This sculpture is made entirely out of pill bottles. A perfect DigiDame item.
Gail Williams of Williams McCall Gallery, and her buddy.
Hip Hop Artist Swizz Beatz (married to Alicia Keys)
This large scale installation is from Swoon, a street artist. She specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of human figures.
I startled Jerry Powers, founder of Ocean Drive, with my camera.
Frank Stella continues to captivate
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Larry, Lois, Eliot, and Sheri
My girlfriend Sheri has always loved her pets. She has gone from the largest of dogs that she can possibly get, an English Mastiff, to the smallest of small, a Pomeranian.
Size doesn’t matter to Sheri (ha, ha), she treats of all her pets like royalty. The latest one is Tonki, a Pomeranian. The sketch of the Pomeranian shown above is displayed on all of Sheri’s emails. For many years, Sheri never left home without Tonki. The baby dog slept in Sheri’s handbag at restaurants, the movies, at parties, during mani/pedis, and airplane rides.
It was never an option. Tonki went everywhere with Sheri. Most of the time, no one knew that Sheri’s handbag contained a pet. Tonki was so happy to be near Sheri that she never barked a word. It was pretty amazing.
That was the situation for many years. Now that Tonki is a much more mature dog, she is only comfortable at home. Sheri hates leaving her so she and her husband have a Drop-cam with audio on Tonki so they can watch her every move and occasionally talk to her if she needs calming down.
I recently found out about iCPooch.
iCPooch is a new way to keep in touch with your dog and relieve separation anxiety while your away from home. You can video chat and deliver a treat over the internet.
iCPooch holds pet treats that the owner can dispense remotely via the ‘drop cookie’ button in the corresponding app.
Pet’s tablet can be placed on the adjustable mount of the iCPooch unit. Retail is $149.00.
How nuts is this? Don’t ask a dog owner.
Meet Ariel Swedroe Weinberg. At 11 years old, she is already well on her way to become one of this country’s major fashion designers. She has been designing for three years. I met her at Art Basel in Miami. She was there to debut her new line mermaid dresses. While Art Basel is really all about paintings and photography, Ariel felt it was a great stage for exposure.
Ariel and her entourage of models were walking around the show to garner attention for the brand, Swedroe. Ariel was already featured in the Miami Herald because she designed a collection for a local tech show. Ariel participates in Design Lab Miami, a dedicated sewing center with classes for kids and adults.
If you watch the above video, the five minute clip will explain in detail how she got her start and some of her past work. Ariel’s inspiration comes from her grandfather, Robert Swedroe, a well-known artist and architect in the Miami area. In fact, her grandfather’s art is laser printed on her fabrics. She loves the vibrancy of his colors. Ariel also features LED lights on some of her designs so that she can mix technology with fashion.
The hot topic in tech today is wearables like a digital pedometer that you wear on your wrist or Google glasses. Ariel is right in the middle of this developing trend. Remember her name. She is going to be the next Versace or Vera Wang, or somewhere between.
Everyone goes to Art Basel to see the art. I go to Art Basel to look at the people. There is a reason why Art Basel is in Miami. The people who live or visit Miami are very creative. It’s always a show.
I found this couple outside the tents of Art Miami and Red Dot. The two were total showstoppers.
The tents
I took Jerry Powers by surprise. He is the founder of Ocean Drive magazine.
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I can still remember the voice mail I received from my father 36 years ago. He was terminally ill at the time and I remember thinking that I wanted to keep that audio message forever.
I’m not sure what happened, but I don’t have that voice mail today. I would do anything to hear that particular message again. I knew at the time that would be one of his last messages to me.
There have been countless times that I would have wanted to save certain voicemails. The only way I knew how to do that was to tape the voice mail message on a separate machine. That was fine for the time, but I can’t find the cassettes I used. I really needed something more formal and secure.
Enter Voicemails Forever. The safekeeping process includes one hour of voicemail recording time for just $19.99. You can access your private account anytime by simply dialing in.
In a company press release, David Poloner, founder of Voicemails Forever, claims that “People can now breathe a sigh of relief when existing voice messages (both personal and business) are set free and saved forever, especially before upgrading to a new phone or switching carriers.”
Voicemails Forever protects and stores messages as MP3 files on a secure site. They also can be saved to your computer, tablet, or mobile device for repeated playing.
This is what I call, “Technology for technology.”
I think I finally found a cure for losing my iPhone. A company named Bandolier makes a fashion accessory that is actually a super mini case to hold my iPhone. It’s perfect for me.
My iPhone will now be housed in a snazzy case with a shoulder strap that I will carry around my neck. Goodbye to the days when I just put my iPhone in my handbag, on a restaurant table, or my dresser. I tend to forget where I last placed it. Then I spend a few minutes, in full panic attack mode, frantically looking for it.
I want to avoid those awful moments of thinking that I lost the device that houses all of my information. It’s a terrible, hopeless feeling. Most of the time, my iPhone is in my handbag. It just a big black hole to me.
The new line of shoulder cases also feature two slots to accommodate credit cards and driver’s license. Check out the website. The cases are reasonably priced.
Image: Quicksmartwebsites.com
I just want to remind everyone that we are very lucky to be at a stage in our lives when we can take advantage of so many websites that educational. <!Instead of having to be physically present at some facility, we can now engage in a wide variety of online courses right from the comfort of our homes.
I have written about a few of these online classes before, but now, Business Insider details 25 websites that teach us about stuff that we always wanted to know about, but never had the time for in the past.
Click here for the the full 25.
Coursera — More than 800 free courses on a wide range of topics.
Digital Photography School — Beginner to very sophisticated lessons. Also an active community of other photographers to connect with.
Duolingo — Learn new language skills with fun games.
Edx.org — Alternative classes like, The Science of Happiness to Responsible Innovation from the best universities.
Factsie—Historical and scientific facts.
Freerice — Expand your vocabulary with impressive words.
Lifehacker —Tips and tricks for getting things done.
MIT Open Courseware — Powersearching with Google — Learn how to find anything you ever wanted by mastering your Google search skills.
Quora — Get your questions answered by other smart people or read through the questions other people have asked,
In the lounge area of the Mondrian Hotel. West Hollywood
I love the Internet “thoughts” many folks post on social media. I love sharing them with you even more.
Today was quite a day for Eliot and me. We got to spend Thanksgiving with our daughter Whitney and her boyfriend Fredrick. They drove up from San Diego to Los Angeles so we could all spend Thanksgiving with my west coast cousins. I have been very fortunate to have the best first cousins on both coasts.
Our parents were four close siblings, two living in New York and two living in Los Angeles. The miles that separated them never interfered with their tight relationship. This was long before the Internet, Skype, FaceTime, email, texting, and Facebook. Somehow they managed to be very involved with each other. This has spilled over to their children.
Most of the cousins are in frequent communications with each other. My cousin Jeff, wife Beth, and daughter Hanna have a beautiful Los Angeles home and host an annual Thanksgiving dinner. It gets better and better every year. We are very grateful to them. It has been an absolute delight to be together.
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