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Artists Sunday organizers ‘not resting’ until the day is as well-known as Black Friday
You’ve heard of Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, but artists based in Seattle and elsewhere want to add a new shopping day to your calendar: Artists Sunday. The campaign launched last year as a national public information effort to support local artists by encouraging people to buy local art on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. “The goal is to make Artists Sunday a part of the consumer consciousness, so it’s Black Friday, it’s Small Business Saturday, it’s Artists Sunday and Cyber Monday, and we’re not resting until that message is kind of universal,” said Chris Sherman, a Marion, Iowa-based photographer. Artists Sunday, a volunteer effort run by Sherman and Seattle-based…
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11/26/21 Entertainment News – KTOE
11/26/21 Entertainment News — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is spreading some holiday cheer and jokes. On Thanksgiving, the megastar posted a video of himself driving up to a Hollywood tour bus. He asked fans if they saw his house yet, but they said they had not seen it. He brought the jokes before driving off, saying “Good, keep it that way. Happy Thanksgiving!” It’s not the first time The Rock has interacted with fans touring the area. — Jimmy Kimmel seems to have had a mishap in the kitchen this Thanksgiving. T he Jimmy Kimmel Live! host took to Instagram with black chunks of ash scattered across his eyebrows, arm,…
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How Influencers Impact Photographers
This is a special edition of Please Like Me! We’re running this newsletter alongside JPG, our newsletter about powerful photography that enthralls the internet. You can sign up for Please Like Me here, and JPG here. For influencers to attract sponsorship opportunities, the photos on their feeds need to look polished. That extra glisten comes from hiring professionals — which in turn has changed the photography industry. This week I spoke to Julia D’Agostino, a 25-year-old photographer based in Stamford, Connecticut, who works mainly with lifestyle and fashion influencers. “My first ever postcollege client was actually an influencer — I jumped right into the world,” she told me. She now…
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Valley News – Bert Dodson, prolific Vermont artist, dies at 83
BRADFORD, Vt. — Bert Dodson, an influential artist and illustrator who spent the bulk of his prolific career in the Upper Valley, has died at the age of 83. A draftsman of daunting skill, Dodson asserted that drawing, and art-making in general, is everyone’s birthright and wrote and illustrated two books on drawing meant to encourage people to take it up regardless of prior experience. “Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw with some degree of proficiency,” he wrote in Keys to Drawing, which came out in 1985. By that time, he was well-ensconced in the Bradford area, having moved there in 1977. He would spend the…
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This year’s Thanksgiving movie lineup: ‘House of Gucci’, ‘Encanto’ and more
With the holiday season each year comes a slew of new movies for everyone. This year’s offerings include family-friendly picks, drama, comedy and even horror. Additionally, with Christmas just around the corner, the holiday-themed offerings are beginning to roll in. Between streaming and theatrical releases, indie flicks and high-profile offerings, here’s a look at this year’s Thanksgiving movies. ‘HOUSE OF GUCCI’ INSPIRATION PATRIZIA REGGIANI SAYS SHE STILL HAS ‘ENORMOUS LOVE’ FOR MAURIZIO AFTER MURDER “Encanto” An animated musical adventure from Disney, “Encanto” follows the story of a young girl’s magical family. “It’s about this extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live in the mountains of Columbia and everybody in the family…
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The music, joy and superpower of a multigenerational Latino family
In an age of big-screen superhero families like those of Marvel’s “Fantastic Four,” Pixar’s “The Incredibles” and DC’s “Shazam!” Disney wants to flip the script on viewers and put the spotlight on an ordinary 15-year-old Colombian girl, Mirabel, who struggles to keep her extended superhero family together as they lose their powers. “Encanto,” which means “charm” in Spanish, is Disney’s 60th animated feature film. It tells the story of the Madrigals, a multigenerational family who live in the mountains of Colombia. Two generations of Madrigal children get magical powers on their fifth birthdays, which define them both at home and in the village. They can make plants grow and flowers…
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