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| Obakki's Rustic Elegance |
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by Maurize Pinzon
Treana Peake, creative director and founder of Vancouver-based design house Obakki, seems bent on a mission to embrace the world—or at least those people who wear sporty upscale clothing. For now, Ms. Peake is focusing on breaking into the U.S. wholesale market.
August 05, 2008 |
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| Two Photographers at Monkdogz Urban Art |
Maurize Pinzon
Brett F. Whysel picked up a camera as a boy picks up a rifle in gun country and never stopped shooting. Five of his photographs are part of the photography exhibition, “Look!” which is currently featured at the Monkdogz Urban Art gallery in Chelsea....In sharp contrast to Mr. Whysel's photographs, Ella Manor's photography decisively pivots around herself. Another artist with work in the “Look!” exhibition, Israeli-born Ms. Manor uses her own vision, body and camera to create her work. In each of her five very different photographs, her image is hard to recognize, but her deep self-examination is embedded.
June 28, 2008 |
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| The Fashion Pit in Emerald City |
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by Maurize Pinzon
Although the Super Bowl and Super Tuesday voting may have obscured the usual buzz that New York Fashion Week creates, photographers and video crews inside the Bryant Park tents were still rushing from venue to venue, jostling for a position on the media riser. That space is a very exclusive piece of real estate inside the fashion tents, even by Manhattan standards. It is so valuable it is measured in inches rather than square feet and it is to a great extent managed by Richard Randa, the unofficial and some would say benevolent dictator of the fashion pit.
February 19, 2008 |
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| The Bloomberg Machine in New York City |
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by Maurize Pinzon
On January 17, 2008, while temperatures outside were close to freezing, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg seemingly melted ice and opened swimming pools. When cued, children clad in bathing suits ran onto the stage past the mayor and towards the second-story swimming pool before Mayor Bloomberg had detailed his vision for a new form of municipal government.
January 18, 2008 |
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| Focus on Mortgage Crisis in City Council |
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by Maurize Pinzon
This past Saturday, the Reverend Jesse Jackson led a hearing sponsored by the New York City Council to focus attention on the sub-prime mortgage crisis. The Reverend Jackson indicated the problematic loans were concentrated in specific New York City neighborhoods and challenged the audience in the Council Chambers not to renegotiate with lenders individually, but rather to participate in “mass negotiations” of sub-prime loans.
January 07, 2008 |
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