen a hundred times before; but never in a way that you are seeing it now.
Spankin' New Spandex
Oddly, another '70s refuge is back in vogue: spandex.
During the intervening decades, some as-yet-unheralded designer figured out that when stretched over metal frames, Spandex allows light to shine through, casting an uber-cool color-rich glow. Event furniture companies are now offering illuminated Spandex lines of bars, highboys, cocktail tables and cubes. Generally, they're made of metal frames with acrylic or glass tops.
Ice is Nice
Yes, we know you're thinking those ice sculptured swans and hearts but ice sculptures have evolved! Not just for igloos anymore, massive blocks of ice are now being used to make beverage bars. They can even come with laser etched logos specific to your event.We're also seeing ice used to create "ice luges," artistically sculpted blocks that have channels inside liquid can flow through. An attendant takes a bottle of say, white wine, pours it into the top of the luge. The wine flows down the channel, getting chilled en route, and into your cup, waiting at the bottom. Relatively new to the event scene, luges always seem to be surrounded by excited crowds, not unlike the earliest days of the now-ubiquitous (but still worshipped) chocolate fountain.
Balloons
Some of us grimace when thinking of balloons being used for adult parties but at a recent gala for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, an artist was commissioned to a design a pod of enormous, vibrant balloon sculptures of animals and sea creatures, which hung from the ceiling. And when famed clothing designer/ groovy girl Betsey Johnson held a fragrance launch in her home for a gaggle of newspaper and magazine beauty editors, her ceiling, too, was dotted with dozens of hot pink round balloons.Edible Centrepieces
A high-end event decor firm in Florida is getting rave reviews from its centerpieces made mostly of vegetables, which use flowers only as minor accents! Think clusters of exotic-palette, texture-heavy artichokes, grapes, eggplants.
For non-vege lovers, you can opt for other food stuff, of course!
Sail Away With Me
This dress titled "The Stylish Wanderer" on modcloth.com, is a perfect dress for a San Diegan to show her love for the sea. Sailboats filling the pattern of the dress make it nautically nice. Trend staff editor Alice looked so nice in her yellow one!
anchors away,
Bridgétt
TREND Staff Writer
TREND Staff Writer
Friday, July 30, 2010
FOREVER V
Done using acrylic and oil paints on 11 x 14 canvas.
Check out my paintings for sale:
EBAY: PRISARTS GALLERY
PRINTS: FINE ART AMERICA
NEEDLEPOINT: KATHY'S SPAREROOM
Winner of the Samsung Diva Elite Model Look crowned at last night's presentation
Emma Mactaggart from Blairadam, Scotland has won Samsung Diva Elite Model Look; a project to discover young model talent as part of Elite London’s second annual search for the UK’s supermodels of the future. The announcement came at the Grand Final at One Mayfair last night where the finalists took to the catwalk in front of over 500 media, Elite models, friends and family wearing bespoke dresses made by Warehouse - the official Style Partner, with hair styled by TONI&GUY, lashes from Eylure and leading make-up artist Daniel Sandler creating the looks for the show. The judging panel (which included Sacha Mascolo Tarbuck, Global Creative Director of TONI&GUY, makeup artist Daniel Sandler and Warehouse PR & Marketing Director Lorraine Pringle) chose Emma from the 12 finalists to receive a modelling contract with Elite London and the trip of a lifetime to the Elite Model Look World Final in Shanghai. This year’s 12 finalists were selected following a 12 date national casting tour across the UK.
Ta Da!
Presenting lovely members of Trend Staff and statuesque models from our first photoshoot! They are all looking quite grand (if I do say so myself!)
beaming,
Bridgétt
TREND Staff Writer
Clothing label Pyrus opens its debut London store
Pyrus has made its retail debut by launching its first concept store situated within London’s West End yesterday. The store is spread over two floors; the boutique on the ground floor will display collections, accessories and exclusive items, while The Basement Gallery will be a showcase space for contemporary art. The gallery space will collaborate with existing galleries that include Nettie Horn and Mauger Modern Art. As well as offering Pyrus mainline collections, the boutique will also present exclusive jewellery, accessories and deliver new styles every 2-3 weeks.
