SOUTH FLORIDA
For those of you who don’t know, I grew up a hardcore metalhead (a lover of heavy metal music, not a metallurgist). The early 80s (when I was a teenager) brought on the dawn of thrash metal acts Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and so many others. It was a good time to be a metalhead […]
Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1400 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. The first Record Store Day took place on April […]
Had my mother visiting me from the Bronx a few weeks ago and the day before she was to return home, I kept my schedule free for a day out with her and my daughter. Turned out that after weeks of lovely weather, it started to rain (that heavy South Florida rain) just as we […]
The 15th Annual Coral Springs Festival of the Arts (In Pictures)
When most people think of the city of Coral Springs, I’d hazard a guess that what first comes to mind is the excellent public schools, its low crime rate, and its overall family-friendly livability. The city, officially chartered on July 10, 1963, is where my family settled when we arrived here from NYC over 15 […]
The second annual One Tamarac Multi-Cultural Festival was held this past Saturday at the Tamarac Sports Complex here in South Florida. This year’s event ran from 5-8pm and featured performances by the Grammy award-winning reggae band Inner Circle (creators of the song “Bad Boys”, the theme from the TV show ‘Cops’), Latin band Fondo Blanco, […]
One of my favorite places to snap photographs is at VACC Camp, a free week-long overnight camp hosted by Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami for ventilation assisted children. It has become my favorite place to be for Spring Break during the past seven years; documenting this remarkable camp through video and photography. That said, I’m […]
Art Prevails Project presents “Saturday Sessions” in Fort Lauderdale
Saturday Sessions is a community event held at The Megaphone, an outdoor area in Northwest Gardens in Fort Lauderdale. The event goes down every first Saturday of the month and brings together up and coming artists for an afternoon of music and spoken word performances. The event features an open mic session as well as […]
No, I don’t have any tattoos on my body. Just wanted to put that out there before I go any further. Why? Well, I’m just way too indecisive to settle on an image that I would want on a part of my body for the rest of my life. First of all, I would spend […]
Back in the summer of 2008, I shot a documentary film about a unique four-week summer program in Miami that focused on the history and philosophy of Hip Hop and its four main elements: DJing, MCing, B-boying/girling, and Urban Art. The camp was was called called PATH (for Preserving, Archiving and Teaching Hip Hop History) […]