New collaboration between Vivienne Westwood and Mantero Seta
The English design icon Vivienne Westwood and Mantero Seta, the worldwide leader of the silk production, have signed a deal to create a new line of women’s foulards and scarves. The union with Mantero represents Vivienne Westwood’s desire to enhance its women accessories range. The partnership will start from Spring-Summer 2011 and continue for six seasons.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Frida
This is another Day of the Dead artwork with Frida Kahlo as the subject. Done in 11 x 14 inches stretched canvas.
10% of the final sale price will support World Wildlife Fund.
Check out my paintings for sale:
EBAY: PRISARTS GALLERY
PRINTS: FINE ART AMERICA
NEEDLEPOINT: KATHY'S SPAREROOM
GARDEN BLOOMS I
Cosmopolitan official media partner for Pure London
Cosmopolitan is the official media partner for Pure London. The event, taking place at Olympia London from 1-3 August (see DIARYdates), attracts over 11,000 fashion buyers each season. As part of the partnership, the Cosmopolitan fashion team will be blogging live from the event providing Cosmopolitan readers, Twitter followers and Facebook ‘Friends’ with their pick of the best brands exhibiting, trends coming up for Autumn/Winter 2010 and the key styles to watch out for.
New collection from Celia Birtwell launches into John Lewis
Celia Birtwell has designed a second collection for John Lewis that is launching this Autumn/Winter. The iconic 1960s fashion and textiles designer has created an 18 piece collection that remains true to her characteristic bohemian style and includes chiffon and layered silk dresses, pussy bow neck blouses and accessories embellished with studding and embroidery. Available at selected John Lewis branches and online at johnlewis.com, the vintage style collection will be released in two halves with nine pieces available in late August and the remainder hitting stores in October.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Here Ye Here Ye!
Trend is politely asking if there are any gentlemen interested in being a part of one of our fall issue photoshoots. Qualifications are as follows:
-Must be at least 5' 8''
-Must be fit
-Must reside in San Diego (preferably attend UCSD)
-Must have a willingness to work hard
If you are interested, send a picture of yourself to trenducsd@gmail.com, with your phone number and availability for the summer. This is not a paid job.
P.S.
Please respond by the first week of August.
electronically yours,
Bridgétt
TREND Staff Writer
Peter Pilotto designs capsule collection for Kipling
Kipling has teamed up with Peter Pilotto to create a capsule collection for the Autumn/Winter 2010 season. This collection is launching exclusively at Selfridges with a pop up shop from 10 September. The collection will be available nationwide from 17 September at Kipling stores and online (including ASOS/Urban Outfitters). The range is made up of eleven bags and five accessories in galaxy and machine prints, as well as a Kipling signature furry monkey.
Snap!
Don't blink! Our first photo-shoot for the fall issue is taking place today...in a lovely boutique. Can't say where or when, but we are really excited about this. The fall issue will be something amazing to say the least!
Bien à vous,
Bridgétt
TREND Staff Writer
New exhibition celebrating iconic Christian Dior illustrator
Dior Illustrated: René Gruau and the Line of Beauty is a new exhibition set to take place at Somerset House in London WC2, from 10 November 2010 – 9 January 2011. This is a celebration of illustrator René Gruau (1909-2004), who created some of the most iconic fashion and beauty images of the 20th century. This exciting exhibition will showcase groundbreaking artworks including original illustrations for Christian Dior Parfums, vintage perfume bottles, sketches and magazines, as well as a selection of Dior Haute Couture dresses. Gruau influenced the graphic style of a generation of fashion illustrators and the exhibition will feature specially commissioned pieces from six UK based illustrators whose works will draw inspiration from the rich collaboration between Gruau and the House of Dior.
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